28. They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen.
29. Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness.
30. Stretch out your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.’
31. After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.
32. All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had.
33. With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all
34. that there was no needy person among them. For from time to time those who owned land or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales
35. and put it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to anyone who had need.
36. Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, whom the apostles called Barnabas (which means ‘son of encouragement’),
37. sold a field he owned and brought the money and put it at the apostles’ feet.