Quotes About Belief

They had Peter and John brought in and began to question them: “By what power or what name did you do this?”

And seeing the man who had been healed standing there with them, they had nothing to say in response.

“What shall we do with these men?” they asked. “It is clear to everyone living in Jerusalem that a remarkable miracle has occurred through them, and we cannot deny it.

For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

For the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old.

But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop them. You may even find yourselves fighting against God.”

But resistance arose from what was called the Synagogue of the Freedmen, including Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and men from the provinces of Cilicia and Asia. They began to argue with Stephen,

Prior to that time, a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city and astounded the people of Samaria. He claimed to be someone great,

and all the people, from the least to the greatest, heeded his words and said, “This man is the divine power called the Great Power.”

They paid close attention to him because he had astounded them for a long time with his sorcery.

Even Simon himself believed and was baptized. He followed Philip closely and was astounded by the great signs and miracles he observed.

On their arrival, they prayed for them to receive the Holy Spirit.

and requested letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women belonging to the Way, he could bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

He talked and debated with the Grecian Jews, but they tried to kill him.

This became known all over Joppa, and many people believed in the Lord.

The voice spoke to him a second time: “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”

All the prophets testify about Him that everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins through His name.”

The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number of people believed and turned to the Lord.

“You are out of your mind,” they told her. But when she kept insisting it was so, they said, “It must be his angel.”

They traveled through the whole island as far as Paphos, where they found a Jewish sorcerer and false prophet named Bar-Jesus,

But Elymas the sorcerer (for that is what his name means) opposed them and tried to turn the proconsul from the faith.

When the proconsul saw what had happened, he believed, for he was astonished at the teaching about the Lord.

Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses.

ëLook, you scoffers, wonder and perish! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe, even if someone told you.í”