Quotes About Decision

But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!

But it is your custom that I release to you one prisoner at the Passover. So then, do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”

When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid,

So they proposed two men: Joseph called Barsabbas (also known as Justus) and Matthias.

Then they cast lots, and the lot fell to Matthias; so he was added to the eleven apostles.

The next day the rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem,

So they ordered them to leave the Sanhedrin and then conferred together.

But Peter and John replied, “Judge for yourselves whether it is right in Godís sight to listen to you rather than God.

When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.

So the apostles and elders met to look into this matter.

Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to select men from among them to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They chose Judas called Barsabbas and Silas, two leaders among the brothers,

But Paul thought it best not to take him, because he had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not accompanied them in the work.

And he drove them away from the judgment seat.

When they asked him to stay for a while longer, he declined.

Since these things are undeniable, you ought to be calm and not do anything rash.

After he had said this, he dismissed the assembly.

where he stayed three months. And when the Jews formed a plot against him as he was about to sail for Syria, he decided to go back through Macedonia.

When we heard this, we and the people there pleaded with Paul not to go up to Jerusalem.

As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality.”

When I was informed that there was a plot against the man, I sent him to you at once. I also instructed his accusers to present their case against him before you.

Then Felix, who was well informed about the Way, adjourned the hearing and said, “When Lysias the commander comes, I will decide your case.”

But Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor, said to Paul, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem to stand trial before me on these charges?”

Then Festus conferred with his council and replied, “You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar you will go!”

So when they came here with me, I did not delay. The next day I sat on the judgment seat and ordered that the man be brought in.