The news about this spread all over Joppa, and many people believed in the Lord.

Peter stayed on in Joppa for many days with a tanner of leather named Simon.

While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul traveled through the interior of the province and arrived in Ephesus. There he found some disciples

There we found some believers and stayed with them a week. By the power of the Spirit they told Paul not to go to Jerusalem.

We continued our voyage, sailing from Tyre to Ptolemais, where we greeted the believers and stayed with them for a day.

On the following day we left and arrived in Caesarea. There we stayed at the house of Philip the evangelist, one of the seven men who had been chosen as helpers in Jerusalem.

I am a friend of all who serve you, of all who obey your laws.

"When you come to a town or village, go in and look for someone who is willing to welcome you, and stay with him until you leave that place.

We sailed from Philippi after the Festival of Unleavened Bread, and five days later we joined them in Troas, where we spent a week.

Seven days from now I am going to send rain that will fall for forty days and nights, in order to destroy all the living beings that I have made."

He waited another seven days and sent out the dove again.

Then he waited another seven days and sent out the dove once more; this time it did not come back.