AC-11  The former treatise have I made O Theophilus of all that

Jesus began both to do and teach .

AC-12  Until the day in which he was taken up after that he

through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles

whom he had chosen .

AC-13  To whom also he showed himself alive after his passion by

many infallible proofs being seen of them forty days and

speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God .

AC-14  And being assembled together with them commanded them

that they should not depart from Jerusalem but wait for the

promise of the Father which saith he ye have heard of me .

AC-15  For John truly baptized with water but ye shall be

baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence .

AC-16  When they therefore were come together they asked of him

saying Lord wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to

Israel .

AC-17  And he said unto them It is not for you to know the times

or the seasons which the Father hath put in his own power .

AC-18  But ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is

come upon you and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in

Jerusalem and in all Judaea and in Samaria and unto the

uttermost part of the earth .

AC-19  And when he had spoken these things while they beheld he

was taken up and a cloud received him out of their sight .

AC-110  And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he

went up behold two men stood by them in white apparel .

AC-111  Which also said Ye men of Galilee why stand ye gazing up

into heaven this same Jesus which is taken up from you into

heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into

heaven .

AC-112  Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called

Olivet which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey .

AC-113  And when they were come in they went up into an upper

room where abode both Peter and James and John and Andrew Philip

and Thomas Bartholomew and Matthew James the son of Alphaeus and

Simon Zelotes and Judas the brother of James .

AC-114  These all continued with one accord in prayer and

supplication with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus and

with his brethren .

AC-115  And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the

disciples and said the number of names together were about an

hundred and twenty .

AC-116  Men and brethren this scripture must needs have been

fulfilled which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake

before concerning Judas which was guide to them that took Jesus .

AC-117  For he was numbered with us and had obtained part of

this ministry .

AC-118  Now this man purchased a field with the reward of

iniquity and falling headlong he burst asunder in the midst and

all his bowels gushed out .

AC-119  And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem

insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue Aceldama

that is to say The field of blood .

AC-120  For it is written in the book of Psalms Let his

habitation be desolate and let no man dwell therein and his

bishopric let another take .

AC-121  Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all

the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us .

AC-122  Beginning from the baptism of John unto that same day

that he was taken up from us must one be ordained to be a

witness with us of his resurrection .

AC-123  And they appointed two Joseph called Barsabas who was

surnamed Justus and Matthias .

AC-124  And they prayed and said Thou Lord which knowest the

hearts of all men show whether of these two thou hast chosen .

AC-125  That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship

from which Judas by transgression fell that he might go to his

own place .

AC-126  And they gave forth their lots and the lot fell upon

Matthias and he was numbered with the eleven apostles .

* AC-21  And when the day of Pentecost was fully come they were

all with one accord in one place .

AC-22  And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a

rushing mighty wind and it filled all the house where they were

sitting .

AC-23  And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of

fire and it sat upon each of them .

AC-24  And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to

speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance .

AC-25  And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews devout men out

of every nation under heaven .

AC-26  Now when this was noised abroad the multitude came

together and were confounded because that every man heard them

speak in his own language .

AC-27  And they were all amazed and marvelled saying one to

another Behold are not all these which speak Galilaeans .

AC-28  And how hear we every man in our own tongue wherein we

were born .

AC-29  Parthians and Medes and Elamites and the dwellers in

Mesopotamia and in Judaea and Cappadocia in Pontus and Asia .

AC-210  Phrygia and Pamphylia in Egypt and in the parts of Libya

about Cyrene and strangers of Rome Jews and proselytes .

AC-211  Cretes and Arabians we do hear them speak in our tongues

the wonderful works of God .

AC-212  And they were all amazed and were in doubt saying one to

another What meaneth this .

AC-213  Others mocking said These men are full of new wine .

AC-214  But Peter standing up with the eleven lifted up his

voice and said unto them Ye men of Judaea and all ye that dwell

at Jerusalem be this known unto you and hearken to my words .

AC-215  For these are not drunken as ye suppose seeing it is but

the third hour of the day .

AC-216  But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel .

AC-217  And it shall come to pass in the last days saith God 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 old men shall dream dreams .

AC-218  And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out

in those days of my Spirit and they shall prophesy .

AC-219  And I will show wonders in heaven above and signs in the

earth beneath blood and fire and vapour of smoke .

AC-220  The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into

blood before that great and notable day of the Lord come .

AC-221  And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on

the name of the Lord shall be saved .

AC-222  Ye men of Israel hear these words Jesus of Nazareth a

man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs

which God did by him in the midst of you as ye yourselves also

know .

AC-223  Him being delivered by the determinate counsel and

foreknowledge of God ye have taken and by wicked hands have

crucified and slain .

AC-224  Whom God hath raised up having loosed the pains of death

because it was not possible that he should be holden of it .

AC-225  For David speaketh concerning him I foresaw the Lord

always before my face for he is on my right hand that I should

not be moved .

AC-226  Therefore did my heart rejoice and my tongue was glad

moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope .

AC-227  Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell neither wilt

thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption .

AC-228  Thou hast made known to me the ways of life thou shalt

make me full of joy with thy countenance .

AC-229  Men and brethren let me freely speak unto you of the

patriarch David that he is both dead and buried and his

sepulchre is with us unto this day .

AC-230  Therefore being a prophet and knowing that God had sworn

with an oath to him that of the fruit of his loins according to

the flesh he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne .

AC-231  He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of

Christ that his soul was not left in hell neither his flesh did

see corruption .

AC-232  This Jesus hath God raised up whereof we all are

witnesses .

AC-233  Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted and

having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost he

hath shed forth this which ye now see and hear .

AC-234  For David is not ascended into the heavens but he saith

himself The Lord said unto my Lord Sit thou on my right hand .

AC-235  Until I make thy foes thy footstool .

AC-236  Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly

that God hath made that same Jesus whom ye have crucified both

Lord and Christ .

AC-237  Now when they heard this they were pricked in their

heart and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles Men

and brethren what shall we do .

AC-238  Then Peter said unto them Repent and be baptized every

one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins

and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost .

AC-239  For the promise is unto you and to your children and to

all that are afar off even as many as the Lord our God shall

call .

AC-240  And with many other words did he testify and exhort

saying Save yourselves from this untoward generation .

AC-241  Then they that gladly received his word were baptized

and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand

souls .

AC-242  And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine

and fellowship and in breaking of bread and in prayers .

AC-243  And fear came upon every soul and many wonders and signs

were done by the apostles .

AC-244  And all that believed were together and had all things

common .

AC-245  And sold their possessions and goods and parted them to

all men as every man had need .

AC-246  And they continuing daily with one accord in the temple

and breaking bread from house to house did eat their meat with

gladness and singleness of heart .

AC-247  Praising God and having favour with all the people And

the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved .

* AC-31  Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at

the hour of prayer being the ninth hour .

AC-32  And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried

whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called

Beautiful to ask alms of them that entered into the temple .

AC-33  Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple

asked an alms .

AC-34  And Peter fastening his eyes upon him with John said Look

on us .

AC-35  And he gave heed unto them expecting to receive something

of them .

AC-36  Then Peter said Silver and gold have I none but such as I

have give I thee In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up

and walk .

AC-37  And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up and

immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength .

AC-38  And he leaping up stood and walked and entered with them

into the temple walking and leaping and praising God .

AC-39  And all the people saw him walking and praising God .

AC-310  And they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the

Beautiful gate of the temple and they were filled with wonder

and amazement at that which had happened unto him .

AC-311  And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John

all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is

called Solomon's greatly wondering .

AC-312  And when Peter saw it he answered unto the people Ye men

of Israel why marvel ye at this or why look ye so earnestly on

us as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man

to walk .

AC-313  The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob the God of

our fathers hath glorified his Son Jesus whom ye delivered up

and denied him in the presence of Pilate when he was determined

to let him go .

AC-314  But ye denied the Holy One and the Just and desired a

murderer to be granted unto you .

AC-315  And killed the Prince of life whom God hath raised from

the dead whereof we are witnesses .

AC-316  And his name through faith in his name hath made this

man strong whom ye see and know yea the faith which is by him

hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all

.

AC-317  And now brethren I wot that through ignorance ye did it

as did also your rulers .

AC-318  But those things which God before had showed by the

mouth of all his prophets that Christ should suffer he hath so

fulfilled .

AC-319  Repent ye therefore and be converted that your sins may

be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come from the

presence of the Lord .

AC-320  And he shall send Jesus Christ which before was preached

unto you .

AC-321  Whom the heaven must receive until the times of

restitution of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of

all his holy prophets since the world began .

AC-322  For Moses truly said unto the fathers A prophet shall

the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren like unto

me him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto

you .

AC-323  And it shall come to pass that every soul which will not

hear that prophet shall be destroyed from among the people .

AC-324  Yea and all the prophets from Samuel and those that

follow after as many as have spoken have likewise foretold of

these days .

AC-325  Ye are the children of the prophets and of the covenant

which God made with our fathers saying unto Abraham And in thy

seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed .

AC-326  Unto you first God having raised up his Son Jesus sent

him to bless you in turning away every one of you from his

iniquities .

* AC-41  And as they spake unto the people the priests and the

captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them .

AC-42  Being grieved that they taught the people and preached

through Jesus the resurrection from the dead .

AC-43  And they laid hands on them and put them in hold unto the

next day for it was now eventide .

AC-44  Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed and

the number of the men was about five thousand .

AC-45  And it came to pass on the morrow that their rulers and

elders and scribes .

AC-46  And Annas the high priest and Caiaphas and John and

Alexander and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest

were gathered together at Jerusalem .

AC-47  And when they had set them in the midst they asked By

what power or by what name have ye done this .

AC-48  Then Peter filled with the Holy Ghost said unto them Ye

rulers of the people and elders of Israel .

AC-49  If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the

impotent man by what means he is made whole .

AC-410  Be it known unto you all and to all the people of Israel

that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom ye crucified

whom God raised from the dead even by him doth this man stand

here before you whole .

AC-411  This is the stone which was set at nought of you

builders which is become the head of the corner .

AC-412  Neither is there salvation in any other for there is

none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be

saved .

AC-413  Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and

perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men they

marvelled and they took knowledge of them that they had been

with Jesus .

AC-414  And beholding the man which was healed standing with

them they could say nothing against it .

AC-415  But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the

council they conferred among themselves .

AC-416  Saying What shall we do to these men for that indeed a

notable miracle hath been done by them is manifest to all them

that dwell in Jerusalem and we cannot deny it .

AC-417  But that it spread no further among the people let us

straitly threaten them that they speak henceforth to no man in

this name .

AC-418  And they called them and commanded them not to speak at

all nor teach in the name of Jesus .

AC-419  But Peter and John answered and said unto them Whether

it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than

unto God judge ye .

AC-420  For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen

and heard .

AC-421  So when they had further threatened them they let them

go finding nothing how they might punish them because of the

people for all men glorified God for that which was done .

AC-422  For the man was above forty years old on whom this

miracle of healing was showed .

AC-423  And being let go they went to their own company and

reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto

them .

AC-424  And when they heard that they lifted up their voice to

God with one accord and said Lord thou art God which hast made

heaven and earth and the sea and all that in them is .

AC-425  Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said Why did

the heathen rage and the people imagine vain things .

AC-426  The kings of the earth stood up and the rulers were

gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ .

AC-427  For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus whom thou

hast anointed both Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles

and the people of Israel were gathered together .

AC-428  For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined

before to be done .

AC-429  And now Lord behold their threatenings and grant unto

thy servants that with all boldness they may speak thy word .

AC-430  By stretching forth thine hand to heal and that signs

and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus .

AC-431  And when they had prayed the place was shaken where they

were assembled together and they were all filled with the Holy

Ghost and they spake the word of God with boldness .

AC-432  And the multitude of them that believed were of one

heart and of one soul neither said any of them that ought of the

things which he possessed was his own but they had all things

common .

AC-433  And with great power gave the apostles witness of the

resurrection of the Lord Jesus and great grace was upon them all

.

AC-434  Neither was there any among them that lacked for as many

as were possessors of lands or houses sold them and brought the

prices of the things that were sold .

AC-435  And laid them down at the apostles' feet and

distribution was made unto every man according as he had need .

AC-436  And Joses who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas

which is being interpreted The son of consolation a Levite and

of the country of Cyprus .

AC-437  Having land sold it and brought the money and laid it at

the apostles' feet .

* AC-51  But a certain man named Ananias with Sapphira his wife

sold a possession .

AC-52  And kept back part of the price his wife also being privy

to it and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles'

feet .

AC-53  But Peter said Ananias why hath Satan filled thine heart

to lie to the Holy Ghost and to keep back part of the price of

the land .

AC-54  Whiles it remained was it not thine own and after it was

sold was it not in thine own power why hast thou conceived this

thing in thine heart thou hast not lied unto men but unto God .

AC-55  And Ananias hearing these words fell down and gave up the

ghost and great fear came on all them that heard these things .

AC-56  And the young men arose wound him up and carried him out

and buried him .

AC-57  And it was about the space of three hours after when his

wife not knowing what was done came in .

AC-58  And Peter answered unto her Tell me whether ye sold the

land for so much And she said Yea for so much .

AC-59  Then Peter said unto her How is it that ye have agreed

together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord behold the feet of them

which have buried thy husband are at the door and shall carry

thee out .

AC-510  Then fell she down straightway at his feet and yielded

up the ghost and the young men came in and found her dead and

carrying her forth buried her by her husband .

AC-511  And great fear came upon all the church and upon as many

as heard these things .

AC-512  And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and

wonders wrought among the people and they were all with one

accord in Solomon's porch .

AC-513  And of the rest durst no man join himself to them but

the people magnified them .

AC-514  And believers were the more added to the Lord multitudes

both of men and women .

AC-515  Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the

streets and laid them on beds and couches that at the least the

shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them .

AC-516  There came also a multitude out of the cities round

about unto Jerusalem bringing sick folks and them which were

vexed with unclean spirits and they were healed every one .

AC-517  Then the high priest rose up and all they that were with

him which is the sect of the Sadducees and were filled with

indignation .

AC-518  And laid their hands on the apostles and put them in the

common prison .

AC-519  But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison

doors and brought them forth and said .

AC-520  Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the

words of this life .

AC-521  And when they heard that they entered into the temple

early in the morning and taught But the high priest came and

they that were with him and called the council together and all

the senate of the children of Israel and sent to the prison to

have them brought .

AC-522  But when the officers came and found them not in the

prison they returned and told .

AC-523  Saying The prison truly found we shut with all safety

and the keepers standing without before the doors but when we

had opened we found no man within .

AC-524  Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple

and the chief priests heard these things they doubted of them

whereunto this would grow .

AC-525  Then came one and told them saying Behold the men whom

ye put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the

people .

AC-526  Then went the captain with the officers and brought them

without violence for they feared the people lest they should

have been stoned .

AC-527  And when they had brought them they set them before the

council and the high priest asked them .

AC-528  Saying Did not we straitly command you that ye should

not teach in this name and behold ye have filled Jerusalem with

your doctrine and intend to bring this man's blood upon us .

AC-529  Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said We

ought to obey God rather than men .

AC-530  The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom ye slew and

hanged on a tree .

AC-531  Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince

and a Saviour for to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness

of sins .

AC-532  And we are his witnesses of these things and so is also

the Holy Ghost whom God hath given to them that obey him .

AC-533  When they heard that they were cut to the heart and took

counsel to slay them .

AC-534  Then stood there up one in the council a Pharisee named

Gamaliel a doctor of the law had in reputation among all the

people and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space .

AC-535  And said unto them Ye men of Israel take heed to

yourselves what ye intend to do as touching these men .

AC-536  For before these days rose up Theudas boasting himself

to be somebody to whom a number of men about four hundred joined

themselves who was slain and all as many as obeyed him were

scattered and brought to nought .

AC-537  After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of

the taxing and drew away much people after him he also perished

and all even as many as obeyed him were dispersed .

AC-538  And now I say unto you Refrain from these men and let

them alone for if this counsel or this work be of men it will

come to nought .

AC-539  But if it be of God ye cannot overthrow it lest haply ye

be found even to fight against God .

AC-540  And to him they agreed and when they had called the

apostles and beaten them they commanded that they should not

speak in the name of Jesus and let them go .

AC-541  And they departed from the presence of the council

rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his

name .

AC-542  And daily in the temple and in every house they ceased

not to teach and preach Jesus Christ .

* AC-61  And in those days when the number of the disciples was

multiplied there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the

Hebrews because their widows were neglected in the daily

ministration .

AC-62  Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples

unto them and said It is not reason that we should leave the

word of God and serve tables .

AC-63  Wherefore brethren look ye out among you seven men of

honest report full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom whom we may

appoint over this business .

AC-64  But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to

the ministry of the word .

AC-65  And the saying pleased the whole multitude and they chose

Stephen a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost and Philip and

Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolas a

proselyte of Antioch .

AC-66  Whom they set before the apostles and when they had

prayed they laid their hands on them .

AC-67  And the word of God increased and the number of the

disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly and a great company of

the priests were obedient to the faith .

AC-68  And Stephen full of faith and power did great wonders and

miracles among the people .

AC-69  Then there arose certain of the synagogue which is called

the synagogue of the Libertines and Cyrenians and Alexandrians

and of them of Cilicia and of Asia disputing with Stephen .

AC-610  And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the

spirit by which he spake .

AC-611  Then they suborned men which said We have heard him

speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God .

AC-612  And they stirred up the people and the elders and the

scribes and came upon him and caught him and brought him to the

council .

AC-613  And set up false witnesses which said This man ceaseth

not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place and the

law .

AC-614  For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth

shall destroy this place and shall change the customs which

Moses delivered us .

AC-615  And all that sat in the council looking stedfastly on

him saw his face as it had been the face of an angel .

* AC-71  Then said the high priest Are these things so .

AC-72  And he said Men brethren and fathers hearken The God of

glory appeared unto our father Abraham when he was in

Mesopotamia before he dwelt in Charran .

AC-73  And said unto him Get thee out of thy country and from

thy kindred and come into the land which I shall show thee .

AC-74  Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans and dwelt

in Charran and from thence when his father was dead he removed

him into this land wherein ye now dwell .

AC-75  And he gave him none inheritance in it no not so much as

to set his foot on yet he promised that he would give it to him

for a possession and to his seed after him when as yet he had no

child .

AC-76  And God spake on this wise That his seed should sojourn

in a strange land and that they should bring them into bondage

and entreat them evil four hundred years .

AC-77  And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I

judge said God and after that shall they come forth and serve me

in this place .

AC-78  And he gave him the covenant of circumcision and so

Abraham begat Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day and Isaac

begat Jacob and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs .

AC-79  And the patriarchs moved with envy sold Joseph into Egypt

but God was with him .

AC-710  And delivered him out of all his afflictions and gave

him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt and

he made him governor over Egypt and all his house .

AC-711  Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and

Chanaan and great affliction and our fathers found no sustenance

.

AC-712  But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt he

sent out our fathers first .

AC-713  And at the second time Joseph was made known to his

brethren and Joseph's kindred was made known unto Pharaoh .

AC-714  Then sent Joseph and called his father Jacob to him and

all his kindred threescore and fifteen souls .

AC-715  So Jacob went down into Egypt and died he and our

fathers .

AC-716  And were carried over into Sychem and laid in the

sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of

Emmor the father of Sychem .

AC-717  But when the time of the promise drew nigh which God had

sworn to Abraham the people grew and multiplied in Egypt .

AC-718  Till another king arose which knew not Joseph .

AC-719  The same dealt subtly with our kindred and evil

entreated our fathers so that they cast out their young children

to the end they might not live .

AC-720  In which time Moses was born and was exceeding fair and

nourished up in his father's house three months .

AC-721  And when he was cast out Pharaoh's daughter took him up

and nourished him for her own son .

AC-722  And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians

and was mighty in words and in deeds .

AC-723  And when he was full forty years old it came into his

heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel .

AC-724  And seeing one of them suffer wrong he defended him and

avenged him that was oppressed and smote the Egyptian .

AC-725  For he supposed his brethren would have understood how

that God by his hand would deliver them but they understood not .

AC-726  And the next day he showed himself unto them as they

strove and would have set them at one again saying Sirs ye are

brethren why do ye wrong one to another .

AC-727  But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away

saying Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us .

AC-728  Wilt thou kill me as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday

.

AC-729  Then fled Moses at this saying and was a stranger in the

land of Madian where he begat two sons .

AC-730  And when forty years were expired there appeared to him

in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame

of fire in a bush .

AC-731  When Moses saw it he wondered at the sight and as he

drew near to behold it the voice of the Lord came unto him .

AC-732  Saying I am the God of thy fathers the God of Abraham

and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob Then Moses trembled

and durst not behold .

AC-733  Then said the Lord to him Put off thy shoes from thy

feet for the place where thou standest is holy ground .

AC-734  I have seen I have seen the affliction of my people

which is in Egypt and I have heard their groaning and am come

down to deliver them And now come I will send thee into Egypt .

AC-735  This Moses whom they refused saying Who made thee a

ruler and a judge the same did God send to be a ruler and a

deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the

bush .

AC-736  He brought them out after that he had showed wonders and

signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red sea and in the

wilderness forty years .

AC-737  This is that Moses which said unto the children of

Israel A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of

your brethren like unto me him shall ye hear .

AC-738  This is he that was in the church in the wilderness with

the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina and with our

fathers who received the lively oracles to give unto us .

AC-739  To whom our fathers would not obey but thrust him from

them and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt .

AC-740  Saying unto Aaron Make us gods to go before us for as

for this Moses which brought us out of the land of Egypt we wot

not what is become of him .

AC-741  And they made a calf in those days and offered sacrifice

unto the idol and rejoiced in the works of their own hands .

AC-742  Then God turned and gave them up to worship the host of

heaven as it is written in the book of the prophets O ye house

of Israel have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by

the space of forty years in the wilderness .

AC-743  Yea ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of

your god Remphan figures which ye made to worship them and I

will carry you away beyond Babylon .

AC-744  Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the

wilderness as he had appointed speaking unto Moses that he

should make it according to the fashion that he had seen .

AC-745  Which also our fathers that came after brought in with

Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles whom God drave out

before the face of our fathers unto the days of David .

AC-746  Who found favour before God and desired to find a

tabernacle for the God of Jacob .

AC-747  But Solomon built him an house .

AC-748  Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with

hands as saith the prophet .

AC-749  Heaven is my throne and earth is my footstool what house

will ye build me saith the Lord or what is the place of my rest .

AC-750  Hath not my hand made all these things .

AC-751  Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears ye do

always resist the Holy Ghost as your fathers did so do ye .

AC-752  Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted

and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of

the Just One of whom ye have been now the betrayers and

murderers .

AC-753  Who have received the law by the disposition of angels

and have not kept it .

AC-754  When they heard these things they were cut to the heart

and they gnashed on him with their teeth .

AC-755  But he being full of the Holy Ghost looked up stedfastly

into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing on the

right hand of God .

AC-756  And said Behold I see the heavens opened and the Son of

man standing on the right hand of God .

AC-757  Then they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their

ears and ran upon him with one accord .

AC-758  And cast him out of the city and stoned him and the

witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet whose

name was Saul .

AC-759  And they stoned Stephen calling upon God and saying Lord

Jesus receive my spirit .

AC-760  And he kneeled down and cried with a loud voice Lord lay

not this sin to their charge And when he had said this he fell

asleep .

* AC-81  And Saul was consenting unto his death And at that time

there was a great persecution against the church which was at

Jerusalem and they were all scattered abroad throughout the

regions of Judaea and Samaria except the apostles .

AC-82  And devout men carried Stephen to his burial and made

great lamentation over him .

AC-83  As for Saul he made havock of the church entering into

every house and haling men and women committed them to prison .

AC-84  Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every

where preaching the word .

AC-85  Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached

Christ unto them .

AC-86  And the people with one accord gave heed unto those

things which Philip spake hearing and seeing the miracles which

he did .

AC-87  For unclean spirits crying with loud voice came out of

many that were possessed with them and many taken with palsies

and that were lame were healed .

AC-88  And there was great joy in that city .

AC-89  But there was a certain man called Simon which beforetime

in the same city used sorcery and bewitched the people of

Samaria giving out that himself was some great one .

AC-810  To whom they all gave heed from the least to the

greatest saying This man is the great power of God .

AC-811  And to him they had regard because that of long time he

had bewitched them with sorceries .

AC-812  But when they believed Philip preaching the things

concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ they

were baptized both men and women .

AC-813  Then Simon himself believed also and when he was

baptized he continued with Philip and wondered beholding the

miracles and signs which were done .

AC-814  Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that

Samaria had received the word of God they sent unto them Peter

and John .

AC-815  Who when they were come down prayed for them that they

might receive the Holy Ghost .

AC-816  For as yet he was fallen upon none of them only they

were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus .

AC-817  Then laid they their hands on them and they received the

Holy Ghost .

AC-818  And when Simon saw that through laying on of the

apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given he offered them money .

AC-819  Saying Give me also this power that on whomsoever I lay

hands he may receive the Holy Ghost .

AC-820  But Peter said unto him Thy money perish with thee

because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased

with money .

AC-821  Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter for thy

heart is not right in the sight of God .

AC-822  Repent therefore of this thy wickedness and pray God if

perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee .

AC-823  For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness

and in the bond of iniquity .

AC-824  Then answered Simon and said Pray ye to the Lord for me

that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me .

AC-825  And they when they had testified and preached the word

of the Lord returned to Jerusalem and preached the gospel in

many villages of the Samaritans .

AC-826  And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip saying Arise

and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from

Jerusalem unto Gaza which is desert .

AC-827  And he arose and went and behold a man of Ethiopia an

eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians

who had the charge of all her treasure and had come to Jerusalem

for to worship .

AC-828  Was returning and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the

prophet .

AC-829  Then the Spirit said unto Philip Go near and join

thyself to this chariot .

AC-830  And Philip ran thither to him and heard him read the

prophet Esaias and said Understandest thou what thou readest .

AC-831  And he said How can I except some man should guide me

And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him .

AC-832  The place of the scripture which he read was this He was

led as a sheep to the slaughter and like a lamb dumb before his

shearer so opened he not his mouth .

AC-833  In his humiliation his judgment was taken away and who

shall declare his generation for his life is taken from the

earth .

AC-834  And the eunuch answered Philip and said I pray thee of

whom speaketh the prophet this of himself or of some other man .

AC-835  Then Philip opened his mouth and began at the same

scripture and preached unto him Jesus .

AC-836  And as they went on their way they came unto a certain

water and the eunuch said See here is water what doth hinder me

to be baptized .

AC-837  And Philip said If thou believest with all thine heart

thou mayest And he answered and said I believe that Jesus Christ

is the Son of God .

AC-838  And he commanded the chariot to stand still and they

went down both into the water both Philip and the eunuch and he

baptized him .

AC-839  And when they were come up out of the water the Spirit

of the Lord caught away Philip that the eunuch saw him no more

and he went on his way rejoicing .

AC-840  But Philip was found at Azotus and passing through he

preached in all the cities till he came to Caesarea .

* AC-91  And Saul yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter

against the disciples of the Lord went unto the high priest .

AC-92  And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues

that if he found any of this way whether they were men or women

he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem .

AC-93  And as he journeyed he came near Damascus and suddenly

there shined round about him a light from heaven .

AC-94  And he fell to the earth and heard a voice saying unto

him Saul Saul why persecutest thou me .

AC-95  And he said Who art thou Lord And the Lord said I am

Jesus whom thou persecutest it is hard for thee to kick against

the pricks .

AC-96  And he trembling and astonished said Lord what wilt thou

have me to do And the Lord said unto him Arise and go into the

city and it shall be told thee what thou must do .

AC-97  And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless

hearing a voice but seeing no man .

AC-98  And Saul arose from the earth and when his eyes were

opened he saw no man but they led him by the hand and brought

him into Damascus .

AC-99  And he was three days without sight and neither did eat

nor drink .

AC-910  And there was a certain disciple at Damascus named

Ananias and to him said the Lord in a vision Ananias And he said

Behold I am here Lord .

AC-911  And the Lord said unto him Arise and go into the street

which is called Straight and inquire in the house of Judas for

one called Saul of Tarsus for behold he prayeth .

AC-912  And hath seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in

and putting his hand on him that he might receive his sight .

AC-913  Then Ananias answered Lord I have heard by many of this

man how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem .

AC-914  And here he hath authority from the chief priests to

bind all that call on thy name .

AC-915  But the Lord said unto him Go thy way for he is a chosen

vessel unto me to bear my name before the Gentiles and kings and

the children of Israel .

AC-916  For I will show him how great things he must suffer for

my name's sake .

AC-917  And Ananias went his way and entered into the house and

putting his hands on him said Brother Saul the Lord even Jesus

that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest hath sent me

that thou mightest receive thy sight and be filled with the Holy

Ghost .

AC-918  And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been

scales and he received sight forthwith and arose and was

baptized .

AC-919  And when he had received meat he was strengthened Then

was Saul certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus .

AC-920  And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues

that he is the Son of God .

AC-921  But all that heard him were amazed and said Is not this

he that destroyed them which called on this name in Jerusalem

and came hither for that intent that he might bring them bound

unto the chief priests .

AC-922  But Saul increased the more in strength and confounded

the Jews which dwelt at Damascus proving that this is very

Christ .

AC-923  And after that many days were fulfilled the Jews took

counsel to kill him .

AC-924  But their laying await was known of Saul And they

watched the gates day and night to kill him .

AC-925  Then the disciples took him by night and let him down by

the wall in a basket .

AC-926  And when Saul was come to Jerusalem he assayed to join

himself to the disciples but they were all afraid of him and

believed not that he was a disciple .

AC-927  But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles

and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way and

that he had spoken to him and how he had preached boldly at

Damascus in the name of Jesus .

AC-928  And he was with them coming in and going out at

Jerusalem .

AC-929  And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus and

disputed against the Grecians but they went about to slay him .

AC-930  Which when the brethren knew they brought him down to

Caesarea and sent him forth to Tarsus .

AC-931  Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and

Galilee and Samaria and were edified and walking in the fear of

the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost were multiplied .

AC-932  And it came to pass as Peter passed throughout all

quarters he came down also to the saints which dwelt at Lydda .

AC-933  And there he found a certain man named AEneas which had

kept his bed eight years and was sick of the palsy .

AC-934  And Peter said unto him AEneas Jesus Christ maketh thee

whole arise and make thy bed And he arose immediately .

AC-935  And all that dwelt at Lydda and Saron saw him and turned

to the Lord .

AC-936  Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha

which by interpretation is called Dorcas this woman was full of

good works and almsdeeds which she did .

AC-937  And it came to pass in those days that she was sick and

died whom when they had washed they laid her in an upper chamber

.

AC-938  And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Joppa and the

disciples had heard that Peter was there they sent unto him two

men desiring him that he would not delay to come to them .

AC-939  Then Peter arose and went with them When he was come

they brought him into the upper chamber and all the widows stood

by him weeping and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas

made while she was with them .

AC-940  But Peter put them all forth and kneeled down and prayed

and turning him to the body said Tabitha arise And she opened

her eyes and when she saw Peter she sat up .

AC-941  And he gave her his hand and lifted her up and when he

had called the saints and widows presented her alive .

AC-942  And it was known throughout all Joppa and many believed

in the Lord .

AC-943  And it came to pass that he tarried many days in Joppa

with one Simon a tanner .

* AC-101  There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius a

centurion of the band called the Italian band .

AC-102  A devout man and one that feared God with all his house

which gave much alms to the people and prayed to God alway .

AC-103  He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the

day an angel of God coming in to him and saying unto him

Cornelius .

AC-104  And when he looked on him he was afraid and said What is

it Lord And he said unto him Thy prayers and thine alms are come

up for a memorial before God .

AC-105  And now send men to Joppa and call for one Simon whose

surname is Peter .

AC-106  He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner whose house is by the

sea side he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do .

AC-107  And when the angel which spake unto Cornelius was

departed he called two of his household servants and a devout

soldier of them that waited on him continually .

AC-108  And when he had declared all these things unto them he

sent them to Joppa .

AC-109  On the morrow as they went on their journey and drew

nigh unto the city Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about

the sixth hour .

AC-1010  And he became very hungry and would have eaten but

while they made ready he fell into a trance .

AC-1011  And saw heaven opened and a certain vessel descending

unto him as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners

and let down to the earth .

AC-1012  Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the

earth and wild beasts and creeping things and fowls of the air .

AC-1013  And there came a voice to him Rise Peter kill and eat .

AC-1014  But Peter said Not so Lord for I have never eaten any

thing that is common or unclean .

AC-1015  And the voice spake unto him again the second time What

God hath cleansed that call not thou common .

AC-1016  This was done thrice and the vessel was received up

again into heaven .

AC-1017  Now while Peter doubted in himself what this vision

which he had seen should mean behold the men which were sent

from Cornelius had made inquiry for Simon's house and stood

before the gate .

AC-1018  And called and asked whether Simon which was surnamed

Peter were lodged there .

AC-1019  While Peter thought on the vision the Spirit said unto

him Behold three men seek thee .

AC-1020  Arise therefore and get thee down and go with them

doubting nothing for I have sent them .

AC-1021  Then Peter went down to the men which were sent unto

him from Cornelius and said Behold I am he whom ye seek what is

the cause wherefore ye are come .

AC-1022  And they said Cornelius the centurion a just man and

one that feareth God and of good report among all the nation of

the Jews was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee

into his house and to hear words of thee .

AC-1023  Then called he them in and lodged them And on the

morrow Peter went away with them and certain brethren from Joppa

accompanied him .

AC-1024  And the morrow after they entered into Caesarea And

Cornelius waited for them and had called together his kinsmen

and near friends .

AC-1025  And as Peter was coming in Cornelius met him and fell

down at his feet and worshipped him .

AC-1026  But Peter took him up saying Stand up I myself also am

a man .

AC-1027  And as he talked with him he went in and found many

that were come together .

AC-1028  And he said unto them Ye know how that it is an

unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company or come

unto one of another nation but God hath showed me that I should

not call any man common or unclean .

AC-1029  Therefore came I unto you without gainsaying as soon as

I was sent for I ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for

me .

AC-1030  And Cornelius said Four days ago I was fasting until

this hour and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house and behold

a man stood before me in bright clothing .

AC-1031  And said Cornelius thy prayer is heard and thine alms

are had in remembrance in the sight of God .

AC-1032  Send therefore to Joppa and call hither Simon whose

surname is Peter he is lodged in the house of one Simon a tanner

by the sea side who when he cometh shall speak unto thee .

AC-1033  Immediately therefore I sent to thee and thou hast well

done that thou art come Now therefore are we all here present

before God to hear all things that are commanded thee of God .

AC-1034  Then Peter opened his mouth and said Of a truth I

perceive that God is no respecter of persons .

AC-1035  But in every nation he that feareth him and worketh

righteousness is accepted with him .

AC-1036  The word which God sent unto the children of Israel

preaching peace by Jesus Christ he is Lord of all .

AC-1037  That word I say ye know which was published throughout

all Judaea and began from Galilee after the baptism which John

preached .

AC-1038  How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost

and with power who went about doing good and healing all that

were oppressed of the devil for God was with him .

AC-1039  And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in

the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem whom they slew and hanged

on a tree .

AC-1040  Him God raised up the third day and showed him openly .

AC-1041  Not to all the people but unto witnesses chosen before

of God even to us who did eat and drink with him after he rose

from the dead .

AC-1042  And he commanded us to preach unto the people and to

testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge

of quick and dead .

AC-1043  To him give all the prophets witness that through his

name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins .

AC-1044  While Peter yet spake these words the Holy Ghost fell

on all them which heard the word .

AC-1045  And they of the circumcision which believed were

astonished as many as came with Peter because that on the

Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost .

AC-1046  For they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God

Then answered Peter .

AC-1047  Can any man forbid water that these should not be

baptized which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we .

AC-1048  And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the

Lord Then prayed they him to tarry certain days .

* AC-111  And the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea

heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God .

AC-112  And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem they that were

of the circumcision contended with him .

AC-113  Saying Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised and didst

eat with them .

AC-114  But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning and

expounded it by order unto them saying .

AC-115  I was in the city of Joppa praying and in a trance I saw

a vision A certain vessel descend as it had been a great sheet

let down from heaven by four corners and it came even to me .

AC-116  Upon the which when I had fastened mine eyes I

considered and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth and wild

beasts and creeping things and fowls of the air .

AC-117  And I heard a voice saying unto me Arise Peter slay and

eat .

AC-118  But I said Not so Lord for nothing common or unclean

hath at any time entered into my mouth .

AC-119  But the voice answered me again from heaven What God

hath cleansed that call not thou common .

AC-1110  And this was done three times and all were drawn up

again into heaven .

AC-1111  And behold immediately there were three men already

come unto the house where I was sent from Caesarea unto me .

AC-1112  And the Spirit bade me go with them nothing doubting

Moreover these six brethren accompanied me and we entered into

the man's house .

AC-1113  And he showed us how he had seen an angel in his house

which stood and said unto him Send men to Joppa and call for

Simon whose surname is Peter .

AC-1114  Who shall tell thee words whereby thou and all thy

house shall be saved .

AC-1115  And as I began to speak the Holy Ghost fell on them as

on us at the beginning .

AC-1116  Then remembered I the word of the Lord how that he said

John indeed baptized with water but ye shall be baptized with

the Holy Ghost .

AC-1117  Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did

unto us who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ what was I that I

could withstand God .

AC-1118  When they heard these things they held their peace and

glorified God saying Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted

repentance unto life .

AC-1119  Now they which were scattered abroad upon the

persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice

and Cyprus and Antioch preaching the word to none but unto the

Jews only .

AC-1120  And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene which

when they were come to Antioch spake unto the Grecians preaching

the Lord Jesus .

AC-1121  And the hand of the Lord was with them and a great

number believed and turned unto the Lord .

AC-1122  Then tidings of these things came unto the ears of the

church which was in Jerusalem and they sent forth Barnabas that

he should go as far as Antioch .

AC-1123  Who when he came and had seen the grace of God was glad

and exhorted them all that with purpose of heart they would

cleave unto the Lord .

AC-1124  For he was a good man and full of the Holy Ghost and of

faith and much people was added unto the Lord .

AC-1125  Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus for to seek Saul .

AC-1126  And when he had found him he brought him unto Antioch

And it came to pass that a whole year they assembled themselves

with the church and taught much people And the disciples were

called Christians first in Antioch .

AC-1127  And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto

Antioch .

AC-1128  And there stood up one of them named Agabus and

signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth

throughout all the world which came to pass in the days of

Claudius Caesar .

AC-1129  Then the disciples every man according to his ability

determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in

Judaea .

AC-1130  Which also they did and sent it to the elders by the

hands of Barnabas and Saul .

* AC-121  Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his

hands to vex certain of the church .

AC-122  And he killed James the brother of John with the sword .

AC-123  And because he saw it pleased the Jews he proceeded

further to take Peter also Then were the days of unleavened

bread .

AC-124  And when he had apprehended him he put him in prison and

delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him

intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people .

AC-125  Peter therefore was kept in prison but prayer was made

without ceasing of the church unto God for him .

AC-126  And when Herod would have brought him forth the same

night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers bound with two

chains and the keepers before the door kept the prison .

AC-127  And behold the angel of the Lord came upon him and a

light shined in the prison and he smote Peter on the side and

raised him up saying Arise up quickly And his chains fell off

from his hands .

AC-128  And the angel said unto him Gird thyself and bind on thy

sandals And so he did And he saith unto him Cast thy garment

about thee and follow me .

AC-129  And he went out and followed him and wist not that it

was true which was done by the angel but thought he saw a vision

.

AC-1210  When they were past the first and the second ward they

came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city which opened

to them of his own accord and they went out and passed on

through one street and forthwith the angel departed from him .

AC-1211  And when Peter was come to himself he said Now I know

of a surety that the Lord hath sent his angel and hath delivered

me out of the hand of Herod and from all the expectation of the

people of the Jews .

AC-1212  And when he had considered the thing he came to the

house of Mary the mother of John whose surname was Mark where

many were gathered together praying .

AC-1213  And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate a damsel

came to hearken named Rhoda .

AC-1214  And when she knew Peter's voice she opened not the gate

for gladness but ran in and told how Peter stood before the gate

.

AC-1215  And they said unto her Thou art mad But she constantly

affirmed that it was even so Then said they It is his angel .

AC-1216  But Peter continued knocking and when they had opened

the door and saw him they were astonished .

AC-1217  But he beckoning unto them with the hand to hold their

peace declared unto them how the Lord had brought him out of the

prison And he said Go show these things unto James and to the

brethren And he departed and went into another place .

AC-1218  Now as soon as it was day there was no small stir among

the soldiers what was become of Peter .

AC-1219  And when Herod had sought for him and found him not he

examined the keepers and commanded that they should be put to

death And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea and there abode .

AC-1220  And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and

Sidon but they came with one accord to him and having made

Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend desired peace

because their country was nourished by the king's country .

AC-1221  And upon a set day Herod arrayed in royal apparel sat

upon his throne and made an oration unto them .

AC-1222  And the people gave a shout saying It is the voice of a

god and not of a man .

AC-1223  And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him because

he gave not God the glory and he was eaten of worms and gave up

the ghost .

AC-1224  But the word of God grew and multiplied .

AC-1225  And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem when they

had fulfilled their ministry and took with them John whose

surname was Mark .

* AC-131  Now there were in the church that was at Antioch

certain prophets and teachers as Barnabas and Simeon that was

called Niger and Lucius of Cyrene and Manaen which had been

brought up with Herod the tetrarch and Saul .

AC-132  As they ministered to the Lord and fasted the Holy Ghost

said Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have

called them .

AC-133  And when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands

on them they sent them away .

AC-134  So they being sent forth by the Holy Ghost departed unto

Seleucia and from thence they sailed to Cyprus .

AC-135  And when they were at Salamis they preached the word of

God in the synagogues of the Jews and they had also John to

their minister .

AC-136  And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos they

found a certain sorcerer a false prophet a Jew whose name was

Barjesus .

AC-137  Which was with the deputy of the country Sergius Paulus

a prudent man who called for Barnabas and Saul and desired to

hear the word of God .

AC-138  But Elymas the sorcerer for so is his name by

interpretation withstood them seeking to turn away the deputy

from the faith .

AC-139  Then Saul who also is called Paul filled with the Holy

Ghost set his eyes on him .

AC-1310  And said O full of all subtlety and all mischief thou

child of the devil thou enemy of all righteousness wilt thou not

cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord .

AC-1311  And now behold the hand of the Lord is upon thee and

thou shalt be blind not seeing the sun for a season And

immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness and he went

about seeking some to lead him by the hand .

AC-1312  Then the deputy when he saw what was done believed

being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord .

AC-1313  Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos they

came to Perga in Pamphylia and John departing from them returned

to Jerusalem .

AC-1314  But when they departed from Perga they came to Antioch

in Pisidia and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day and

sat down .

AC-1315  And after the reading of the law and the prophets the

rulers of the synagogue sent unto them saying Ye men and

brethren if ye have any word of exhortation for the people say

on .

AC-1316  Then Paul stood up and beckoning with his hand said Men

of Israel and ye that fear God give audience .

AC-1317  The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers and

exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of

Egypt and with an high arm brought he them out of it .

AC-1318  And about the time of forty years suffered he their

manners in the wilderness .

AC-1319  And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of

Chanaan he divided their land to them by lot .

AC-1320  And after that he gave unto them judges about the space

of four hundred and fifty years until Samuel the prophet .

AC-1321  And afterward they desired a king and God gave unto

them Saul the son of Cis a man of the tribe of Benjamin by the

space of forty years .

AC-1322  And when he had removed him he raised up unto them

David to be their king to whom also he gave testimony and said I

have found David the son of Jesse a man after mine own heart

which shall fulfil all my will .

AC-1323  Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise

raised unto Israel a Saviour Jesus .

AC-1324  When John had first preached before his coming the

baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel .

AC-1325  And as John fulfilled his course he said Whom think ye

that I am I am not he But behold there cometh one after me whose

shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose .

AC-1326  Men and brethren children of the stock of Abraham and

whosoever among you feareth God to you is the word of this

salvation sent .

AC-1327  For they that dwell at Jerusalem and their rulers

because they knew him not nor yet the voices of the prophets

which are read every sabbath day they have fulfilled them in

condemning him .

AC-1328  And though they found no cause of death in him yet

desired they Pilate that he should be slain .

AC-1329  And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him

they took him down from the tree and laid him in a sepulchre .

AC-1330  But God raised him from the dead .

AC-1331  And he was seen many days of them which came up with

him from Galilee to Jerusalem who are his witnesses unto the

people .

AC-1332  And we declare unto you glad tidings how that the

promise which was made unto the fathers .

AC-1333  God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children in

that he hath raised up Jesus again as it is also written in the

second psalm Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee .

AC-1334  And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead

now no more to return to corruption he said on this wise I will

give you the sure mercies of David .

AC-1335  Wherefore he saith also in another psalm Thou shalt not

suffer thine Holy One to see corruption .

AC-1336  For David after he had served his own generation by the

will of God fell on sleep and was laid unto his fathers and saw

corruption .

AC-1337  But he whom God raised again saw no corruption .

AC-1338  Be it known unto you therefore men and brethren that

through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins .

AC-1339  And by him all that believe are justified from all

things from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses .

AC-1340  Beware therefore lest that come upon you which is

spoken of in the prophets .

AC-1341  Behold ye despisers and wonder and perish for I work a

work in your days a work which ye shall in no wise believe

though a man declare it unto you .

AC-1342  And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue the

Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the

next sabbath .

AC-1343  Now when the congregation was broken up many of the

Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas who

speaking to them persuaded them to continue in the grace of God .

AC-1344  And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city

together to hear the word of God .

AC-1345  But when the Jews saw the multitudes they were filled

with envy and spake against those things which were spoken by

Paul contradicting and blaspheming .

AC-1346  Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold and said It was

necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to

you but seeing ye put it from you and judge yourselves unworthy

of everlasting life lo we turn to the Gentiles .

AC-1347  For so hath the Lord commanded us saying I have set

thee to be a light of the Gentiles that thou shouldest be for

salvation unto the ends of the earth .

AC-1348  And when the Gentiles heard this they were glad and

glorified the word of the Lord and as many as were ordained to

eternal life believed .

AC-1349  And the word of the Lord was published throughout all

the region .

AC-1350  But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women

and the chief men of the city and raised persecution against

Paul and Barnabas and expelled them out of their coasts .

AC-1351  But they shook off the dust of their feet against them

and came unto Iconium .

AC-1352  And the disciples were filled with joy and with the

Holy Ghost .

* AC-141  And it came to pass in Iconium that they went both

together into the synagogue of the Jews and so spake that a

great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed

.

AC-142  But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and

made their minds evil affected against the brethren .

AC-143  Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the

Lord which gave testimony unto the word of his grace and granted

signs and wonders to be done by their hands .

AC-144  But the multitude of the city was divided and part held

with the Jews and part with the apostles .

AC-145  And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles

and also of the Jews with their rulers to use them despitefully

and to stone them .

AC-146  They were ware of it and fled unto Lystra and Derbe

cities of Lycaonia and unto the region that lieth round about .

AC-147  And there they preached the gospel .

AC-148  And there sat a certain man at Lystra impotent in his

feet being a cripple from his mother's womb who never had walked

.

AC-149  The same heard Paul speak who stedfastly beholding him

and perceiving that he had faith to be healed .

AC-1410  Said with a loud voice Stand upright on thy feet And he

leaped and walked .

AC-1411  And when the people saw what Paul had done they lifted

up their voices saying in the speech of Lycaonia The gods are

come down to us in the likeness of men .

AC-1412  And they called Barnabas Jupiter and Paul Mercurius

because he was the chief speaker .

AC-1413  Then the priest of Jupiter which was before their city

brought oxen and garlands unto the gates and would have done

sacrifice with the people .

AC-1414  Which when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of they

rent their clothes and ran in among the people crying out .

AC-1415  And saying Sirs why do ye these things We also are men

of like passions with you and preach unto you that ye should

turn from these vanities unto the living God which made heaven

and earth and the sea and all things that are therein .

AC-1416  Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their

own ways .

AC-1417  Nevertheless he left not himself without witness in

that he did good and gave us rain from heaven and fruitful

seasons filling our hearts with food and gladness .

AC-1418  And with these sayings scarce restrained they the

people that they had not done sacrifice unto them .

AC-1419  And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and

Iconium who persuaded the people and having stoned Paul drew him

out of the city supposing he had been dead .

AC-1420  Howbeit as the disciples stood round about him he rose

up and came into the city and the next day he departed with

Barnabas to Derbe .

AC-1421  And when they had preached the gospel to that city and

had taught many they returned again to Lystra and to Iconium and

Antioch .

AC-1422  Confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorting

them to continue in the faith and that we must through much

tribulation enter into the kingdom of God .

AC-1423  And when they had ordained them elders in every church

and had prayed with fasting they commended them to the Lord on

whom they believed .

AC-1424  And after they had passed throughout Pisidia they came

to Pamphylia .

AC-1425  And when they had preached the word in Perga they went

down into Attalia .

AC-1426  And thence sailed to Antioch from whence they had been

recommended to the grace of God for the work which they

fulfilled .

AC-1427  And when they were come and had gathered the church

together they rehearsed all that God had done with them and how

he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles .

AC-1428  And there they abode long time with the disciples .

* AC-151  And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the

brethren and said Except ye be circumcised after the manner of

Moses ye cannot be saved .

AC-152  When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension

and disputation with them they determined that Paul and Barnabas

and certain other of them should go up to Jerusalem unto the

apostles and elders about this question .

AC-153  And being brought on their way by the church they passed

through Phenice and Samaria declaring the conversion of the

Gentiles and they caused great joy unto all the brethren .

AC-154  And when they were come to Jerusalem they were received

of the church and of the apostles and elders and they declared

all things that God had done with them .

AC-155  But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees

which believed saying That it was needful to circumcise them and

to command them to keep the law of Moses .

AC-156  And the apostles and elders came together for to

consider of this matter .

AC-157  And when there had been much disputing Peter rose up and

said unto them Men and brethren ye know how that a good while

ago God made choice among us that the Gentiles by my mouth

should hear the word of the gospel and believe .

AC-158  And God which knoweth the hearts bare them witness

giving them the Holy Ghost even as he did unto us .

AC-159  And put no difference between us and them purifying

their hearts by faith .

AC-1510  Now therefore why tempt ye God to put a yoke upon the

neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able

to bear .

AC-1511  But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus

Christ we shall be saved even as they .

AC-1512  Then all the multitude kept silence and gave audience

to Barnabas and Paul declaring what miracles and wonders God had

wrought among the Gentiles by them .

AC-1513  And after they had held their peace James answered

saying Men and brethren hearken unto me .

AC-1514  Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the

Gentiles to take out of them a people for his name .

AC-1515  And to this agree the words of the prophets as it is

written .

AC-1516  After this I will return and will build again the

tabernacle of David which is fallen down and I will build again

the ruins thereof and I will set it up .

AC-1517  That the residue of men might seek after the Lord and

all the Gentiles upon whom my name is called saith the Lord who

doeth all these things .

AC-1518  Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of

the world .

AC-1519  Wherefore my sentence is that we trouble not them which

from among the Gentiles are turned to God .

AC-1520  But that we write unto them that they abstain from

pollutions of idols and from fornication and from things

strangled and from blood .

AC-1521  For Moses of old time hath in every city them that

preach him being read in the synagogues every sabbath day .

AC-1522  Then pleased it the apostles and elders with the whole

church to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with

Paul and Barnabas namely Judas surnamed Barsabas and Silas chief

men among the brethren .

AC-1523  And they wrote letters by them after this manner The

apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren

which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia .

AC-1524  Forasmuch as we have heard that certain which went out

from us have troubled you with words subverting your souls

saying Ye must be circumcised and keep the law to whom we gave

no such commandment .

AC-1525  It seemed good unto us being assembled with one accord

to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul .

AC-1526  Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our

Lord Jesus Christ .

AC-1527  We have sent therefore Judas and Silas who shall also

tell you the same things by mouth .

AC-1528  For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us to lay

upon you no greater burden than these necessary things .

AC-1529  That ye abstain from meats offered to idols and from

blood and from things strangled and from fornication from which

if ye keep yourselves ye shall do well Fare ye well .

AC-1530  So when they were dismissed they came to Antioch and

when they had gathered the multitude together they delivered the

epistle .

AC-1531  Which when they had read they rejoiced for the

consolation .

AC-1532  And Judas and Silas being prophets also themselves

exhorted the brethren with many words and confirmed them .

AC-1533  And after they had tarried there a space they were let

go in peace from the brethren unto the apostles .

AC-1534  Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still .

AC-1535  Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch teaching

and preaching the word of the Lord with many others also .

AC-1536  And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas Let us go

again and visit our brethren in every city where we have

preached the word of the Lord and see how they do .

AC-1537  And Barnabas determined to take with them John whose

surname was Mark .

AC-1538  But Paul thought not good to take him with them who

departed from them from Pamphylia and went not with them to the

work .

AC-1539  And the contention was so sharp between them that they

departed asunder one from the other and so Barnabas took Mark

and sailed unto Cyprus .

AC-1540  And Paul chose Silas and departed being recommended by

the brethren unto the grace of God .

AC-1541  And he went through Syria and Cilicia confirming the

churches .

* AC-161  Then came he to Derbe and Lystra and behold a certain

disciple was there named Timotheus the son of a certain woman

which was a Jewess and believed but his father was a Greek .

AC-162  Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at

Lystra and Iconium .

AC-163  Him would Paul have to go forth with him and took and

circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters

for they knew all that his father was a Greek .

AC-164  And as they went through the cities they delivered them

the decrees for to keep that were ordained of the apostles and

elders which were at Jerusalem .

AC-165  And so were the churches established in the faith and

increased in number daily .

AC-166  Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region

of Galatia and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the

word in Asia .

AC-167  After they were come to Mysia they assayed to go into

Bithynia but the Spirit suffered them not .

AC-168  And they passing by Mysia came down to Troas .

AC-169  And a vision appeared to Paul in the night There stood a

man of Macedonia and prayed him saying Come over into Macedonia

and help us .

AC-1610  And after he had seen the vision immediately we

endeavoured to go into Macedonia assuredly gathering that the

Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them .

AC-1611  Therefore loosing from Troas we came with a straight

course to Samothracia and the next day to Neapolis .

AC-1612  And from thence to Philippi which is the chief city of

that part of Macedonia and a colony and we were in that city

abiding certain days .

AC-1613  And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river

side where prayer was wont to be made and we sat down and spake

unto the women which resorted thither .

AC-1614  And a certain woman named Lydia a seller of purple of

the city of Thyatira which worshipped God heard us whose heart

the Lord opened that she attended unto the things which were

spoken of Paul .

AC-1615  And when she was baptized and her household 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 .

AC-1616  And it came to pass as we went to prayer a certain

damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us which

brought her masters much gain by soothsaying .

AC-1617  The same followed Paul and us and cried saying These

men are the servants of the most high God which show unto us the

way of salvation .

AC-1618  And this did she many days But Paul being grieved

turned and said to the spirit I command thee in the name of

Jesus Christ to come out of her And he came out the same hour .

AC-1619  And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains

was gone they caught Paul and Silas and drew them into the

marketplace unto the rulers .

AC-1620  And brought them to the magistrates saying These men

being Jews do exceedingly trouble our city .

AC-1621  And teach customs which are not lawful for us to

receive neither to observe being Romans .

AC-1622  And the multitude rose up together against them and the

magistrates rent off their clothes and commanded to beat them .

AC-1623  And when they had laid many stripes upon them they cast

them into prison charging the jailor to keep them safely .

AC-1624  Who having received such a charge thrust them into the

inner prison and made their feet fast in the stocks .

AC-1625  And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises

unto God and the prisoners heard them .

AC-1626  And suddenly there was a great earthquake so that the

foundations of the prison were shaken and immediately all the

doors were opened and every one's bands were loosed .

AC-1627  And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep

and seeing the prison doors open he drew out his sword and would

have killed himself supposing that the prisoners had been fled .

AC-1628  But Paul cried with a loud voice saying Do thyself no

harm for we are all here .

AC-1629  Then he called for a light and sprang in and came

trembling and fell down before Paul and Silas .

AC-1630  And brought them out and said Sirs what must I do to be

saved .

AC-1631  And they said Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou

shalt be saved and thy house .

AC-1632  And they spake unto him the word of the Lord and to all

that were in his house .

AC-1633  And he took them the same hour of the night and washed

their stripes and was baptized he and all his straightway .

AC-1634  And when he had brought them into his house he set meat

before them and rejoiced believing in God with all his house .

AC-1635  And when it was day the magistrates sent the serjeants

saying Let those men go .

AC-1636  And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul

The magistrates have sent to let you go now therefore depart and

go in peace .

AC-1637  But Paul said unto them They have beaten us openly

uncondemned being Romans and have cast us into prison and now do

they thrust us out privily nay verily but let them come

themselves and fetch us out .

AC-1638  And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates

and they feared when they heard that they were Romans .

AC-1639  And they came and besought them and brought them out

and desired them to depart out of the city .

AC-1640  And they went out of the prison and entered into the

house of Lydia and when they had seen the brethren they

comforted them and departed .

* AC-171  Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and

Apollonia they came to Thessalonica where was a synagogue of the

Jews .

AC-172  And Paul as his manner was went in unto them and three

sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures .

AC-173  Opening and alleging that Christ must needs have

suffered and risen again from the dead and that this Jesus whom

I preach unto you is Christ .

AC-174  And some of them believed and consorted with Paul and

Silas and of the devout Greeks a great multitude and of the

chief women not a few .

AC-175  But the Jews which believed not moved with envy took

unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort and gathered a

company and set all the city on an uproar and assaulted the

house of Jason and sought to bring them out to the people .

AC-176  And when they found them not they drew Jason and certain

brethren unto the rulers of the city crying These that have

turned the world upside down are come hither also .

AC-177  Whom Jason hath received and these all do contrary to

the decrees of Caesar saying that there is another king one

Jesus .

AC-178  And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city

when they heard these things .

AC-179  And when they had taken security of Jason and of the

other they let them go .

AC-1710  And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas

by night unto Berea who coming thither went into the synagogue

of the Jews .

AC-1711  These were more noble than those in Thessalonica in

that they received the word with all readiness of mind and

searched the scriptures daily whether those things were so .

AC-1712  Therefore many of them believed also of honourable

women which were Greeks and of men not a few .

AC-1713  But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that

the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea they came thither

also and stirred up the people .

AC-1714  And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go

as it were to the sea but Silas and Timotheus abode there still .

AC-1715  And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens

and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come

to him with all speed they departed .

AC-1716  Now while Paul waited for them at Athens his spirit was

stirred in him when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry .

AC-1717  Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews

and with the devout persons and in the market daily with them

that met with him .

AC-1718  Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans and of the

Stoicks encountered him And some said What will this babbler say

other some He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods

because he preached unto them Jesus and the resurrection .

AC-1719  And they took him and brought him unto Areopagus saying

May we know what this new doctrine whereof thou speakest is .

AC-1720  For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears we

would know therefore what these things mean .

AC-1721  For all the Athenians and strangers which were there

spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear

some new thing .

AC-1722  Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill and said Ye

men of Athens I perceive that in all things ye are too

superstitious .

AC-1723  For as I passed by and beheld your devotions I found an

altar with this inscription TO THE UNKNOWN GOD Whom therefore ye

ignorantly worship him declare I unto you .

AC-1724  God that made the world and all things therein seeing

that he is Lord of heaven and earth dwelleth not in temples made

with hands .

AC-1725  Neither is worshipped with men's hands as though he

needed any thing seeing he giveth to all life and breath and all

things .

AC-1726  And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to

dwell on all the face of the earth and hath determined the times

before appointed and the bounds of their habitation .

AC-1727  That they should seek the Lord if haply they might feel

after him and find him though he be not far from every one of us

.

AC-1728  For in him we live and move and have our being as

certain also of your own poets have said For we are also his

offspring .

AC-1729  Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God we ought

not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold or silver or

stone graven by art and man's device .

AC-1730  And the times of this ignorance God winked at but now

commandeth all men every where to repent .

AC-1731  Because he hath appointed a day in the which he will

judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath

ordained whereof he hath given assurance unto all men in that he

hath raised him from the dead .

AC-1732  And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead

some mocked and others said We will hear thee again of this

matter .

AC-1733  So Paul departed from among them .

AC-1734  Howbeit certain men clave unto him and believed among

the which was Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris

and others with them .

* AC-181  After these things Paul departed from Athens and came

to Corinth .

AC-182  And found a certain Jew named Aquila born in Pontus

lately come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because that

Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome and came

unto them .

AC-183  And because he was of the same craft he abode with them

and wrought for by their occupation they were tentmakers .

AC-184  And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath and

persuaded the Jews and the Greeks .

AC-185  And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia

Paul was pressed in the spirit and testified to the Jews that

Jesus was Christ .

AC-186  And when they opposed themselves and blasphemed he shook

his raiment and said unto them Your blood be upon your own heads

I am clean from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles .

AC-187  And he departed thence and entered into a certain man's

house named Justus one that worshipped God whose house joined

hard to the synagogue .

AC-188  And Crispus the chief ruler of the synagogue believed on

the Lord with all his house and many of the Corinthians hearing

believed and were baptized .

AC-189  Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision Be

not afraid but speak and hold not thy peace .

AC-1810  For I am with thee and no man shall set on thee to hurt

thee for I have much people in this city .

AC-1811  And he continued there a year and six months teaching

the word of God among them .

AC-1812  And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia the Jews made

insurrection with one accord against Paul and brought him to the

judgment seat .

AC-1813  Saying This fellow persuadeth men to worship God

contrary to the law .

AC-1814  And when Paul was now about to open his mouth Gallio

said unto the Jews If it were a matter of wrong or wicked

lewdness O ye Jews reason would that I should bear with you .

AC-1815  But if it be a question of words and names and of your

law look ye to it for I will be no judge of such matters .

AC-1816  And he drave them from the judgment seat .

AC-1817  Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes the chief ruler of

the synagogue and beat him before the judgment seat And Gallio

cared for none of those things .

AC-1818  And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while and

then took his leave of the brethren and sailed thence into Syria

and with him Priscilla and Aquila having shorn his head in

Cenchrea for he had a vow .

AC-1819  And he came to Ephesus and left them there but he

himself entered into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews .

AC-1820  When they desired him to tarry longer time with them he

consented not .

AC-1821  But bade them farewell saying I must by all means keep

this feast that cometh in Jerusalem but I will return again unto

you if God will And he sailed from Ephesus .

AC-1822  And when he had landed at Caesarea and gone up and

saluted the church he went down to Antioch .

AC-1823  And after he had spent some time there he departed and

went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order

strengthening all the disciples .

AC-1824  And a certain Jew named Apollos born at Alexandria an

eloquent man and mighty in the scriptures came to Ephesus .

AC-1825  This man was instructed in the way of the Lord and

being fervent in the spirit he spake and taught diligently the

things of the Lord knowing only the baptism of John .

AC-1826  And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue whom when

Aquila and Priscilla had heard they took him unto them and

expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly .

AC-1827  And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia the

brethren wrote exhorting the disciples to receive him who when

he was come helped them much which had believed through grace .

AC-1828  For he mightily convinced the Jews and that publicly

showing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ .

* AC-191  And it came to pass that while Apollos was at Corinth

Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus and

finding certain disciples .

AC-192  He said unto them Have ye received the Holy Ghost since

ye believed And they said unto him We have not so much as heard

whether there be any Holy Ghost .

AC-193  And he said unto them Unto what then were ye baptized

And they said Unto John's baptism .

AC-194  Then said Paul John verily baptized with the baptism of

repentance saying unto the people that they should believe on

him which should come after him that is on Christ Jesus .

AC-195  When they heard this they were baptized in the name of

the Lord Jesus .

AC-196  And when Paul had laid his hands upon them the Holy

Ghost came on them and they spake with tongues and prophesied .

AC-197  And all the men were about twelve .

AC-198  And he went into the synagogue and spake boldly for the

space of three months disputing and persuading the things

concerning the kingdom of God .

AC-199  But when divers were hardened and believed not but spake

evil of that way before the multitude he departed from them and

separated the disciples disputing daily in the school of one

Tyrannus .

AC-1910  And this continued by the space of two years so that

all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus

both Jews and Greeks .

AC-1911  And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul .

AC-1912  So that from his body were brought unto the sick

handkerchiefs or aprons and the diseases departed from them and

the evil spirits went out of them .

AC-1913  Then certain of the vagabond Jews exorcists took upon

them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the

Lord Jesus saying We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth .

AC-1914  And there were seven sons of one Sceva a Jew and chief

of the priests which did so .

AC-1915  And the evil spirit answered and said Jesus I know and

Paul I know but who are ye .

AC-1916  And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them

and overcame them and prevailed against them so that they fled

out of that house naked and wounded .

AC-1917  And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also

dwelling at Ephesus and fear fell on them all and the name of

the Lord Jesus was magnified .

AC-1918  And many that believed came and confessed and showed

their deeds .

AC-1919  Many of them also which used curious arts brought their

books together and burned them before all men and they counted

the price of them and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver .

AC-1920  So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed .

AC-1921  After these things were ended Paul purposed in the

spirit when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia to go to

Jerusalem saying After I have been there I must also see Rome .

AC-1922  So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered

unto him Timotheus and Erastus but he himself stayed in Asia for

a season .

AC-1923  And the same time there arose no small stir about that

way .

AC-1924  For a certain man named Demetrius a silversmith which

made silver shrines for Diana brought no small gain unto the

craftsmen .

AC-1925  Whom he called together with the workmen of like

occupation and said Sirs ye know that by this craft we have our

wealth .

AC-1926  Moreover ye see and hear that not alone at Ephesus but

almost throughout all Asia this Paul hath persuaded and turned

away much people saying that they be no gods which are made with

hands .

AC-1927  So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set

at nought but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana

should be despised and her magnificence should be destroyed whom

all Asia and the world worshippeth .

AC-1928  And when they heard these sayings they were full of

wrath and cried out saying Great is Diana of the Ephesians .

AC-1929  And the whole city was filled with confusion and having

caught Gaius and Aristarchus men of Macedonia Paul's companions

in travel they rushed with one accord into the theatre .

AC-1930  And when Paul would have entered in unto the people the

disciples suffered him not .

AC-1931  And certain of the chief of Asia which were his friends

sent unto him desiring him that he would not adventure himself

into the theatre .

AC-1932  Some therefore cried one thing and some another for the

assembly was confused and the more part knew not wherefore they

were come together .

AC-1933  And they drew Alexander out of the multitude the Jews

putting him forward And Alexander beckoned with the hand and

would have made his defence unto the people .

AC-1934  But when they knew that he was a Jew all with one voice

about the space of two hours cried out Great is Diana of the

Ephesians .

AC-1935  And when the townclerk had appeased the people he said

Ye men of Ephesus what man is there that knoweth not how that

the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess

Diana and of the image which fell down from Jupiter .

AC-1936  Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against

ye ought to be quiet and to do nothing rashly .

AC-1937  For ye have brought hither these men which are neither

robbers of churches nor yet blasphemers of your goddess .

AC-1938  Wherefore if Demetrius and the craftsmen which are with

him have a matter against any man the law is open and there are

deputies let them implead one another .

AC-1939  But if ye inquire any thing concerning other matters it

shall be determined in a lawful assembly .

AC-1940  For we are in danger to be called in question for this

day's uproar there being no cause whereby we may give an account

of this concourse .

AC-1941  And when he had thus spoken he dismissed the assembly .

* AC-201  And after the uproar was ceased Paul called unto him

the disciples and embraced them and departed for to go into

Macedonia .

AC-202  And when he had gone over those parts and had given them

much exhortation he came into Greece .

AC-203  And there abode three months And when the Jews laid wait

for him as he was about to sail into Syria he purposed to return

through Macedonia .

AC-204  And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea and

of the Thessalonians Aristarchus and Secundus and Gaius of Derbe

and Timotheus and of Asia Tychicus and Trophimus .

AC-205  These going before tarried for us at Troas .

AC-206  And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of

unleavened bread and came unto them to Troas in five days where

we abode seven days .

AC-207  And upon the first day of the week when the disciples

came together to break bread Paul preached unto them ready to

depart on the morrow and continued his speech until midnight .

AC-208  And there were many lights in the upper chamber where

they were gathered together .

AC-209  And there sat in a window a certain young man named

Eutychus being fallen into a deep sleep and as Paul was long

preaching he sunk down with sleep and fell down from the third

loft and was taken up dead .

AC-2010  And Paul went down and fell on him and embracing him

said Trouble not yourselves for his life is in him .

AC-2011  When he therefore was come up again and had broken

bread and eaten and talked a long while even till break of day

so he departed .

AC-2012  And they brought the young man alive and were not a

little comforted .

AC-2013  And we went before to ship and sailed unto Assos there

intending to take in Paul for so had he appointed minding

himself to go afoot .

AC-2014  And when he met with us at Assos we took him in and

came to Mitylene .

AC-2015  And we sailed thence and came the next day over against

Chios and the next day we arrived at Samos and tarried at

Trogyllium and the next day we came to Miletus .

AC-2016  For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus because he

would not spend the time in Asia for he hasted if it were

possible for him to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost .

AC-2017  And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called the

elders of the church .

AC-2018  And when they were come to him he said unto them Ye

know from the first day that I came into Asia after what manner

I have been with you at all seasons .

AC-2019  Serving the Lord with all humility of mind and with

many tears and temptations which befell me by the lying in wait

of the Jews .

AC-2020  And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto

you but have showed you and have taught you publicly and from

house to house .

AC-2021  Testifying both to the Jews and also to the Greeks

repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ .

AC-2022  And now behold I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem

not knowing the things that shall befall me there .

AC-2023  Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city

saying that bonds and afflictions abide me .

AC-2024  But none of these things move me neither count I my

life dear unto myself so that I might finish my course with joy

and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus to

testify the gospel of the grace of God .

AC-2025  And now behold I know that ye all among whom I have

gone preaching the kingdom of God shall see my face no more .

AC-2026  Wherefore I take you to record this day that I am pure

from the blood of all men .

AC-2027  For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the

counsel of God .

AC-2028  Take heed therefore unto yourselves and to all the

flock over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers to

feed the church of God which he hath purchased with his own

blood .

AC-2029  For I know this that after my departing shall grievous

wolves enter in among you not sparing the flock .

AC-2030  Also of your own selves shall men arise speaking

perverse things to draw away disciples after them .

AC-2031  Therefore watch and remember that by the space of three

years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears .

AC-2032  And now brethren I commend you to God and to the word

of his grace which is able to build you up and to give you an

inheritance among all them which are sanctified .

AC-2033  I have coveted no man's silver or gold or apparel .

AC-2034  Yea ye yourselves know that these hands have ministered

unto my necessities and to them that were with me .

AC-2035  I have showed you all things how that so labouring ye

ought to support the weak and to remember the words of the Lord

Jesus how he said It is more blessed to give than to receive .

AC-2036  And when he had thus spoken he kneeled down and prayed

with them all .

AC-2037  And they all wept sore and fell on Paul's neck and

kissed him .

AC-2038  Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake that

they should see his face no more And they accompanied him unto

the ship .

* AC-211  And it came to pass that after we were gotten from

them and had launched we came with a straight course unto Coos

and the day following unto Rhodes and from thence unto Patara .

AC-212  And finding a ship sailing over unto Phenicia we went

aboard and set forth .

AC-213  Now when we had discovered Cyprus we left it on the left

hand and sailed into Syria and landed at Tyre for there the ship

was to unlade her burden .

AC-214  And finding disciples we tarried there seven days who

said to Paul through the Spirit that he should not go up to

Jerusalem .

AC-215  And when we had accomplished those days we departed and

went our way and they all brought us on our way with wives and

children till we were out of the city and we kneeled down on the

shore and prayed .

AC-216  And when we had taken our leave one of another we took

ship and they returned home again .

AC-217  And when we had finished our course from Tyre we came to

Ptolemais and saluted the brethren and abode with them one day .

AC-218  And the next day we that were of Paul's company departed

and came unto Caesarea and we entered into the house of Philip

the evangelist which was one of the seven and abode with him .

AC-219  And the same man had four daughters virgins which did

prophesy .

AC-2110  And as we tarried there many days there came down from

Judaea a certain prophet named Agabus .

AC-2111  And when he was come unto us he took Paul's girdle and

bound his own hands and feet and said Thus saith the Holy Ghost

So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this

girdle and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles .

AC-2112  And when we heard these things both we and they of that

place besought him not to go up to Jerusalem .

AC-2113  Then Paul answered What mean ye to weep and to break

mine heart for I am ready not to be bound only but also to die

at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus .

AC-2114  And when he would not be persuaded we ceased saying The

will of the Lord be done .

AC-2115  And after those days we took up our carriages and went

up to Jerusalem .

AC-2116  There went with us also certain of the disciples of

Caesarea and brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus an old

disciple with whom we should lodge .

AC-2117  And when we were come to Jerusalem the brethren

received us gladly .

AC-2118  And the day following Paul went in with us unto James

and all the elders were present .

AC-2119  And when he had saluted them he declared particularly

what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry .

AC-2120  And when they heard it they glorified the Lord and said

unto him Thou seest brother how many thousands of Jews there are

which believe and they are all zealous of the law .

AC-2121  And they are informed of thee that thou teachest all

the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses saying

that they ought not to circumcise their children neither to walk

after the customs .

AC-2122  What is it therefore the multitude must needs come

together for they will hear that thou art come .

AC-2123  Do therefore this that we say to thee We have four men

which have a vow on them .

AC-2124  Them take and purify thyself with them and be at

charges with them that they may shave their heads and all may

know that those things whereof they were informed concerning

thee are nothing but that thou thyself also walkest orderly and

keepest the law .

AC-2125  As touching the Gentiles which believe we have written

and concluded that they observe no such thing save only that

they keep themselves from things offered to idols and from blood

and from strangled and from fornication .

AC-2126  Then Paul took the men and the next day purifying

himself with them entered into the temple to signify the

accomplishment of the days of purification until that an

offering should be offered for every one of them .

AC-2127  And when the seven days were almost ended the Jews

which were of Asia when they saw him in the temple stirred up

all the people and laid hands on him .

AC-2128  Crying out Men of Israel help This is the man that

teacheth all men every where against the people and the law and

this place and further brought Greeks also into the temple and

hath polluted this holy place .

AC-2129  For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus

an Ephesian whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the

temple .

AC-2130  And all the city was moved and the people ran together

and they took Paul and drew him out of the temple and forthwith

the doors were shut .

AC-2131  And as they went about to kill him tidings came unto

the chief captain of the band that all Jerusalem was in an

uproar .

AC-2132  Who immediately took soldiers and centurions and ran

down unto them and when they saw the chief captain and the

soldiers they left beating of Paul .

AC-2133  Then the chief captain came near and took him and

commanded him to be bound with two chains and demanded who he

was and what he had done .

AC-2134  And some cried one thing some another among the

multitude and when he could not know the certainty for the

tumult he commanded him to be carried into the castle .

AC-2135  And when he came upon the stairs so it was that he was

borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people .

AC-2136  For the multitude of the people followed after crying

Away with him .

AC-2137  And as Paul was to be led into the castle he said unto

the chief captain May I speak unto thee Who said Canst thou

speak Greek .

AC-2138  Art not thou that Egyptian which before these days

madest an uproar and leddest out into the wilderness four

thousand men that were murderers .

AC-2139  But Paul said I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus a

city in Cilicia a citizen of no mean city and I beseech thee

suffer me to speak unto the people .

AC-2140  And when he had given him licence Paul stood on the

stairs and beckoned with the hand unto the people And when there

was made a great silence he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue

saying .

* AC-221  Men brethren and fathers hear ye my defence which I

make now unto you .

AC-222  And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue

to them they kept the more silence and he saith .

AC-223  I am verily a man which am a Jew born in Tarsus a city

in Cilicia yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel

and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the

fathers and was zealous toward God as ye all are this day .

AC-224  And I persecuted this way unto the death binding and

delivering into prisons both men and women .

AC-225  As also the high priest doth bear me witness and all the

estate of the elders from whom also I received letters unto the

brethren and went to Damascus to bring them which were there

bound unto Jerusalem for to be punished .

AC-226  And it came to pass that as I made my journey and was

come nigh unto Damascus about noon suddenly there shone from

heaven a great light round about me .

AC-227  And I fell unto the ground and heard a voice saying unto

me Saul Saul why persecutest thou me .

AC-228  And I answered Who art thou Lord And he said unto me I

am Jesus of Nazareth whom thou persecutest .

AC-229  And they that were with me saw indeed the light and were

afraid but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me .

AC-2210  And I said What shall I do Lord And the Lord said unto

me Arise and go into Damascus and there it shall be told thee of

all things which are appointed for thee to do .

AC-2211  And when I could not see for the glory of that light

being led by the hand of them that were with me I came into

Damascus .

AC-2212  And one Ananias a devout man according to the law

having a good report of all the Jews which dwelt there .

AC-2213  Came unto me and stood and said unto me Brother Saul

receive thy sight And the same hour I looked up upon him .

AC-2214  And he said The God of our fathers hath chosen thee

that thou shouldest know his will and see that Just One and

shouldest hear the voice of his mouth .

AC-2215  For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou

hast seen and heard .

AC-2216  And now why tarriest thou arise and be baptized and

wash away thy sins calling on the name of the Lord .

AC-2217  And it came to pass that when I was come again to

Jerusalem even while I prayed in the temple I was in a trance .

AC-2218  And saw him saying unto me Make haste and get thee

quickly out of Jerusalem for they will not receive thy testimony

concerning me .

AC-2219  And I said Lord they know that I imprisoned and beat in

every synagogue them that believed on thee .

AC-2220  And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed I

also was standing by and consenting unto his death and kept the

raiment of them that slew him .

AC-2221  And he said unto me Depart for I will send thee far

hence unto the Gentiles .

AC-2222  And they gave him audience unto this word and then

lifted up their voices and said Away with such a fellow from the

earth for it is not fit that he should live .

AC-2223  And as they cried out and cast off their clothes and

threw dust into the air .

AC-2224  The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the

castle and bade that he should be examined by scourging that he

might know wherefore they cried so against him .

AC-2225  And as they bound him with thongs Paul said unto the

centurion that stood by Is it lawful for you to scourge a man

that is a Roman and uncondemned .

AC-2226  When the centurion heard that he went and told the

chief captain saying Take heed what thou doest for this man is a

Roman .

AC-2227  Then the chief captain came and said unto him Tell me

art thou a Roman He said Yea .

AC-2228  And the chief captain answered With a great sum

obtained I this freedom And Paul said But I was free born .

AC-2229  Then straightway they departed from him which should

have examined him and the chief captain also was afraid after he

knew that he was a Roman and because he had bound him .

AC-2230  On the morrow because he would have known the certainty

wherefore he was accused of the Jews he loosed him from his

bands and commanded the chief priests and all their council to

appear and brought Paul down and set him before them .

* AC-231  And Paul earnestly beholding the council said Men and

brethren I have lived in all good conscience before God until

this day .

AC-232  And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by

him to smite him on the mouth .

AC-233  Then said Paul unto him God shall smite thee thou whited

wall for sittest thou to judge me after the law and commandest

me to be smitten contrary to the law .

AC-234  And they that stood by said Revilest thou God's high

priest .

AC-235  Then said Paul I wist not brethren that he was the high

priest for it is written Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler

of thy people .

AC-236  But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees

and the other Pharisees he cried out in the council Men and

brethren I am a Pharisee the son of a Pharisee of the hope and

resurrection of the dead I am called in question .

AC-237  And when he had so said there arose a dissension between

the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the multitude was divided .

AC-238  For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection

neither angel nor spirit but the Pharisees confess both .

AC-239  And there arose a great cry and the scribes that were of

the Pharisees' part arose and strove saying We find no evil in

this man but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him let us

not fight against God .

AC-2310  And when there arose a great dissension the chief

captain fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of

them commanded the soldiers to go down and to take him by force

from among them and to bring him into the castle .

AC-2311  And the night following the Lord stood by him and said

Be of good cheer Paul for as thou hast testified of me in

Jerusalem so must thou bear witness also at Rome .

AC-2312  And when it was day certain of the Jews banded together

and bound themselves under a curse saying that they would

neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul .

AC-2313  And they were more than forty which had made this

conspiracy .

AC-2314  And they came to the chief priests and elders and said

We have bound ourselves under a great curse that we will eat

nothing until we have slain Paul .

AC-2315  Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief

captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow as though ye

would inquire something more perfectly concerning him and we or

ever he come near are ready to kill him .

AC-2316  And when Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in

wait he went and entered into the castle and told Paul .

AC-2317  Then Paul called one of the centurions unto him and

said Bring this young man unto the chief captain for he hath a

certain thing to tell him .

AC-2318  So he took him and brought him to the chief captain and

said Paul the prisoner called me unto him and prayed me to bring

this young man unto thee who hath something to say unto thee .

AC-2319  Then the chief captain took him by the hand and went

with him aside privately and asked him What is that thou hast to

tell me .

AC-2320  And he said The Jews have agreed to desire thee that

thou wouldest bring down Paul to morrow into the council as

though they would inquire somewhat of him more perfectly .

AC-2321  But do not thou yield unto them for there lie in wait

for him of them more than forty men which have bound themselves

with an oath that they will neither eat nor drink till they have

killed him and now are they ready looking for a promise from

thee .

AC-2322  So the chief captain then let the young man depart and

charged him See thou tell no man that thou hast showed these

things to me .

AC-2323  And he called unto him two centurions saying Make ready

two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea and horsemen threescore

and ten and spearmen two hundred at the third hour of the night .

AC-2324  And provide them beasts that they may set Paul on and

bring him safe unto Felix the governor .

AC-2325  And he wrote a letter after this manner .

AC-2326  Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor Felix

sendeth greeting .

AC-2327  This man was taken of the Jews and should have been

killed of them then came I with an army and rescued him having

understood that he was a Roman .

AC-2328  And when I would have known the cause wherefore they

accused him I brought him forth into their council .

AC-2329  Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their

law but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of

bonds .

AC-2330  And when it was told me how that the Jews laid wait for

the man I sent straightway to thee and gave commandment to his

accusers also to say before thee what they had against him

Farewell .

AC-2331  Then the soldiers as it was commanded them took Paul

and brought him by night to Antipatris .

AC-2332  On the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him and

returned to the castle .

AC-2333  Who when they came to Caesarea and delivered the

epistle to the governor presented Paul also before him .

AC-2334  And when the governor had read the letter he asked of

what province he was And when he understood that he was of

Cilicia .

AC-2335  I will hear thee said he when thine accusers are also

come And he commanded him to be kept in Herod's judgment hall .

* AC-241  And after five days Ananias the high priest descended

with the elders and with a certain orator named Tertullus who

informed the governor against Paul .

AC-242  And when he was called forth Tertullus began to accuse

him saying Seeing that by thee we enjoy great quietness and that

very worthy deeds are done unto this nation by thy providence .

AC-243  We accept it always and in all places most noble Felix

with all thankfulness .

AC-244  Notwithstanding that I be not further tedious unto thee

I pray thee that thou wouldest hear us of thy clemency a few

words .

AC-245  For we have found this man a pestilent fellow and a

mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world and a

ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes .

AC-246  Who also hath gone about to profane the temple whom we

took and would have judged according to our law .

AC-247  But the chief captain Lysias came upon us and with great

violence took him away out of our hands .

AC-248  Commanding his accusers to come unto thee by examining

of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things

whereof we accuse him .

AC-249  And the Jews also assented saying that these things were

so .

AC-2410  Then Paul after that the governor had beckoned unto him

to speak answered Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of

many years a judge unto this nation I do the more cheerfully

answer for myself .

AC-2411  Because that thou mayest understand that there are yet

but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship .

AC-2412  And they neither found me in the temple disputing with

any man neither raising up the people neither in the synagogues

nor in the city .

AC-2413  Neither can they prove the things whereof they now

accuse me .

AC-2414  But this I confess unto thee that after the way which

they call heresy so worship I the God of my fathers believing

all things which are written in the law and in the prophets .

AC-2415  And have hope toward God which they themselves also

allow that there shall be a resurrection of the dead both of the

just and unjust .

AC-2416  And herein do I exercise myself to have always a

conscience void of offence toward God and toward men .

AC-2417  Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation

and offerings .

AC-2418  Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in

the temple neither with multitude nor with tumult .

AC-2419  Who ought to have been here before thee and object if

they had ought against me .

AC-2420  Or else let these same here say if they have found any

evil doing in me while I stood before the council .

AC-2421  Except it be for this one voice that I cried standing

among them Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in

question by you this day .

AC-2422  And when Felix heard these things having more perfect

knowledge of that way he deferred them and said When Lysias the

chief captain shall come down I will know the uttermost of your

matter .

AC-2423  And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul and to let

him have liberty and that he should forbid none of his

acquaintance to minister or come unto him .

AC-2424  And after certain days when Felix came with his wife

Drusilla which was a Jewess he sent for Paul and heard him

concerning the faith in Christ .

AC-2425  And as he reasoned of righteousness temperance and

judgment to come Felix trembled and answered Go thy way for this

time when I have a convenient season I will call for thee .

AC-2426  He hoped also that money should have been given him of

Paul that he might loose him wherefore he sent for him the

oftener and communed with him .

AC-2427  But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix'

room and Felix willing to show the Jews a pleasure left Paul

bound .

* AC-251  Now when Festus was come into the province after three

days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem .

AC-252  Then the high priest and the chief of the Jews informed

him against Paul and besought him .

AC-253  And desired favour against him that he would send for

him to Jerusalem laying wait in the way to kill him .

AC-254  But Festus answered that Paul should be kept at Caesarea

and that he himself would depart shortly thither .

AC-255  Let them therefore said he which among you are able go

down with me and accuse this man if there be any wickedness in

him .

AC-256  And when he had tarried among them more than ten days he

went down unto Caesarea and the next day sitting on the judgment

seat commanded Paul to be brought .

AC-257  And when he was come the Jews which came down from

Jerusalem stood round about and laid many and grievous

complaints against Paul which they could not prove .

AC-258  While he answered for himself Neither against the law of

the Jews neither against the temple nor yet against Caesar have

I offended any thing at all .

AC-259  But Festus willing to do the Jews a pleasure answered

Paul and said Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem and there be judged

of these things before me .

AC-2510  Then said Paul I stand at Caesar's judgment seat where

I ought to be judged to the Jews have I done no wrong as thou

very well knowest .

AC-2511  For if I be an offender or have committed any thing

worthy of death I refuse not to die but if there be none of

these things whereof these accuse me no man may deliver me unto

them I appeal unto Caesar .

AC-2512  Then Festus when he had conferred with the council

answered Hast thou appealed unto Caesar unto Caesar shalt thou

go .

AC-2513  And after certain days king Agrippa and Bernice came

unto Caesarea to salute Festus .

AC-2514  And when they had been there many days Festus declared

Paul's cause unto the king saying There is a certain man left in

bonds by Felix .

AC-2515  About whom when I was at Jerusalem the chief priests

and the elders of the Jews informed me desiring to have judgment

against him .

AC-2516  To whom I answered It is not the manner of the Romans

to deliver any man to die before that he which is accused have

the accusers face to face and have licence to answer for himself

concerning the crime laid against him .

AC-2517  Therefore when they were come hither without any delay

on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat and commanded the man

to be brought forth .

AC-2518  Against whom when the accusers stood up they brought

none accusation of such things as I supposed .

AC-2519  But had certain questions against him of their own

superstition and of one Jesus which was dead whom Paul affirmed

to be alive .

AC-2520  And because I doubted of such manner of questions I

asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem and there be judged

of these matters .

AC-2521  But when Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the

hearing of Augustus I commanded him to be kept till I might send

him to Caesar .

AC-2522  Then Agrippa said unto Festus I would also hear the man

myself To morrow said he thou shalt hear him .

AC-2523  And on the morrow when Agrippa was come and Bernice

with great pomp and was entered into the place of hearing with

the chief captains and principal men of the city at Festus'

commandment Paul was brought forth .

AC-2524  And Festus said King Agrippa and all men which are here

present with us ye see this man about whom all the multitude of

the Jews have dealt with me both at Jerusalem and also here

crying that he ought not to live any longer .

AC-2525  But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy

of death and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus I have

determined to send him .

AC-2526  Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord

Wherefore I have brought him forth before you and specially

before thee O king Agrippa that after examination had I might

have somewhat to write .

AC-2527  For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner

and not withal to signify the crimes laid against him .

* AC-261  Then Agrippa said unto Paul Thou art permitted to

speak for thyself Then Paul stretched forth the hand and

answered for himself .

AC-262  I think myself happy king Agrippa because I shall answer

for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof

I am accused of the Jews .

AC-263  Especially because I know thee to be expert in all

customs and questions which are among the Jews wherefore I

beseech thee to hear me patiently .

AC-264  My manner of life from my youth which was at the first

among mine own nation at Jerusalem know all the Jews .

AC-265  Which knew me from the beginning if they would testify

that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a

Pharisee .

AC-266  And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the

promise made of God unto our fathers .

AC-267  Unto which promise our twelve tribes instantly serving

God day and night hope to come For which hope's sake king

Agrippa I am accused of the Jews .

AC-268  Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you

that God should raise the dead .

AC-269  I verily thought with myself that I ought to do many

things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth .

AC-2610  Which thing I also did in Jerusalem and many of the

saints did I shut up in prison having received authority from

the chief priests and when they were put to death I gave my

voice against them .

AC-2611  And I punished them oft in every synagogue and

compelled them to blaspheme and being exceedingly mad against

them I persecuted them even unto strange cities .

AC-2612  Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and

commission from the chief priests .

AC-2613  At midday O king I saw in the way a light from heaven

above the brightness of the sun shining round about me and them

which journeyed with me .

AC-2614  And when we were all fallen to the earth I heard a

voice speaking unto me and saying in the Hebrew tongue Saul Saul

why persecutest thou me it is hard for thee to kick against the

pricks .

AC-2615  And I said Who art thou Lord And he said I am Jesus

whom thou persecutest .

AC-2616  But rise and stand upon thy feet for I have appeared

unto thee for this purpose to make thee a minister and a witness

both of these things which thou hast seen and of those things in

the which I will appear unto thee .

AC-2617  Delivering thee from the people and from the Gentiles

unto whom now I send thee .

AC-2618  To open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to

light and from the power of Satan unto God that they may receive

forgiveness of sins and inheritance among them which are

sanctified by faith that is in me .

AC-2619  Whereupon O king Agrippa I was not disobedient unto the

heavenly vision .

AC-2620  But showed first unto them of Damascus and at Jerusalem

and throughout all the coasts of Judaea and then to the Gentiles

that they should repent and turn to God and do works meet for

repentance .

AC-2621  For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple and

went about to kill me .

AC-2622  Having therefore obtained help of God I continue unto

this day witnessing both to small and great saying none other

things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should

come .

AC-2623  That Christ should suffer and that he should be the

first that should rise from the dead and should show light unto

the people and to the Gentiles .

AC-2624  And as he thus spake for himself Festus said with a

loud voice Paul thou art beside thyself much learning doth make

thee mad .

AC-2625  But he said I am not mad most noble Festus but speak

forth the words of truth and soberness .

AC-2626  For the king knoweth of these things before whom also I

speak freely for I am persuaded that none of these things are

hidden from him for this thing was not done in a corner .

AC-2627  King Agrippa believest thou the prophets I know that

thou believest .

AC-2628  Then Agrippa said unto Paul Almost thou persuadest me

to be a Christian .

AC-2629  And Paul said I would to God that not only thou but

also all that hear me this day were both almost and altogether

such as I am except these bonds .

AC-2630  And when he had thus spoken the king rose up and the

governor and Bernice and they that sat with them .

AC-2631  And when they were gone aside they talked between

themselves saying This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of

bonds .

AC-2632  Then said Agrippa unto Festus This man might have been

set at liberty if he had not appealed unto Caesar .

* AC-271  And when it was determined that we should sail into

Italy they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners unto one

named Julius a centurion of Augustus' band .

AC-272  And entering into a ship of Adramyttium we launched

meaning to sail by the coasts of Asia one Aristarchus a

Macedonian of Thessalonica being with us .

AC-273  And the next day we touched at Sidon And Julius

courteously entreated Paul and gave him liberty to go unto his

friends to refresh himself .

AC-274  And when we had launched from thence we sailed under

Cyprus because the winds were contrary .

AC-275  And when we had sailed over the sea of Cilicia and

Pamphylia we came to Myra a city of Lycia .

AC-276  And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria

sailing into Italy and he put us therein .

AC-277  And when we had sailed slowly many days and scarce were

come over against Cnidus the wind not suffering us we sailed

under Crete over against Salmone .

AC-278  And hardly passing it came unto a place which is called

The fair havens nigh whereunto was the city of Lasea .

AC-279  Now when much time was spent and when sailing was now

dangerous because the fast was now already past Paul admonished

them .

AC-2710  And said unto them Sirs I perceive that this voyage

will be with hurt and much damage not only of the lading and

ship but also of our lives .

AC-2711  Nevertheless the centurion believed the master and the

owner of the ship more than those things which were spoken by

Paul .

AC-2712  And because the haven was not commodious to winter in

the more part advised to depart thence also if by any means they

might attain to Phenice and there to winter which is an haven of

Crete and lieth toward the south west and north west .

AC-2713  And when the south wind blew softly supposing that they

had obtained their purpose loosing thence they sailed close by

Crete .

AC-2714  But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous

wind called Euroclydon .

AC-2715  And when the ship was caught and could not bear up into

the wind we let her drive .

AC-2716  And running under a certain island which is called

Clauda we had much work to come by the boat .

AC-2717  Which when they had taken up they used helps

undergirding the ship and fearing lest they should fall into the

quicksands struck sail and so were driven .

AC-2718  And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest the next

day they lightened the ship .

AC-2719  And the third day we cast out with our own hands the

tackling of the ship .

AC-2720  And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared

and no small tempest lay on us all hope that we should be saved

was then taken away .

AC-2721  But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst

of them and said Sirs ye should have hearkened unto me and not

have loosed from Crete and to have gained this harm and loss .

AC-2722  And now I exhort you to be of good cheer for there

shall be no loss of any man's life among you but of the ship .

AC-2723  For there stood by me this night the angel of God whose

I am and whom I serve .

AC-2724  Saying Fear not Paul thou must be brought before Caesar

and lo God hath given thee all them that sail with thee .

AC-2725  Wherefore sirs be of good cheer for I believe God that

it shall be even as it was told me .

AC-2726  Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island .

AC-2727  But when the fourteenth night was come as we were

driven up and down in Adria about midnight the shipmen deemed

that they drew near to some country .

AC-2728  And sounded and found it twenty fathoms and when they

had gone a little further they sounded again and found it

fifteen fathoms .

AC-2729  Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks they

cast four anchors out of the stern and wished for the day .

AC-2730  And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship

when they had let down the boat into the sea under colour as

though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship .

AC-2731  Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers Except

these abide in the ship ye cannot be saved .

AC-2732  Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat and let

her fall off .

AC-2733  And while the day was coming on Paul besought them all

to take meat saying This day is the fourteenth day that ye have

tarried and continued fasting having taken nothing .

AC-2734  Wherefore I pray you to take some meat for this is for

your health for there shall not an hair fall from the head of

any of you .

AC-2735  And when he had thus spoken he took bread and gave

thanks to God in presence of them all and when he had broken it

he began to eat .

AC-2736  Then were they all of good cheer and they also took

some meat .

AC-2737  And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore

and sixteen souls .

AC-2738  And when they had eaten enough they lightened the ship

and cast out the wheat into the sea .

AC-2739  And when it was day they knew not the land but they

discovered a certain creek with a shore into the which they were

minded if it were possible to thrust in the ship .

AC-2740  And when they had taken up the anchors they committed

themselves unto the sea and loosed the rudder bands and hoisted

up the mainsail to the wind and made toward shore .

AC-2741  And falling into a place where two seas met they ran

the ship aground and the forepart stuck fast and remained

unmoveable but the hinder part was broken with the violence of

the waves .

AC-2742  And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners

lest any of them should swim out and escape .

AC-2743  But the centurion willing to save Paul kept them from

their purpose and commanded that they which could swim should

cast themselves first into the sea and get to land .

AC-2744  And the rest some on boards and some on broken pieces

of the ship And so it came to pass that they escaped all safe to

land .

* AC-281  And when they were escaped then they knew that the

island was called Melita .

AC-282  And the barbarous people showed us no little kindness

for they kindled a fire and received us every one because of the

present rain and because of the cold .

AC-283  And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid