Acts 14, and a lesson in what to do when you get stoned: get up and go back to work the next day.
Acts 14:1-7. There is always a plot afoot — the enemy moves whenever God's work does, and Paul keeps going anyway.
Acts 13 and the turn to the Gentiles: rejected in the synagogue, Paul and Barnabas shake the dust from their feet and the word spreads through the whole region.
Acts 13:1-3. The church at Antioch is worshipping and fasting when the Spirit sets Barnabas and Saul apart, and the first missionary journey begins.
Acts 12:1-15. Peter is freed from prison while the church prays for him, and the praying church cannot quite believe it when he knocks.
Acts 11, where believers were first called Christians in Antioch — with a call to remember and pray for Christians in Syria paying that price now.