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1:1 I composed the first discourse, O Theophilus, concerning all
 things which Jesus began both to do and to teach,
1:2 until that day in which, having by the Holy Spirit charged
 the apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up;
1:3 to whom also he presented himself living, after he had
 suffered, with many proofs; being seen by them during forty
 days, and speaking of the things which concern the kingdom of
 God;
1:4 and, being assembled with [them], commanded them not to
 depart from Jerusalem, but to await the promise of the Father,
 which [said he] ye have heard of me.
1:5 For John indeed baptised with water, but *ye* shall be
 baptised with the Holy Spirit after now not many days.
1:6 They therefore, being come together, asked him saying, Lord,
 is it at this time that thou restorest the kingdom to Israel?
1:7 And he said to them, It is not yours to know times or
 seasons, which the Father has placed in his own authority;
1:8 but ye will receive power, the Holy Spirit having come upon
 you, and ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all
 Judaea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
1:9 And having said these things he was taken up, they beholding
 [him], and a cloud received him out of their sight.
1:10 And as they were gazing into heaven, as he was going,
 behold, also two men stood by them in white clothing,
1:11 who also said, Men of Galilee, why do ye stand looking into
 heaven? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven,
 shall thus come in the manner in which ye have beheld him going
 into heaven.
1:12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called [the
 mount] of Olives, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath-day's
 journey off.
1:13 And when they were come into [the city], they went up to
 the upper chamber, where were staying both Peter, and John, and
 James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew,
 James [son] of Alphaeus, and Simon the zealot, and Jude [the
 brother] of James.
1:14 These gave themselves all with one accord to continual
 prayer, with [several] women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and
 with his brethren.
1:15 And in those days Peter, standing up in the midst of the
 brethren, said, (the crowd of names [who were] together [was]
 about a hundred and twenty,)
1:16 Brethren, it was necessary that the scripture should have
 been fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before, by the
 mouth of David, concerning Judas, who became guide to those who
 took Jesus;
1:17 for he was numbered amongst us, and had received a part in
 this service.
1:18 (This [man] then indeed got a field with [the] reward of
 iniquity, and, having fallen down headlong, burst in the midst,
 and all his bowels gushed out.
1:19 And it was known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so
 that that field was called in their own dialect Aceldama; that
 is, field of blood.)
1:20 For it is written in [the] book of Psalms, Let his
 homestead become desolate, and let there be no dweller in it;
 and, Let another take his overseership.
1:21 It is necessary therefore, that of the men who have
 assembled with us all [the] time in which the Lord Jesus came
 in and went out among us,
1:22 beginning from the baptism of John until the day in which
 he was taken up from us, one of these should be a witness with
 us of his resurrection.
1:23 And they appointed two, Joseph, who was called Barsabas,
 who had been surnamed Justus, and Matthias.
1:24 And they prayed, and said, Thou Lord, knower of the hearts
 of all, shew which one of these two thou hast chosen,
1:25 to receive the lot of this service and apostleship, from
 which Judas transgressing fell to go to his own place.
1:26 And they gave lots on them, and the lot fell on Matthias,
 and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.
2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was now accomplishing, they
 were all together in one place.
2:2 And there came suddenly a sound out of heaven as of a
 violent impetuous blowing, and filled all the house where they
 were sitting.
2:3 And there appeared to them parted tongues, as of fire, and
 it sat upon each one of them.
2:4 And they were all filled with [the] Holy Spirit, and began
 to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave to them to speak
 forth.
2:5 Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, pious men, from
 every nation of those under heaven.
2:6 But the rumour of this having spread, the multitude came
 together and were confounded, because each one heard them
 speaking in his own dialect.
2:7 And all were amazed and wondered, saying, Behold, are not
 all these who are speaking Galilaeans?
2:8 and how do *we* hear [them] each in our own dialect in which
 we have been born,
2:9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and those who inhabit
 Mesopotamia, and Judaea, and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,
2:10 both Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt, and the parts of Libya
 which adjoin Cyrene, and the Romans sojourning [here], both
 Jews and proselytes,
2:11 Cretans and Arabians, we hear them speaking in our own
 tongues the great things of God?
2:12 And they were all amazed and in perplexity, saying one to
 another, What would this mean?
2:13 But others mocking said, They are full of new wine.
2:14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice
 and spoke forth to them, Men of Judaea, and all ye inhabitants
 of Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and give heed to my
 words:
2:15 for these are not full of wine, as *ye* suppose, for it is
 the third hour of the day;
2:16 but this is that which was spoken through the prophet Joel,
2:17 And it shall be in the last days, saith God, [that] I will
 pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your
 daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions,
 and your elders shall dream with dreams;
2:18 yea, even upon my bondmen and upon my bondwomen in those
 days will I pour out of my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.
2:19 And I will give wonders in the heaven above and signs on
 the earth below, blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
2:20 the sun shall be changed to darkness and the moon to blood,
 before the great and gloriously appearing day of [the] Lord
 come.
2:21 And it shall be that whosoever shall call upon the name of
 [the] Lord shall be saved.
2:22 Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus the Nazaraean, a man
 borne witness to by God to you by works of power and wonders
 and signs, which God wrought by him in your midst, as
 yourselves know
2:23 -- him, given up by the determinate counsel and
 foreknowledge of God, ye, by [the] hand of lawless [men], have
 crucified and slain.
2:24 Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death,
 inasmuch as it was not possible that he should be held by its
 power;
2:25 for David says as to him, I foresaw the Lord continually
 before me, because he is at my right hand that I may not be
 moved.
2:26 Therefore has my heart rejoiced and my tongue exulted; yea
 more, my flesh also shall dwell in hope,
2:27 for thou wilt not leave my soul in hades, nor wilt thou
 give thy gracious one to see corruption.
2:28 Thou hast made known to me [the] paths of life, thou wilt
 fill me with joy with thy countenance.
2:29 Brethren, let it be allowed to speak with freedom to you
 concerning the patriarch David, that he has both died and been
 buried, and his monument is amongst us unto this day.
2:30 Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn
 to him with an oath, of the fruit of his loins to set upon his
 throne;
2:31 he, seeing [it] before, spoke concerning the resurrection
 of the Christ, that neither has he been left in hades nor his
 flesh seen corruption.
2:32 This Jesus has God raised up, whereof all *we* are
 witnesses.
2:33 Having therefore been exalted by the right hand of God, and
 having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit,
 he has poured out this which *ye* behold and hear.
2:34 For David has not ascended into the heavens, but he says
 himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit at my right hand
2:35 until I have put thine enemies [to be] the footstool of thy
 feet.
2:36 Let the whole house of Israel therefore know assuredly that
 God has made him, this Jesus whom *ye* have crucified, both
 Lord and Christ.
2:37 And having heard [it] they were pricked in heart, and said
 to Peter and the other apostles, What shall we do, brethren?
2:38 And Peter said to them, Repent, and be baptised, each one
 of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for remission of sins, and
 ye will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
2:39 For to you is the promise and to your children, and to all
 who [are] afar off, as many as [the] Lord our God may call.
2:40 And with many other words he testified and exhorted them,
 saying, Be saved from this perverse generation.
2:41 Those then who had accepted his word were baptised; and
 there were added in that day about three thousand souls.
2:42 And they persevered in the teaching and fellowship of the
 apostles, in breaking of bread and prayers.
2:43 And fear was upon every soul, and many wonders and signs
 took place through the apostles' means.
2:44 And all that believed were together, and had all things
 common,
2:45 and sold their possessions and substance, and distributed
 them to all, according as any one might have need.
2:46 And every day, being constantly in the temple with one
 accord, and breaking bread in [the] house, they received their
 food with gladness and simplicity of heart,
2:47 praising God, and having favour with all the people; and
 the Lord added [to the assembly] daily those that were to be
 saved.
3:1 And Peter and John went up together into the temple at the
 hour of prayer, [which is] the ninth [hour];
3:2 and a certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was
 being carried, whom they placed every day at the gate of the
 temple called Beautiful, to ask alms of those who were going
 into the temple;
3:3 who, seeing Peter and John about to enter into the temple,
 asked to receive alms.
3:4 And Peter, looking stedfastly upon him with John, said, Look
 on us.
3:5 And he gave heed to them, expecting to receive something
 from them.
3:6 But Peter said, Silver and gold I have not; but what I have,
 this give I to thee: In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazaraean
 rise up and walk.
3:7 And having taken hold of him [by] the right hand he raised
 him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones were made
 strong.
3:8 And leaping up he stood and walked, and entered with them
 into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
3:9 And all the people saw him walking and praising God;
3:10 and they recognised him, that it was *he* who sat for alms
 at the Beautiful gate of the temple; and they were filled with
 wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
3:11 And as he held Peter and John, all the people ran together
 to them in the portico which is called Solomon's, greatly
 wondering.
3:12 And Peter, seeing it, answered the people, Men of Israel,
 why are ye astonished at this? or why do ye gaze on us as if we
 had by our own power or piety made him to walk?
3:13 The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our
 fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom *ye* delivered
 up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when *he* had
 judged that he should be let go.
3:14 But *ye* denied the holy and righteous one, and asked that
 a man [that was] a murderer should be granted to you;
3:15 but the originator of life ye slew, whom God raised from
 among [the] dead, whereof *we* are witnesses.
3:16 And, by faith in his name, his name has made this [man]
 strong whom ye behold and know; and the faith which is by him
 has given him this complete soundness in the presence of you
 all.
3:17 And now, brethren, I know that ye did it in ignorance, as
 also your rulers;
3:18 but God has thus fulfilled what he had announced beforehand
 by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should
 suffer.
3:19 Repent therefore and be converted, for the blotting out of
 your sins, so that times of refreshing may come from [the]
 presence of the Lord,
3:20 and he may send Jesus Christ, who was foreordained for you,
3:21 whom heaven indeed must receive till [the] times of [the]
 restoring of all things, of which God has spoken by the mouth
 of his holy prophets since time began.
3:22 Moses indeed said, A prophet shall [the] Lord your God
 raise up to you out of your brethren like me: him shall ye hear
 in everything whatsoever he shall say to you.
3:23 And it shall be that whatsoever soul shall not hear that
 prophet shall be destroyed from among the people.
3:24 And indeed all the prophets from Samuel and those in
 succession after [him], as many as have spoken, have announced
 also these days.
3:25 *Ye* are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which
 God appointed to our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in thy
 seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
3:26 To you first God, having raised up his servant, has sent
 him, blessing you in turning each one [of you] from your
 wickedness.
4:1 And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and
 captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them,
4:2 being distressed on account of their teaching the people and
 preaching by Jesus the resurrection from among [the] dead;
4:3 and they laid hands on them, and put them in ward till the
 morrow; for it was already evening.
4:4 But many of those who had heard the word believed; and the
 number of the men had become [about] five thousand.
4:5 And it came to pass on the morrow that their rulers and
 elders and scribes were gathered together at Jerusalem,
4:6 and Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and
 Alexander, and as many as were of [the] high priestly family;
4:7 and having placed them in the midst they inquired, In what
 power or in what name have *ye* done this?
4:8 Then Peter, filled with [the] Holy Spirit, said to them,
 Rulers of the people and elders [of Israel],
4:9 if *we* this day are called upon to answer as to the good
 deed [done] to the infirm man, how *he* has been healed,
4:10 be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel,
 that in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazaraean, whom *ye* have
 crucified, whom God has raised from among [the] dead, by *him*
 this [man] stands here before you sound [in body].
4:11 *He* is the stone which has been set at nought by you the
 builders, which is become the corner stone.
4:12 And salvation is in none other, for neither is there
 another name under heaven which is given among men by which we
 must be saved.
4:13 But seeing the boldness of Peter and John, and perceiving
 that they were unlettered and uninstructed men, they wondered;
 and they recognised them that they were with Jesus.
4:14 And beholding the man who had been healed standing with
 them, they had nothing to reply;
4:15 but having commanded them to go out of the council they
 conferred with one another,
4:16 saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed an
 evident sign has come to pass through their means is manifest
 to all that inhabit Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.
4:17 But that it be not further spread among the people, let us
 threaten them severely no longer to speak to any man in this
 name.
4:18 And having called them, they charged [them] not to speak at
 all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
4:19 But Peter and John answering said to them, If it be
 righteous before God to listen to you rather than to God, judge
 ye;
4:20 for as for us *we* cannot refrain from speaking of the
 things which we have seen and heard.
4:21 But they, having further threatened them, let them go,
 finding no way how they might punish them, on account of the
 people, because all glorified God for what had taken place;
4:22 for the man on whom this sign of healing had taken place
 was above forty years old.
4:23 And having been let go, they came to their own [company],
 and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to
 them.
4:24 And they, having heard [it], lifted up [their] voice with
 one accord to God, and said, Lord, *thou* art the God who made
 the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;
4:25 who hast said by the mouth of thy servant David, Why have
 [the] nations raged haughtily and [the] peoples meditated vain
 things?
4:26 The kings of the earth were there, and the rulers were
 gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ.
4:27 For in truth against thy holy servant Jesus, whom thou
 hadst anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with [the]
 nations, and peoples of Israel, have been gathered together in
 this city
4:28 to do whatever thy hand and thy counsel had determined
 before should come to pass.
4:29 And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings, and give to
 thy bondmen with all boldness to speak thy word,
4:30 in that thou stretchest out thy hand to heal, and that
 signs and wonders take place through the name of thy holy
 servant Jesus.
4:31 And when they had prayed, the place in which they were
 assembled shook, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit,
 and spoke the word of God with boldness.
4:32 And the heart and soul of the multitude of those that had
 believed were one, and not one said that anything of what he
 possessed was his own, but all things were common to them;
4:33 and with great power did the apostles give witness of the
 resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them
 all.
4:34 For neither was there any one in want among them; for as
 many as were owners of lands or houses, selling them, brought
 the price of what was sold
4:35 and laid it at the feet of the apostles; and distribution
 was made to each according as any one might have need.
4:36 And Joseph, who had been surnamed Barnabas by the apostles
 (which is, being interpreted, Son of consolation), a Levite,
 Cyprian by birth,
4:37 being possessed of land, having sold [it], brought the
 money and laid it at the feet of the apostles.
5:1 But a certain man, Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife,
 sold a possession,
5:2 and put aside for himself part of the price, [his] wife also
 being privy to it; and having brought a certain part, laid it
 at the feet of the apostles.
5:3 But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled thy heart that
 thou shouldest lie to the Holy Spirit, and put aside for
 thyself a part of the price of the estate?
5:4 While it remained did it not remain to *thee*? and sold, was
 [it not] in thine own power? Why is it that thou hast purposed
 this thing in thine heart? Thou hast not lied to men, but to
 God.
5:5 And Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and expired. And
 great fear came upon all who heard [it].
5:6 And the young men, rising up, swathed him up for burial, and
 having carried him out, buried him.
5:7 And it came to pass about three hours afterwards, that his
 wife, not knowing what had happened, came in.
5:8 And Peter answered her, Tell me if ye gave the estate for so
 much? And she said, Yes, for so much.
5:9 And Peter said to her, Why [is it] that ye have agreed
 together to tempt the Spirit of [the] Lord? Lo, the feet of
 those that have buried thy husband [are] at the door, and they
 shall carry thee out.
5:10 And she fell down immediately at his feet and expired. And
 when the young men came in they found her dead; and, having
 carried her out, they buried her by her husband.
5:11 And great fear came upon all the assembly, and upon all who
 heard these things.
5:12 And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and
 wonders done among the people; (and they were all with one
 accord in Solomon's porch,
5:13 but of the rest durst no man join them, but the people
 magnified them;
5:14 and believers were more than ever added to the Lord,
 multitudes both of men and women;)
5:15 so that they brought out the sick into the streets and put
 [them] on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter,
 when he came, might overshadow some one of them.
5:16 And the multitude also of the cities round about came
 together to Jerusalem, bringing sick persons and persons beset
 by unclean spirits, who were all healed.
5:17 And the high priest rising up, and all they that were with
 him, which is the sect of the Sadducees, were filled with
 wrath,
5:18 and laid hands on the apostles and put them in the public
 prison.
5:19 But an angel of [the] Lord during the night opened the
 doors of the prison, and leading them out, said,
5:20 Go ye and stand and speak in the temple to the people all
 the words of this life.
5:21 And when they heard it, they entered very early into the
 temple and taught. And when the high priest was come, and they
 that were with him, they called together the council and all
 the elderhood of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison to
 have them brought.
5:22 And when the officers were come, they did not find them in
 the prison; and returned and reported
5:23 saying, We found the prison shut with all security, and the
 keepers standing at the doors; but when we had opened [them],
 within we found no one.
5:24 And when they heard these words, both the priest and the
 captain of the temple and the chief priests were in perplexity
 as to them, what this would come to.
5:25 And some one coming reported to them, Lo, the men whom ye
 put in the prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the
 people.
5:26 Then the captain, having gone with the officers, brought
 them, not with violence, for they feared the people, lest they
 should be stoned.
5:27 And they bring them and set them in the council. And the
 high priest asked them,
5:28 saying, We strictly enjoined you not to teach in this name:
 and lo, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and
 purpose to bring upon us the blood of this man.
5:29 But Peter answering, and the apostles, said, God must be
 obeyed rather than men.
5:30 The God of our fathers has raised up Jesus, whom *ye* have
 slain, having hanged on a cross.
5:31 Him has God exalted by his right hand as leader and
 saviour, to give repentance to Israel and remission of sins.
5:32 And *we* are [his] witnesses of these things, and the Holy
 Spirit also, which God has given to those that obey him.
5:33 But they, when they heard [these things], were cut to the
 heart, and took counsel to kill them.
5:34 But a certain [man], a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a teacher
 of the law, held in honour of all the people, rose up in the
 council, and commanded to put the men out for a short while,
5:35 and said to them, Men of Israel, take heed to yourselves as
 regards these men what ye are going to do;
5:36 for before these days Theudas rose up, alleging himself to
 be somebody, to whom a number of men, about four hundred, were
 joined; who was slain, and all, as many as obeyed him, were
 dispersed and came to nothing.
5:37 After him rose Judas the Galilean in the days of the
 census, and drew away [a number of] people after him; and *he*
 perished, and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered
 abroad.
5:38 And now I say to you, Withdraw from these men and let them
 alone, for if this counsel or this work have its origin from
 men, it will be destroyed;
5:39 but if it be from God, ye will not be able to put them
 down, lest ye be found also fighters against God.
5:40 And they listened to his advice; and having called the
 apostles, they beat them, and enjoined them not to speak in the
 name of Jesus, and dismissed them.
5:41 They therefore went their way from [the] presence of the
 council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to be
 dishonoured for the name.
5:42 And every day, in the temple and in the houses, they ceased
 not teaching and announcing the glad tidings that Jesus [was]
 the Christ.
6:1 But in those days, the disciples multiplying in number,
 there arose a murmuring of the Hellenists against the Hebrews
 because their widows were overlooked in the daily ministration.
6:2 And the twelve, having called the multitude of the disciples
 to [them], said, It is not right that we, leaving the word of
 God, should serve tables.
6:3 Look out therefore, brethren, from among yourselves seven
 men, well reported of, full of [the] [Holy] Spirit and wisdom,
 whom we will establish over this business:
6:4 but *we* will give ourselves up to prayer and the ministry
 of the word.
6:5 And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose
 Stephen, a man full of faith and [the] Holy Spirit, and Philip,
 and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and
 Nicolas, a proselyte of Antioch,
6:6 whom they set before the apostles; and, having prayed, they
 laid their hands on them.
6:7 And the word of God increased; and the number of the
 disciples in Jerusalem was very greatly multiplied, and a great
 crowd of the priests obeyed the faith.
6:8 And Stephen, full of grace and power, wrought wonders and
 great signs among the people.
6:9 And there arose up certain of those of the synagogue called
 of freedmen, and of Cyrenians, and of Alexandrians, and of
 those of Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen.
6:10 And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit
 with which he spoke.
6:11 Then they suborned men, saying, We have heard him speaking
 blasphemous words against Moses and God.
6:12 And they roused the people, and the elders, and the
 scribes. And coming upon [him] they seized him and brought
 [him] to the council.
6:13 And they set false witnesses, saying, This man does not
 cease speaking words against the holy place and the law;
6:14 for we have heard him saying, This Jesus the Nazaraean
 shall destroy this place, and change the customs which Moses
 taught us.
6:15 And all who sat in the council, looking fixedly on him, saw
 his face as [the] face of an angel.
7:1 And the high priest said, Are these things then so?
7:2 And he said, Brethren and fathers, hearken. The God of glory
 appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia,
 before he dwelt in Charran,
7:3 and said to him, Go out of thy land and out of thy kindred,
 and come into the land which I will shew thee.
7:4 Then going out of the land of the Chaldeans he dwelt in
 Charran, and thence, after his father died, he removed him into
 this land in which *ye* now dwell.
7:5 And he did not give him an inheritance in it, not even what
 his foot could stand on; and promised to give it to him for a
 possession, and to his seed after him, when he had no child.
7:6 And God spoke thus: His seed shall be a sojourner in a
 strange land, and they shall enslave them and evil entreat
 [them] four hundred years;
7:7 and the nation to which they shall be in bondage will *I*
 judge, said God; and after these things they shall come forth
 and serve me in this place.
7:8 And he gave to him [the] covenant of circumcision; and thus
 he begat Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac
 Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.
7:9 And the patriarchs, envying Joseph, sold him away into
 Egypt. And God was with him,
7:10 and delivered him out of all his tribulations, and gave him
 favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he
 appointed him chief over Egypt and all his house.
7:11 But a famine came upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan,
 and great distress, and our fathers found no food.
7:12 But Jacob, having heard of there being corn in Egypt, sent
 out our fathers first;
7:13 and the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren,
 and the family of Joseph became known to Pharaoh.
7:14 And Joseph sent and called down to him his father Jacob and
 all [his] kindred, seventy-five souls.
7:15 And Jacob went down into Egypt and died, he and our
 fathers,
7:16 and were carried over to Sychem and placed in the sepulchre
 which Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor
 the [father] of Sychem.
7:17 But as the time of promise drew near which God had promised
 to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,
7:18 until another king over Egypt arose who did not know
 Joseph.
7:19 *He* dealt subtilly with our race, and evil entreated the
 fathers, casting out their infants that they might not live.
7:20 In which time Moses was born, and was exceedingly lovely,
 who was nourished three months in the house of his father.
7:21 And when he was cast out, the daughter of Pharaoh took him
 up, and brought him up for herself [to be] for a son.
7:22 And Moses was instructed in all [the] wisdom of the
 Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.
7:23 And when a period of forty years was fulfilled to him, it
 came into his heart to look upon his brethren, the sons of
 Israel;
7:24 and seeing a certain one wronged, he defended [him], and
 avenged him that was being oppressed, smiting the Egyptian.
7:25 For he thought that his brethren would understand that God
 by his hand was giving them deliverance. But they understood
 not.
7:26 And on the morrow he shewed himself to them as they were
 contending, and compelled them to peace, saying, *Ye* are
 brethren, why do ye wrong one another?
7:27 But he that was wronging his neighbour thrust him away,
 saying, Who established thee ruler and judge over us?
7:28 Dost *thou* wish to kill me as thou killedst the Egyptian
 yesterday?
7:29 And Moses fled at this saying, and became a sojourner in
 the land of Madiam, where he begat two sons.
7:30 And when forty years were fulfilled, an angel appeared to
 him in the wilderness of mount Sinai, in a flame of fire of a
 bush.
7:31 And Moses seeing it wondered at the vision; and as he went
 up to consider it, there was a voice of [the] Lord,
7:32 *I* am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and of
 Isaac, and of Jacob. And Moses trembled, and durst not consider
 [it].
7:33 And the Lord said to him, Loose the sandal of thy feet, for
 the place on which thou standest is holy ground.
7:34 I have surely seen the ill treatment of my people which is
 in Egypt, and I have heard their groan, and have come down to
 take them out of it; and now, come, I will send thee to Egypt.
7:35 This Moses, whom they refused, saying, Who made thee ruler
 and judge? him did God send [to be] a ruler and deliverer with
 the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
7:36 *He* led them out, having wrought wonders and signs in the
 land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty
 years.
7:37 This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, A prophet
 shall God raise up to you out of your brethren like me [him
 shall ye hear].
7:38 This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with
 the angel who spoke to him in the mount Sinai, and with our
 fathers; who received living oracles to give to us;
7:39 to whom our fathers would not be subject, but thrust [him]
 from them, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,
7:40 saying to Aaron, Make us gods who shall go before us; for
 this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know
 not what has happened to him.
7:41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice
 to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
7:42 But God turned and delivered them up to serve the host of
 heaven; as it is written in [the] book of the prophets, Have ye
 offered me victims and sacrifices forty years in the
 wilderness, O house of Israel?
7:43 Yea, ye took up the tent of Moloch, and the star of [your]
 god Remphan, the forms which ye made to do homage to them; and
 I will transport you beyond Babylon.
7:44 Our fathers had the tent of the testimony in the
 wilderness, as he that spoke to Moses commanded to make it
 according to the model which he had seen;
7:45 which also our fathers, receiving from their predecessors,
 brought in with Joshua when they entered into possession of
 [the lands of] the nations, whom God drove out from [the] face
 of our fathers, until the days of David;
7:46 who found favour before God, and asked to find a tabernacle
 for the God of Jacob;
7:47 but Solomon built him a house.
7:48 But the Most High dwells not in [places] made with hands;
 as says the prophet,
7:49 The heaven [is] my throne and the earth the footstool of my
 feet: what house will ye build me? saith [the] Lord, or where
 [is the] place of my rest?
7:50 has not my hand made all these things?
7:51 O stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, *ye* do
 always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers, *ye* also.
7:52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and
 they have slain those who announced beforehand concerning the
 coming of the Just One, of whom *ye* have now become deliverers
 up and murderers!
7:53 who have received the law as ordained by [the] ministry of
 angels, and have not kept [it].
7:54 And hearing these things they were cut to the heart, and
 gnashed their teeth against him.
7:55 But being full of [the] Holy Spirit, having fixed his eyes
 on heaven, he saw [the] glory of God, and Jesus standing at the
 right hand of God,
7:56 and said, Lo, I behold the heavens opened, and the Son of
 man standing at the right hand of God.
7:57 And they cried out with a loud voice, and held their ears,
 and rushed upon him with one accord;
7:58 and having cast [him] out of the city, they stoned [him].
 And the witnesses laid aside their clothes at the feet of a
 young man called Saul.
7:59 And they stoned Stephen, praying, and saying, Lord Jesus,
 receive my spirit.
7:60 And kneeling down, he cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay
 not this sin to their charge. And having said this, he fell
 asleep.
8:1 And Saul was consenting to his being killed. And on that day
 there arose a great persecution against the assembly which was
 in Jerusalem, and all were scattered into the countries of
 Judaea and Samaria except the apostles.
8:2 And pious men buried Stephen and made great lamentation over
 him.
8:3 But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into the houses one
 after another, and dragging off both men and women delivered
 them up to prison.
8:4 Those then that had been scattered went through [the
 countries] announcing the glad tidings of the word.
8:5 And Philip, going down to a city of Samaria, preached the
 Christ to them;
8:6 and the crowds with one accord gave heed to the things
 spoken by Philip, when they heard [him] and saw the signs which
 he wrought.
8:7 For from many who had unclean spirits they went out, crying
 with a loud voice; and many that were paralysed and lame were
 healed.
8:8 And there was great joy in that city.
8:9 But a certain man, by name Simon, had been before in the
 city, using magic arts, and astonishing the nation of Samaria,
 saying that himself was some great one.
8:10 To whom they had all given heed, from small to great,
 saying, This is the power of God which is called great.
8:11 And they gave heed to him, because that for a long time he
 had astonished them by his magic arts.
8:12 But when they believed Philip announcing the glad tidings
 concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ,
 they were baptised, both men and women.
8:13 And Simon also himself believed; and, having been baptised,
 continued constantly with Philip; and, beholding the signs and
 great works of power which took place, was astonished.
8:14 And the apostles who were in Jerusalem, having heard that
 Samaria had received the word of God, sent to them Peter and
 John;
8:15 who, having come down, prayed for them that they might
 receive [the] Holy Spirit;
8:16 for he was not yet fallen upon any of them, only they were
 baptised to the name of the Lord Jesus.
8:17 Then they laid their hands upon them, and they received
 [the] Holy Spirit.
8:18 But Simon, having seen that by the laying on of the hands
 of the apostles the [Holy] Spirit was given, offered them
 money,
8:19 saying, Give to me also this power, in order that on
 whomsoever I may lay hands he may receive [the] Holy Spirit.
8:20 And Peter said to him, Thy money go with thee to
 destruction, because thou hast thought that the gift of God can
 be obtained by money.
8:21 Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter, for thy
 heart is not upright before God.
8:22 Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and supplicate the
 Lord, if indeed the thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee;
8:23 for I see thee to be in the gall of bitterness, and bond of
 unrighteousness.
8:24 And Simon answering said, Supplicate *ye* for me to the
 Lord, so that nothing may come upon me of the things of which
 ye have spoken.
8:25 They therefore, having testified and spoken the word of the
 Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and announced the glad tidings to
 many villages of the Samaritans.
8:26 But [the] angel of [the] Lord spoke to Philip, saying, Rise
 up and go southward on the way which goes down from Jerusalem
 to Gaza: the same is desert.
8:27 And he rose up and went. And lo, an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a
 man in power under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who was
 over all her treasure, who had come to worship at Jerusalem,
8:28 was returning and sitting in his chariot: and he was
 reading the prophet Esaias.
8:29 And the Spirit said to Philip, Approach and join this
 chariot.
8:30 And Philip, running up, heard him reading the prophet
 Esaias, and said, Dost thou then know what thou art reading of?
8:31 And he said, How should I then be able unless some one
 guide me? And he begged Philip to come up and sit with him.
8:32 And the passage of the scripture which he read was this: He
 was led as a sheep to slaughter, and as a lamb is dumb in
 presence of him that shears him, thus he opens not his mouth.
8:33 In his humiliation his judgment has been taken away, and
 who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from
 the earth.
8:34 And the eunuch answering Philip said, I pray thee,
 concerning whom does the prophet say this? of himself or of
 some other?
8:35 And Philip, opening his mouth and beginning from that
 scripture, announced the glad tidings of Jesus to him.
8:36 And as they went along the way, they came upon a certain
 water, and the eunuch says, Behold water; what hinders my being
 baptised?
8:37
8:38 And he commanded the chariot to stop. And they went down
 both to the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptised
 him.
8:39 But when they came up out of the water [the] Spirit of
 [the] Lord caught away Philip, and the eunuch saw him no
 longer, for he went on his way rejoicing.
8:40 And Philip was found at Azotus, and passing through he
 announced the glad tidings to all the cities till he came to
 Caesarea.
9:1 But Saul, still breathing out threatenings and slaughter
 against the disciples of the Lord, came to the high priest
9:2 and asked of him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues, so
 that if he found any who were of the way, both men and women,
 he might bring [them] bound to Jerusalem.
9:3 But as he was journeying, it came to pass that he drew near
 to Damascus; and suddenly there shone round about him a light
 out of heaven,
9:4 and falling on the earth he heard a voice saying to him,
 Saul, Saul, why dost thou persecute me?
9:5 And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And he [said], *I* am
 Jesus, whom *thou* persecutest.
9:6 But rise up and enter into the city, and it shall be told
 thee what thou must do.
9:7 But the men who were travelling with him stood speechless,
 hearing the voice but beholding no one.
9:8 And Saul rose up from the earth, and his eyes being opened
 he saw no one. But leading [him] by the hand they brought him
 into Damascus.
9:9 And he was three days without seeing, and neither ate nor
 drank.
9:10 And there was a certain disciple in Damascus by name
 Ananias. And the Lord said to him in a vision, Ananias. And he
 said, Behold, [here am] I, Lord.
9:11 And the Lord [said] to him, Rise up and go into the street
 which is called Straight, and seek in the house of Judas one by
 name Saul, [he is] of Tarsus: for, behold, he is praying,
9:12 and has seen [in a vision] a man by name Ananias coming in
 and putting his hand on him, so that he should see.
9:13 And Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many
 concerning this man how much evil he has done to thy saints at
 Jerusalem;
9:14 and here he has authority from the chief priests to bind
 all who call upon thy name.
9:15 And the Lord said to him, Go, for this [man] is an elect
 vessel to me, to bear my name before both nations and kings and
 [the] sons of Israel:
9:16 for *I* will shew to him how much he must suffer for my
 name.
9:17 And Ananias went and entered into the house; and laying his
 hands upon him he said, Saul, brother, the Lord has sent me,
 Jesus that appeared to thee in the way in which thou camest,
 that thou mightest see, and be filled with [the] Holy Spirit.
9:18 And straightway there fell from his eyes as it were scales,
 and he saw, and rising up was baptised;
9:19 and, having received food, got strength. And he was with
 the disciples who [were] in Damascus certain days.
9:20 And straightway in the synagogues he preached Jesus that
 *he* is the Son of God.
9:21 And all who heard were astonished and said, Is not this
 *he* who destroyed in Jerusalem those who called on this name,
 and here was come for this purpose, that he might bring them
 bound to the chief priests?
9:22 But Saul increased the more in power, and confounded the
 Jews who dwelt in Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.
9:23 Now when many days were fulfilled, the Jews consulted
 together to kill him.
9:24 But their plot became known to Saul. And they watched also
 the gates both day and night, that they might kill him;
9:25 but the disciples took him by night and let him down
 through the wall, lowering him in a basket.
9:26 And having arrived at Jerusalem he essayed to join himself
 to the disciples, and all were afraid of him, not believing
 that he was a disciple.
9:27 But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and
 related to them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that
 he had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken boldly
 in the name of Jesus.
9:28 And he was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem,
9:29 and speaking boldly in the name of the Lord. And he spoke
 and discussed with the Hellenists; but they sought to kill him.
9:30 And the brethren knowing it, brought him down to Caesarea
 and sent him away to Tarsus.
9:31 The assemblies then throughout the whole of Judaea and
 Galilee and Samaria had peace, being edified and walking in the
 fear of the Lord, and were increased through the comfort of the
 Holy Spirit.
9:32 Now it came to pass that Peter, passing through all
 [quarters], descended also to the saints who inhabited Lydda.
9:33 And he found there a certain man, Aeneas by name, who had
 been lying for eight years upon a couch, who was paralysed.
9:34 And Peter said to him, Aeneas, Jesus, the Christ, heals
 thee: rise up, and make thy couch for thyself. And straightway
 he rose up.
9:35 And all who inhabited Lydda and the Saron saw him, who
 turned to the Lord.
9:36 And in Joppa there was a certain female disciple, by name
 Tabitha, which being interpreted means Dorcas. She was full of
 good works and alms-deeds which she did.
9:37 And it came to pass in those days that she grew sick and
 died; and, having washed her, they put her in [the] upper room.
9:38 But Lydda being near to Joppa, the disciples having heard
 that Peter was there, sent two men to him, beseeching him, Thou
 must not delay coming to us.
9:39 And Peter rising up went with them, whom, when arrived,
 they brought up into the upper chamber; and all the widows
 stood by him weeping and shewing him the body-coats and
 garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.
9:40 But Peter, putting them all out, and kneeling down, prayed.
 And, turning to the body, he said, Tabitha, arise. And she
 opened her eyes, and, seeing Peter, sat up.
9:41 And having given her [his] hand, he raised her up, and
 having called the saints and the widows, presented her living.
9:42 And it became known throughout the whole of Joppa, and many
 believed on the Lord.
9:43 And it came to pass that he remained many days in Joppa
 with a certain Simon, a tanner.
10:1 But a certain man in Caesarea, -- by name Cornelius, a
 centurion of the band called Italic,
10:2 pious, and fearing God with all his house, [both] giving
 much alms to the people, and supplicating God continually,
10:3 -- saw plainly in a vision, about the ninth hour of the
 day, an angel of God coming unto him, and saying to him,
 Cornelius.
10:4 But he, having fixed his eyes upon him, and become full of
 fear, said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Thy prayers
 and thine alms have gone up for a memorial before God.
10:5 And now send men to Joppa and fetch Simon, who is surnamed
 Peter.
10:6 He lodges with a certain Simon, a tanner, whose house is by
 the sea.
10:7 And when the angel who was speaking to him had departed,
 having called two of his household and a pious soldier of those
 who were constantly with him,
10:8 and related all things to them, he sent them to Joppa.
10:9 And on the morrow, as these were journeying and drawing
 near to the city, Peter went up on the house to pray, about the
 sixth hour.
10:10 And he became hungry and desired to eat. But as they were
 making ready an ecstasy came upon him:
10:11 and he beholds the heaven opened, and a certain vessel
 descending, as a great sheet, [bound] by [the] four corners
 [and] let down to the earth;
10:12 in which were all the quadrupeds and creeping things of
 the earth, and the fowls of the heaven.
10:13 And there was a voice to him, Rise, Peter, slay and eat.
10:14 And Peter said, In no wise, Lord; for I have never eaten
 anything common or unclean.
10:15 And [there was] a voice again the second time to him, What
 God has cleansed, do not *thou* make common.
10:16 And this took place thrice, and the vessel was straightway
 taken up into heaven.
10:17 And as Peter doubted in himself what the vision which he
 had seen might mean, behold also the men who were sent by
 Cornelius, having sought out the house of Simon, stood at the
 gate,
10:18 and having called [some one], they inquired if Simon who
 was surnamed Peter was lodged there.
10:19 But as Peter continued pondering over the vision, the
 Spirit said to him, Behold, three men seek thee;
10:20 but rise up, go down, and go with them, nothing doubting,
 because *I* have sent them.
10:21 And Peter going down to the men said, Behold, *I* am he
 whom ye seek: what is the cause for which ye come?
10:22 And they said, Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man,
 and fearing God, and borne witness to by the whole nation of
 the Jews, has been divinely instructed by a holy angel to send
 for thee to his house, and hear words from thee.
10:23 Having therefore invited them in, he lodged them. And on
 the morrow, rising up he went away with them, and certain of
 the brethren from Joppa went with him.
10:24 And on the morrow they came to Caesarea. But Cornelius was
 looking for them, having called together his kinsmen and [his]
 intimate friends.
10:25 And when Peter was now coming in, Cornelius met him, and
 falling down did [him] homage.
10:26 But Peter made him rise, saying, Rise up: *I* myself also
 am a man.
10:27 And he went in, talking with him, and found many gathered
 together.
10:28 And he said to them, *Ye* know how it is unlawful for a
 Jew to be joined or come to one of a strange race, and to *me*
 God has shewn to call no man common or unclean.
10:29 Wherefore also, having been sent for, I came without
 saying anything against it. I inquire therefore for what reason
 ye have sent for me.
10:30 And Cornelius said, Four days ago I had been [fasting]
 unto this hour, and the ninth [I was] praying in my house, and
 lo, a man stood before me in bright clothing,
10:31 and said, Cornelius, thy prayer has been heard, and thy
 alms have come in remembrance before God.
10:32 Send therefore to Joppa and fetch Simon, who is surnamed
 Peter; he lodges in the house of Simon, a tanner, by the sea
 [who when he is come will speak to thee].
10:33 Immediately therefore I sent to thee, and *thou* hast well
 done in coming. Now therefore *we* are all present before God
 to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.
10:34 And Peter opening his mouth said, Of a truth I perceive
 that God is no respecter of persons,
10:35 but in every nation he that fears him and works
 righteousness is acceptable to him.
10:36 The word which he sent to the sons of Israel, preaching
 peace by Jesus Christ, (*he* is Lord of all things,)
10:37 *ye* know; the testimony which has spread through the
 whole of Judaea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism which
 John preached --
10:38 Jesus who [was] of Nazareth: how God anointed him with
 [the] Holy Spirit and with power; who went through [all
 quarters] doing good, and healing all that were under the power
 of the devil, because God was with him.
10:39 *We* also [are] witnesses of all things which he did both
 in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem; whom they also
 slew, having hanged him on a cross.
10:40 This [man] God raised up the third day and gave him to be
 openly seen,
10:41 not of all the people, but of witnesses who were chosen
 before of God, *us* who have eaten and drunk with him after he
 arose from among [the] dead.
10:42 And he commanded us to preach to the people, and to
 testify that *he* it is who was determinately appointed of God
 [to be] judge of living and dead.
10:43 To him all the prophets bear witness that every one that
 believes on him will receive through his name remission of
 sins.
10:44 While Peter was yet speaking these words the Holy Spirit
 fell upon all those who were hearing the word.
10:45 And the faithful of the circumcision were astonished, as
 many as came with Peter, that upon the nations also the gift of
 the Holy Spirit was poured out:
10:46 for they heard them speaking with tongues and magnifying
 God. Then Peter answered,
10:47 Can any one forbid water that these should not be
 baptised, who have received the Holy Spirit as we also [did]?
10:48 And he commanded them to be baptised in the name of the
 Lord. Then they begged him to stay some days.
11:1 And the apostles and the brethren who were in Judaea heard
 that the nations also had received the word of God;
11:2 and when Peter went up to Jerusalem, they of the
 circumcision contended with him,
11:3 saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised and hast eaten
 with them.
11:4 But Peter began and set forth [the matter] to them in
 order, saying,
11:5 I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in an ecstasy I saw
 a vision, a certain vessel descending like a great sheet, let
 down by four corners out of heaven, and it came even to me:
11:6 on which having fixed mine eyes, I considered, and saw the
 quadrupeds of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping
 things, and the fowls of the heaven.
11:7 And I heard also a voice saying to me, Rise up, Peter, slay
 and eat.
11:8 And I said, In no wise, Lord, for common or unclean has
 never entered into my mouth.
11:9 And a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What
 God has cleansed, do not *thou* make common.
11:10 And this took place thrice, and again all was drawn up
 into heaven;
11:11 and lo, immediately three men were at the house in which I
 was, sent to me from Caesarea.
11:12 And the Spirit said to me to go with them, nothing
 doubting. And there went with me these six brethren also, and
 we entered into the house of the man,
11:13 and he related to us how he had seen the angel in his
 house, standing and saying [to him], Send [men] to Joppa and
 fetch Simon, who is surnamed Peter,
11:14 who shall speak words to thee whereby *thou* shalt be
 saved, thou and all thy house.
11:15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them
 even as upon us also at the beginning.
11:16 And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, John
 baptised with water, but *ye* shall be baptised with [the] Holy
 Spirit.
11:17 If then God has given them the same gift as also to us
 when we had believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who indeed was
 *I* to be able to forbid God?
11:18 And when they heard these things they held their peace,
 and glorified God, saying, Then indeed God has to the nations
 also granted repentance to life.
11:19 They then who had been scattered abroad through the
 tribulation that took place on the occasion of Stephen, passed
 through [the country] to Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch,
 speaking the word to no one but to Jews alone.
11:20 But there were certain of them, Cyprians and Cyrenians,
 who entering into Antioch spoke to the Greeks also, announcing
 the glad tidings of the Lord Jesus.
11:21 And [the] Lord's hand was with them, and a great number
 believed and turned to the Lord.
11:22 And the report concerning them reached the ears of the
 assembly which was in Jerusalem, and they sent out Barnabas to
 go through as far as Antioch:
11:23 who, having arrived and seeing the grace of God, rejoiced,
 and exhorted all with purpose of heart to abide with the Lord;
11:24 for he was a good man and full of [the] Holy Spirit and of
 faith; and a large crowd [of people] were added to the Lord.
11:25 And he went away to Tarsus to seek out Saul.
11:26 And having found [him], he brought him to Antioch. And so
 it was with them that for a whole year they were gathered
 together in the assembly and taught a large crowd: and the
 disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.
11:27 Now in these days prophets went down from Jerusalem to
 Antioch;
11:28 and one from among them, by name Agabus, rose up and
 signified by the Spirit that there was going to be a great
 famine over all the inhabited earth, which also came to pass
 under Claudius.
11:29 And they determined, according as any one of the disciples
 was well off, each of them to send to the brethren who dwelt in
 Judaea, to minister [to them];
11:30 which also they did, sending it to the elders by the hand
 of Barnabas and Saul.
12:1 At that time Herod the king laid his hands on some of those
 of the assembly to do them hurt,
12:2 and slew James, the brother of John, with the sword.
12:3 And seeing that it was pleasing to the Jews, he went on to
 take Peter also: (and they were the days of unleavened bread:)
12:4 whom having seized he put in prison, having delivered him
 to four quaternions of soldiers to keep, purposing after the
 passover to bring him out to the people.
12:5 Peter therefore was kept in the prison; but unceasing
 prayer was made by the assembly to God concerning him.
12:6 And when Herod was going to bring him forth, that night
 Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains,
 and guards before the door kept the prison.
12:7 And lo, an angel of [the] Lord came there, and a light
 shone in the prison: and having smitten the side of Peter, he
 roused him up, saying, Rise up quickly. And his chains fell off
 his hands.
12:8 And the angel said to him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy
 sandals. And he did so. And he says to him, Cast thine upper
 garment about thee and follow me.
12:9 And going forth he followed [him] and did not know that
 what was happening by means of the angel was real, but supposed
 he saw a vision.
12:10 And having passed through a first and second guard, they
 came to the iron gate which leads into the city, which opened
 to them of itself; and going forth they went down one street,
 and immediately the angel left him.
12:11 And Peter, being come to himself, said, Now I know
 certainly that [the] Lord has sent forth his angel and has
 taken me out of the hand of Herod and all the expectation of
 the people of the Jews.
12:12 And having become clearly conscious [in himself], he came
 to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was surnamed Mark,
 where were many gathered together and praying.
12:13 And when he had knocked at the door of the entry, a maid
 came to listen, by name Rhoda;
12:14 and having recognised the voice of Peter, through joy did
 not open the entry, but running in, reported that Peter was
 standing before the entry.
12:15 And they said to her, Thou art mad. But she maintained
 that it was so. And they said, It is his angel.
12:16 But Peter continued knocking: and having opened, they saw
 him and were astonished.
12:17 And having made a sign to them with his hand to be silent,
 he related [to them] how the Lord had brought him out of
 prison; and he said, Report these things to James and to the
 brethren. And he went out and went to another place.
12:18 And when it was day there was no small disturbance among
 the soldiers, what then was become of Peter.
12:19 And Herod having sought him and not found him, having
 examined the guards, commanded [them] to be executed. And he
 went down from Judaea to Caesarea and stayed [there].
12:20 And he was in bitter hostility with [the] Tyrians and
 Sidonians; but they came to him with one accord, and, having
 gained Blastus the king's chamberlain, sought peace, because
 their country was nourished by the king's.
12:21 And on a set day, clothed in royal apparel and sitting on
 the elevated seat [of honour], Herod made a public oration to
 them.
12:22 And the people cried out, A god's voice and not a man's.
12:23 And immediately an angel of [the] Lord smote him, because
 he did not give the glory to God, and he expired, eaten of
 worms.
12:24 But the word of God grew and spread itself.
12:25 And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, having
 fulfilled the service [entrusted to them], taking also with
 them John, surnamed Mark.
13:1 Now there were in Antioch, in the assembly which was
 [there], prophets and teachers: Barnabas, and Simeon who was
 called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen,
 foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
13:2 And as they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the
 Holy Spirit said, Separate me now Barnabas and Saul for the
 work to which I have called them.
13:3 Then, having fasted and prayed, and having laid [their]
 hands on them, they let [them] go.
13:4 They therefore, having been sent forth by the Holy Spirit,
 went down to Seleucia, and thence sailed away to Cyprus.
13:5 And being in Salamis, they announced the word of God in the
 synagogues of the Jews. And they had John also as [their]
 attendant.
13:6 And having passed through the whole island as far as
 Paphos, they found a certain man a magician, a false prophet, a
 Jew, whose name was Bar-jesus,
13:7 who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent
 man. *He*, having called Barnabas and Saul to [him], desired to
 hear the word of God.
13:8 But Elymas the magician (for so his name is by
 interpretation) opposed them, seeking to turn away the
 proconsul from the faith.
13:9 But Saul, who also [is] Paul, filled with [the] Holy
 Spirit, fixing his eyes upon him,
13:10 said, O full of all deceit and all craft: son of [the]
 devil, enemy of all righteousness; wilt thou not cease
 perverting the right paths of [the] Lord?
13:11 And now behold, [the] Lord's hand [is] upon thee, and thou
 shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And
 immediately there fell upon him a mist and darkness; and going
 about he sought persons who should lead him by the hand.
13:12 Then the proconsul, seeing what had happened, believed,
 being amazed at the teaching of the Lord.
13:13 And having sailed from Paphos, Paul and his company came
 to Perga of Pamphylia; and John separated from them and
 returned to Jerusalem.
13:14 But they, passing through from Perga, came to Antioch of
 Pisidia; and entering into the synagogue on the sabbath day
 they sat down.
13:15 And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the
 rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, Brethren, if ye
 have any word of exhortation to the people, speak.
13:16 And Paul, rising up and making a sign with the hand, said,
 Israelites, and ye that fear God, hearken.
13:17 The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and
 exalted the people in their sojourn in [the] land of Egypt, and
 with a high arm brought them out of it,
13:18 and for a time of about forty years he nursed them in the
 desert.
13:19 And having destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan,
 he gave them their land as an inheritance.
13:20 And after these things he gave [them] judges till Samuel
 the prophet, [to the end of] about four hundred and fifty
 years.
13:21 And then they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul,
 son of Kis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, during forty years.
13:22 And having removed him he raised up to them David for
 king, of whom also bearing witness he said, I have found David,
 the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who shall do all my
 will.
13:23 Of this man's seed according to promise has God brought to
 Israel a Saviour, Jesus;
13:24 John having proclaimed before the face of his entry [among
 the people] [the] baptism of repentance to all the people of
 Israel.
13:25 And as John was fulfilling his course he said, Whom do ye
 suppose that I am? *I* am not [he]. But behold, there comes one
 after me, the sandal of whose feet I am not worthy to loose.
13:26 Brethren, sons of Abraham's race, and those who among you
 fear God, to you has the word of this salvation been sent:
13:27 for those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, not
 having known him, have fulfilled also the voices of the
 prophets which are read on every sabbath, [by] judging [him].
13:28 And having found no cause of death [in him], they begged
 of Pilate that he might be slain.
13:29 And when they had fulfilled all things written concerning
 him, they took him down from the cross and put him in a
 sepulchre;
13:30 but God raised him from among [the] dead,
13:31 who appeared for many days to those who had come up with
 him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the
 people.
13:32 And *we* declare unto you the glad tidings of the promise
 made to the fathers,
13:33 that God has fulfilled this to us their children, having
 raised up Jesus; as it is also written in the second psalm,
 *Thou* art my Son: this day have *I* begotten thee.
13:34 But that he raised him from among [the] dead, no more to
 return to corruption, he spoke thus: I will give to you the
 faithful mercies of David.
13:35 Wherefore also he says in another, Thou wilt not suffer
 thy gracious one to see corruption.
13:36 For David indeed, having in his own generation ministered
 to the will of God, fell asleep, and was added to his fathers
 and saw corruption.
13:37 But he whom God raised up did not see corruption.
13:38 Be it known unto you, therefore, brethren, that through
 this man remission of sins is preached to you,
13:39 and from all things from which ye could not be justified
 in the law of Moses, in him every one that believes is
 justified.
13:40 See therefore that that which is spoken in the prophets do
 not come upon [you],
13:41 Behold, ye despisers, and wonder and perish; for *I* work
 a work in your days, a work which ye will in no wise believe if
 one declare it to you.
13:42 And as they went out they begged that these words might be
 spoken to them the ensuing sabbath.
13:43 And the congregation of the synagogue having broken up,
 many of the Jews and of the worshipping proselytes followed
 Paul and Barnabas, who speaking to them, persuaded them to
 continue in the grace of God.
13:44 And on the coming sabbath almost all the city was gathered
 together to hear the word of God.
13:45 But the Jews, seeing the crowds, were filled with envy,
 and contradicted the things said by Paul, [contradicting and]
 speaking injuriously.
13:46 And Paul and Barnabas spoke boldly and said, It was
 necessary that the word of God should be first spoken to you;
 but, since ye thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy
 of eternal life, lo, we turn to the nations;
13:47 for thus has the Lord enjoined us: I have set thee for a
 light of the nations, that thou shouldest be for salvation to
 the end of the earth.
13:48 And [those of] the nations, hearing it, rejoiced, and
 glorified the word of the Lord, and believed, as many as were
 ordained to eternal life.
13:49 And the word of the Lord was carried through the whole
 country.
13:50 But the Jews excited the women of the upper classes who
 were worshippers, and the first people of the city, and raised
 a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out of
 their coasts.
13:51 But they, having shaken off the dust of their feet against
 them, came to Iconium.
13:52 And the disciples were filled with joy and [the] Holy
 Spirit.
14:1 And it came to pass in Iconium that they entered together
 into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake that a great
 multitude of both Jews and Greeks believed.
14:2 But the Jews who did not believe stirred up the minds of
 [those of] the nations and made [them] evil-affected against
 the brethren.
14:3 They stayed therefore a good while, speaking boldly,
 [confiding] in the Lord, who gave witness to the word of his
 grace, giving signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
14:4 And the multitude of the city was divided, and some were
 with the Jews and some with the apostles.
14:5 And when an assault was making, both of [those of] the
 nations and [the] Jews with their rulers, to use [them] ill and
 stone them,
14:6 they, being aware of it, fled to the cities of Lycaonia,
 Lystra and Derbe, and the surrounding country,
14:7 and there they were announcing the glad tidings.
14:8 And a certain man in Lystra, impotent in his feet, sat,
 [being] lame from his mother's womb, who had never walked.
14:9 This [man] heard Paul speaking, who, fixing his eyes on
 him, and seeing that he had faith to be healed,
14:10 said with a loud voice, Rise up straight upon thy feet:
 and he sprang up and walked.
14:11 But the crowds, who saw what Paul had done, lifted up
 their voices in Lycaonian, saying, The gods, having made
 themselves like men, are come down to us.
14:12 And they called Barnabas Jupiter, and Paul Mercury,
 because he took the lead in speaking.
14:13 And the priest of Jupiter who was before the city, having
 brought bulls and garlands to the gates, would have done
 sacrifice along with the crowds.
14:14 But the apostles Barnabas and Paul, having heard [it],
 rent their garments, and rushed out to the crowd, crying
14:15 and saying, Men, why do ye these things? *We* also are men
 of like passions with you, preaching to you to turn from these
 vanities to the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth,
 and the sea, and all things in them;
14:16 who in the past generations suffered all the nations to go
 in their own ways,
14:17 though indeed he did not leave himself without witness,
 doing good, and giving to you from heaven rain and fruitful
 seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.
14:18 And saying these things, they with difficulty kept the
 crowds from sacrificing to them.
14:19 But there came Jews from Antioch and Iconium, and having
 persuaded the crowds and stoned Paul, drew him out of the city,
 supposing him to have died.
14:20 But while the disciples encircled him, he rose up and
 entered into the city. And on the morrow he went away with
 Barnabas to Derbe.
14:21 And having announced the glad tidings to that city, and
 having made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, and
 Iconium, and Antioch,
14:22 establishing the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to
 abide in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must
 enter into the kingdom of God.
14:23 And having chosen them elders in each assembly, having
 prayed with fastings, they committed them to the Lord, on whom
 they had believed.
14:24 And having passed through Pisidia they came to Pamphylia,
14:25 and having spoken the word in Perga, they came down to
 Attalia;
14:26 and thence they sailed away to Antioch, whence they had
 been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had
 fulfilled.
14:27 And having arrived, and having brought together the
 assembly, they related to them all that God had done with them,
 and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.
14:28 And they stayed no little time with the disciples.
15:1 And certain persons, having come down from Judaea, taught
 the brethren, If ye shall not have been circumcised according
 to the custom of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
15:2 A commotion therefore having taken place, and no small
 discussion on the part of Paul and Barnabas against them, they
 arranged that Paul and Barnabas, and certain others from
 amongst them, should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and
 elders about this question.
15:3 They therefore, having been set on their way by the
 assembly, passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, relating the
 conversion of [those of] the nations. And they caused great joy
 to all the brethren.
15:4 And being arrived at Jerusalem, they were received by the
 assembly, and the apostles, and the elders, and related all
 that God had wrought with them.
15:5 And some of those who were of the sect of the Pharisees,
 who believed, rose up from among [them], saying that they ought
 to circumcise them and enjoin them to keep the law of Moses.
15:6 And the apostles and the elders were gathered together to
 see about this matter.
15:7 And much discussion having taken place, Peter, standing up,
 said to them, Brethren, *ye* know that from the earliest days
 God amongst you chose that the nations by my mouth should hear
 the word of the glad tidings and believe.
15:8 And the heart-knowing God bore them witness, giving [them]
 the Holy Spirit as to us also,
15:9 and put no difference between us and them, having purified
 their hearts by faith.
15:10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, by putting a yoke upon the
 neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we have
 been able to bear?
15:11 But we believe that we shall be saved by the grace of the
 Lord Jesus, in the same manner as they also.
15:12 And all the multitude kept silence and listened to
 Barnabas and Paul relating all the signs and wonders which God
 had wrought among the nations by them.
15:13 And after they had held their peace, James answered,
 saying, Brethren, listen to me:
15:14 Simon has related how God first visited to take out of
 [the] nations a people for his name.
15:15 And with this agree the words of the prophets; as it is
 written:
15:16 After these things I will return, and will rebuild the
 tabernacle of David which is fallen, and will rebuild its
 ruins, and will set it up,
15:17 so that the residue of men may seek out the Lord, and all
 the nations on whom my name is invoked, saith [the] Lord, who
 does these things
15:18 known from eternity.
15:19 Wherefore *I* judge, not to trouble those who from the
 nations turn to God;
15:20 but to write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols,
 and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from
 blood.
15:21 For Moses, from generations of old, has in every city
 those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every
 sabbath.
15:22 Then it seemed good to the apostles and to the elders,
 with the whole assembly, to send chosen men from among them
 with Paul and Barnabas to Antioch, Judas called Barsabas and
 Silas, leading men among the brethren,
15:23 having by their hand written [thus]: The apostles, and the
 elders, and the brethren, to the brethren who are from among
 [the] nations at Antioch, and [in] Syria and Cilicia, greeting:
15:24 Inasmuch as we have heard that some who went out from
 amongst us have troubled you by words, upsetting your souls,
 [saying that ye must be circumcised and keep the law]; to whom
 we gave no commandment;
15:25 it seemed good to us, having arrived at a common judgment,
 to send chosen men to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
15:26 men who have given up their lives for the name of our Lord
 Jesus Christ.
15:27 We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who themselves
 also will tell you by word [of mouth] the same things.
15:28 For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay
 upon you no greater burden than these necessary things:
15:29 to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from
 blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication;
 keeping yourselves from which ye will do well. Farewell.
15:30 They therefore, being let go, came to Antioch, and having
 gathered the multitude delivered to [them] the epistle.
15:31 And having read it, they rejoiced at the consolation.
15:32 And Judas and Silas, being themselves also prophets,
 exhorted the brethren with much discourse, and strengthened
 them.
15:33 And having passed some time [there], they were let go in
 peace from the brethren to those who sent them.
15:34
15:35 And Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and
 announcing the glad tidings, with many others also, of the word
 of the Lord.
15:36 But after certain days Paul said to Barnabas, Let us
 return now and visit the brethren in every city where we have
 announced the word of the Lord, [and see] how they are getting
 on.
15:37 And Barnabas proposed to take with [them] John also,
 called Mark;
15:38 but Paul thought it not well to take with them him who had
 abandoned them, [going back] from Pamphylia, and had not gone
 with them to the work.
15:39 There arose therefore very warm feeling, so that they
 separated from one another; and Barnabas taking Mark sailed
 away to Cyprus;
15:40 but Paul having chosen Silas went forth, committed by the
 brethren to the grace of God.
15:41 And he passed through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the
 assemblies.
16:1 And he came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain
 disciple was there, by name Timotheus, son of a Jewish
 believing woman, but [the] father a Greek,
16:2 who had a [good] testimony of the brethren in Lystra and
 Iconium.
16:3 Him would Paul have go forth with him, and took [him and]
 circumcised him on account of the Jews who were in those
 places, for they all knew his father that he was a Greek.
16:4 And as they passed through the cities they instructed them
 to observe the decrees determined on by the apostles and elders
 who were in Jerusalem.
16:5 The assemblies therefore were confirmed in the faith, and
 increased in number every day.
16:6 And having passed through Phrygia and the Galatian country,
 having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in
 Asia,
16:7 having come down to Mysia, they attempted to go to
 Bithynia, and the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them;
16:8 and having passed by Mysia they descended to Troas.
16:9 And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: There was a
 certain Macedonian man, standing and beseeching him, and
 saying, Pass over into Macedonia and help us.
16:10 And when he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to
 go forth to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us
 to announce to them the glad tidings.
16:11 Having sailed therefore away from Troas, we went in a
 straight course to Samothracia, and on the morrow to Neapolis,
16:12 and thence to Philippi, which is [the] first city of that
 part of Macedonia, a colony. And we were staying in that city
 certain days.
16:13 And on the sabbath day we went outside the gate by the
 river, where it was the custom for prayer to be, and we sat
 down and spoke to the women who had assembled.
16:14 And a certain woman, by name Lydia, a seller of purple, of
 the city of Thyatira, who worshipped God, heard; whose heart
 the Lord opened to attend to the things spoken by Paul.
16:15 And when she had been baptised and her house, she besought
 [us], saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord,
 come into my house and abide [there]. And she constrained us.
16:16 And it came to pass as we were going to prayer that a
 certain female slave, having a spirit of Python, met us, who
 brought much profit to her masters by prophesying.
16:17 She, having followed Paul and us, cried saying, These men
 are bondmen of the Most High God, who announce to you [the] way
 of salvation.
16:18 And this she did many days. And Paul, being distressed,
 turned, and said to the spirit, I enjoin thee in the name of
 Jesus Christ to come out of her. And it came out the same hour.
16:19 And her masters, seeing that the hope of their gains was
 gone, having seized Paul and Silas, dragged [them] into the
 market before the magistrates;
16:20 and having brought them up to the praetors, said, These
 men utterly trouble our city, being Jews,
16:21 and announce customs which it is not lawful for us to
 receive nor practise, being Romans.
16:22 And the crowd rose up too against them; and the praetors,
 having torn off their clothes, commanded to scourge [them].
16:23 And having laid many stripes upon them they cast [them]
 into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely;
16:24 who, having received such a charge, cast them into the
 inner prison, and secured their feet to the stocks.
16:25 And at midnight Paul and Silas, in praying, were praising
 God with singing, and the prisoners listened to them.
16:26 And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the
 foundations of the prison shook, and all the doors were
 immediately opened, and the bonds of all loosed.
16:27 And the jailor being awakened out of his sleep, and seeing
 the doors of the prison opened, having drawn a sword was going
 to kill himself, thinking the prisoners had fled.
16:28 But Paul called out with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself
 no harm, for we are all here.
16:29 And having asked for lights, he rushed in, and, trembling,
 fell down before Paul and Silas.
16:30 And leading them out said, Sirs, what must I do that I may
 be saved?
16:31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus and thou shalt be
 saved, thou and thy house.
16:32 And they spoke to him the word of the Lord, with all that
 were in his house.
16:33 And he took them the same hour of the night and washed
 [them] from their stripes; and was baptised, he and all his
 straightway.
16:34 And having brought them into his house he laid the table
 [for them], and rejoiced with all his house, having believed in
 God.
16:35 And when it was day, the praetors sent the lictors,
 saying, Let those men go.
16:36 And the jailor reported these words to Paul: The praetors
 have sent that ye may be let go. Now therefore go out and
 depart in peace.
16:37 But Paul said to them, Having beaten us publicly
 uncondemned, us who are Romans, they have cast us into prison,
 and now they thrust us out secretly? no, indeed, but let them
 come themselves and bring us out.
16:38 And the lictors reported these words to the praetors. And
 they were afraid when they heard they were Romans.
16:39 And they came and besought them, and having brought them
 out, asked them to go out of the city.
16:40 And having gone out of the prison, they came to Lydia; and
 having seen the brethren, they exhorted them and went away.
17:1 And having journeyed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they
 came to Thessalonica, where was the synagogue of the Jews.
17:2 And according to Paul's custom he went in among them, and
 on three sabbaths reasoned with them from the scriptures,
17:3 opening and laying down that the Christ must have suffered
 and risen up from among the dead, and that this is the Christ,
 Jesus whom *I* announce to you.
17:4 And some of them believed, and joined themselves to Paul
 and Silas, and of the Greeks who worshipped, a great multitude,
 and of the chief women not a few.
17:5 But the Jews having been stirred up to jealousy, and taken
 to [themselves] certain wicked men of the lowest rabble, and
 having got a crowd together, set the city in confusion; and
 having beset the house of Jason sought to bring them out to the
 people;
17:6 and not having found them, dragged Jason and certain
 brethren before the politarchs, crying out, These [men] that
 have set the world in tumult, are come here also,
17:7 whom Jason has received; and these all do contrary to the
 decrees of Caesar, saying, that there is another king, Jesus.
17:8 And they troubled the crowd and the politarchs when they
 heard these things.
17:9 And having taken security of Jason and the rest, they let
 them go.
17:10 But the brethren immediately sent away, in the night, Paul
 and Silas to Berea; who, being arrived, went away into the
 synagogue of the Jews.
17:11 And these were more noble than those in Thessalonica,
 receiving the word with all readiness of mind, daily searching
 the scriptures if these things were so.
17:12 Therefore many from among them believed, and of Grecian
 women of the upper classes and men not a few.
17:13 But when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that the word of
 God was announced in Berea also by Paul, they came there also,
 stirring up the crowds.
17:14 And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as
 to the sea; but Silas and Timotheus abode there.
17:15 But they that conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens;
 and, having received a commandment to Silas and Timotheus, that
 they should come to him as quickly as possible, they departed.
17:16 But in Athens, while Paul was waiting for them, his spirit
 was painfully excited in him seeing the city given up to
 idolatry.
17:17 He reasoned therefore in the synagogue with the Jews, and
 those who worshipped, and in the market-place every day with
 those he met with.
17:18 But some also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers
 attacked him. And some said, What would this chatterer say? and
 some, He seems to be an announcer of foreign demons, because he
 announced the glad tidings of Jesus and the resurrection [to
 them].
17:19 And having taken hold on him they brought [him] to
 Areopagus, saying, Might we know what this new doctrine which
 is spoken by thee [is]?
17:20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears. We
 wish therefore to know what these things may mean.
17:21 Now all [the] Athenians and the strangers sojourning there
 spent their time in nothing else than to tell and to hear the
 news.
17:22 And Paul standing in the midst of Areopagus said,
 Athenians, in every way I see you given up to demon worship;
17:23 for, passing through and beholding your shrines, I found
 also an altar on which was inscribed, To the unknown God. Whom
 therefore ye reverence, not knowing [him], him I announce to
 you.
17:24 The God who has made the world and all things which are in
 it, *he*, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in
 temples made with hands,
17:25 nor is served by men's hands as needing something, himself
 giving to all life and breath and all things;
17:26 and has made of one blood every nation of men to dwell
 upon the whole face of the earth, having determined ordained
 times and the boundaries of their dwelling,
17:27 that they may seek God; if indeed they might feel after
 him and find him, although he is not far from each one of us:
17:28 for in him we live and move and exist; as also some of the
 poets amongst you have said, For we are also his offspring.
17:29 Being therefore [the] offspring of God, we ought not to
 think that which is divine to be like gold or silver or stone,
 [the] graven form of man's art and imagination.
17:30 God therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance,
 now enjoins men that they shall all everywhere repent,
17:31 because he has set a day in which he is going to judge the
 habitable earth in righteousness by [the] man whom he has
 appointed, giving the proof [of it] to all [in] having raised
 him from among [the] dead.
17:32 And when they heard [of the] resurrection of the dead,
 some mocked, and some said, We will hear thee again also
 concerning this.
17:33 Thus Paul went out of their midst.
17:34 But some men joining themselves to him believed; among
 whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman by name
 Damaris, and others with them.
18:1 And after these things, having left Athens, he came to
 Corinth;
18:2 and finding a certain Jew by name Aquila, of Pontus by
 race, just come from Italy, and Priscilla his wife, (because
 Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome,) came to them,
18:3 and because they were of the same trade abode with them,
 and wrought. For they were tent-makers by trade.
18:4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and
 persuaded Jews and Greeks.
18:5 And when both Silas and Timotheus came down from Macedonia,
 Paul was pressed in respect of the word, testifying to the Jews
 that Jesus was the Christ.
18:6 But as they opposed and spoke injuriously, he shook his
 clothes, and said to them, Your blood be upon your own head:
 *I* [am] pure; from henceforth I will go to the nations.
18:7 And departing thence he came to the house of a certain
 [man], by name Justus, who worshipped God, whose house adjoined
 the synagogue.
18:8 But Crispus the ruler of the synagogue believed in the Lord
 with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing,
 believed, and were baptised.
18:9 And the Lord said by vision in [the] night to Paul, Fear
 not, but speak and be not silent;
18:10 because *I* am with thee, and no one shall set upon thee
 to injure thee; because I have much people in this city.
18:11 And he remained [there] a year and six months, teaching
 among them the word of God.
18:12 But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one
 consent rose against Paul and led him to the judgment-seat,
18:13 saying, This [man] persuades men to worship God contrary
 to the law.
18:14 But as Paul was going to open his mouth, Gallio said to
 the Jews, If indeed it was some wrong or wicked criminality, O
 Jews, of reason I should have borne with you;
18:15 but if it be questions about words, and names, and the law
 that ye have, see to it yourselves; [for] *I* do not intend to
 be judge of these things.
18:16 And he drove them from the judgment-seat.
18:17 And having all laid hold on Sosthenes the ruler of the
 synagogue, they beat him before the judgment-seat. And Gallio
 troubled himself about none of these things.
18:18 And Paul, having yet stayed [there] many days, took leave
 of the brethren and sailed thence to Syria, and with him
 Priscilla and Aquila, having shorn his head in Cenchrea, for he
 had a vow;
18:19 and he arrived at Ephesus, and left them there. But
 entering himself into the synagogue he reasoned with the Jews.
18:20 And when they asked him that he would remain for a longer
 time [with them] he did not accede,
18:21 but bade them farewell, saying, [I must by all means keep
 the coming feast at Jerusalem]; I will return to you again, if
 God will: and he sailed away from Ephesus.
18:22 And landing at Caesarea, and having gone up and saluted
 the assembly, he went down to Antioch.
18:23 And having stayed [there] some time, he went forth,
 passing in order through the country of Galatia and Phrygia,
 establishing all the disciples.
18:24 But a certain Jew, Apollos by name, an Alexandrian by
 race, an eloquent man, who was mighty in the scriptures,
 arrived at Ephesus.
18:25 He was instructed in the way of the Lord, and being
 fervent in his spirit, he spoke and taught exactly the things
 concerning Jesus, knowing only the baptism of John.
18:26 And *he* began to speak boldly in the synagogue. And
 Aquila and Priscilla, having heard him, took him to [them] and
 unfolded to him the way of God more exactly.
18:27 And when he purposed to go into Achaia, the brethren wrote
 to the disciples engaging them to receive him, who, being come,
 contributed much to those who believed through grace.
18:28 For he with great force convinced the Jews publicly,
 shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.
19:1 And it came to pass, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul,
 having passed through the upper districts, came to Ephesus, and
 finding certain disciples,
19:2 he said to them, Did ye receive [the] Holy Spirit when ye
 had believed? And they [said] to him, We did not even hear if
 [the] Holy Spirit was [come].
19:3 And he said, To what then were ye baptised? And they said,
 To the baptism of John.
19:4 And Paul said, John indeed baptised [with] the baptism of
 repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on
 him that was coming after him, that is, on Jesus.
19:5 And when they heard that, they were baptised to the name of
 the Lord Jesus.
19:6 And Paul having laid [his] hands on them, the Holy Spirit
 came upon them, and they spoke with tongues and prophesied.
19:7 And all the men were about twelve.
19:8 And entering into the synagogue, he spoke boldly during
 three months, reasoning and persuading [the things] concerning
 the kingdom of God.
19:9 But when some were hardened and disbelieved, speaking evil
 of the way before the multitude, he left them and separated the
 disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.
19:10 And this took place for two years, so that all that
 inhabited Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and
 Greeks.
19:11 And God wrought no ordinary miracles by the hands of Paul,
19:12 so that even napkins or aprons were brought from his body
 [and put] upon the sick, and the diseases left them, and the
 wicked spirits went out.
19:13 And certain of the Jewish exorcists also, who went about,
 took in hand to call upon those who had wicked spirits the name
 of the Lord Jesus, saying, I adjure you by Jesus, whom Paul
 preaches.
19:14 And there were certain [men], seven sons of Sceva, Jewish
 high priest, who were doing this.
19:15 But the wicked spirit answering said to them, Jesus I
 know, and Paul I am acquainted with; but *ye*, who are ye?
19:16 And the man in whom the wicked spirit was leaped upon
 them, and having mastered both, prevailed against them, so that
 they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
19:17 And this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who
 inhabited Ephesus, and fear fell upon all of them, and the name
 of the Lord Jesus was magnified.
19:18 And many of those that believed came confessing and
 declaring their deeds.
19:19 And many of those that practised curious arts brought
 their books [of charms] and burnt them before all. And they
 reckoned up the prices of them, and found it fifty thousand
 pieces of silver.
19:20 Thus with might the word of the Lord increased and
 prevailed.
19:21 And when these things were fulfilled, Paul purposed in his
 spirit to go to Jerusalem, passing through Macedonia and
 Achaia, saying, After I have been there I must see Rome also.
19:22 And having sent into Macedonia two of those ministering to
 him, Timotheus and Erastus, he remained himself awhile in Asia.
19:23 And there took place at that time no small disturbance
 about the way.
19:24 For a certain [man] by name Demetrius, a silver-beater,
 making silver temples of Artemis, brought no small gain to the
 artisans;
19:25 whom having brought together, and those who wrought in
 such things, he said, Men, ye know that our well-living arises
 from this work,
19:26 and ye see and hear that this Paul has persuaded and
 turned away a great crowd, not only of Ephesus, but almost of
 all Asia, saying that they are no gods which are made with
 hands.
19:27 Now not only there is danger for us that our business come
 into discredit, but also that the temple of the great goddess
 Artemis be counted for nothing, and that her greatness should
 be destroyed whom the whole of Asia and the world reveres.
19:28 And having heard [this], and being filled with rage, they
 cried out, saying, Great [is] Artemis of the Ephesians.
19:29 And the [whole] city was filled with confusion, and they
 rushed with one accord to the theatre, having seized and
 carried off with [them] Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians,
 fellow-travellers of Paul.
19:30 But Paul intending to go in to the people, the disciples
 suffered him not;
19:31 and some of the Asiarchs also, who were his friends, sent
 to him and urged him not to throw himself into the theatre.
19:32 Different persons therefore cried out some different
 thing; for the assembly was tumultuous, and the most did not
 know for what cause they had come together.
19:33 But from among the crowd they put forward Alexander, the
 Jews pushing him forward. And Alexander, beckoning with his
 hand, would have made a defence to the people.
19:34 But, recognising that he was a Jew, there was one cry from
 all, shouting for about two hours, Great [is] Artemis of the
 Ephesians.
19:35 And the townclerk, having quieted the crowd, said,
 Ephesians, what man is there then who does not know that the
 city of the Ephesians is temple-keeper of Artemis the great,
 and of the [image] which fell down from heaven?
19:36 These things therefore being undeniable, it is necessary
 that ye should be calm and do nothing headlong.
19:37 For ye have brought these men, [who are] neither
 temple-plunderers, nor speak injuriously of your goddess.
19:38 If therefore Demetrius and the artisans who [are] with him
 have a matter against any one, the courts are being held, and
 there are proconsuls: let them accuse one another.
19:39 But if ye inquire anything concerning other matters, it
 will be settled in the regular assembly.
19:40 For also we are in danger to be put in accusation for
 sedition for this [affair] of to-day, no cause existing in
 reference to which we shall be able to give a reason for this
 concourse.
19:41 And having said these things, he dismissed the assembly.
20:1 But after the tumult had ceased, Paul having called the
 disciples to [him] and embraced [them], went away to go to
 Macedonia.
20:2 And having passed through those parts, and having exhorted
 them with much discourse, he came to Greece.
20:3 And having spent three months [there], a treacherous plot
 against him having been set on foot by the Jews, as he was
 going to sail to Syria, [the] resolution was adopted of
 returning through Macedonia.
20:4 And there accompanied him as far as Asia, Sopater [son] of
 Pyrrhus, a Berean; and of Thessalonians, Aristarchus and
 Secundus, and Gaius and Timotheus of Derbe, and of Asia,
 Tychicus and Trophimus.
20:5 These going before waited for us in Troas;
20:6 but we sailed away from Philippi after the days of
 unleavened bread, and we came to them to Troas in five days,
 where we spent seven days.
20:7 And the first day of the week, we being assembled to break
 bread, Paul discoursed to them, about to depart on the morrow.
 And he prolonged the discourse till midnight.
20:8 And there were many lights in the upper room where we were
 assembled.
20:9 And a certain youth, by name Eutychus, sitting at the
 window-opening, overpowered by deep sleep, while Paul
 discoursed very much at length, having been overpowered by the
 sleep, fell from the third story down to the bottom, and was
 taken up dead.
20:10 But Paul descending fell upon him, and enfolding [him] [in
 his arms], said, Be not troubled, for his life is in him.
20:11 And having gone up, and having broken the bread, and
 eaten, and having long spoken until daybreak, so he went away.
20:12 And they brought [away] the boy alive, and were no little
 comforted.
20:13 And we, having gone before on board ship, sailed off to
 Assos, going to take in Paul there; for so he had directed, he
 himself being about to go on foot.
20:14 And when he met with us at Assos, having taken him on
 board, we came to Mitylene;
20:15 and having sailed thence, on the morrow arrived opposite
 Chios, and the next day put in at Samos; and having stayed at
 Trogyllium, the next day we came to Miletus:
20:16 for Paul thought it desirable to sail by Ephesus, so that
 he might not be made to spend time in Asia; for he hastened, if
 it was possible for him, to be the day of Pentecost at
 Jerusalem.
20:17 But from Miletus having sent to Ephesus, he called over
 [to him] the elders of the assembly.
20:18 And when they were come to him, he said to them, *Ye* know
 how I was with you all the time from the first day that I
 arrived in Asia,
20:19 serving the Lord with all lowliness, and tears, and
 temptations, which happened to me through the plots of the
 Jews;
20:20 how I held back nothing of what is profitable, so as not
 to announce [it] to you, and to teach you publicly and in every
 house,
20:21 testifying to both Jews and Greeks repentance towards God,
 and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ.
20:22 And now, behold, bound in my spirit *I* go to Jerusalem,
 not knowing what things shall happen to me in it;
20:23 only that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city,
 saying that bonds and tribulations await me.
20:24 But I make no account of [my] life [as] dear to myself, so
 that I finish my course, and the ministry which I have received
 of the Lord Jesus, to testify the glad tidings of the grace of
 God.
20:25 And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have
 gone about preaching the kingdom [of God], shall see my face no
 more.
20:26 Wherefore I witness to you this day, that I am clean from
 the blood of all,
20:27 for I have not shrunk from announcing to you all the
 counsel of God.
20:28 Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock,
 wherein the Holy Spirit has set you as overseers, to shepherd
 the assembly of God, which he has purchased with the blood of
 his own.
20:29 [For] *I* know [this,] that there will come in amongst you
 after my departure grievous wolves, not sparing the flock;
20:30 and from among your own selves shall rise up men speaking
 perverted things to draw away the disciples after them.
20:31 Wherefore watch, remembering that for three years, night
 and day, I ceased not admonishing each one [of you] with tears.
20:32 And now I commit you to God, and to the word of his grace,
 which is able to build [you] up and give [to you] an
 inheritance among all the sanctified.
20:33 I have coveted [the] silver or gold or clothing of no one.
20:34 Yourselves know that these hands have ministered to my
 wants, and to those who were with me.
20:35 I have shewed you all things, that thus labouring [we]
 ought to come in aid of the weak, and to remember the words of
 the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to
 give than to receive.
20:36 And having said these things, he knelt down and prayed
 with them all.
20:37 And they all wept sore; and falling upon the neck of Paul
 they ardently kissed him,
20:38 specially pained by the word which he had said, that they
 would no more see his face. And they went down with him to the
 ship.
21:1 And when, having got away from them, we at last sailed
 away, we came by a direct course to Cos, and on the morrow to
 Rhodes, and thence to Patara.
21:2 And having found a ship passing over into Phoenicia, we
 went on board and sailed;
21:3 and having sighted Cyprus, and left it on the left hand, we
 sailed to Syria, and made the land at Tyre, for there the ship
 was to discharge her cargo.
21:4 And having found out the disciples, we remained there seven
 days; who said to Paul by the Spirit not to go up to Jerusalem.
21:5 But when we had completed the days, we set out and took our
 journey, all of them accompanying us, with wives and children,
 till [we were] out of the city. And kneeling down upon the
 shore we prayed.
21:6 And having embraced one another, we went on board ship, and
 they returned home.
21:7 And we, having completed the voyage, arrived from Tyre at
 Ptolemais, and having saluted the brethren, we remained one day
 with them.
21:8 And leaving on the morrow, we came to Caesarea; and
 entering into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was of
 the seven, we abode with him.
21:9 Now this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied.
21:10 And as we stayed there many days, a certain man, by name
 Agabus, a prophet, came down from Judaea,
21:11 and coming to us and taking the girdle of Paul, and having
 bound his own hands and feet, said, Thus saith the Holy Spirit,
 The man whose this girdle is shall the Jews thus bind in
 Jerusalem, and deliver him up into the hands of [the] Gentiles.
21:12 And when we heard these things, both we and those of the
 place besought [him] not to go up to Jerusalem.
21:13 But Paul answered, What do ye, weeping and breaking my
 heart? for *I* am ready not only to be bound, but also to die
 at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
21:14 And when he would not be persuaded, we were silent,
 saying, The will of the Lord be done.
21:15 And after these days, having got our effects ready, we
 went up to Jerusalem.
21:16 And [some] of the disciples from Caesarea went with us,
 bringing [with them] a certain Mnason, a Cyprian, an old
 disciple, with whom we were to lodge.
21:17 And when we arrived at Jerusalem the brethren gladly
 received us.
21:18 And on the morrow Paul went in with us to James, and all
 the elders came there.
21:19 And having saluted them, he related one by one the things
 which God had wrought among the nations by his ministry.
21:20 And they having heard [it] glorified God, and said to him,
 Thou seest, brother, how many myriads there are of the Jews who
 have believed, and all are zealous of the law.
21:21 And they have been informed concerning thee, that thou
 teachest all the Jews among the nations apostasy from Moses,
 saying that they should not circumcise their children, nor walk
 in the customs.
21:22 What is it then? a multitude must necessarily come
 together, for they will hear that thou art come.
21:23 This do therefore that we say to thee: We have four men
 who have a vow on them;
21:24 take these and be purified with them, and pay their
 expenses, that they may have their heads shaved; and all will
 know that [of those things] of which they have been informed
 about thee nothing is [true]; but that thou thyself also
 walkest orderly, keeping the law.
21:25 But concerning [those of] the nations who have believed,
 we have written, deciding that they should [observe no such
 thing, only to] keep themselves both from things offered to
 idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from
 fornication.
21:26 Then Paul, taking the men, on the next day, having been
 purified, entered with them into the temple, signifying the
 time the days of the purification would be fulfilled, until the
 offering was offered for every one of them.
21:27 And when the seven days were nearly completed, the Jews
 from Asia, having seen him in the temple, set all the crowd in
 a tumult, and laid hands upon him,
21:28 crying, Israelites, help! this is the man who teaches all
 everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place, and
 has brought Greeks too into the temple, and profaned this holy
 place.
21:29 For they had before seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him
 in the city, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the
 temple.
21:30 And the whole city was moved, and there was a concourse of
 the people; and having laid hold on Paul they drew him out of
 the temple, and immediately the doors were shut.
21:31 And as they were seeking to kill him, a representation
 came to the chiliarch of the band that the whole of Jerusalem
 was in a tumult;
21:32 who, taking with him immediately soldiers and centurions,
 ran down upon them. But they, seeing the chiliarch and the
 soldiers, ceased beating Paul.
21:33 Then the chiliarch came up and laid hold upon him, and
 commanded [him] to be bound with two chains, and inquired who
 he might be, and what he had done.
21:34 And different persons cried some different thing in the
 crowd. But he, not being able to know the certainty on account
 of the uproar, commanded him to be brought into the fortress.
21:35 But when he got upon the stairs it was so that he was
 borne by the soldiers on account of the violence of the crowd.
21:36 For the multitude of the people followed, crying, Away
 with him.
21:37 But as he was about to be led into the fortress, Paul says
 to the chiliarch, Is it allowed me to say something to thee?
 And he said, Dost thou know Greek?
21:38 Thou art not then that Egyptian who before these days
 raised a sedition and led out into the wilderness the four
 thousand men of the assassins?
21:39 But Paul said, *I* am a Jew of Tarsus, citizen of no
 insignificant city of Cilicia, and I beseech of thee, allow me
 to speak to the people.
21:40 And when he had allowed him, Paul, standing on the stairs,
 beckoned with his hand to the people; and a great silence
 having been made, he addressed them in the Hebrew tongue,
 saying,
22:1 Brethren and fathers, hear my defence which I now make to
 you.
22:2 And hearing that he addressed them in the Hebrew tongue,
 they kept the more quiet; and he says,
22:3 *I* am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in
 this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, educated according to [the]
 exactness of the law of [our] fathers, being zealous for God,
 as *ye* are all this day;
22:4 who have persecuted this way unto death, binding and
 delivering up to prisons both men and women;
22:5 as also the high priest bears me witness, and all the
 elderhood: from whom also, having received letters to the
 brethren, I went to Damascus to bring those also who were
 there, bound, to Jerusalem, to be punished.
22:6 And it came to pass, as I was journeying and drawing near
 to Damascus, that, about mid-day, there suddenly shone out of
 heaven a great light round about me.
22:7 And I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me,
 Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
22:8 And *I* answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said to me,
 *I* am Jesus the Nazaraean, whom *thou* persecutest.
22:9 But they that were with me beheld the light, [and were
 filled with fear], but heard not the voice of him that was
 speaking to me.
22:10 And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said to
 me, Rise up, and go to Damascus, and there it shall be told
 thee of all things which it is appointed thee to do.
22:11 And as I could not see, through the glory of that light,
 being led by the hand of those who were with me, I came to
 Damascus.
22:12 And a certain Ananias, a pious man according to the law,
 borne witness to by all the Jews who dwelt [there],
22:13 coming to me and standing by me, said to me, Brother Saul,
 receive thy sight. And *I*, in the same hour, received my sight
 and saw him.
22:14 And he said, The God of our fathers has chosen thee
 beforehand to know his will, and to see the just one, and to
 hear a voice out of his mouth;
22:15 for thou shalt be a witness for him to all men of what
 thou hast seen and heard.
22:16 And now why lingerest thou? Arise and get baptised, and
 have thy sins washed away, calling on his name.
22:17 And it came to pass when I had returned to Jerusalem, and
 as I was praying in the temple, that I became in ecstasy,
22:18 and saw him saying to me, Make haste and go quickly out of
 Jerusalem, for they will not receive thy testimony concerning
 me.
22:19 And *I* said, Lord, they themselves know that *I* was
 imprisoning and beating in every synagogue those that believe
 on thee;
22:20 and when the blood of thy witness Stephen was shed, I also
 myself was standing by and consenting, and kept the clothes of
 them who killed him.
22:21 And he said to me, Go, for *I* will send thee to the
 nations afar off.
22:22 And they heard him until this word, and lifted up their
 voice, saying, Away with such a one as that from the earth, for
 it was not fit he should live.
22:23 And as they were crying, and throwing away their clothes,
 and casting dust into the air,
22:24 the chiliarch commanded him to be brought into the
 fortress, saying that he should be examined by scourging, that
 he might ascertain for what cause they cried thus against him.
22:25 But as they stretched him forward with the thongs, Paul
 said to the centurion who stood [by], Is it lawful for you to
 scourge a man [who is] a Roman and uncondemned?
22:26 And the centurion, having heard it, went and reported it
 to the chiliarch, saying, What art thou going to do? for this
 man is a Roman.
22:27 And the chiliarch coming up said to him, Tell me, Art
 *thou* a Roman? And he said, Yes.
22:28 And the chiliarch answered, *I*, for a great sum, bought
 this citizenship. And Paul said, But *I* was also [free] born.
22:29 Immediately therefore those who were going to examine him
 left him, and the chiliarch also was afraid when he ascertained
 that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.
22:30 And on the morrow, desirous to know the certainty [of the
 matter] why he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him, and
 commanded the chief priests and all the council to meet, and
 having brought Paul down set him before them.
23:1 And Paul, fixing his eyes on the council, said, Brethren, I
 have walked in all good conscience with God unto this day.
23:2 But the high priest Ananias ordered those standing by him
 to smite his mouth.
23:3 Then Paul said to him, God will smite thee, whited wall.
 And *thou*, dost thou sit judging me according to the law, and
 breaking the law commandest me to be smitten?
23:4 And those that stood by said, Dost thou rail against the
 high priest of God?
23:5 And Paul said, I was not conscious, brethren, that he was
 high priest; for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evilly of
 the ruler of thy people.
23:6 But Paul, knowing that the one part [of them] were of the
 Sadducees and the other of the Pharisees, cried out in the
 council, Brethren, *I* am a Pharisee, son of Pharisees: *I* am
 judged concerning the hope and resurrection of [the] dead.
23:7 And when he had spoken this, there was a tumult of the
 Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the multitude was divided.
23:8 For Sadducees say there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor
 spirit; but Pharisees confess both of them.
23:9 And there was a great clamour, and the scribes of the
 Pharisees' part rising up contended, saying, We find nothing
 evil in this man; and if a spirit has spoken to him, or an
 angel ...
23:10 And a great tumult having arisen, the chiliarch, fearing
 lest Paul should have been torn in pieces by them, commanded
 the troop to come down and take him by force from the midst of
 them, and to bring [him] into the fortress.
23:11 But the following night the Lord stood by him, and said,
 Be of good courage; for as thou hast testified the things
 concerning me at Jerusalem, so thou must bear witness at Rome
 also.
23:12 And when it was day, the Jews, having banded together, put
 themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat
 nor drink till they should kill Paul.
23:13 And they were more than forty who had joined together in
 this oath;
23:14 and they went to the chief priests and elders, and said,
 We have cursed ourselves with a curse to taste nothing until we
 kill Paul.
23:15 Now therefore do ye with the council make a representation
 to the chiliarch so that he may bring him down to you, as about
 to determine more precisely what concerns him, and we, before
 he draws near, are ready to kill him.
23:16 But Paul's sister's son, having heard of the lying in
 wait, came and entered into the fortress and reported [it] to
 Paul.
23:17 And Paul, having called one of the centurions, said, Take
 this youth to the chiliarch, for he has something to report to
 him.
23:18 He therefore, having taken him with [him], led him to the
 chiliarch, and says, The prisoner Paul called me to [him] and
 asked me to lead this youth to thee, who has something to say
 to thee.
23:19 And the chiliarch having taken him by the hand, and having
 gone apart in private, inquired, What is it that thou hast to
 report to me?
23:20 And he said, The Jews have agreed together to make a
 request to thee, that thou mayest bring Paul down to-morrow
 into the council, as about to inquire something more precise
 concerning him.
23:21 Do not thou then be persuaded by them, for there lie in
 wait for him of them more than forty men, who have put
 themselves under a curse neither to eat nor drink till they
 kill him; and now they are ready waiting the promise from thee.
23:22 The chiliarch then dismissed the youth, commanding [him],
 Utter to no one that thou hast represented these things to me.
23:23 And having called to [him] certain two of the centurions,
 he said, Prepare two hundred soldiers that they may go as far
 as Caesarea, and seventy horsemen, and two hundred light-armed
 footmen, for the third hour of the night.
23:24 And [he ordered them] to provide beasts, that they might
 set Paul on them and carry [him] safe through to Felix the
 governor,
23:25 having written a letter, couched in this form:
23:26 Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix,
 greeting.
23:27 This man, having been taken by the Jews, and being about
 to be killed by them, I came up with the military and took out
 [of their hands], having learned that he was a Roman.
23:28 And desiring to know the charge on which they accused him,
 I brought him down to their council;
23:29 whom I found to be accused of questions of their law, but
 to have no charge laid against him [making him] worthy of death
 or of bonds.
23:30 But having received information of a plot about to be put
 in execution against the man [by the Jews], I have immediately
 sent him to thee, commanding also his accusers to say before
 thee the things that are against him. [Farewell.]
23:31 The soldiers therefore, according to what was ordered
 them, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris,
23:32 and on the morrow, having left the horsemen to go with
 him, returned to the fortress.
23:33 And these, having entered into Caesarea, and given up the
 letter to the governor, presented Paul also to him.
23:34 And having read [it], and asked of what eparchy he was,
 and learned that [he was] of Cilicia,
23:35 he said, I will hear thee fully when thine accusers also
 are arrived. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod's
 praetorium.
24:1 And after five days came down the high priest Ananias, with
 the elders, and a certain orator called Tertullus, and laid
 their informations against Paul before the governor.
24:2 And he having been called, Tertullus began to accuse,
 saying, Seeing we enjoy great peace through thee, and that
 excellent measures are executed for this nation by thy
 forethought,
24:3 we receive [it] always and everywhere, most excellent
 Felix, with all thankfulness.
24:4 But that I may not too much intrude on thy time, I beseech
 thee to hear us briefly in thy kindness.
24:5 For finding this man a pest, and moving sedition among all
 the Jews throughout the world, and a leader of the sect of the
 Nazaraeans;
24:6 who also attempted to profane the temple; whom we also had
 seized, [and would have judged according to our law;
24:7 but Lysias, the chiliarch, coming up, took [him] away with
 great force out of our hands,
24:8 having commanded his accusers to come to thee;] of whom
 thou canst thyself, in examining [him], know the certainty of
 all these things of which we accuse him.
24:9 And the Jews also joined in pressing the matter against
 [Paul], saying that these things were so.
24:10 But Paul, the governor having beckoned to him to speak,
 answered, Knowing that for many years thou hast been judge to
 this nation, I answer readily as to the things which concern
 myself.
24:11 As thou mayest know that there are not more than twelve
 days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem,
24:12 and neither in the temple did they find me discoursing to
 any one, or making any tumultuous gathering together of the
 crowd, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city;
24:13 neither can they make good the things of which they now
 accuse me.
24:14 But this I avow to thee, that in the way which they call
 sect, so I serve my fathers' God, believing all things which
 are written throughout the law, and in the prophets;
24:15 having hope towards God, which they themselves also
 receive, that there is to be a resurrection both of just and
 unjust.
24:16 For this cause I also exercise [myself] to have in
 everything a conscience without offence towards God and men.
24:17 And after a lapse of many years I arrived, bringing alms
 to my nation, and offerings.
24:18 Whereupon they found me purified in the temple, with
 neither crowd nor tumult. But it was certain Jews from Asia,
24:19 who ought to appear before thee and accuse, if they have
 anything against me;
24:20 or let these themselves say what wrong they found in me
 when I stood before the council,
24:21 [other] than concerning this one voice which I cried
 standing amongst them: I am judged this day by you touching
 [the] resurrection of [the] dead.
24:22 And Felix, knowing accurately the things concerning the
 way, adjourned them, saying, When Lysias the chiliarch is come
 down I will determine your affair;
24:23 ordering the centurion to keep him, and that he should
 have freedom, and to hinder none of his friends to minister to
 him.
24:24 And after certain days, Felix having arrived with Drusilla
 his wife, who was a Jewess, he sent for Paul and heard him
 concerning the faith in Christ.
24:25 And as he reasoned concerning righteousness, and
 temperance, and the judgment about to come, Felix, being filled
 with fear, answered, Go for the present, and when I get an
 opportunity I will send for thee;
24:26 hoping at the same time that money would be given him by
 Paul: wherefore also he sent for him the oftener and communed
 with him.
24:27 But when two years were completed, Felix was relieved by
 Porcius Festus as his successor; and Felix, desirous to oblige
 the Jews, to acquire their favour, left Paul bound.
25:1 Festus therefore, being come into the eparchy, after three
 days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.
25:2 And the chief priests and the chief of the Jews laid
 informations before him against Paul, and besought him,
25:3 asking as a grace against him that he would send for him to
 Jerusalem, laying people in wait to kill him on the way.
25:4 Festus therefore answered that Paul should be kept at
 Caesarea, and that he himself was about to set out shortly.
25:5 Let therefore the persons of authority among you, says he,
 going down too, if there be anything in this man, accuse him.
25:6 And having remained among them not more than eight or ten
 days, he went down to Caesarea; and on the next day, having sat
 down on the judgment-seat, commanded Paul to be brought.
25:7 And when he was come, the Jews who were come down from
 Jerusalem stood round, bringing many and grievous charges which
 they were not able to prove:
25:8 Paul answering for himself, Neither against the law of the
 Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I
 offended [in] anything.
25:9 But Festus, desirous of obliging the Jews, to acquire their
 favour, answering Paul, said, Art thou willing to go up to
 Jerusalem, there to be judged before me concerning these
 things?
25:10 But Paul said, I am standing before the judgment-seat of
 Caesar, where I ought to be judged. To the Jews have I done no
 wrong, as *thou* also very well knowest.
25:11 If then I have done any wrong and committed anything
 worthy of death, I do not deprecate dying; but if there is
 nothing of those things of which they accuse me, no man can
 give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar.
25:12 Then Festus, having conferred with the council, answered,
 Thou hast appealed to Caesar. To Caesar shalt thou go.
25:13 And when certain days had elapsed, Agrippa the king and
 Bernice arrived at Caesarea to salute Festus.
25:14 And when they had spent many days there, Festus laid
 before the king the matters relating to Paul, saying, There is
 a certain man left prisoner by Felix,
25:15 concerning whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief
 priests and the elders of the Jews laid informations, requiring
 judgment against him:
25:16 to whom I answered, It is not [the] custom of the Romans
 to give up any man before that the accused have the accusers
 face to face, and he have got opportunity of defence touching
 the charge.
25:17 When therefore they had come together here, without
 putting it off, I sat the next day on the judgment-seat and
 commanded the man to be brought:
25:18 concerning whom the accusers, standing up, brought no such
 accusation of guilt as *I* supposed;
25:19 but had against him certain questions of their own system
 of worship, and concerning a certain Jesus who is dead, whom
 Paul affirmed to be living.
25:20 And as I myself was at a loss as to an inquiry into these
 things, I said, Was he willing to go to Jerusalem and there to
 be judged concerning these things?
25:21 But Paul having appealed to be kept for the cognisance of
 Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I shall send him to
 Caesar.
25:22 And Agrippa [said] to Festus, I myself also would desire
 to hear the man. To-morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.
25:23 On the morrow therefore, Agrippa being come, and Bernice,
 with great pomp, and having entered into the hall of audience,
 with the chiliarchs and the men of distinction of the city, and
 Festus having given command, Paul was brought.
25:24 And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men who are here
 present with us, ye see this person, concerning whom all the
 multitude of the Jews applied to me both in Jerusalem and here,
 crying out against [him] that he ought not to live any longer.
25:25 But I, having found that he had done nothing worthy of
 death, and this [man] himself having appealed to Augustus, I
 have decided to send him;
25:26 concerning whom I have nothing certain to write to my
 lord. Wherefore I have brought him before you, and specially
 before thee, king Agrippa, so that an examination having been
 gone into I may have something to write:
25:27 for it seems to me senseless, sending a prisoner, not also
 to signify the charges against him.
26:1 And Agrippa said to Paul, It is permitted thee to speak for
 thyself. Then Paul stretching out his hand answered in his
 defence:
26:2 I count myself happy, king Agrippa, in having to answer
 to-day before thee concerning all of which I am accused by the
 Jews,
26:3 especially because thou art acquainted with all the customs
 and questions which are among the Jews; wherefore I beseech
 thee to hear me patiently.
26:4 My manner of life then from my youth, which from its
 commencement was passed among my nation in Jerusalem, know all
 the Jews,
26:5 who knew me before from the outset [of my life], if they
 would bear witness, that according to the strictest sect of our
 religion I lived a Pharisee.
26:6 And now I stand to be judged because of the hope of the
 promise made by God to our fathers,
26:7 to which our whole twelve tribes serving incessantly day
 and night hope to arrive; about which hope, O king, I am
 accused of [the] Jews.
26:8 Why should it be judged a thing incredible in your sight if
 God raises the dead?
26:9 *I* indeed myself thought that I ought to do much against
 the name of Jesus the Nazaraean.
26:10 Which also I did in Jerusalem, and myself shut up in
 prisons many of the saints, having received the authority from
 the chief priests; and when they were put to death I gave my
 vote.
26:11 And often punishing them in all the synagogues, I
 compelled them to blaspheme. And, being exceedingly furious
 against them, I persecuted them even to cities out [of our own
 land].
26:12 And when, [engaged] in this, I was journeying to Damascus,
 with authority and power from the chief priests,
26:13 at mid-day, on the way, I saw, O king, a light above the
 brightness of the sun, shining from heaven round about me and
 those who were journeying with me.
26:14 And, when we were all fallen to the ground, I heard a
 voice saying to me in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why
 persecutest thou me? [it is] hard for thee to kick against
 goads.
26:15 And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, *I* am
 Jesus whom *thou* persecutest:
26:16 but rise up and stand on thy feet; for, for this purpose
 have I appeared to thee, to appoint thee to be a servant and a
 witness both of what thou hast seen, and of what I shall appear
 to thee in,
26:17 taking thee out from among the people, and the nations, to
 whom *I* send thee,
26:18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to
 light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may
 receive remission of sins and inheritance among them that are
 sanctified by faith in me.
26:19 Whereupon, king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the
 heavenly vision;
26:20 but have, first to those both in Damascus and Jerusalem,
 and to all the region of Judaea, and to the nations, announced
 that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of
 repentance.
26:21 On account of these things the Jews, having seized me in
 the temple, attempted to lay hands on and destroy me.
26:22 Having therefore met with [the] help which is from God, I
 have stood firm unto this day, witnessing both to small and
 great, saying nothing else than those things which both the
 prophets and Moses have said should happen,
26:23 [namely,] whether Christ should suffer; whether he first,
 through resurrection of [the] dead, should announce light both
 to the people and to the nations.
26:24 And as he answered for his defence with these things,
 Festus says with a loud voice, Thou art mad, Paul; much
 learning turns thee to madness.
26:25 But Paul said, I am not mad, most excellent Festus, but
 utter words of truth and soberness;
26:26 for the king is informed about these things, to whom also
 I speak with all freedom. For I am persuaded that of these
 things nothing is hidden from him; for this was not done in a
 corner.
26:27 King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that
 thou believest.
26:28 And Agrippa [said] to Paul, In a little thou persuadest me
 to become a Christian.
26:29 And Paul [said], I would to God, both in little and in
 much, that not only thou, but all who have heard me this day,
 should become such as *I* also am, except these bonds.
26:30 And the king stood up, and the governor and Bernice, and
 those who sat with them,
26:31 and having gone apart, they spoke to one another saying,
 This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.
26:32 And Agrippa said to Festus, This man might have been let
 go if he had not appealed to Caesar.
27:1 But when it had been determined that we should sail to
 Italy, they delivered up Paul and certain other prisoners to a
 centurion, by name Julius, of Augustus' company.
27:2 And going on board a ship of Adramyttium about to navigate
 by the places along Asia, we set sail, Aristarchus, a
 Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.
27:3 And the next day we arrived at Sidon. And Julius treated
 Paul kindly and suffered him to go to his friends and refresh
 himself.
27:4 And setting sail thence we sailed under the lee of Cyprus,
 because the winds were contrary.
27:5 And having sailed over the waters of Cilicia and Pamphylia
 we came to Myra in Lycia:
27:6 and there the centurion having found a ship of Alexandria
 sailing to Italy, he made us go on board her.
27:7 And sailing slowly for many days, and having with
 difficulty got abreast of Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we
 sailed under the lee of Crete abreast of Salmone;
27:8 and coasting it with difficulty we came to a certain place
 called Fair Havens, near to which was [the] city of Lasaea.
27:9 And much time having now been spent, and navigation being
 already dangerous, because the fast also was already past, Paul
 counselled them,
27:10 saying, Men, I perceive that the navigation will be with
 disaster and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but
 also of our lives.
27:11 But the centurion believed rather the helmsman and the
 shipowner than what was said by Paul.
27:12 And the harbour being ill adapted to winter in, the most
 counselled to set sail thence, if perhaps they might reach
 Phoenice to winter in, a port of Crete looking north-east and
 south-east.
27:13 And [the] south wind blowing gently, supposing that they
 had gained their object, having weighed anchor they sailed
 close in shore along Crete.
27:14 But not long after there came down it a hurricane called
 Euroclydon.
27:15 And the ship being caught and driven, and not able to
 bring her head to the wind, letting her go we were driven
 [before it].
27:16 But running under the lee of a certain island called
 Clauda, we were with difficulty able to make ourselves masters
 of the boat;
27:17 which having hoisted up, they used helps, frapping the
 ship; and fearing lest they should run into Syrtis and run
 aground, and having lowered the gear they were so driven.
27:18 But the storm being extremely violent on us, on the next
 day they threw cargo overboard,
27:19 and on the third day with their own hands they cast away
 the ship furniture.
27:20 And neither sun nor stars appearing for many days, and no
 small storm lying on us, in the end all hope of our being saved
 was taken away.
27:21 And when they had been a long while without taking food,
 Paul then standing up in the midst of them said, Ye ought, O
 men, to have hearkened to me, and not have made sail from Crete
 and have gained this disaster and loss.
27:22 And now I exhort you to be of good courage, for there
 shall be no loss at all of life of [any] of you, only of the
 ship.
27:23 For an angel of the God, whose I am and whom I serve,
 stood by me this night,
27:24 saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must stand before Caesar; and
 behold, God has granted to thee all those that sail with thee.
27:25 Wherefore be of good courage, men, for I believe God that
 thus it shall be, as it has been said to me.
27:26 But we must be cast ashore on a certain island.
27:27 And when the fourteenth night was come, we being driven
 about in Adria, towards the middle of the night the sailors
 supposed that some land neared them,
27:28 and having sounded found twenty fathoms, and having gone a
 little farther and having again sounded they found fifteen
 fathoms;
27:29 and fearing lest we should be cast on rocky places,
 casting four anchors out of the stern, they wished that day
 were come.
27:30 But the sailors wishing to flee out of the ship, and
 having let down the boat into the sea under pretext of being
 about to carry out anchors from the prow,
27:31 Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, Unless these
 abide in the ship *ye* cannot be saved.
27:32 Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat and let
 her fall.
27:33 And while it was drawing on to daylight, Paul exhorted
 them all to partake of food, saying, Ye have passed the
 fourteenth day watching in expectation without taking food.
27:34 Wherefore I exhort you to partake of food, for this has to
 do with your safety; for not a hair from the head of any one of
 you shall perish.
27:35 And, having said these things and taken a loaf, he gave
 thanks to God before all, and having broken it began to eat.
27:36 And all taking courage, themselves also took food.
27:37 And we were in the ship, all the souls, two hundred and
 seventy-six.
27:38 And having satisfied themselves with food, they lightened
 the ship, casting out the wheat into the sea.
27:39 And when it was day they did not recognise the land; but
 they perceived a certain bay having a strand, on which they
 were minded, if they should be able, to run the ship ashore;
27:40 and, having cast off the anchors, they left [them] in the
 sea, at the same time loosening the lashings of the rudders,
 and hoisting the foresail to the wind, they made for the
 strand.
27:41 And falling into a place where two seas met they ran the
 ship aground, and the prow having stuck itself fast remained
 unmoved, but the stern was broken by the force of the waves.
27:42 And [the] counsel of the soldiers was that they should
 kill the prisoners, lest any one should swim off and escape.
27:43 But the centurion, desirous of saving Paul, hindered them
 of their purpose, and commanded those who were able to swim,
 casting themselves first [into the sea], to get out on land;
27:44 and the rest, some on boards, some on some of the things
 [that came] from the ship; and thus it came to pass that all
 got safe to land.
28:1 And when we got safe [to land] we then knew that the island
 was called Melita.
28:2 But the barbarians shewed us no common kindness; for,
 having kindled a fire, they took us all in because of the rain
 that was falling and because of the cold.
28:3 And Paul having gathered a [certain] quantity of sticks
 together in a bundle and laid [it] on the fire, a viper coming
 out from the heat seized his hand.
28:4 And when the barbarians saw the beast hanging from his
 hand, they said to one another, This man is certainly a
 murderer, whom, [though] saved out of the sea, Nemesis has not
 allowed to live.
28:5 *He* however, having shaken off the beast into the fire,
 felt no harm.
28:6 But *they* expected that he would have swollen or fallen
 down suddenly dead. But when they had expected a long time and
 saw nothing unusual happen to him, changing their opinion, they
 said he was a god.
28:7 Now in the country surrounding that place were the lands
 belonging to the chief man of the island, by name Publius, who
 received us and gave [us] hospitality three days in a very
 friendly way.
28:8 And it happened that the father of Publius lay ill of fever
 and dysentery; to whom Paul entered in, and having prayed and
 laid his hands on him cured him.
28:9 But this having taken place, the rest also who had
 sicknesses in the island came and were healed:
28:10 who also honoured us with many honours, and on our leaving
 they made presents to us of what should minister to our wants.
28:11 And after three months we sailed in a ship which had
 wintered in the island, an Alexandrian, with [the] Dioscuri for
 its ensign.
28:12 And having come to Syracuse we remained three days.
28:13 Whence, going in a circuitous course, we arrived at
 Rhegium; and after one day, the wind having changed to south,
 on the second day we came to Puteoli,
28:14 where, having found brethren, we were begged to stay with
 them seven days. And thus we went to Rome.
28:15 And thence the brethren, having heard about us, came to
 meet us as far as Appii Forum and Tres Tabernae, whom when Paul
 saw, he thanked God and took courage.
28:16 And when we came to Rome, [the centurion delivered up the
 prisoners to the praetorian prefect, but] Paul was allowed to
 remain by himself with the soldier who kept him.
28:17 And it came to pass after three days, that he called
 together those who were the chief of the Jews; and when they
 had come together he said to them, Brethren, *I* having done
 nothing against the people or the customs of our forefathers,
 have been delivered a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of
 the Romans,
28:18 who having examined me were minded to let me go, because
 there was nothing worthy of death in me.
28:19 But the Jews speaking against it, I was compelled to
 appeal to Caesar, not as having anything to accuse my nation
 of.
28:20 For this cause therefore I have called you to [me] to see
 and to speak to you; for on account of the hope of Israel I
 have this chain about me.
28:21 And they said to him, For our part, we have neither
 received letters from Judaea concerning thee, nor has any one
 of the brethren who has arrived reported or said anything evil
 concerning thee.
28:22 But we beg to hear of thee what thou thinkest, for as
 concerning this sect it is known to us that it is everywhere
 spoken against.
28:23 And having appointed him a day many came to him to the
 lodging, to whom he expounded, testifying of the kingdom of
 God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of
 Moses and the prophets, from early morning to evening.
28:24 And some were persuaded of the things which were said, but
 some disbelieved.
28:25 And being disagreed among themselves they left; Paul
 having spoken one word, Well spoke the Holy Spirit through
 Esaias the prophet to our fathers,
28:26 saying, Go to this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear
 and not understand, and seeing ye shall see and not perceive.
28:27 For the heart of this people has become fat, and they hear
 heavily with their ears, and they have closed their eyes; lest
 they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and
 understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should
 heal them.
28:28 Be it known to you therefore, that this salvation of God
 has been sent to the nations; *they* also will hear [it].
28:29 [And he having said this, the Jews went away, having great
 reasoning among themselves.]
28:30 And he remained two whole years in his own hired lodging,
 and received all who came to him,
28:31 preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching the things
 concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, with all freedom
 unhinderedly.