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  • When the apostles speaking in many languages are Mistaken for Junkie, Peter responds:
    Peter: These men are not drunk; It's only nine in the morning!
  • Paul goes on an hours-long Author Tract, during which a young man nods off and falls out of a window (to his death). Paul runs downstairs, resurrects the guy, has a bit of a snack, and goes on talking as if nothing unusual had happened.
  • The Greek philosophers misunderstand a secondhand account of Paul's preaching and mistakenly gather that he is preaching about two foreign gods named "Jesus" and "Anastasis" (Resurrection)!
  • After Paul was able to remove evil spirits from those who touched him, the sons of Sceva tried to copy this in Ephesus and are sent out of the house "naked and wounded" by the spirit for their troubles.
    Sons of Sceva: We exorcise you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches.
    Evil Spirit: Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but Who Are You?
  • At Paul's trial before the Sanhedrin, Paul invokes the Jews Love to Argue trope by declaring he's a Pharisee on trial for his belief in the resurrection. This divides the room into an argument between the rival Pharisee and Sadducee sects, and Paul's trial winds up getting canceled in the chaos.

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