Acts 8:35

At that time a gift of homage will be brought to Yahweh of hosts From a people tall and smooth, Even from a people feared far and wide, A powerful and oppressive nation, Whose land the rivers divide— To the place of the name of Yahweh of hosts, even Mount Zion.

And He opened His mouth and began to teach them, saying,

And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Christ.

And this word pleased the whole congregation, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte from Antioch.

And these they stood before the apostles, and after praying, they laid their hands on them.

And according to Paul’s custom, he went to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, demonstrating by the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.

And when they had set a day for Paul, they came to him at his lodging in large numbers; and he was explaining to them by solemnly bearing witness about the kingdom of God and trying to persuade them concerning Jesus, from both the Law of Moses and from the Prophets, from morning until evening.