First Reading
Acts 22:30; 23:6-11
Read this as the first big movement of the day. Notice what God is doing, who is speaking, and what part of the story or teaching should stay with you.
22:30But on the next day, meaning to know more diligently for what cause he was accused by the Jews, he loosed him, and commanded the priests to come together, and all the council: and bringing forth Paul, he set him before them.
23:6And Paul knowing that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, cried out in the council: Men, brothers and sisters, I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees: concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
7And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees; and the crowd was divided.
8For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.
9And there arose a great cry. And some of the Pharisees rising up, strove, saying: We find no evil in this man. What if a spirit has said to him, or an angel?
10And when there arose a great dissension, the tribune fearing lest Paul should be pulled in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.
11And the night following the Lord standing by him, said: Be constant; for as you have testified of me in Jerusalem, so must you bear witness also at Rome.