Amens: Acts

So I finally, finally finished Acts. These are some stand-out verses for me from this translation, The Message.

Acts 2: 23,24 - ... this Jesus, following the deliberate and well-thought-out plan of God, was betrayed by men who took the law into their own hands, and was handed over to you. And you pinned him to a cross and killed him. But God untied the death ropes and raised him up.

Acts 2: 12 - Salvation comes no other way; no other name has been or will be given to us by which we can be saved, only this one.

Acts 15: 14 - ... build up muscle and sinew in those congregations.

Acts 20: 13 - "You're looking at this backward. The issue in Jerusalem is not what they do to me, whether arrest or murder, but what the Master Jesus does through my obedience. Can't you see that?"

Acts 26: 17 - " ' I'm sending you off to open the eyes of the outsiders so they can see the difference between dark and light, and choose light, see the difference between Satan and God, and choose God. I'm sending you off to present my offer of sins forgiven, and a place in the family, inviting them into the company of those who begin real living by believing in me.' "

Acts 26: 23 - "One, the Messiah must die; two, raised from the dead, he would be the first rays of daylight shining on people far and near; people both godless and God-fearing."