Acts 8:40

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.

So, when they had solemnly borne witness and spoken the word of the Lord, they started back to Jerusalem, and were proclaiming the gospel to many villages of the Samaritans.

But when the brothers learned of it, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus.

Now there was a man at Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian cohort,

And on the following day he entered Caesarea. Now Cornelius was waiting for them and had called together his relatives and close friends.

“And behold, immediately three men appeared at the house in which we were, having been sent to me from Caesarea.

And when Herod had searched for him and had not found him, he examined the guards and ordered that they be led away to execution. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and was spending time there.

And when he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church, and went down to Antioch.

And on the next day we left and came to Caesarea, and entering the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, we stayed with him.

And some of the disciples from Caesarea also came with us, taking us to Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple with whom we were to lodge.

And when he called to him two of the centurions, he said, “Make ready two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen to proceed to Caesarea by the third hour of the night,

When these had come to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.

Festus then, having arrived in the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

Festus then answered that Paul was being kept in custody at Caesarea and that he himself was about to leave shortly.

And after he had spent not more than eight or ten days among them, he went down to Caesarea, and on the next day he took his seat on the judgment seat and ordered Paul to be brought.

Now when several days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea and greeted Festus.