So those who accepted what he said were baptized; about three thousand souls were brought in, that day.
(A number of those who heard them speak believed, bringing up their numbers to [about] five thousand.)
praising God and looked on with favour by all the people. Meantime the Lord added the saved daily to their number.
When they heard this, it went straight to their hearts; they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what are we to do?"
Truly, truly I tell you, he who believes in me will do the very deeds I do, and still greater deeds than these. For I am going to the Father,
When the Gentiles heard this they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord and believed, that is, all who had been ordained to eternal life;
Now during these days Peter stood up among the brothers (there was a crowd of about a hundred and twenty persons all together).
and you started to copy us and the Lord, welcoming the word, though it brought you heavy trouble, with a joy inspired by the holy Spirit.
Any soul that will not listen to this prophet shall be exterminated from the People;
Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob and all his kinsfolk, amounting to seventy-five souls;
(there were about seventy-six souls of us on board, all told);
Every subject must obey the government-authorities, for no authority exists apart from God; the existing authorities have been constituted by God.
who had disobeyed at the time when God's patience held out during the construction of the ark in the days of Noah — the ark by which only a few souls, eight in all, were brought safely through the water.)
The second poured out his bowl upon the sea; it turned blood like the blood of a corpse, and every living thing within the sea perished.
So Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, a hundred and fifty three of them; but for all their number the net was not torn.