On the second day, the chiefs of the fathers’ households of all the people, the priests, and the Levites were gathered to Ezra the scribe in order to understand the words of the Law.
Then the whole assembly counseled to have the feast for another seven days, so they had seven more days of gladness.
Then all the people went to eat, to drink, to send portions, and to enjoy a great celebration because they had understood the words declared to them.
They found written in the Law where the Lord had commanded by Moses that the Israelites should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month,
Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
They said to each other, “Did not our hearts burn within us while He talked to us on the way and while He opened the Scriptures to us?”
When Paul and Barnabas went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles asked that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath.
As they spoke to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came upon them,