/1-1- THE FORMER TREATISE HAVE I MADE
O THEOPHILUS
OF ALL THAT JESUS BEGAN BOTH TO DO AND TEACH
/1-2- 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-
/1-3- TO WHOM ALSO HE SHEWED 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-
/1-4- 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.
/1-5- FOR JOHN TRULY BAPTIZED WITH WATER BUT YE SHALL BE BAPTIZED WITH THE HOLY GHOST NOT MANY DAYS HENCE.
/1-6- WHEN THEY THEREFORE WERE COME TOGETHER
THEY ASKED OF HIM
SAYING
LORD
WILT THOU AT THIS TIME RESTORE AGAIN THE KINGDOM TO ISRAEL?
/1-7- 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.
/1-8- 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.
/1-9- AND WHEN HE HAD SPOKEN THESE THINGS
WHILE THEY BEHELD
HE WAS TAKEN UP AND A CLOUD RECEIVED HIM OUT OF THEIR SIGHT.
/1-10- AND WHILE THEY LOOKED STEDFASTLY TOWARD HEAVEN AS HE WENT UP
BEHOLD
TWO MEN STOOD BY THEM IN WHITE APPAREL
/1-11- 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.
/1-12- THEN RETURNED THEY UNTO JERUSALEM FROM THE MOUNT CALLED OLIVET
WHICH IS FROM JERUSALEM A SABBATH DAY'S JOURNEY.
/1-13- 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.
/1-14- THESE ALL CONTINUED WITH ONE ACCORD IN PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION
WITH THE WOMEN
AND MARY THE MOTHER OF JESUS
AND WITH HIS BRETHREN.
/1-15- 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
)
/1-16- 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.
/1-17- FOR HE WAS NUMBERED WITH US
AND HAD OBTAINED PART OF THIS MINISTRY.
/1-18- 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.
/1-19- 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.
/1-20- FOR IT IS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF PSALMS
LET HIS HABITATION BE DESOLATE
AND LET NO MAN DWELL THEREIN- AND HIS BISHOPRICK LET ANOTHER TAKE.
/1-21- WHEREFORE OF THESE MEN WHICH HAVE COMPANIED WITH US ALL THE TIME THAT THE LORD JESUS WENT IN AND OUT AMONG US
/1-22- 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.
/1-23- AND THEY APPOINTED TWO
JOSEPH CALLED BARSABAS
WHO WAS SURNAMED JUSTUS
AND MATTHIAS.
/1-24- AND THEY PRAYED
AND SAID
THOU
LORD
WHICH KNOWEST THE HEARTS OF ALL MEN
SHEW WHETHER OF THESE TWO THOU HAST CHOSEN
/1-25- THAT HE MAY TAKE PART OF THIS MINISTRY AND APOSTLESHIP
FROM WHICH JUDAS BY TRANSGRESSION FELL
THAT HE MIGHT GO TO HIS OWN PLACE.
/1-26- AND THEY GAVE FORTH THEIR LOTS AND THE LOT FELL UPON MATTHIAS AND HE WAS NUMBERED WITH THE ELEVEN APOSTLES.
/2-1- AND WHEN THE DAY OF PENTECOST WAS FULLY COME
THEY WERE ALL WITH ONE ACCORD IN ONE PLACE.
/2-2- AND SUDDENLY THERE CAME A SOUND FROM HEAVEN AS OF A RUSHING MIGHTY WIND
AND IT FILLED ALL THE HOUSE WHERE THEY WERE SITTING.
/2-3- AND THERE APPEARED UNTO THEM CLOVEN TONGUES LIKE AS OF FIRE
AND IT SAT UPON EACH OF THEM.
/2-4- AND THEY WERE ALL FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST
AND BEGAN TO SPEAK WITH OTHER TONGUES
AS THE SPIRIT GAVE THEM UTTERANCE.
/2-5- AND THERE WERE DWELLING AT JERUSALEM JEWS
DEVOUT MEN
OUT OF EVERY NATION UNDER HEAVEN.
/2-6- NOW WHEN THIS WAS NOISED ABROAD
THE MULTITUDE CAME TOGETHER
AND WERE CONFOUNDED
BECAUSE THAT EVERY MAN HEARD THEM SPEAK IN HIS OWN LANGUAGE.
/2-7- AND THEY WERE ALL AMAZED AND MARVELLED
SAYING ONE TO ANOTHER
BEHOLD
ARE NOT ALL THESE WHICH SPEAK GALILAEANS?
/2-8- AND HOW HEAR WE EVERY MAN IN OUR OWN TONGUE
WHEREIN WE WERE BORN?
/2-9- PARTHIANS
AND MEDES
AND ELAMITES
AND THE DWELLERS IN MESOPOTAMIA
AND IN JUDAEA
AND CAPPADOCIA
IN PONTUS
AND ASIA
/2-10- PHRYGIA
AND PAMPHYLIA
IN EGYPT
AND IN THE PARTS OF LIBYA ABOUT CYRENE
AND STRANGERS OF ROME
JEWS AND PROSELYTES
/2-11- CRETES AND ARABIANS
WE DO HEAR THEM SPEAK IN OUR TONGUES THE WONDERFUL WORKS OF GOD.
/2-12- AND THEY WERE ALL AMAZED
AND WERE IN DOUBT
SAYING ONE TO ANOTHER
WHAT MEANETH THIS?
/2-13- OTHERS MOCKING SAID
THESE MEN ARE FULL OF NEW WINE.
/2-14- 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-
/2-15- FOR THESE ARE NOT DRUNKEN
AS YE SUPPOSE
SEEING IT IS BUT THE THIRD HOUR OF THE DAY.
/2-16- BUT THIS IS THAT WHICH WAS SPOKEN BY THE PROPHET JOEL
/2-17- 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-
/2-18- AND ON MY SERVANTS AND ON MY HANDMAIDENS I WILL POUR OUT IN THOSE DAYS OF MY SPIRIT AND THEY SHALL PROPHESY-
/2-19- AND I WILL SHEW WONDERS IN HEAVEN ABOVE
AND SIGNS IN THE EARTH BENEATH BLOOD
AND FIRE
AND VAPOUR OF SMOKE-
/2-20- THE SUN SHALL BE TURNED INTO DARKNESS
AND THE MOON INTO BLOOD
BEFORE THAT GREAT AND NOTABLE DAY OF THE LORD COME-
/2-21- AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS
THAT WHOSOEVER SHALL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD SHALL BE SAVED.
/2-22- 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-
/2-23- HIM
BEING DELIVERED BY THE DETERMINATE COUNSEL AND FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD
YE HAVE TAKEN
AND BY WICKED HANDS HAVE CRUCIFIED AND SLAIN-
/2-24- WHOM GOD HATH RAISED UP
HAVING LOOSED THE PAINS OF DEATH- BECAUSE IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE THAT HE SHOULD BE HOLDEN OF IT.
/2-25- 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-
/2-26- THEREFORE DID MY HEART REJOICE
AND MY TONGUE WAS GLAD MOREOVER ALSO MY FLESH SHALL REST IN HOPE-
/2-27- BECAUSE THOU WILT NOT LEAVE MY SOUL IN HELL
NEITHER WILT THOU SUFFER THINE HOLY ONE TO SEE CORRUPTION.
/2-28- THOU HAST MADE KNOWN TO ME THE WAYS OF LIFE THOU SHALT MAKE ME FULL OF JOY WITH THY COUNTENANCE.
/2-29- 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.
/2-30- 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
/2-31- HE SEEING THIS BEFORE SPAKE OF THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST
THAT HIS SOUL WAS NOT LEFT IN HELL
NEITHER HIS FLESH DID SEE CORRUPTION.
/2-32- THIS JESUS HATH GOD RAISED UP
WHEREOF WE ALL ARE WITNESSES.
/2-33- 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.
/2-34- FOR DAVID IS NOT ASCENDED INTO THE HEAVENS- BUT HE SAITH HIMSELF
THE LORD SAID UNTO MY LORD
SIT THOU ON MY RIGHT HAND
/2-35- UNTIL I MAKE THY FOES THY FOOTSTOOL.
/2-36- THEREFORE LET ALL THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL KNOW ASSUREDLY
THAT GOD HATH MADE THAT SAME JESUS
WHOM YE HAVE CRUCIFIED
BOTH LORD AND CHRIST.
/2-37- 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?
/2-38- 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.
/2-39- 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.
/2-40- AND WITH MANY OTHER WORDS DID HE TESTIFY AND EXHORT
SAYING
SAVE YOURSELVES FROM THIS UNTOWARD GENERATION.
/2-41- THEN THEY THAT GLADLY RECEIVED HIS WORD WERE BAPTIZED- AND THE SAME DAY THERE WERE ADDED UNTO THEM ABOUT THREE THOUSAND SOULS.
/2-42- AND THEY CONTINUED STEDFASTLY IN THE APOSTLES' DOCTRINE AND FELLOWSHIP
AND IN BREAKING OF BREAD
AND IN PRAYERS.
/2-43- AND FEAR CAME UPON EVERY SOUL- AND MANY WONDERS AND SIGNS WERE DONE BY THE APOSTLES.
/2-44- AND ALL THAT BELIEVED WERE TOGETHER
AND HAD ALL THINGS COMMON
/2-45- AND SOLD THEIR POSSESSIONS AND GOODS
AND PARTED THEM TO ALL MEN
AS EVERY MAN HAD NEED.
/2-46- 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
/2-47- PRAISING GOD
AND HAVING FAVOUR WITH ALL THE PEOPLE. AND THE LORD ADDED TO THE CHURCH DAILY SUCH AS SHOULD BE SAVED.
/3-1- NOW PETER AND JOHN WENT UP TOGETHER INTO THE TEMPLE AT THE HOUR OF PRAYER
BEING THE NINTH HOUR.
/3-2- 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
/3-3- WHO SEEING PETER AND JOHN ABOUT TO GO INTO THE TEMPLE ASKED AN ALMS.
/3-4- AND PETER
FASTENING HIS EYES UPON HIM WITH JOHN
SAID
LOOK ON US.
/3-5- AND HE GAVE HEED UNTO THEM
EXPECTING TO RECEIVE SOMETHING OF THEM.
/3-6- 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.
/3-7- AND HE TOOK HIM BY THE RIGHT HAND
AND LIFTED HIM UP- AND IMMEDIATELY HIS FEET AND ANKLE BONES RECEIVED STRENGTH.
/3-8- AND HE LEAPING UP STOOD
AND WALKED
AND ENTERED WITH THEM INTO THE TEMPLE
WALKING
AND LEAPING
AND PRAISING GOD.
/3-9- AND ALL THE PEOPLE SAW HIM WALKING AND PRAISING GOD-
/3-10- AND THEY 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.
/3-11- 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.
/3-12- 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?
/3-13- 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.
/3-14- BUT YE DENIED THE HOLY ONE AND THE JUST
AND DESIRED A MURDERER TO BE GRANTED UNTO YOU
/3-15- AND KILLED THE PRINCE OF LIFE
WHOM GOD HATH RAISED FROM THE DEAD WHEREOF WE ARE WITNESSES.
/3-16- 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.
/3-17- AND NOW
BRETHREN
I WOT THAT THROUGH IGNORANCE YE DID IT
AS DID ALSO YOUR RULERS.
/3-18- BUT THOSE THINGS
WHICH GOD BEFORE HAD SHEWED BY THE MOUTH OF ALL HIS PROPHETS
THAT CHRIST SHOULD SUFFER
HE HATH SO FULFILLED.
/3-19- 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
/3-20- AND HE SHALL SEND JESUS CHRIST
WHICH BEFORE WAS PREACHED UNTO YOU-
/3-21- 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.
/3-22- 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.
/3-23- AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS
THAT EVERY SOUL
WHICH WILL NOT HEAR THAT PROPHET
SHALL BE DESTROYED FROM AMONG THE PEOPLE.
/3-24- YEA
AND ALL THE PROPHETS FROM SAMUEL AND THOSE THAT FOLLOW AFTER
AS MANY AS HAVE SPOKEN
HAVE LIKEWISE FORETOLD OF THESE DAYS.
/3-25- 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.
/3-26- 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.
/4-1- AND AS THEY SPAKE UNTO THE PEOPLE
THE PRIESTS
AND THE CAPTAIN OF THE TEMPLE
AND THE SADDUCEES
CAME UPON THEM
/4-2- BEING GRIEVED THAT THEY TAUGHT THE PEOPLE
AND PREACHED THROUGH JESUS THE RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD.
/4-3- AND THEY LAID HANDS ON THEM
AND PUT THEM IN HOLD UNTO THE NEXT DAY- FOR IT WAS NOW EVENTIDE.
/4-4- HOWBEIT MANY OF THEM WHICH HEARD THE WORD BELIEVED AND THE NUMBER OF THE MEN WAS ABOUT FIVE THOUSAND.
/4-5- AND IT CAME TO PASS ON THE MORROW
THAT THEIR RULERS
AND ELDERS
AND SCRIBES
/4-6- 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.
/4-7- AND WHEN THEY HAD SET THEM IN THE MIDST
THEY ASKED
BY WHAT POWER
OR BY WHAT NAME
HAVE YE DONE THIS?
/4-8- THEN PETER
FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST
SAID UNTO THEM
YE RULERS OF THE PEOPLE
AND ELDERS OF ISRAEL
/4-9- IF WE THIS DAY BE EXAMINED OF THE GOOD DEED DONE TO THE IMPOTENT MAN
BY WHAT MEANS HE IS MADE WHOLE
/4-10- 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.
/4-11- THIS IS THE STONE WHICH WAS SET AT NOUGHT OF YOU BUILDERS
WHICH IS BECOME THE HEAD OF THE CORNER.
/4-12- NEITHER IS THERE SALVATION IN ANY OTHER- FOR THERE IS NONE OTHER NAME UNDER HEAVEN GIVEN AMONG MEN
WHEREBY WE MUST BE SAVED.
/4-13- 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.
/4-14- AND BEHOLDING THE MAN WHICH WAS HEALED STANDING WITH THEM
THEY COULD SAY NOTHING AGAINST IT.
/4-15- BUT WHEN THEY HAD COMMANDED THEM TO GO ASIDE OUT OF THE COUNCIL
THEY CONFERRED AMONG THEMSELVES
/4-16- 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.
/4-17- BUT THAT IT SPREAD NO FURTHER AMONG THE PEOPLE
LET US STRAITLY THREATEN THEM
THAT THEY SPEAK HENCEFORTH TO NO MAN IN THIS NAME.
/4-18- AND THEY CALLED THEM
AND COMMANDED THEM NOT TO SPEAK AT ALL NOR TEACH IN THE NAME OF JESUS.
/4-19- 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.
/4-20- FOR WE CANNOT BUT SPEAK THE THINGS WHICH WE HAVE SEEN AND HEARD.
/4-21- 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.
/4-22- FOR THE MAN WAS ABOVE FORTY YEARS OLD
ON WHOM THIS MIRACLE OF HEALING WAS SHEWED.
/4-23- AND BEING LET GO
THEY WENT TO THEIR OWN COMPANY
AND REPORTED ALL THAT THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND ELDERS HAD SAID UNTO THEM.
/4-24- 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-
/4-25- WHO BY THE MOUTH OF THY SERVANT DAVID HAST SAID
WHY DID THE HEATHEN RAGE
AND THE PEOPLE IMAGINE VAIN THINGS?
/4-26- THE KINGS OF THE EARTH STOOD UP
AND THE RULERS WERE GATHERED TOGETHER AGAINST THE LORD
AND AGAINST HIS CHRIST.
/4-27- 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
/4-28- FOR TO DO WHATSOEVER THY HAND AND THY COUNSEL DETERMINED BEFORE TO BE DONE.
/4-29- AND NOW
LORD
BEHOLD THEIR THREATENINGS- AND GRANT UNTO THY SERVANTS
THAT WITH ALL BOLDNESS THEY MAY SPEAK THY WORD
/4-30- BY STRETCHING FORTH THINE HAND TO HEAL AND THAT SIGNS AND WONDERS MAY BE DONE BY THE NAME OF THY HOLY CHILD JESUS.
/4-31- 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.
/4-32- 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.
/4-33- AND WITH GREAT POWER GAVE THE APOSTLES WITNESS OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE LORD JESUS- AND GREAT GRACE WAS UPON THEM ALL.
/4-34- 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
/4-35- AND LAID THEM DOWN AT THE APOSTLES' FEET- AND DISTRIBUTION WAS MADE UNTO EVERY MAN ACCORDING AS HE HAD NEED.
/4-36- 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
/4-37- HAVING LAND
SOLD IT
AND BROUGHT THE MONEY
AND LAID IT AT THE APOSTLES' FEET.
/5-1- BUT A CERTAIN MAN NAMED ANANIAS
WITH SAPPHIRA HIS WIFE
SOLD A POSSESSION
/5-2- 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.
/5-3- 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?
/5-4- 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.
/5-5- AND ANANIAS HEARING THESE WORDS FELL DOWN
AND GAVE UP THE GHOST- AND GREAT FEAR CAME ON ALL THEM THAT HEARD THESE THINGS.
/5-6- AND THE YOUNG MEN AROSE
WOUND HIM UP
AND CARRIED HIM OUT
AND BURIED HIM.
/5-7- AND IT WAS ABOUT THE SPACE OF THREE HOURS AFTER
WHEN HIS WIFE
NOT KNOWING WHAT WAS DONE
CAME IN.
/5-8- AND PETER ANSWERED UNTO HER
TELL ME WHETHER YE SOLD THE LAND FOR SO MUCH? AND SHE SAID
YEA
FOR SO MUCH.
/5-9- 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.
/5-10- 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.
/5-11- AND GREAT FEAR CAME UPON ALL THE CHURCH
AND UPON AS MANY AS HEARD THESE THINGS.
/5-12- 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.
/5-13- AND OF THE REST DURST NO MAN JOIN HIMSELF TO THEM- BUT THE PEOPLE MAGNIFIED THEM.
/5-14- AND BELIEVERS WERE THE MORE ADDED TO THE LORD
MULTITUDES BOTH OF MEN AND WOMEN.)
/5-15- 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.
/5-16- 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.
/5-17- 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
/5-18- AND LAID THEIR HANDS ON THE APOSTLES
AND PUT THEM IN THE COMMON PRISON.
/5-19- BUT THE ANGEL OF THE LORD BY NIGHT OPENED THE PRISON DOORS
AND BROUGHT THEM FORTH
AND SAID
/5-20- GO
STAND AND SPEAK IN THE TEMPLE TO THE PEOPLE ALL THE WORDS OF THIS LIFE.
/5-21- 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.
/5-22- BUT WHEN THE OFFICERS CAME
AND FOUND THEM NOT IN THE PRISON
THEY RETURNED
AND TOLD
/5-23- 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.
/5-24- 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.
/5-25- THEN CAME ONE AND TOLD THEM
SAYING
BEHOLD
THE MEN WHOM YE PUT IN PRISON ARE STANDING IN THE TEMPLE
AND TEACHING THE PEOPLE.
/5-26- THEN WENT THE CAPTAIN WITH THE OFFICERS
AND BROUGHT THEM WITHOUT VIOLENCE- FOR THEY FEARED THE PEOPLE
LEST THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN STONED.
/5-27- AND WHEN THEY HAD BROUGHT THEM
THEY SET THEM BEFORE THE COUNCIL- AND THE HIGH PRIEST ASKED THEM
/5-28- 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.
/5-29- THEN PETER AND THE OTHER APOSTLES ANSWERED AND SAID
WE OUGHT TO OBEY GOD RATHER THAN MEN.
/5-30- THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS RAISED UP JESUS
WHOM YE SLEW AND HANGED ON A TREE.
/5-31- 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.
/5-32- AND WE ARE HIS WITNESSES OF THESE THINGS AND SO IS ALSO THE HOLY GHOST
WHOM GOD HATH GIVEN TO THEM THAT OBEY HIM.
/5-33- WHEN THEY HEARD THAT
THEY WERE CUT TO THE HEART
AND TOOK COUNSEL TO SLAY THEM.
/5-34- 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
/5-35- AND SAID UNTO THEM
YE MEN OF ISRAEL
TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES WHAT YE INTEND TO DO AS TOUCHING THESE MEN.
/5-36- 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.
/5-37- 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.
/5-38- 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-
/5-39- BUT IF IT BE OF GOD
YE CANNOT OVERTHROW IT LEST HAPLY YE BE FOUND EVEN TO FIGHT AGAINST GOD.
/5-40- 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.
/5-41- AND THEY DEPARTED FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE COUNCIL
REJOICING THAT THEY WERE COUNTED WORTHY TO SUFFER SHAME FOR HIS NAME.
/5-42- AND DAILY IN THE TEMPLE
AND IN EVERY HOUSE
THEY CEASED NOT TO TEACH AND PREACH JESUS CHRIST.
/6-1- 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.
/6-2- 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.
/6-3- 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.
/6-4- BUT WE WILL GIVE OURSELVES CONTINUALLY TO PRAYER
AND TO THE MINISTRY OF THE WORD.
/6-5- 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-
/6-6- WHOM THEY SET BEFORE THE APOSTLES- AND WHEN THEY HAD PRAYED
THEY LAID THEIR HANDS ON THEM.
/6-7- 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.
/6-8- AND STEPHEN
FULL OF FAITH AND POWER
DID GREAT WONDERS AND MIRACLES AMONG THE PEOPLE.
/6-9- 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.
/6-10- AND THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO RESIST THE WISDOM AND THE SPIRIT BY WHICH HE SPAKE.
/6-11- THEN THEY SUBORNED MEN
WHICH SAID
WE HAVE HEARD HIM SPEAK BLASPHEMOUS WORDS AGAINST MOSES
AND AGAINST GOD.
/6-12- 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
/6-13- AND SET UP FALSE WITNESSES
WHICH SAID
THIS MAN CEASETH NOT TO SPEAK BLASPHEMOUS WORDS AGAINST THIS HOLY PLACE
AND THE LAW-
/6-14- FOR WE HAVE HEARD HIM SAY
THAT THIS JESUS OF NAZARETH SHALL DESTROY THIS PLACE
AND SHALL CHANGE THE CUSTOMS WHICH MOSES DELIVERED US.
/6-15- AND ALL THAT SAT IN THE COUNCIL
LOOKING STEDFASTLY ON HIM
SAW HIS FACE AS IT HAD BEEN THE FACE OF AN ANGEL.
/7-1- THEN SAID THE HIGH PRIEST
ARE THESE THINGS SO?
/7-2- 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
/7-3- AND SAID UNTO HIM
GET THEE OUT OF THY COUNTRY
AND FROM THY KINDRED
AND COME INTO THE LAND WHICH I SHALL SHEW THEE.
/7-4- 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.
/7-5- 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.
/7-6- 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.
/7-7- 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.
/7-8- 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.
/7-9- AND THE PATRIARCHS
MOVED WITH ENVY
SOLD JOSEPH INTO EGYPT- BUT GOD WAS WITH HIM
/7-10- 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.
/7-11- NOW THERE CAME A DEARTH OVER ALL THE LAND OF EGYPT AND CHANAAN
AND GREAT AFFLICTION- AND OUR FATHERS FOUND NO SUSTENANCE.
/7-12- BUT WHEN JACOB HEARD THAT THERE WAS CORN IN EGYPT
HE SENT OUT OUR FATHERS FIRST.
/7-13- AND AT THE SECOND TIME JOSEPH WAS MADE KNOWN TO HIS BRETHREN AND JOSEPH'S KINDRED WAS MADE KNOWN UNTO PHARAOH.
/7-14- THEN SENT JOSEPH
AND CALLED HIS FATHER JACOB TO HIM
AND ALL HIS KINDRED
THREESCORE AND FIFTEEN SOULS.
/7-15- SO JACOB WENT DOWN INTO EGYPT
AND DIED
HE
AND OUR FATHERS
/7-16- 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.
/7-17- BUT WHEN THE TIME OF THE PROMISE DREW NIGH
WHICH GOD HAD SWORN TO ABRAHAM
THE PEOPLE GREW AND MULTIPLIED IN EGYPT
/7-18- TILL ANOTHER KING AROSE
WHICH KNEW NOT JOSEPH.
/7-19- THE SAME DEALT SUBTILLY WITH OUR KINDRED
AND EVIL ENTREATED OUR FATHERS
SO THAT THEY CAST OUT THEIR YOUNG CHILDREN
TO THE END THEY MIGHT NOT LIVE.
/7-20- IN WHICH TIME MOSES WAS BORN
AND WAS EXCEEDING FAIR
AND NOURISHED UP IN HIS FATHER'S HOUSE THREE MONTHS-
/7-21- AND WHEN HE WAS CAST OUT
PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER TOOK HIM UP
AND NOURISHED HIM FOR HER OWN SON.
/7-22- AND MOSES WAS LEARNED IN ALL THE WISDOM OF THE EGYPTIANS
AND WAS MIGHTY IN WORDS AND IN DEEDS.
/7-23- AND WHEN HE WAS FULL FORTY YEARS OLD
IT CAME INTO HIS HEART TO VISIT HIS BRETHREN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.
/7-24- AND SEEING ONE OF THEM SUFFER WRONG
HE DEFENDED HIM
AND AVENGED HIM THAT WAS OPPRESSED
AND SMOTE THE EGYPTIAN-
/7-25- FOR HE SUPPOSED HIS BRETHREN WOULD HAVE UNDERSTOOD HOW THAT GOD BY HIS HAND WOULD DELIVER THEM- BUT THEY UNDERSTOOD NOT.
/7-26- AND THE NEXT DAY HE SHEWED 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?
/7-27- BUT HE THAT DID HIS NEIGHBOUR WRONG THRUST HIM AWAY
SAYING
WHO MADE THEE A RULER AND A JUDGE OVER US?
/7-28- WILT THOU KILL ME
AS THOU DIDDEST THE EGYPTIAN YESTERDAY?
/7-29- THEN FLED MOSES AT THIS SAYING
AND WAS A STRANGER IN THE LAND OF MADIAN
WHERE HE BEGAT TWO SONS.
/7-30- 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.
/7-31- 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
/7-32- 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.
/7-33- THEN SAID THE LORD TO HIM
PUT OFF THY SHOES FROM THY FEET- FOR THE PLACE WHERE THOU STANDEST IS HOLY GROUND.
/7-34- 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.
/7-35- 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.
/7-36- HE BROUGHT THEM OUT
AFTER THAT HE HAD SHEWED WONDERS AND SIGNS IN THE LAND OF EGYPT
AND IN THE RED SEA
AND IN THE WILDERNESS FORTY YEARS.
/7-37- 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.
/7-38- 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-
/7-39- TO WHOM OUR FATHERS WOULD NOT OBEY
BUT THRUST HIM FROM THEM
AND IN THEIR HEARTS TURNED BACK AGAIN INTO EGYPT
/7-40- 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.
/7-41- AND THEY MADE A CALF IN THOSE DAYS
AND OFFERED SACRIFICE UNTO THE IDOL
AND REJOICED IN THE WORKS OF THEIR OWN HANDS.
/7-42- 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?
/7-43- 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.
/7-44- 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.
/7-45- 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
/7-46- WHO FOUND FAVOUR BEFORE GOD
AND DESIRED TO FIND A TABERNACLE FOR THE GOD OF JACOB.
/7-47- BUT SOLOMON BUILT HIM AN HOUSE.
/7-48- HOWBEIT THE MOST HIGH DWELLETH NOT IN TEMPLES MADE WITH HANDS AS SAITH THE PROPHET
/7-49- 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?
/7-50- HATH NOT MY HAND MADE ALL THESE THINGS?
/7-51- YE STIFFNECKED AND UNCIRCUMCISED IN HEART AND EARS
YE DO ALWAYS RESIST THE HOLY GHOST- AS YOUR FATHERS DID
SO DO YE.
/7-52- WHICH OF THE PROPHETS HAVE NOT YOUR FATHERS PERSECUTED? AND THEY HAVE SLAIN THEM WHICH SHEWED BEFORE OF THE COMING OF THE JUST ONE OF WHOM YE HAVE BEEN NOW THE BETRAYERS AND MURDERERS-
/7-53- WHO HAVE RECEIVED THE LAW BY THE DISPOSITION OF ANGELS
AND HAVE NOT KEPT IT.
/7-54- WHEN THEY HEARD THESE THINGS
THEY WERE CUT TO THE HEART
AND THEY GNASHED ON HIM WITH THEIR TEETH.
/7-55- 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
/7-56- AND SAID
BEHOLD
I SEE THE HEAVENS OPENED
AND THE SON OF MAN STANDING ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD.
/7-57- THEN THEY CRIED OUT WITH A LOUD VOICE
AND STOPPED THEIR EARS
AND RAN UPON HIM WITH ONE ACCORD
/7-58- 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.
/7-59- AND THEY STONED STEPHEN
CALLING UPON GOD
AND SAYING
LORD JESUS
RECEIVE MY SPIRIT.
/7-60- 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.
/8-1- 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.
/8-2- AND DEVOUT MEN CARRIED STEPHEN TO HIS BURIAL
AND MADE GREAT LAMENTATION OVER HIM.
/8-3- AS FOR SAUL
HE MADE HAVOCK OF THE CHURCH
ENTERING INTO EVERY HOUSE
AND HALING MEN AND WOMEN COMMITTED THEM TO PRISON.
/8-4- THEREFORE THEY THAT WERE SCATTERED ABROAD WENT EVERY WHERE PREACHING THE WORD.
/8-5- THEN PHILIP WENT DOWN TO THE CITY OF SAMARIA
AND PREACHED CHRIST UNTO THEM.
/8-6- AND THE PEOPLE WITH ONE ACCORD GAVE HEED UNTO THOSE THINGS WHICH PHILIP SPAKE
HEARING AND SEEING THE MIRACLES WHICH HE DID.
/8-7- 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.
/8-8- AND THERE WAS GREAT JOY IN THAT CITY.
/8-9- 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-
/8-10- TO WHOM THEY ALL GAVE HEED
FROM THE LEAST TO THE GREATEST
SAYING
THIS MAN IS THE GREAT POWER OF GOD.
/8-11- AND TO HIM THEY HAD REGARD
BECAUSE THAT OF LONG TIME HE HAD BEWITCHED THEM WITH SORCERIES.
/8-12- 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.
/8-13- THEN SIMON HIMSELF BELIEVED ALSO- AND WHEN HE WAS BAPTIZED
HE CONTINUED WITH PHILIP
AND WONDERED
BEHOLDING THE MIRACLES AND SIGNS WHICH WERE DONE.
/8-14- NOW WHEN THE APOSTLES WHICH WERE AT JERUSALEM HEARD THAT SAMARIA HAD RECEIVED THE WORD OF GOD
THEY SENT UNTO THEM PETER AND JOHN-
/8-15- WHO
WHEN THEY WERE COME DOWN
PRAYED FOR THEM
THAT THEY MIGHT RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST-
/8-16- (FOR AS YET HE WAS FALLEN UPON NONE OF THEM- ONLY THEY WERE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS.)
/8-17- THEN LAID THEY THEIR HANDS ON THEM
AND THEY RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST.
/8-18- AND WHEN SIMON SAW THAT THROUGH LAYING ON OF THE APOSTLES' HANDS THE HOLY GHOST WAS GIVEN
HE OFFERED THEM MONEY
/8-19- SAYING
GIVE ME ALSO THIS POWER
THAT ON WHOMSOEVER I LAY HANDS
HE MAY RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST.
/8-20- BUT PETER SAID UNTO HIM
THY MONEY PERISH WITH THEE
BECAUSE THOU HAST THOUGHT THAT THE GIFT OF GOD MAY BE PURCHASED WITH MONEY.
/8-21- THOU HAST NEITHER PART NOR LOT IN THIS MATTER- FOR THY HEART IS NOT RIGHT IN THE SIGHT OF GOD.
/8-22- REPENT THEREFORE OF THIS THY WICKEDNESS
AND PRAY GOD
IF PERHAPS THE THOUGHT OF THINE HEART MAY BE FORGIVEN THEE.
/8-23- FOR I PERCEIVE THAT THOU ART IN THE GALL OF BITTERNESS
AND IN THE BOND OF INIQUITY.
/8-24- THEN ANSWERED SIMON
AND SAID
PRAY YE TO THE LORD FOR ME
THAT NONE OF THESE THINGS WHICH YE HAVE SPOKEN COME UPON ME.
/8-25- 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.
/8-26- 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.
/8-27- 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
/8-28- WAS RETURNING
AND SITTING IN HIS CHARIOT READ ESAIAS THE PROPHET.
/8-29- THEN THE SPIRIT SAID UNTO PHILIP
GO NEAR
AND JOIN THYSELF TO THIS CHARIOT.
/8-30- AND PHILIP RAN THITHER TO HIM
AND HEARD HIM READ THE PROPHET ESAIAS
AND SAID
UNDERSTANDEST THOU WHAT THOU READEST?
/8-31- 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.
/8-32- 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-
/8-33- IN HIS HUMILIATION HIS JUDGMENT WAS TAKEN AWAY- AND WHO SHALL DECLARE HIS GENERATION? FOR HIS LIFE IS TAKEN FROM THE EARTH.
/8-34- AND THE EUNUCH ANSWERED PHILIP
AND SAID
I PRAY THEE
OF WHOM SPEAKETH THE PROPHET THIS? OF HIMSELF
OR OF SOME OTHER MAN?
/8-35- THEN PHILIP OPENED HIS MOUTH
AND BEGAN AT THE SAME SCRIPTURE
AND PREACHED UNTO HIM JESUS.
/8-36- 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?
/8-37- 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.
/8-38- 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.
/8-39- 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.
/8-40- BUT PHILIP WAS FOUND AT AZOTUS- AND PASSING THROUGH HE PREACHED IN ALL THE CITIES
TILL HE CAME TO CAESAREA.
/9-1- AND SAUL
YET BREATHING OUT THREATENINGS AND SLAUGHTER AGAINST THE DISCIPLES OF THE LORD
WENT UNTO THE HIGH PRIEST
/9-2- 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.
/9-3- AND AS HE JOURNEYED
HE CAME NEAR DAMASCUS- AND SUDDENLY THERE SHINED ROUND ABOUT HIM A LIGHT FROM HEAVEN-
/9-4- AND HE FELL TO THE EARTH
AND HEARD A VOICE SAYING UNTO HIM
SAUL
SAUL
WHY PERSECUTEST THOU ME?
/9-5- 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.
/9-6- 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.
/9-7- AND THE MEN WHICH JOURNEYED WITH HIM STOOD SPEECHLESS
HEARING A VOICE
BUT SEEING NO MAN.
/9-8- 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.
/9-9- AND HE WAS THREE DAYS WITHOUT SIGHT
AND NEITHER DID EAT NOR DRINK.
/9-10- 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.
/9-11- AND THE LORD SAID UNTO HIM
ARISE
AND GO INTO THE STREET WHICH IS CALLED STRAIGHT
AND ENQUIRE IN THE HOUSE OF JUDAS FOR ONE CALLED SAUL
OF TARSUS- FOR
BEHOLD
HE PRAYETH
/9-12- AND HATH SEEN IN A VISION A MAN NAMED ANANIAS COMING IN
AND PUTTING HIS HAND ON HIM
THAT HE MIGHT RECEIVE HIS SIGHT.
/9-13- THEN ANANIAS ANSWERED
LORD
I HAVE HEARD BY MANY OF THIS MAN
HOW MUCH EVIL HE HATH DONE TO THY SAINTS AT JERUSALEM-
/9-14- AND HERE HE HATH AUTHORITY FROM THE CHIEF PRIESTS TO BIND ALL THAT CALL ON THY NAME.
/9-15- 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-
/9-16- FOR I WILL SHEW HIM HOW GREAT THINGS HE MUST SUFFER FOR MY NAME'S SAKE.
/9-17- 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.
/9-18- AND IMMEDIATELY THERE FELL FROM HIS EYES AS IT HAD BEEN SCALES- AND HE RECEIVED SIGHT FORTHWITH
AND AROSE
AND WAS BAPTIZED.
/9-19- AND WHEN HE HAD RECEIVED MEAT
HE WAS STRENGTHENED. THEN WAS SAUL CERTAIN DAYS WITH THE DISCIPLES WHICH WERE AT DAMASCUS.
/9-20- AND STRAIGHTWAY HE PREACHED CHRIST IN THE SYNAGOGUES
THAT HE IS THE SON OF GOD.
/9-21- 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?
/9-22- BUT SAUL INCREASED THE MORE IN STRENGTH
AND CONFOUNDED THE JEWS WHICH DWELT AT DAMASCUS
PROVING THAT THIS IS VERY CHRIST.
/9-23- AND AFTER THAT MANY DAYS WERE FULFILLED
THE JEWS TOOK COUNSEL TO KILL HIM-
/9-24- BUT THEIR LAYING AWAIT WAS KNOWN OF SAUL. AND THEY WATCHED THE GATES DAY AND NIGHT TO KILL HIM.
/9-25- THEN THE DISCIPLES TOOK HIM BY NIGHT
AND LET HIM DOWN BY THE WALL IN A BASKET.
/9-26- 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.
/9-27- 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.
/9-28- AND HE WAS WITH THEM COMING IN AND GOING OUT AT JERUSALEM.
/9-29- AND HE SPAKE BOLDLY IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS
AND DISPUTED AGAINST THE GRECIANS- BUT THEY WENT ABOUT TO SLAY HIM.
/9-30- WHICH WHEN THE BRETHREN KNEW
THEY BROUGHT HIM DOWN TO CAESAREA
AND SENT HIM FORTH TO TARSUS.
/9-31- 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.
/9-32- AND IT CAME TO PASS
AS PETER PASSED THROUGHOUT ALL QUARTERS
HE CAME DOWN ALSO TO THE SAINTS WHICH DWELT AT LYDDA.
/9-33- AND THERE HE FOUND A CERTAIN MAN NAMED AENEAS
WHICH HAD KEPT HIS BED EIGHT YEARS
AND WAS SICK OF THE PALSY.
/9-34- AND PETER SAID UNTO HIM
AENEAS
JESUS CHRIST MAKETH THEE WHOLE- ARISE
AND MAKE THY BED. AND HE AROSE IMMEDIATELY.
/9-35- AND ALL THAT DWELT AT LYDDA AND SARON SAW HIM
AND TURNED TO THE LORD.
/9-36- 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.
/9-37- 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.
/9-38- 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.
/9-39- 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 SHEWING THE COATS AND GARMENTS WHICH DORCAS MADE
WHILE SHE WAS WITH THEM.
/9-40- 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.
/9-41- AND HE GAVE HER HIS HAND
AND LIFTED HER UP
AND WHEN HE HAD CALLED THE SAINTS AND WIDOWS
PRESENTED HER ALIVE.
/9-42- AND IT WAS KNOWN THROUGHOUT ALL JOPPA AND MANY BELIEVED IN THE LORD.
/9-43- AND IT CAME TO PASS
THAT HE TARRIED MANY DAYS IN JOPPA WITH ONE SIMON A TANNER.
/10-1- THERE WAS A CERTAIN MAN IN CAESAREA CALLED CORNELIUS
A CENTURION OF THE BAND CALLED THE ITALIAN BAND
/10-2- A DEVOUT MAN
AND ONE THAT FEARED GOD WITH ALL HIS HOUSE
WHICH GAVE MUCH ALMS TO THE PEOPLE
AND PRAYED TO GOD ALWAY.
/10-3- 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.
/10-4- 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.
/10-5- AND NOW SEND MEN TO JOPPA
AND CALL FOR ONE SIMON
WHOSE SURNAME IS PETER-
/10-6- HE LODGETH WITH ONE SIMON A TANNER
WHOSE HOUSE IS BY THE SEA SIDE- HE SHALL TELL THEE WHAT THOU OUGHTEST TO DO.
/10-7- 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
/10-8- AND WHEN HE HAD DECLARED ALL THESE THINGS UNTO THEM
HE SENT THEM TO JOPPA.
/10-9- 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-
/10-10- AND HE BECAME VERY HUNGRY
AND WOULD HAVE EATEN- BUT WHILE THEY MADE READY
HE FELL INTO A TRANCE
/10-11- 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-
/10-12- WHEREIN WERE ALL MANNER OF FOURFOOTED BEASTS OF THE EARTH
AND WILD BEASTS
AND CREEPING THINGS
AND FOWLS OF THE AIR.
/10-13- AND THERE CAME A VOICE TO HIM
RISE
PETER KILL
AND EAT.
/10-14- BUT PETER SAID
NOT SO
LORD FOR I HAVE NEVER EATEN ANY THING THAT IS COMMON OR UNCLEAN.
/10-15- AND THE VOICE SPAKE UNTO HIM AGAIN THE SECOND TIME
WHAT GOD HATH CLEANSED
THAT CALL NOT THOU COMMON.
/10-16- THIS WAS DONE THRICE- AND THE VESSEL WAS RECEIVED UP AGAIN INTO HEAVEN.
/10-17- 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 ENQUIRY FOR SIMON'S HOUSE
AND STOOD BEFORE THE GATE
/10-18- AND CALLED
AND ASKED WHETHER SIMON
WHICH WAS SURNAMED PETER
WERE LODGED THERE.
/10-19- WHILE PETER THOUGHT ON THE VISION
THE SPIRIT SAID UNTO HIM
BEHOLD
THREE MEN SEEK THEE.
/10-20- ARISE THEREFORE
AND GET THEE DOWN
AND GO WITH THEM
DOUBTING NOTHING- FOR I HAVE SENT THEM.
/10-21- 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?
/10-22- 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.
/10-23- THEN CALLED HE THEM IN
AND LODGED THEM. AND ON THE MORROW PETER WENT AWAY WITH THEM
AND CERTAIN BRETHREN FROM JOPPA ACCOMPANIED HIM.
/10-24- AND THE MORROW AFTER THEY ENTERED INTO CAESAREA. AND CORNELIUS WAITED FOR THEM
AND HAD CALLED TOGETHER HIS KINSMEN AND NEAR FRIENDS.
/10-25- AND AS PETER WAS COMING IN
CORNELIUS MET HIM
AND FELL DOWN AT HIS FEET
AND WORSHIPPED HIM.
/10-26- BUT PETER TOOK HIM UP
SAYING
STAND UP I MYSELF ALSO AM A MAN.
/10-27- AND AS HE TALKED WITH HIM
HE WENT IN
AND FOUND MANY THAT WERE COME TOGETHER.
/10-28- 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 SHEWED ME THAT I SHOULD NOT CALL ANY MAN COMMON OR UNCLEAN.
/10-29- 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?
/10-30- 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
/10-31- AND SAID
CORNELIUS
THY PRAYER IS HEARD
AND THINE ALMS ARE HAD IN REMEMBRANCE IN THE SIGHT OF GOD.
/10-32- 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.
/10-33- 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.
/10-34- THEN PETER OPENED HIS MOUTH
AND SAID
OF A TRUTH I PERCEIVE THAT GOD IS NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS-
/10-35- BUT IN EVERY NATION HE THAT FEARETH HIM
AND WORKETH RIGHTEOUSNESS
IS ACCEPTED WITH HIM.
/10-36- THE WORD WHICH GOD SENT UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
PREACHING PEACE BY JESUS CHRIST- (HE IS LORD OF ALL-)
/10-37- THAT WORD
I SAY
YE KNOW
WHICH WAS PUBLISHED THROUGHOUT ALL JUDAEA
AND BEGAN FROM GALILEE
AFTER THE BAPTISM WHICH JOHN PREACHED
/10-38- 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.
/10-39- 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-
/10-40- HIM GOD RAISED UP THE THIRD DAY
AND SHEWED HIM OPENLY
/10-41- 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.
/10-42- 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.
/10-43- TO HIM GIVE ALL THE PROPHETS WITNESS
THAT THROUGH HIS NAME WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHALL RECEIVE REMISSION OF SINS.
/10-44- WHILE PETER YET SPAKE THESE WORDS
THE HOLY GHOST FELL ON ALL THEM WHICH HEARD THE WORD.
/10-45- 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.
/10-46- FOR THEY HEARD THEM SPEAK WITH TONGUES
AND MAGNIFY GOD. THEN ANSWERED PETER
/10-47- CAN ANY MAN FORBID WATER
THAT THESE SHOULD NOT BE BAPTIZED
WHICH HAVE RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST AS WELL AS WE?
/10-48- AND HE COMMANDED THEM TO BE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF THE LORD. THEN PRAYED THEY HIM TO TARRY CERTAIN DAYS.
/11-1- AND THE APOSTLES AND BRETHREN THAT WERE IN JUDAEA HEARD THAT THE GENTILES HAD ALSO RECEIVED THE WORD OF GOD.
/11-2- AND WHEN PETER WAS COME UP TO JERUSALEM
THEY THAT WERE OF THE CIRCUMCISION CONTENDED WITH HIM
/11-3- SAYING
THOU WENTEST IN TO MEN UNCIRCUMCISED
AND DIDST EAT WITH THEM.
/11-4- BUT PETER REHEARSED THE MATTER FROM THE BEGINNING
AND EXPOUNDED IT BY ORDER UNTO THEM
SAYING
/11-5- 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-
/11-6- 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.
/11-7- AND I HEARD A VOICE SAYING UNTO ME
ARISE
PETER SLAY AND EAT.
/11-8- BUT I SAID
NOT SO
LORD- FOR NOTHING COMMON OR UNCLEAN HATH AT ANY TIME ENTERED INTO MY MOUTH.
/11-9- BUT THE VOICE ANSWERED ME AGAIN FROM HEAVEN
WHAT GOD HATH CLEANSED
THAT CALL NOT THOU COMMON.
/11-10- AND THIS WAS DONE THREE TIMES- AND ALL WERE DRAWN UP AGAIN INTO HEAVEN.
/11-11- AND
BEHOLD
IMMEDIATELY THERE WERE THREE MEN ALREADY COME UNTO THE HOUSE WHERE I WAS
SENT FROM CAESAREA UNTO ME.
/11-12- AND THE SPIRIT BADE ME GO WITH THEM
NOTHING DOUBTING. MOREOVER THESE SIX BRETHREN ACCOMPANIED ME
AND WE ENTERED INTO THE MAN'S HOUSE-
/11-13- AND HE SHEWED 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
/11-14- WHO SHALL TELL THEE WORDS
WHEREBY THOU AND ALL THY HOUSE SHALL BE SAVED.
/11-15- AND AS I BEGAN TO SPEAK
THE HOLY GHOST FELL ON THEM
AS ON US AT THE BEGINNING.
/11-16- 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.
/11-17- 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?
/11-18- WHEN THEY HEARD THESE THINGS
THEY HELD THEIR PEACE
AND GLORIFIED GOD
SAYING
THEN HATH GOD ALSO TO THE GENTILES GRANTED REPENTANCE UNTO LIFE.
/11-19- 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.
/11-20- 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.
/11-21- AND THE HAND OF THE LORD WAS WITH THEM- AND A GREAT NUMBER BELIEVED
AND TURNED UNTO THE LORD.
/11-22- 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.
/11-23- 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.
/11-24- FOR HE WAS A GOOD MAN
AND FULL OF THE HOLY GHOST AND OF FAITH- AND MUCH PEOPLE WAS ADDED UNTO THE LORD.
/11-25- THEN DEPARTED BARNABAS TO TARSUS
FOR TO SEEK SAUL-
/11-26- 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.
/11-27- AND IN THESE DAYS CAME PROPHETS FROM JERUSALEM UNTO ANTIOCH.
/11-28- 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.
/11-29- THEN THE DISCIPLES
EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS ABILITY
DETERMINED TO SEND RELIEF UNTO THE BRETHREN WHICH DWELT IN JUDAEA-
/11-30- WHICH ALSO THEY DID
AND SENT IT TO THE ELDERS BY THE HANDS OF BARNABAS AND SAUL.
/12-1- NOW ABOUT THAT TIME HEROD THE KING STRETCHED FORTH HIS HANDS TO VEX CERTAIN OF THE CHURCH.
/12-2- AND HE KILLED JAMES THE BROTHER OF JOHN WITH THE SWORD.
/12-3- AND BECAUSE HE SAW IT PLEASED THE JEWS
HE PROCEEDED FURTHER TO TAKE PETER ALSO. (THEN WERE THE DAYS OF UNLEAVENED BREAD.)
/12-4- 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.
/12-5- PETER THEREFORE WAS KEPT IN PRISON- BUT PRAYER WAS MADE WITHOUT CEASING OF THE CHURCH UNTO GOD FOR HIM.
/12-6- 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.
/12-7- 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.
/12-8- 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.
/12-9- 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.
/12-10- 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.
/12-11- 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.
/12-12- 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.
/12-13- AND AS PETER KNOCKED AT THE DOOR OF THE GATE
A DAMSEL CAME TO HEARKEN
NAMED RHODA.
/12-14- 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.
/12-15- AND THEY SAID UNTO HER
THOU ART MAD. BUT SHE CONSTANTLY AFFIRMED THAT IT WAS EVEN SO. THEN SAID THEY
IT IS HIS ANGEL.
/12-16- BUT PETER CONTINUED KNOCKING- AND WHEN THEY HAD OPENED THE DOOR
AND SAW HIM
THEY WERE ASTONISHED.
/12-17- 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 SHEW THESE THINGS UNTO JAMES
AND TO THE BRETHREN. AND HE DEPARTED
AND WENT INTO ANOTHER PLACE.
/12-18- NOW AS SOON AS IT WAS DAY
THERE WAS NO SMALL STIR AMONG THE SOLDIERS
WHAT WAS BECOME OF PETER.
/12-19- 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.
/12-20- 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.
/12-21- AND UPON A SET DAY HEROD
ARRAYED IN ROYAL APPAREL
SAT UPON HIS THRONE
AND MADE AN ORATION UNTO THEM.
/12-22- AND THE PEOPLE GAVE A SHOUT
SAYING
IT IS THE VOICE OF A GOD
AND NOT OF A MAN.
/12-23- 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.
/12-24- BUT THE WORD OF GOD GREW AND MULTIPLIED.
/12-25- AND BARNABAS AND SAUL RETURNED FROM JERUSALEM
WHEN THEY HAD FULFILLED THEIR MINISTRY
AND TOOK WITH THEM JOHN
WHOSE SURNAME WAS MARK.
/13-1- 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.
/13-2- 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.
/13-3- AND WHEN THEY HAD FASTED AND PRAYED
AND LAID THEIR HANDS ON THEM
THEY SENT THEM AWAY.
/13-4- SO THEY
BEING SENT FORTH BY THE HOLY GHOST
DEPARTED UNTO SELEUCIA AND FROM THENCE THEY SAILED TO CYPRUS.
/13-5- 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.
/13-6- AND WHEN THEY HAD GONE THROUGH THE ISLE UNTO PAPHOS
THEY FOUND A CERTAIN SORCERER
A FALSE PROPHET
A JEW
WHOSE NAME WAS BAR-JESUS-
/13-7- 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.
/13-8- BUT ELYMAS THE SORCERER (FOR SO IS HIS NAME BY INTERPRETATION) WITHSTOOD THEM
SEEKING TO TURN AWAY THE DEPUTY FROM THE FAITH.
/13-9- THEN SAUL
(WHO ALSO IS CALLED PAUL
) FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST
SET HIS EYES ON HIM
/13-10- AND SAID
O FULL OF ALL SUBTILTY 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?
/13-11- 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.
/13-12- THEN THE DEPUTY
WHEN HE SAW WHAT WAS DONE
BELIEVED
BEING ASTONISHED AT THE DOCTRINE OF THE LORD.
/13-13- NOW WHEN PAUL AND HIS COMPANY LOOSED FROM PAPHOS
THEY CAME TO PERGA IN PAMPHYLIA- AND JOHN DEPARTING FROM THEM RETURNED TO JERUSALEM.
/13-14- BUT WHEN THEY DEPARTED FROM PERGA
THEY CAME TO ANTIOCH IN PISIDIA
AND WENT INTO THE SYNAGOGUE ON THE SABBATH DAY
AND SAT DOWN.
/13-15- 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.
/13-16- THEN PAUL STOOD UP
AND BECKONING WITH HIS HAND SAID
MEN OF ISRAEL
AND YE THAT FEAR GOD
GIVE AUDIENCE.
/13-17- 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.
/13-18- AND ABOUT THE TIME OF FORTY YEARS SUFFERED HE THEIR MANNERS IN THE WILDERNESS.
/13-19- AND WHEN HE HAD DESTROYED SEVEN NATIONS IN THE LAND OF CHANAAN
HE DIVIDED THEIR LAND TO THEM BY LOT.
/13-20- AND AFTER THAT HE GAVE UNTO THEM JUDGES ABOUT THE SPACE OF FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS
UNTIL SAMUEL THE PROPHET.
/13-21- 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.
/13-22- 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.
/13-23- OF THIS MAN'S SEED HATH GOD ACCORDING TO HIS PROMISE RAISED UNTO ISRAEL A SAVIOUR
JESUS-
/13-24- WHEN JOHN HAD FIRST PREACHED BEFORE HIS COMING THE BAPTISM OF REPENTANCE TO ALL THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL.
/13-25- 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.
/13-26- MEN AND BRETHREN
CHILDREN OF THE STOCK OF ABRAHAM
AND WHOSOEVER AMONG YOU FEARETH GOD
TO YOU IS THE WORD OF THIS SALVATION SENT.
/13-27- 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.
/13-28- AND THOUGH THEY FOUND NO CAUSE OF DEATH IN HIM
YET DESIRED THEY PILATE THAT HE SHOULD BE SLAIN.
/13-29- AND WHEN THEY HAD FULFILLED ALL THAT WAS WRITTEN OF HIM
THEY TOOK HIM DOWN FROM THE TREE
AND LAID HIM IN A SEPULCHRE.
/13-30- BUT GOD RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD-
/13-31- AND HE WAS SEEN MANY DAYS OF THEM WHICH CAME UP WITH HIM FROM GALILEE TO JERUSALEM
WHO ARE HIS WITNESSES UNTO THE PEOPLE.
/13-32- AND WE DECLARE UNTO YOU GLAD TIDINGS
HOW THAT THE PROMISE WHICH WAS MADE UNTO THE FATHERS
/13-33- 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.
/13-34- 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.
/13-35- WHEREFORE HE SAITH ALSO IN ANOTHER PSALM
THOU SHALT NOT SUFFER THINE HOLY ONE TO SEE CORRUPTION.
/13-36- 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-
/13-37- BUT HE
WHOM GOD RAISED AGAIN
SAW NO CORRUPTION.
/13-38- BE IT KNOWN UNTO YOU THEREFORE
MEN AND BRETHREN
THAT THROUGH THIS MAN IS PREACHED UNTO YOU THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS-
/13-39- AND BY HIM ALL THAT BELIEVE ARE JUSTIFIED FROM ALL THINGS
FROM WHICH YE COULD NOT BE JUSTIFIED BY THE LAW OF MOSES.
/13-40- BEWARE THEREFORE
LEST THAT COME UPON YOU
WHICH IS SPOKEN OF IN THE PROPHETS
/13-41- 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.
/13-42- AND WHEN THE JEWS WERE GONE OUT OF THE SYNAGOGUE
THE GENTILES BESOUGHT THAT THESE WORDS MIGHT BE PREACHED TO THEM THE NEXT SABBATH.
/13-43- 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.
/13-44- AND THE NEXT SABBATH DAY CAME ALMOST THE WHOLE CITY TOGETHER TO HEAR THE WORD OF GOD.
/13-45- 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.
/13-46- 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.
/13-47- 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.
/13-48- 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.
/13-49- AND THE WORD OF THE LORD WAS PUBLISHED THROUGHOUT ALL THE REGION.
/13-50- 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.
/13-51- BUT THEY SHOOK OFF THE DUST OF THEIR FEET AGAINST THEM
AND CAME UNTO ICONIUM.
/13-52- AND THE DISCIPLES WERE FILLED WITH JOY
AND WITH THE HOLY GHOST.
/14-1- 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.
/14-2- BUT THE UNBELIEVING JEWS STIRRED UP THE GENTILES
AND MADE THEIR MINDS EVIL AFFECTED AGAINST THE BRETHREN.
/14-3- 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.
/14-4- BUT THE MULTITUDE OF THE CITY WAS DIVIDED- AND PART HELD WITH THE JEWS
AND PART WITH THE APOSTLES.
/14-5- 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
/14-6- THEY WERE WARE OF IT
AND FLED UNTO LYSTRA AND DERBE
CITIES OF LYCAONIA
AND UNTO THE REGION THAT LIETH ROUND ABOUT-
/14-7- AND THERE THEY PREACHED THE GOSPEL.
/14-8- AND THERE SAT A CERTAIN MAN AT LYSTRA
IMPOTENT IN HIS FEET
BEING A CRIPPLE FROM HIS MOTHER'S WOMB
WHO NEVER HAD WALKED-
/14-9- THE SAME HEARD PAUL SPEAK- WHO STEDFASTLY BEHOLDING HIM
AND PERCEIVING THAT HE HAD FAITH TO BE HEALED
/14-10- SAID WITH A LOUD VOICE
STAND UPRIGHT ON THY FEET. AND HE LEAPED AND WALKED.
/14-11- 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.
/14-12- AND THEY CALLED BARNABAS
JUPITER AND PAUL
MERCURIUS
BECAUSE HE WAS THE CHIEF SPEAKER.
/14-13- 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.
/14-14- WHICH WHEN THE APOSTLES
BARNABAS AND PAUL
HEARD OF
THEY RENT THEIR CLOTHES
AND RAN IN AMONG THE PEOPLE
CRYING OUT
/14-15- 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-
/14-16- WHO IN TIMES PAST SUFFERED ALL NATIONS TO WALK IN THEIR OWN WAYS.
/14-17- 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.
/14-18- AND WITH THESE SAYINGS SCARCE RESTRAINED THEY THE PEOPLE
THAT THEY HAD NOT DONE SACRIFICE UNTO THEM.
/14-19- 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.
/14-20- 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.
/14-21- AND WHEN THEY HAD PREACHED THE GOSPEL TO THAT CITY
AND HAD TAUGHT MANY
THEY RETURNED AGAIN TO LYSTRA
AND TO ICONIUM
AND ANTIOCH
/14-22- 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.
/14-23- 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.
/14-24- AND AFTER THEY HAD PASSED THROUGHOUT PISIDIA
THEY CAME TO PAMPHYLIA.
/14-25- AND WHEN THEY HAD PREACHED THE WORD IN PERGA
THEY WENT DOWN INTO ATTALIA-
/14-26- AND THENCE SAILED TO ANTIOCH
FROM WHENCE THEY HAD BEEN RECOMMENDED TO THE GRACE OF GOD FOR THE WORK WHICH THEY FULFILLED.
/14-27- 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.
/14-28- AND THERE THEY ABODE LONG TIME WITH THE DISCIPLES.
/15-1- 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.
/15-2- 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.
/15-3- 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.
/15-4- 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.
/15-5- 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.
/15-6- AND THE APOSTLES AND ELDERS CAME TOGETHER FOR TO CONSIDER OF THIS MATTER.
/15-7- 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.
/15-8- AND GOD
WHICH KNOWETH THE HEARTS
BARE THEM WITNESS
GIVING THEM THE HOLY GHOST
EVEN AS HE DID UNTO US
/15-9- AND PUT NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN US AND THEM
PURIFYING THEIR HEARTS BY FAITH.
/15-10- 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?
/15-11- BUT WE BELIEVE THAT THROUGH THE GRACE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WE SHALL BE SAVED
EVEN AS THEY.
/15-12- 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.
/15-13- AND AFTER THEY HAD HELD THEIR PEACE
JAMES ANSWERED
SAYING
MEN AND BRETHREN
HEARKEN UNTO ME-
/15-14- SIMEON HATH DECLARED HOW GOD AT THE FIRST DID VISIT THE GENTILES
TO TAKE OUT OF THEM A PEOPLE FOR HIS NAME.
/15-15- AND TO THIS AGREE THE WORDS OF THE PROPHETS AS IT IS WRITTEN
/15-16- 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-
/15-17- 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.
/15-18- KNOWN UNTO GOD ARE ALL HIS WORKS FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD.
/15-19- WHEREFORE MY SENTENCE IS
THAT WE TROUBLE NOT THEM
WHICH FROM AMONG THE GENTILES ARE TURNED TO GOD-
/15-20- BUT THAT WE WRITE UNTO THEM
THAT THEY ABSTAIN FROM POLLUTIONS OF IDOLS
AND FROM FORNICATION
AND FROM THINGS STRANGLED
AND FROM BLOOD.
/15-21- FOR MOSES OF OLD TIME HATH IN EVERY CITY THEM THAT PREACH HIM
BEING READ IN THE SYNAGOGUES EVERY SABBATH DAY.
/15-22- 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-
/15-23- 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-
/15-24- 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-
/15-25- IT SEEMED GOOD UNTO US
BEING ASSEMBLED WITH ONE ACCORD
TO SEND CHOSEN MEN UNTO YOU WITH OUR BELOVED BARNABAS AND PAUL
/15-26- MEN THAT HAVE HAZARDED THEIR LIVES FOR THE NAME OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.
/15-27- WE HAVE SENT THEREFORE JUDAS AND SILAS
WHO SHALL ALSO TELL YOU THE SAME THINGS BY MOUTH.
/15-28- FOR IT SEEMED GOOD TO THE HOLY GHOST
AND TO US
TO LAY UPON YOU NO GREATER BURDEN THAN THESE NECESSARY THINGS
/15-29- 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.
/15-30- SO WHEN THEY WERE DISMISSED
THEY CAME TO ANTIOCH- AND WHEN THEY HAD GATHERED THE MULTITUDE TOGETHER
THEY DELIVERED THE EPISTLE-
/15-31- WHICH WHEN THEY HAD READ
THEY REJOICED FOR THE CONSOLATION.
/15-32- AND JUDAS AND SILAS
BEING PROPHETS ALSO THEMSELVES
EXHORTED THE BRETHREN WITH MANY WORDS
AND CONFIRMED THEM.
/15-33- AND AFTER THEY HAD TARRIED THERE A SPACE
THEY WERE LET GO IN PEACE FROM THE BRETHREN UNTO THE APOSTLES.
/15-34- NOTWITHSTANDING IT PLEASED SILAS TO ABIDE THERE STILL.
/15-35- PAUL ALSO AND BARNABAS CONTINUED IN ANTIOCH
TEACHING AND PREACHING THE WORD OF THE LORD
WITH MANY OTHERS ALSO.
/15-36- 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.
/15-37- AND BARNABAS DETERMINED TO TAKE WITH THEM JOHN
WHOSE SURNAME WAS MARK.
/15-38- BUT PAUL THOUGHT NOT GOOD TO TAKE HIM WITH THEM
WHO DEPARTED FROM THEM FROM PAMPHYLIA
AND WENT NOT WITH THEM TO THE WORK.
/15-39- 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
/15-40- AND PAUL CHOSE SILAS
AND DEPARTED
BEING RECOMMENDED BY THE BRETHREN UNTO THE GRACE OF GOD.
/15-41- AND HE WENT THROUGH SYRIA AND CILICIA
CONFIRMING THE CHURCHES.
/16-1- 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-
/16-2- WHICH WAS WELL REPORTED OF BY THE BRETHREN THAT WERE AT LYSTRA AND ICONIUM.
/16-3- 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.
/16-4- 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.
/16-5- AND SO WERE THE CHURCHES ESTABLISHED IN THE FAITH
AND INCREASED IN NUMBER DAILY.
/16-6- 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
/16-7- AFTER THEY WERE COME TO MYSIA
THEY ASSAYED TO GO INTO BITHYNIA- BUT THE SPIRIT SUFFERED THEM NOT.
/16-8- AND THEY PASSING BY MYSIA CAME DOWN TO TROAS.
/16-9- 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.
/16-10- 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.
/16-11- THEREFORE LOOSING FROM TROAS
WE CAME WITH A STRAIGHT COURSE TO SAMOTHRACIA
AND THE NEXT DAY TO NEAPOLIS
/16-12- 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.
/16-13- 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.
/16-14- 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.
/16-15- 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.
/16-16- 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-
/16-17- THE SAME FOLLOWED PAUL AND US
AND CRIED
SAYING
THESE MEN ARE THE SERVANTS OF THE MOST HIGH GOD
WHICH SHEW UNTO US THE WAY OF SALVATION.
/16-18- 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.
/16-19- 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
/16-20- AND BROUGHT THEM TO THE MAGISTRATES
SAYING
THESE MEN
BEING JEWS
DO EXCEEDINGLY TROUBLE OUR CITY
/16-21- AND TEACH CUSTOMS
WHICH ARE NOT LAWFUL FOR US TO RECEIVE
NEITHER TO OBSERVE
BEING ROMANS.
/16-22- AND THE MULTITUDE ROSE UP TOGETHER AGAINST THEM- AND THE MAGISTRATES RENT OFF THEIR CLOTHES
AND COMMANDED TO BEAT THEM.
/16-23- AND WHEN THEY HAD LAID MANY STRIPES UPON THEM
THEY CAST THEM INTO PRISON
CHARGING THE JAILOR TO KEEP THEM SAFELY-
/16-24- WHO
HAVING RECEIVED SUCH A CHARGE
THRUST THEM INTO THE INNER PRISON
AND MADE THEIR FEET FAST IN THE STOCKS.
/16-25- AND AT MIDNIGHT PAUL AND SILAS PRAYED
AND SANG PRAISES UNTO GOD- AND THE PRISONERS HEARD THEM.
/16-26- 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.
/16-27- 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.
/16-28- BUT PAUL CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE
SAYING
DO THYSELF NO HARM- FOR WE ARE ALL HERE.
/16-29- THEN HE CALLED FOR A LIGHT
AND SPRANG IN
AND CAME TREMBLING
AND FELL DOWN BEFORE PAUL AND SILAS
/16-30- AND BROUGHT THEM OUT
AND SAID
SIRS
WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED?
/16-31- AND THEY SAID
BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
AND THOU SHALT BE SAVED
AND THY HOUSE.
/16-32- AND THEY SPAKE UNTO HIM THE WORD OF THE LORD
AND TO ALL THAT WERE IN HIS HOUSE.
/16-33- AND HE TOOK THEM THE SAME HOUR OF THE NIGHT
AND WASHED THEIR STRIPES AND WAS BAPTIZED
HE AND ALL HIS
STRAIGHTWAY.
/16-34- AND WHEN HE HAD BROUGHT THEM INTO HIS HOUSE
HE SET MEAT BEFORE THEM
AND REJOICED
BELIEVING IN GOD WITH ALL HIS HOUSE.
/16-35- AND WHEN IT WAS DAY
THE MAGISTRATES SENT THE SERJEANTS
SAYING
LET THOSE MEN GO.
/16-36- 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.
/16-37- 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.
/16-38- AND THE SERJEANTS TOLD THESE WORDS UNTO THE MAGISTRATES- AND THEY FEARED
WHEN THEY HEARD THAT THEY WERE ROMANS.
/16-39- AND THEY CAME AND BESOUGHT THEM
AND BROUGHT THEM OUT
AND DESIRED THEM TO DEPART OUT OF THE CITY.
/16-40- 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.
/17-1- NOW WHEN THEY HAD PASSED THROUGH AMPHIPOLIS AND APOLLONIA
THEY CAME TO THESSALONICA
WHERE WAS A SYNAGOGUE OF THE JEWS-
/17-2- AND PAUL
AS HIS MANNER WAS
WENT IN UNTO THEM
AND THREE SABBATH DAYS REASONED WITH THEM OUT OF THE SCRIPTURES
/17-3- 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.
/17-4- 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.
/17-5- 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.
/17-6- 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
/17-7- WHOM JASON HATH RECEIVED- AND THESE ALL DO CONTRARY TO THE DECREES OF CAESAR
SAYING THAT THERE IS ANOTHER KING
ONE JESUS.
/17-8- AND THEY TROUBLED THE PEOPLE AND THE RULERS OF THE CITY
WHEN THEY HEARD THESE THINGS.
/17-9- AND WHEN THEY HAD TAKEN SECURITY OF JASON
AND OF THE OTHER
THEY LET THEM GO.
/17-10- AND THE BRETHREN IMMEDIATELY SENT AWAY PAUL AND SILAS BY NIGHT UNTO BEREA- WHO COMING THITHER WENT INTO THE SYNAGOGUE OF THE JEWS.
/17-11- 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.
/17-12- THEREFORE MANY OF THEM BELIEVED ALSO OF HONOURABLE WOMEN WHICH WERE GREEKS
AND OF MEN
NOT A FEW.
/17-13- 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.
/17-14- AND THEN IMMEDIATELY THE BRETHREN SENT AWAY PAUL TO GO AS IT WERE TO THE SEA- BUT SILAS AND TIMOTHEUS ABODE THERE STILL.
/17-15- 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.
/17-16- NOW WHILE PAUL WAITED FOR THEM AT ATHENS
HIS SPIRIT WAS STIRRED IN HIM
WHEN HE SAW THE CITY WHOLLY GIVEN TO IDOLATRY.
/17-17- 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.
/17-18- 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.
/17-19- AND THEY TOOK HIM
AND BROUGHT HIM UNTO AREOPAGUS
SAYING
MAY WE KNOW WHAT THIS NEW DOCTRINE
WHEREOF THOU SPEAKEST
IS?
/17-20- FOR THOU BRINGEST CERTAIN STRANGE THINGS TO OUR EARS- WE WOULD KNOW THEREFORE WHAT THESE THINGS MEAN.
/17-21- (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.)
/17-22- 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.
/17-23- 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.
/17-24- 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
/17-25- NEITHER IS WORSHIPPED WITH MEN'S HANDS
AS THOUGH HE NEEDED ANY THING
SEEING HE GIVETH TO ALL LIFE
AND BREATH
AND ALL THINGS
/17-26- 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
/17-27- 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-
/17-28- 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.
/17-29- 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.
/17-30- AND THE TIMES OF THIS IGNORANCE GOD WINKED AT BUT NOW COMMANDETH ALL MEN EVERY WHERE TO REPENT-
/17-31- 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.
/17-32- AND WHEN THEY HEARD OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD
SOME MOCKED- AND OTHERS SAID
WE WILL HEAR THEE AGAIN OF THIS MATTER.
/17-33- SO PAUL DEPARTED FROM AMONG THEM.
/17-34- HOWBEIT CERTAIN MEN CLAVE UNTO HIM
AND BELIEVED- AMONG THE WHICH WAS DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE
AND A WOMAN NAMED DAMARIS
AND OTHERS WITH THEM.
/18-1- AFTER THESE THINGS PAUL DEPARTED FROM ATHENS
AND CAME TO CORINTH
/18-2- 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.
/18-3- AND BECAUSE HE WAS OF THE SAME CRAFT
HE ABODE WITH THEM
AND WROUGHT- FOR BY THEIR OCCUPATION THEY WERE TENTMAKERS.
/18-4- AND HE REASONED IN THE SYNAGOGUE EVERY SABBATH
AND PERSUADED THE JEWS AND THE GREEKS.
/18-5- AND WHEN SILAS AND TIMOTHEUS WERE COME FROM MACEDONIA
PAUL WAS PRESSED IN THE SPIRIT
AND TESTIFIED TO THE JEWS THAT JESUS WAS CHRIST.
/18-6- 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.
/18-7- 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.
/18-8- 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.
/18-9- THEN SPAKE THE LORD TO PAUL IN THE NIGHT BY A VISION
BE NOT AFRAID
BUT SPEAK
AND HOLD NOT THY PEACE-
/18-10- FOR I AM WITH THEE
AND NO MAN SHALL SET ON THEE TO HURT THEE- FOR I HAVE MUCH PEOPLE IN THIS CITY.
/18-11- AND HE CONTINUED THERE A YEAR AND SIX MONTHS
TEACHING THE WORD OF GOD AMONG THEM.
/18-12- AND WHEN GALLIO WAS THE DEPUTY OF ACHAIA
THE JEWS MADE INSURRECTION WITH ONE ACCORD AGAINST PAUL
AND BROUGHT HIM TO THE JUDGMENT SEAT
/18-13- SAYING
THIS FELLOW PERSUADETH MEN TO WORSHIP GOD CONTRARY TO THE LAW.
/18-14- 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-
/18-15- 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.
/18-16- AND HE DRAVE THEM FROM THE JUDGMENT SEAT.
/18-17- 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.
/18-18- 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.
/18-19- AND HE CAME TO EPHESUS
AND LEFT THEM THERE- BUT HE HIMSELF ENTERED INTO THE SYNAGOGUE
AND REASONED WITH THE JEWS.
/18-20- WHEN THEY DESIRED HIM TO TARRY LONGER TIME WITH THEM
HE CONSENTED NOT
/18-21- 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.
/18-22- AND WHEN HE HAD LANDED AT CAESAREA
AND GONE UP
AND SALUTED THE CHURCH
HE WENT DOWN TO ANTIOCH.
/18-23- 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.
/18-24- AND A CERTAIN JEW NAMED APOLLOS
BORN AT ALEXANDRIA
AN ELOQUENT MAN
AND MIGHTY IN THE SCRIPTURES
CAME TO EPHESUS.
/18-25- 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.
/18-26- 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.
/18-27- 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-
/18-28- FOR HE MIGHTILY CONVINCED THE JEWS
AND THAT PUBLICKLY
SHEWING BY THE SCRIPTURES THAT JESUS WAS CHRIST.
/19-1- 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
/19-2- 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.
/19-3- AND HE SAID UNTO THEM
UNTO WHAT THEN WERE YE BAPTIZED? AND THEY SAID
UNTO JOHN'S BAPTISM.
/19-4- 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.
/19-5- WHEN THEY HEARD THIS
THEY WERE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS.
/19-6- AND WHEN PAUL HAD LAID HIS HANDS UPON THEM
THE HOLY GHOST CAME ON THEM AND THEY SPAKE WITH TONGUES
AND PROPHESIED.
/19-7- AND ALL THE MEN WERE ABOUT TWELVE.
/19-8- 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.
/19-9- 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.
/19-10- 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.
/19-11- AND GOD WROUGHT SPECIAL MIRACLES BY THE HANDS OF PAUL-
/19-12- 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.
/19-13- 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.
/19-14- AND THERE WERE SEVEN SONS OF ONE SCEVA
A JEW
AND CHIEF OF THE PRIESTS
WHICH DID SO.
/19-15- AND THE EVIL SPIRIT ANSWERED AND SAID
JESUS I KNOW
AND PAUL I KNOW BUT WHO ARE YE?
/19-16- 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.
/19-17- 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.
/19-18- AND MANY THAT BELIEVED CAME
AND CONFESSED
AND SHEWED THEIR DEEDS.
/19-19- 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.
/19-20- SO MIGHTILY GREW THE WORD OF GOD AND PREVAILED.
/19-21- 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.
/19-22- SO HE SENT INTO MACEDONIA TWO OF THEM THAT MINISTERED UNTO HIM
TIMOTHEUS AND ERASTUS BUT HE HIMSELF STAYED IN ASIA FOR A SEASON.
/19-23- AND THE SAME TIME THERE AROSE NO SMALL STIR ABOUT THAT WAY.
/19-24- FOR A CERTAIN MAN NAMED DEMETRIUS
A SILVERSMITH
WHICH MADE SILVER SHRINES FOR DIANA
BROUGHT NO SMALL GAIN UNTO THE CRAFTSMEN
/19-25- WHOM HE CALLED TOGETHER WITH THE WORKMEN OF LIKE OCCUPATION
AND SAID
SIRS
YE KNOW THAT BY THIS CRAFT WE HAVE OUR WEALTH.
/19-26- 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-
/19-27- 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.
/19-28- AND WHEN THEY HEARD THESE SAYINGS
THEY WERE FULL OF WRATH
AND CRIED OUT
SAYING
GREAT IS DIANA OF THE EPHESIANS.
/19-29- 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.
/19-30- AND WHEN PAUL WOULD HAVE ENTERED IN UNTO THE PEOPLE
THE DISCIPLES SUFFERED HIM NOT.
/19-31- 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.
/19-32- SOME THEREFORE CRIED ONE THING
AND SOME ANOTHER- FOR THE ASSEMBLY WAS CONFUSED AND THE MORE PART KNEW NOT WHEREFORE THEY WERE COME TOGETHER.
/19-33- 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.
/19-34- 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.
/19-35- 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?
/19-36- SEEING THEN THAT THESE THINGS CANNOT BE SPOKEN AGAINST
YE OUGHT TO BE QUIET
AND TO DO NOTHING RASHLY.
/19-37- FOR YE HAVE BROUGHT HITHER THESE MEN
WHICH ARE NEITHER ROBBERS OF CHURCHES
NOR YET BLASPHEMERS OF YOUR GODDESS.
/19-38- 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.
/19-39- BUT IF YE ENQUIRE ANY THING CONCERNING OTHER MATTERS
IT SHALL BE DETERMINED IN A LAWFUL ASSEMBLY.
/19-40- 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.
/19-41- AND WHEN HE HAD THUS SPOKEN
HE DISMISSED THE ASSEMBLY.
/20-1- AND AFTER THE UPROAR WAS CEASED
PAUL CALLED UNTO HIM THE DISCIPLES
AND EMBRACED THEM
AND DEPARTED FOR TO GO INTO MACEDONIA.
/20-2- AND WHEN HE HAD GONE OVER THOSE PARTS
AND HAD GIVEN THEM MUCH EXHORTATION
HE CAME INTO GREECE
/20-3- 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.
/20-4- 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.
/20-5- THESE GOING BEFORE TARRIED FOR US AT TROAS.
/20-6- 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.
/20-7- 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.
/20-8- AND THERE WERE MANY LIGHTS IN THE UPPER CHAMBER
WHERE THEY WERE GATHERED TOGETHER.
/20-9- 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.
/20-10- AND PAUL WENT DOWN
AND FELL ON HIM
AND EMBRACING HIM SAID
TROUBLE NOT YOURSELVES FOR HIS LIFE IS IN HIM.
/20-11- 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.
/20-12- AND THEY BROUGHT THE YOUNG MAN ALIVE
AND WERE NOT A LITTLE COMFORTED.
/20-13- 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.
/20-14- AND WHEN HE MET WITH US AT ASSOS
WE TOOK HIM IN
AND CAME TO MITYLENE.
/20-15- 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.
/20-16- 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.
/20-17- AND FROM MILETUS HE SENT TO EPHESUS
AND CALLED THE ELDERS OF THE CHURCH.
/20-18- 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
/20-19- 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-
/20-20- AND HOW I KEPT BACK NOTHING THAT WAS PROFITABLE UNTO YOU
BUT HAVE SHEWED YOU
AND HAVE TAUGHT YOU PUBLICKLY
AND FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE
/20-21- TESTIFYING BOTH TO THE JEWS
AND ALSO TO THE GREEKS
REPENTANCE TOWARD GOD
AND FAITH TOWARD OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.
/20-22- AND NOW
BEHOLD
I GO BOUND IN THE SPIRIT UNTO JERUSALEM
NOT KNOWING THE THINGS THAT SHALL BEFALL ME THERE-
/20-23- SAVE THAT THE HOLY GHOST WITNESSETH IN EVERY CITY
SAYING THAT BONDS AND AFFLICTIONS ABIDE ME.
/20-24- 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.
/20-25- AND NOW
BEHOLD
I KNOW THAT YE ALL
AMONG WHOM I HAVE GONE PREACHING THE KINGDOM OF GOD
SHALL SEE MY FACE NO MORE.
/20-26- WHEREFORE I TAKE YOU TO RECORD THIS DAY
THAT I AM PURE FROM THE BLOOD OF ALL MEN.
/20-27- FOR I HAVE NOT SHUNNED TO DECLARE UNTO YOU ALL THE COUNSEL OF GOD.
/20-28- 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.
/20-29- FOR I KNOW THIS
THAT AFTER MY DEPARTING SHALL GRIEVOUS WOLVES ENTER IN AMONG YOU
NOT SPARING THE FLOCK.
/20-30- ALSO OF YOUR OWN SELVES SHALL MEN ARISE
SPEAKING PERVERSE THINGS
TO DRAW AWAY DISCIPLES AFTER THEM.
/20-31- THEREFORE WATCH
AND REMEMBER
THAT BY THE SPACE OF THREE YEARS I CEASED NOT TO WARN EVERY ONE NIGHT AND DAY WITH TEARS.
/20-32- 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.
/20-33- I HAVE COVETED NO MAN'S SILVER
OR GOLD
OR APPAREL.
/20-34- YEA
YE YOURSELVES KNOW
THAT THESE HANDS HAVE MINISTERED UNTO MY NECESSITIES
AND TO THEM THAT WERE WITH ME.
/20-35- I HAVE SHEWED 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.
/20-36- AND WHEN HE HAD THUS SPOKEN
HE KNEELED DOWN
AND PRAYED WITH THEM ALL.
/20-37- AND THEY ALL WEPT SORE
AND FELL ON PAUL'S NECK
AND KISSED HIM
/20-38- 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.
/21-1- 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-
/21-2- AND FINDING A SHIP SAILING OVER UNTO PHENICIA
WE WENT ABOARD
AND SET FORTH.
/21-3- 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.
/21-4- AND FINDING DISCIPLES
WE TARRIED THERE SEVEN DAYS- WHO SAID TO PAUL THROUGH THE SPIRIT
THAT HE SHOULD NOT GO UP TO JERUSALEM.
/21-5- 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.
/21-6- AND WHEN WE HAD TAKEN OUR LEAVE ONE OF ANOTHER
WE TOOK SHIP AND THEY RETURNED HOME AGAIN.
/21-7- AND WHEN WE HAD FINISHED OUR COURSE FROM TYRE
WE CAME TO PTOLEMAIS
AND SALUTED THE BRETHREN
AND ABODE WITH THEM ONE DAY.
/21-8- 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.
/21-9- AND THE SAME MAN HAD FOUR DAUGHTERS
VIRGINS
WHICH DID PROPHESY.
/21-10- AND AS WE TARRIED THERE MANY DAYS
THERE CAME DOWN FROM JUDAEA A CERTAIN PROPHET
NAMED AGABUS.
/21-11- 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.
/21-12- AND WHEN WE HEARD THESE THINGS
BOTH WE
AND THEY OF THAT PLACE
BESOUGHT HIM NOT TO GO UP TO JERUSALEM.
/21-13- 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.
/21-14- AND WHEN HE WOULD NOT BE PERSUADED
WE CEASED
SAYING
THE WILL OF THE LORD BE DONE.
/21-15- AND AFTER THOSE DAYS WE TOOK UP OUR CARRIAGES
AND WENT UP TO JERUSALEM.
/21-16- 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.
/21-17- AND WHEN WE WERE COME TO JERUSALEM
THE BRETHREN RECEIVED US GLADLY.
/21-18- AND THE DAY FOLLOWING PAUL WENT IN WITH US UNTO JAMES AND ALL THE ELDERS WERE PRESENT.
/21-19- AND WHEN HE HAD SALUTED THEM
HE DECLARED PARTICULARLY WHAT THINGS GOD HAD WROUGHT AMONG THE GENTILES BY HIS MINISTRY.
/21-20- 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-
/21-21- 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.
/21-22- WHAT IS IT THEREFORE? THE MULTITUDE MUST NEEDS COME TOGETHER- FOR THEY WILL HEAR THAT THOU ART COME.
/21-23- DO THEREFORE THIS THAT WE SAY TO THEE- WE HAVE FOUR MEN WHICH HAVE A VOW ON THEM
/21-24- 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.
/21-25- 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.
/21-26- 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.
/21-27- 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
/21-28- 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.
/21-29- (FOR THEY HAD SEEN BEFORE WITH HIM IN THE CITY TROPHIMUS AN EPHESIAN
WHOM THEY SUPPOSED THAT PAUL HAD BROUGHT INTO THE TEMPLE.)
/21-30- 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.
/21-31- AND AS THEY WENT ABOUT TO KILL HIM
TIDINGS CAME UNTO THE CHIEF CAPTAIN OF THE BAND
THAT ALL JERUSALEM WAS IN AN UPROAR.
/21-32- 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.
/21-33- 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.
/21-34- 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.
/21-35- AND WHEN HE CAME UPON THE STAIRS
SO IT WAS
THAT HE WAS BORNE OF THE SOLDIERS FOR THE VIOLENCE OF THE PEOPLE.
/21-36- FOR THE MULTITUDE OF THE PEOPLE FOLLOWED AFTER
CRYING
AWAY WITH HIM.
/21-37- 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?
/21-38- ART NOT THOU THAT EGYPTIAN
WHICH BEFORE THESE DAYS MADEST AN UPROAR
AND LEDDEST OUT INTO THE WILDERNESS FOUR THOUSAND MEN THAT WERE MURDERERS?
/21-39- 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.
/21-40- 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
/22-1- MEN
BRETHREN
AND FATHERS
HEAR YE MY DEFENCE WHICH I MAKE NOW UNTO YOU.
/22-2- (AND WHEN THEY HEARD THAT HE SPAKE IN THE HEBREW TONGUE TO THEM
THEY KEPT THE MORE SILENCE- AND HE SAITH
)
/22-3- 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.
/22-4- AND I PERSECUTED THIS WAY UNTO THE DEATH
BINDING AND DELIVERING INTO PRISONS BOTH MEN AND WOMEN.
/22-5- 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.
/22-6- 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.
/22-7- AND I FELL UNTO THE GROUND
AND HEARD A VOICE SAYING UNTO ME
SAUL
SAUL
WHY PERSECUTEST THOU ME?
/22-8- AND I ANSWERED
WHO ART THOU
LORD? AND HE SAID UNTO ME
I AM JESUS OF NAZARETH
WHOM THOU PERSECUTEST.
/22-9- 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.
/22-10- 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.
/22-11- 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.
/22-12- AND ONE ANANIAS
A DEVOUT MAN ACCORDING TO THE LAW
HAVING A GOOD REPORT OF ALL THE JEWS WHICH DWELT THERE
/22-13- CAME UNTO ME
AND STOOD
AND SAID UNTO ME
BROTHER SAUL
RECEIVE THY SIGHT. AND THE SAME HOUR I LOOKED UP UPON HIM.
/22-14- 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.
/22-15- FOR THOU SHALT BE HIS WITNESS UNTO ALL MEN OF WHAT THOU HAST SEEN AND HEARD.
/22-16- AND NOW WHY TARRIEST THOU? ARISE
AND BE BAPTIZED
AND WASH AWAY THY SINS
CALLING ON THE NAME OF THE LORD.
/22-17- 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
/22-18- AND SAW HIM SAYING UNTO ME
MAKE HASTE
AND GET THEE QUICKLY OUT OF JERUSALEM- FOR THEY WILL NOT RECEIVE THY TESTIMONY CONCERNING ME.
/22-19- AND I SAID
LORD
THEY KNOW THAT I IMPRISONED AND BEAT IN EVERY SYNAGOGUE THEM THAT BELIEVED ON THEE-
/22-20- 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.
/22-21- AND HE SAID UNTO ME
DEPART- FOR I WILL SEND THEE FAR HENCE UNTO THE GENTILES.
/22-22- 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.
/22-23- AND AS THEY CRIED OUT
AND CAST OFF THEIR CLOTHES
AND THREW DUST INTO THE AIR
/22-24- 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.
/22-25- 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?
/22-26- WHEN THE CENTURION HEARD THAT
HE WENT AND TOLD THE CHIEF CAPTAIN
SAYING
TAKE HEED WHAT THOU DOEST- FOR THIS MAN IS A ROMAN.
/22-27- THEN THE CHIEF CAPTAIN CAME
AND SAID UNTO HIM
TELL ME
ART THOU A ROMAN? HE SAID
YEA.
/22-28- AND THE CHIEF CAPTAIN ANSWERED
WITH A GREAT SUM OBTAINED I THIS FREEDOM. AND PAUL SAID
BUT I WAS FREE BORN.
/22-29- 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.
/22-30- 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.
/23-1- AND PAUL
EARNESTLY BEHOLDING THE COUNCIL
SAID
MEN AND BRETHREN
I HAVE LIVED IN ALL GOOD CONSCIENCE BEFORE GOD UNTIL THIS DAY.
/23-2- AND THE HIGH PRIEST ANANIAS COMMANDED THEM THAT STOOD BY HIM TO SMITE HIM ON THE MOUTH.
/23-3- 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?
/23-4- AND THEY THAT STOOD BY SAID
REVILEST THOU GOD'S HIGH PRIEST?
/23-5- 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.
/23-6- 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.
/23-7- AND WHEN HE HAD SO SAID
THERE AROSE A DISSENSION BETWEEN THE PHARISEES AND THE SADDUCEES- AND THE MULTITUDE WAS DIVIDED.
/23-8- FOR THE SADDUCEES SAY THAT THERE IS NO RESURRECTION
NEITHER ANGEL
NOR SPIRIT- BUT THE PHARISEES CONFESS BOTH.
/23-9- 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.
/23-10- 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.
/23-11- 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.
/23-12- 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.
/23-13- AND THEY WERE MORE THAN FORTY WHICH HAD MADE THIS CONSPIRACY.
/23-14- 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.
/23-15- NOW THEREFORE YE WITH THE COUNCIL SIGNIFY TO THE CHIEF CAPTAIN THAT HE BRING HIM DOWN UNTO YOU TO MORROW
AS THOUGH YE WOULD ENQUIRE SOMETHING MORE PERFECTLY CONCERNING HIM- AND WE
OR EVER HE COME NEAR
ARE READY TO KILL HIM.
/23-16- AND WHEN PAUL'S SISTER'S SON HEARD OF THEIR LYING IN WAIT
HE WENT AND ENTERED INTO THE CASTLE
AND TOLD PAUL.
/23-17- 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.
/23-18- 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.
/23-19- 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?
/23-20- 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 ENQUIRE SOMEWHAT OF HIM MORE PERFECTLY.
/23-21- 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.
/23-22- SO THE CHIEF CAPTAIN THEN LET THE YOUNG MAN DEPART
AND CHARGED HIM
SEE THOU TELL NO MAN THAT THOU HAST SHEWED THESE THINGS TO ME.
/23-23- 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
/23-24- AND PROVIDE THEM BEASTS
THAT THEY MAY SET PAUL ON
AND BRING HIM SAFE UNTO FELIX THE GOVERNOR.
/23-25- AND HE WROTE A LETTER AFTER THIS MANNER-
/23-26- CLAUDIUS LYSIAS UNTO THE MOST EXCELLENT GOVERNOR FELIX SENDETH GREETING.
/23-27- 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.
/23-28- AND WHEN I WOULD HAVE KNOWN THE CAUSE WHEREFORE THEY ACCUSED HIM
I BROUGHT HIM FORTH INTO THEIR COUNCIL-
/23-29- 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.
/23-30- 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.
/23-31- THEN THE SOLDIERS
AS IT WAS COMMANDED THEM
TOOK PAUL
AND BROUGHT HIM BY NIGHT TO ANTIPATRIS.
/23-32- ON THE MORROW THEY LEFT THE HORSEMEN TO GO WITH HIM
AND RETURNED TO THE CASTLE-
/23-33- WHO
WHEN THEY CAME TO CAESAREA
AND DELIVERED THE EPISTLE TO THE GOVERNOR
PRESENTED PAUL ALSO BEFORE HIM.
/23-34- AND WHEN THE GOVERNOR HAD READ THE LETTER
HE ASKED OF WHAT PROVINCE HE WAS. AND WHEN HE UNDERSTOOD THAT HE WAS OF CILICIA
/23-35- I WILL HEAR THEE
SAID HE
WHEN THINE ACCUSERS ARE ALSO COME. AND HE COMMANDED HIM TO BE KEPT IN HEROD'S JUDGMENT HALL.
/24-1- 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.
/24-2- 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
/24-3- WE ACCEPT IT ALWAYS
AND IN ALL PLACES
MOST NOBLE FELIX
WITH ALL THANKFULNESS.
/24-4- NOTWITHSTANDING
THAT I BE NOT FURTHER TEDIOUS UNTO THEE
I PRAY THEE THAT THOU WOULDEST HEAR US OF THY CLEMENCY A FEW WORDS.
/24-5- 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-
/24-6- WHO ALSO HATH GONE ABOUT TO PROFANE THE TEMPLE- WHOM WE TOOK
AND WOULD HAVE JUDGED ACCORDING TO OUR LAW.
/24-7- BUT THE CHIEF CAPTAIN LYSIAS CAME UPON US
AND WITH GREAT VIOLENCE TOOK HIM AWAY OUT OF OUR HANDS
/24-8- COMMANDING HIS ACCUSERS TO COME UNTO THEE- BY EXAMINING OF WHOM THYSELF MAYEST TAKE KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THESE THINGS
WHEREOF WE ACCUSE HIM.
/24-9- AND THE JEWS ALSO ASSENTED
SAYING THAT THESE THINGS WERE SO.
/24-10- 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-
/24-11- BECAUSE THAT THOU MAYEST UNDERSTAND
THAT THERE ARE YET BUT TWELVE DAYS SINCE I WENT UP TO JERUSALEM FOR TO WORSHIP.
/24-12- 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-
/24-13- NEITHER CAN THEY PROVE THE THINGS WHEREOF THEY NOW ACCUSE ME.
/24-14- 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-
/24-15- 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.
/24-16- AND HEREIN DO I EXERCISE MYSELF
TO HAVE ALWAYS A CONSCIENCE VOID OF OFFENCE TOWARD GOD
AND TOWARD MEN.
/24-17- NOW AFTER MANY YEARS I CAME TO BRING ALMS TO MY NATION
AND OFFERINGS.
/24-18- WHEREUPON CERTAIN JEWS FROM ASIA FOUND ME PURIFIED IN THE TEMPLE
NEITHER WITH MULTITUDE
NOR WITH TUMULT.
/24-19- WHO OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE THEE
AND OBJECT
IF THEY HAD OUGHT AGAINST ME.
/24-20- OR ELSE LET THESE SAME HERE SAY
IF THEY HAVE FOUND ANY EVIL DOING IN ME
WHILE I STOOD BEFORE THE COUNCIL
/24-21- 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.
/24-22- 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.
/24-23- 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.
/24-24- 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.
/24-25- 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.
/24-26- 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.
/24-27- BUT AFTER TWO YEARS PORCIUS FESTUS CAME INTO FELIX' ROOM- AND FELIX
WILLING TO SHEW THE JEWS A PLEASURE
LEFT PAUL BOUND.
/25-1- NOW WHEN FESTUS WAS COME INTO THE PROVINCE
AFTER THREE DAYS HE ASCENDED FROM CAESAREA TO JERUSALEM.
/25-2- THEN THE HIGH PRIEST AND THE CHIEF OF THE JEWS INFORMED HIM AGAINST PAUL
AND BESOUGHT HIM
/25-3- AND DESIRED FAVOUR AGAINST HIM
THAT HE WOULD SEND FOR HIM TO JERUSALEM
LAYING WAIT IN THE WAY TO KILL HIM.
/25-4- BUT FESTUS ANSWERED
THAT PAUL SHOULD BE KEPT AT CAESAREA
AND THAT HE HIMSELF WOULD DEPART SHORTLY THITHER.
/25-5- 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.
/25-6- 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.
/25-7- 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.
/25-8- 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.
/25-9- 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?
/25-10- 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.
/25-11- 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.
/25-12- THEN FESTUS
WHEN HE HAD CONFERRED WITH THE COUNCIL
ANSWERED
HAST THOU APPEALED UNTO CAESAR? UNTO CAESAR SHALT THOU GO.
/25-13- AND AFTER CERTAIN DAYS KING AGRIPPA AND BERNICE CAME UNTO CAESAREA TO SALUTE FESTUS.
/25-14- 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-
/25-15- ABOUT WHOM
WHEN I WAS AT JERUSALEM
THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE ELDERS OF THE JEWS INFORMED ME
DESIRING TO HAVE JUDGMENT AGAINST HIM.
/25-16- 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.
/25-17- 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.
/25-18- AGAINST WHOM WHEN THE ACCUSERS STOOD UP
THEY BROUGHT NONE ACCUSATION OF SUCH THINGS AS I SUPPOSED-
/25-19- BUT HAD CERTAIN QUESTIONS AGAINST HIM OF THEIR OWN SUPERSTITION
AND OF ONE JESUS
WHICH WAS DEAD
WHOM PAUL AFFIRMED TO BE ALIVE.
/25-20- 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.
/25-21- 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.
/25-22- THEN AGRIPPA SAID UNTO FESTUS
I WOULD ALSO HEAR THE MAN MYSELF. TO MORROW
SAID HE
THOU SHALT HEAR HIM.
/25-23- 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.
/25-24- 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.
/25-25- 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.
/25-26- 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.
/25-27- FOR IT SEEMETH TO ME UNREASONABLE TO SEND A PRISONER
AND NOT WITHAL TO SIGNIFY THE CRIMES LAID AGAINST HIM.
/26-1- THEN AGRIPPA SAID UNTO PAUL
THOU ART PERMITTED TO SPEAK FOR THYSELF. THEN PAUL STRETCHED FORTH THE HAND
AND ANSWERED FOR HIMSELF-
/26-2- 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-
/26-3- 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.
/26-4- MY MANNER OF LIFE FROM MY YOUTH
WHICH WAS AT THE FIRST AMONG MINE OWN NATION AT JERUSALEM
KNOW ALL THE JEWS
/26-5- WHICH KNEW ME FROM THE BEGINNING
IF THEY WOULD TESTIFY
THAT AFTER THE MOST STRAITEST SECT OF OUR RELIGION I LIVED A PHARISEE.
/26-6- AND NOW I STAND AND AM JUDGED FOR THE HOPE OF THE PROMISE MADE OF GOD UNTO OUR FATHERS-
/26-7- 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.
/26-8- WHY SHOULD IT BE THOUGHT A THING INCREDIBLE WITH YOU
THAT GOD SHOULD RAISE THE DEAD?
/26-9- I VERILY THOUGHT WITH MYSELF
THAT I OUGHT TO DO MANY THINGS CONTRARY TO THE NAME OF JESUS OF NAZARETH.
/26-10- 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.
/26-11- 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.
/26-12- WHEREUPON AS I WENT TO DAMASCUS WITH AUTHORITY AND COMMISSION FROM THE CHIEF PRIESTS
/26-13- 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.
/26-14- 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.
/26-15- AND I SAID
WHO ART THOU
LORD? AND HE SAID
I AM JESUS WHOM THOU PERSECUTEST.
/26-16- 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
/26-17- DELIVERING THEE FROM THE PEOPLE
AND FROM THE GENTILES
UNTO WHOM NOW I SEND THEE
/26-18- 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.
/26-19- WHEREUPON
O KING AGRIPPA
I WAS NOT DISOBEDIENT UNTO THE HEAVENLY VISION-
/26-20- BUT SHEWED 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.
/26-21- FOR THESE CAUSES THE JEWS CAUGHT ME IN THE TEMPLE
AND WENT ABOUT TO KILL ME.
/26-22- 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-
/26-23- THAT CHRIST SHOULD SUFFER
AND THAT HE SHOULD BE THE FIRST THAT SHOULD RISE FROM THE DEAD
AND SHOULD SHEW LIGHT UNTO THE PEOPLE
AND TO THE GENTILES.
/26-24- AND AS HE THUS SPAKE FOR HIMSELF
FESTUS SAID WITH A LOUD VOICE
PAUL
THOU ART BESIDE THYSELF MUCH LEARNING DOTH MAKE THEE MAD.
/26-25- BUT HE SAID
I AM NOT MAD
MOST NOBLE FESTUS BUT SPEAK FORTH THE WORDS OF TRUTH AND SOBERNESS.
/26-26- 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.
/26-27- KING AGRIPPA
BELIEVEST THOU THE PROPHETS? I KNOW THAT THOU BELIEVEST.
/26-28- THEN AGRIPPA SAID UNTO PAUL
ALMOST THOU PERSUADEST ME TO BE A CHRISTIAN.
/26-29- 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.
/26-30- AND WHEN HE HAD THUS SPOKEN
THE KING ROSE UP
AND THE GOVERNOR
AND BERNICE
AND THEY THAT SAT WITH THEM-
/26-31- AND WHEN THEY WERE GONE ASIDE
THEY TALKED BETWEEN THEMSELVES
SAYING
THIS MAN DOETH NOTHING WORTHY OF DEATH OR OF BONDS.
/26-32- THEN SAID AGRIPPA UNTO FESTUS
THIS MAN MIGHT HAVE BEEN SET AT LIBERTY
IF HE HAD NOT APPEALED UNTO CAESAR.
/27-1- 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.
/27-2- 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.
/27-3- 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.
/27-4- AND WHEN WE HAD LAUNCHED FROM THENCE
WE SAILED UNDER CYPRUS
BECAUSE THE WINDS WERE CONTRARY.
/27-5- AND WHEN WE HAD SAILED OVER THE SEA OF CILICIA AND PAMPHYLIA
WE CAME TO MYRA
A CITY OF LYCIA.
/27-6- AND THERE THE CENTURION FOUND A SHIP OF ALEXANDRIA SAILING INTO ITALY AND HE PUT US THEREIN.
/27-7- 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
/27-8- AND
HARDLY PASSING IT
CAME UNTO A PLACE WHICH IS CALLED THE FAIR HAVENS NIGH WHEREUNTO WAS THE CITY OF LASEA.
/27-9- NOW WHEN MUCH TIME WAS SPENT
AND WHEN SAILING WAS NOW DANGEROUS
BECAUSE THE FAST WAS NOW ALREADY PAST
PAUL ADMONISHED THEM
/27-10- 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.
/27-11- NEVERTHELESS THE CENTURION BELIEVED THE MASTER AND THE OWNER OF THE SHIP
MORE THAN THOSE THINGS WHICH WERE SPOKEN BY PAUL.
/27-12- 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.
/27-13- AND WHEN THE SOUTH WIND BLEW SOFTLY
SUPPOSING THAT THEY HAD OBTAINED THEIR PURPOSE
LOOSING THENCE
THEY SAILED CLOSE BY CRETE.
/27-14- BUT NOT LONG AFTER THERE AROSE AGAINST IT A TEMPESTUOUS WIND
CALLED EUROCLYDON.
/27-15- AND WHEN THE SHIP WAS CAUGHT
AND COULD NOT BEAR UP INTO THE WIND
WE LET HER DRIVE.
/27-16- AND RUNNING UNDER A CERTAIN ISLAND WHICH IS CALLED CLAUDA
WE HAD MUCH WORK TO COME BY THE BOAT-
/27-17- WHICH WHEN THEY HAD TAKEN UP
THEY USED HELPS
UNDERGIRDING THE SHIP AND
FEARING LEST THEY SHOULD FALL INTO THE QUICKSANDS
STRAKE SAIL
AND SO WERE DRIVEN.
/27-18- AND WE BEING EXCEEDINGLY TOSSED WITH A TEMPEST
THE NEXT DAY THEY LIGHTENED THE SHIP
/27-19- AND THE THIRD DAY WE CAST OUT WITH OUR OWN HANDS THE TACKLING OF THE SHIP.
/27-20- 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.
/27-21- 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.
/27-22- 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.
/27-23- FOR THERE STOOD BY ME THIS NIGHT THE ANGEL OF GOD
WHOSE I AM
AND WHOM I SERVE
/27-24- SAYING
FEAR NOT
PAUL THOU MUST BE BROUGHT BEFORE CAESAR- AND
LO
GOD HATH GIVEN THEE ALL THEM THAT SAIL WITH THEE.
/27-25- WHEREFORE
SIRS
BE OF GOOD CHEER- FOR I BELIEVE GOD
THAT IT SHALL BE EVEN AS IT WAS TOLD ME.
/27-26- HOWBEIT WE MUST BE CAST UPON A CERTAIN ISLAND.
/27-27- 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
/27-28- AND SOUNDED
AND FOUND IT TWENTY FATHOMS- AND WHEN THEY HAD GONE A LITTLE FURTHER
THEY SOUNDED AGAIN
AND FOUND IT FIFTEEN FATHOMS.
/27-29- THEN FEARING LEST WE SHOULD HAVE FALLEN UPON ROCKS
THEY CAST FOUR ANCHORS OUT OF THE STERN
AND WISHED FOR THE DAY.
/27-30- 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
/27-31- PAUL SAID TO THE CENTURION AND TO THE SOLDIERS
EXCEPT THESE ABIDE IN THE SHIP
YE CANNOT BE SAVED.
/27-32- THEN THE SOLDIERS CUT OFF THE ROPES OF THE BOAT
AND LET HER FALL OFF.
/27-33- 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.
/27-34- 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.
/27-35- 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.
/27-36- THEN WERE THEY ALL OF GOOD CHEER
AND THEY ALSO TOOK SOME MEAT.
/27-37- AND WE WERE IN ALL IN THE SHIP TWO HUNDRED THREESCORE AND SIXTEEN SOULS.
/27-38- AND WHEN THEY HAD EATEN ENOUGH
THEY LIGHTENED THE SHIP
AND CAST OUT THE WHEAT INTO THE SEA.
/27-39- 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.
/27-40- AND WHEN THEY HAD TAKEN UP THE ANCHORS
THEY COMMITTED THEMSELVES UNTO THE SEA
AND LOOSED THE RUDDER BANDS
AND HOISED UP THE MAINSAIL TO THE WIND
AND MADE TOWARD SHORE.
/27-41- 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.
/27-42- AND THE SOLDIERS' COUNSEL WAS TO KILL THE PRISONERS
LEST ANY OF THEM SHOULD SWIM OUT
AND ESCAPE.
/27-43- 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-
/27-44- 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.
/28-1- AND WHEN THEY WERE ESCAPED
THEN THEY KNEW THAT THE ISLAND WAS CALLED MELITA.
/28-2- AND THE BARBAROUS PEOPLE SHEWED US NO LITTLE KINDNESS- FOR THEY KINDLED A FIRE
AND RECEIVED US EVERY ONE
BECAUSE OF THE PRESENT RAIN
AND BECAUSE OF THE COLD.
/28-3- AND WHEN PAUL HAD GATHERED A BUNDLE OF STICKS
AND LAID THEM ON THE FIRE
THERE CAME A VIPER OUT OF THE HEAT
AND FASTENED ON HIS HAND.
/28-4- AND WHEN THE BARBARIANS SAW THE VENOMOUS BEAST HANG ON HIS HAND
THEY SAID AMONG THEMSELVES
NO DOUBT THIS MAN IS A MURDERER
WHOM
THOUGH HE HATH ESCAPED THE SEA
YET VENGEANCE SUFFERETH NOT TO LIVE.
/28-5- AND HE SHOOK OFF THE BEAST INTO THE FIRE
AND FELT NO HARM.
/28-6- HOWBEIT THEY LOOKED WHEN HE SHOULD HAVE SWOLLEN
OR FALLEN DOWN DEAD SUDDENLY- BUT AFTER THEY HAD LOOKED A GREAT WHILE
AND SAW NO HARM COME TO HIM
THEY CHANGED THEIR MINDS
AND SAID THAT HE WAS A GOD.
/28-7- IN THE SAME QUARTERS WERE POSSESSIONS OF THE CHIEF MAN OF THE ISLAND
WHOSE NAME WAS PUBLIUS WHO RECEIVED US
AND LODGED US THREE DAYS COURTEOUSLY.
/28-8- AND IT CAME TO PASS
THAT THE FATHER OF PUBLIUS LAY SICK OF A FEVER AND OF A BLOODY FLUX- TO WHOM PAUL ENTERED IN
AND PRAYED
AND LAID HIS HANDS ON HIM
AND HEALED HIM.
/28-9- SO WHEN THIS WAS DONE
OTHERS ALSO
WHICH HAD DISEASES IN THE ISLAND
CAME
AND WERE HEALED-
/28-10- WHO ALSO HONOURED US WITH MANY HONOURS AND WHEN WE DEPARTED
THEY LADED US WITH SUCH THINGS AS WERE NECESSARY.
/28-11- AND AFTER THREE MONTHS WE DEPARTED IN A SHIP OF ALEXANDRIA
WHICH HAD WINTERED IN THE ISLE
WHOSE SIGN WAS CASTOR AND POLLUX.
/28-12- AND LANDING AT SYRACUSE
WE TARRIED THERE THREE DAYS.
/28-13- AND FROM THENCE WE FETCHED A COMPASS
AND CAME TO RHEGIUM- AND AFTER ONE DAY THE SOUTH WIND BLEW
AND WE CAME THE NEXT DAY TO PUTEOLI-
/28-14- WHERE WE FOUND BRETHREN
AND WERE DESIRED TO TARRY WITH THEM SEVEN DAYS- AND SO WE WENT TOWARD ROME.
/28-15- AND FROM THENCE
WHEN THE BRETHREN HEARD OF US
THEY CAME TO MEET US AS FAR AS APPII FORUM
AND THE THREE TAVERNS- WHOM WHEN PAUL SAW
HE THANKED GOD
AND TOOK COURAGE.
/28-16- AND WHEN WE CAME TO ROME
THE CENTURION DELIVERED THE PRISONERS TO THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD- BUT PAUL WAS SUFFERED TO DWELL BY HIMSELF WITH A SOLDIER THAT KEPT HIM.
/28-17- AND IT CAME TO PASS
THAT AFTER THREE DAYS PAUL CALLED THE CHIEF OF THE JEWS TOGETHER- AND WHEN THEY WERE COME TOGETHER
HE SAID UNTO THEM
MEN AND BRETHREN
THOUGH I HAVE COMMITTED NOTHING AGAINST THE PEOPLE
OR CUSTOMS OF OUR FATHERS
YET WAS I DELIVERED PRISONER FROM JERUSALEM INTO THE HANDS OF THE ROMANS.
/28-18- WHO
WHEN THEY HAD EXAMINED ME
WOULD HAVE LET ME GO
BECAUSE THERE WAS NO CAUSE OF DEATH IN ME.
/28-19- BUT WHEN THE JEWS SPAKE AGAINST IT
I WAS CONSTRAINED TO APPEAL UNTO CAESAR NOT THAT I HAD OUGHT TO ACCUSE MY NATION OF.
/28-20- FOR THIS CAUSE THEREFORE HAVE I CALLED FOR YOU
TO SEE YOU
AND TO SPEAK WITH YOU- BECAUSE THAT FOR THE HOPE OF ISRAEL I AM BOUND WITH THIS CHAIN.
/28-21- AND THEY SAID UNTO HIM
WE NEITHER RECEIVED LETTERS OUT OF JUDAEA CONCERNING THEE
NEITHER ANY OF THE BRETHREN THAT CAME SHEWED OR SPAKE ANY HARM OF THEE.
/28-22- BUT WE DESIRE TO HEAR OF THEE WHAT THOU THINKEST- FOR AS CONCERNING THIS SECT
WE KNOW THAT EVERY WHERE IT IS SPOKEN AGAINST.
/28-23- AND WHEN THEY HAD APPOINTED HIM A DAY
THERE CAME MANY TO HIM INTO HIS LODGING TO WHOM HE EXPOUNDED AND TESTIFIED THE KINGDOM OF GOD
PERSUADING THEM CONCERNING JESUS
BOTH OUT OF THE LAW OF MOSES
AND OUT OF THE PROPHETS
FROM MORNING TILL EVENING.
/28-24- AND SOME BELIEVED THE THINGS WHICH WERE SPOKEN
AND SOME BELIEVED NOT.
/28-25- AND WHEN THEY AGREED NOT AMONG THEMSELVES
THEY DEPARTED
AFTER THAT PAUL HAD SPOKEN ONE WORD
WELL SPAKE THE HOLY GHOST BY ESAIAS THE PROPHET UNTO OUR FATHERS
/28-26- SAYING
GO UNTO THIS PEOPLE
AND SAY
HEARING YE SHALL HEAR
AND SHALL NOT UNDERSTAND AND SEEING YE SHALL SEE
AND NOT PERCEIVE-
/28-27- FOR THE HEART OF THIS PEOPLE IS WAXED GROSS
AND THEIR EARS ARE DULL OF HEARING
AND THEIR EYES HAVE THEY CLOSED LEST THEY SHOULD SEE WITH THEIR EYES
AND HEAR WITH THEIR EARS
AND UNDERSTAND WITH THEIR HEART
AND SHOULD BE CONVERTED
AND I SHOULD HEAL THEM.
/28-28- BE IT KNOWN THEREFORE UNTO YOU
THAT THE SALVATION OF GOD IS SENT UNTO THE GENTILES
AND THAT THEY WILL HEAR IT.
/28-29- AND WHEN HE HAD SAID THESE WORDS
THE JEWS DEPARTED
AND HAD GREAT REASONING AMONG THEMSELVES.
/28-30- AND PAUL DWELT TWO WHOLE YEARS IN HIS OWN HIRED HOUSE
AND RECEIVED ALL THAT CAME IN UNTO HIM
/28-31- PREACHING THE KINGDOM OF GOD
AND TEACHING THOSE THINGS WHICH CONCERN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
WITH ALL CONFIDENCE
NO MAN FORBIDDING HIM.
