till the day that having given charge to the apostles whom he chose by the Holy Spirit he was taken up;

to whom also he presented himself living after his suffering, by many proofs, being seen by them during forty days, and speaking things relating to the kingdom of God.

And in those days Peter standing up in the midst of the brothers, said??he multitude together was about a hundred and twenty??16 Men and brothers, it was necessary that the Scripture should be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David, concerning Judas who became a guide to them that apprehended Jesus;

and this became known to all who lived at Jerusalem, so that that field was called in their language Aceldamach, which is Field of blood.

It is necessary therefore that one of the men who have gone with us all the time in which the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

And they proposed two; Joseph called Barsabbas, who was also called Justus, and Matthias.

Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and those who live in Mesopotamia, Judea, and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

But Peter standing up with the eleven lifted up his voice and said to them, Men of Judea, and all who live at Jerusalem, be this known to you, and attend to my words.

Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly, that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ.

And all who believed were together and had all things common;

who seeing Peter and John about to enter into the temple, asked to receive a charity.

and they knew him, that he was the one who sat for charity at the beautiful gate of the temple, and they were filled with wonder and astonishment at what had happened to him.

The God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied before Pilate when he decided to release him;

but killed the Prince of life, whom God has raised from the dead, whose witnesses we are.

And by the faith of his name, his name has made strong this man whom you behold and know, and the faith which is by him has given him this entire soundness before you all.

whom heaven must receive till the times of the restoration of all things of which God has spoken by the mouth of his holy prophets since the world began.

And all the prophets, from Samuel and those following him in order, who have spoken, have also announced these days.

be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazoraean, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by him has this man stood before you sound.

for the man was more than forty years old on whom this miracle of the cure was performed.

And when they heard it they lifted up their voice with one consent to God, and said, Master, thou who hast made heaven, and the earth, the sea, and all things in them,

who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the nations rage and the peoples devise vain things?

For of a truth, in this city, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the gentiles and people of Israel, were assembled together against thy holy servant Jesus whom thou hast anointed,

For no one among them was needy; for those who possessed lands or houses sold and brought the prices of the things sold,

And Ananias hearing these words fell down and expired; and great fear was upon all who heard.

And the multitude came together from the cities about Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those troubled by impure spirits, all of whom were cured.

But some one came and told them, Behold, the men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you took and hung on a cross;

For before these days Theudas arose, saying that he was somebody, to whom a number of men, about four hundred, adhered, who was destroyed, and all who obeyed him passed away and came to nothing.

After him arose Judas the Galilean, in the days of the census, and drew away people after him; and he was destroyed, and all who obeyed him were dispersed.

Look out therefore, brothers, from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Holy Spirit, and of wisdom, whom we may set over this business;

Then they bribed men who said, We heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.

and brought forward false witnesses who said, This man speaks incessantly against this holy place, and the law;

And all who sat in the Sanhedrin looking steadily at him saw his face like the face of an angel.

till another king arose who knew not Joseph.

But he that injured his neighbor repelled him, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

This is the Moses whom they denied, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? Him did God send to be a ruler and a redeemer by the hand of the angel that appeared to him in the bush.

This is the Moses who said to the children of Israel, A prophet shall God raise up for you, of your brothers, like me.

This is he that was with the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received the living oracles to give us,

whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him away and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

saying to Aaron, Make us gods to go before us; for this Moses who led us up out of Egypt, we know not what has happened to him.

which also our fathers receiving it in succession brought with Joshua into the possession of the nations, whom God expelled before the face of our fathers till the days of David;

who found favor with God and desired to find a dwelling for the God of Jacob.

Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you now have become betrayers and murderers,

who have received the law by orders of angels and have not kept it.

For impure spirits came out of many who had them, crying with a loud voice; and many paralytics and lame persons were cured;

And there was a man by the name of Simon who formerly practised magic in that city, and astonished the nation of Samaria, saying that he was some great person,

to whom all from the least to the greatest attended, saying, This is the power of God which is called great.

who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit;

And he arose and went. And behold a man, an Ethiopian eunuch, an officer of Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasures, who had come to Jerusalem to worship,

In his humiliation his judgment was taken away; and who will tell of his generation? for his life was taken from the earth.

And the eunuch answered and said to Philip, Of whom I pray you does the prophet say this? of himself or of some other one?

And he said, Who are you, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom you persecute.

And Ananias went and entered into the house, and laying hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord has sent me, Jesus who appeared to you on the way which you came, that you may receive sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.

And all that heard him were astonished and said, Is not this he that destroyed those who called on this name at Jerusalem, and has come here for this purpose, that he might lead them bound to the chief priests?

And he found there a certain man by the name of AEneas, who had lain on a bed for eight years, and was a paralytic.

and all those who lived at Lydda and Sharon saw him, and turned to the Lord.

And now send men to Joppa and call for a certain Simon who is called Peter;

And when the angel who spoke to him had departed, he called two of the house servants, and a pious soldier of those that attended constantly on him,

and calling aloud asked if Simon who was called Peter lodged there.

And Peter went down to the men and said, Behold, I am the man whom you seek; what is the cause for which you have come?

Send therefore to Joppa and call Simon who is called Peter; he lodges at the house of Simon a tanner, by the sea, who when he has come will speak to you.

Jesus from Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and power, who went about doing good and curing all that were subjugated by the devil, for God was with him;

and we are witnesses of all things which he did, both in the land of Judea, and at Jerusalem, whom also they killed, hanging him on a cross.

not to all the people, but to witnesses chosen before by God, to us, who eat and drank with him after he rose from the dead;

To him all the prophets bear witness, that every one who believes in him has forgiveness of sins through his name.

While Peter was yet speaking these words the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word.

And those of the circumcision who came with Peter were astonished, that on the gentiles also the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out;

Can any forbid water that these should be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit as we also have?

AND the apostles and brothers who were in Judea heard that the gentiles received the word of God.

And he told us how he had seen the angel in his house standing and saying to him, Send to Joppa and call Simon who is called Peter,

who will speak words to you by which you shall be saved and all your house.

If therefore God gave the gift equally to them and to us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I should be able to forbid God?

But some of them, Cyprians and Cyrenians, who came to Antioch, spoke to the Greeks preaching the good news of the Lord Jesus.

who having come and seen the grace of God rejoiced, and exhorted all to adhere to the Lord with the purpose of the heart;

And he was displeased with the Tyrians and Sidonians; but they came with one accord to him, and having persuaded Blastus who was over the king's bedchamber, desired peace, because their country was nourished by the king's.

AND Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, having performed the service, taking with them also John who was called Mark.

who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man having called for Barnabas and Saul desired to hear the word of God;

and removing him, he raised up for them David for a king, of whom also he said and testified, I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.

And when John completed his course, he said, Who do you suppose I am? I am not [the Christ]; but behold, there comes after me one the sandal of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.

and he appeared many days to those who went up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people.

but he whom God raised up saw not destruction.

and every one who believes is justified by him from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

And the congregation being dismissed, many of the Jews and pious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who gave them additional instructions, and persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

Then they spent a long time in speaking boldly for the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace by granting miracles and prodigies to be performed by their hands.

And there sat a certain man at Lystra, infirm in his feet, lame from his birth, who had never walked.

This man heard Paul speaking, who, looking steadily at him and seeing that he had faith to be cured,

and saying, Men, why do you do these things? We are also men subject to like sufferings with you, preaching that you should turn from these vain [services] to the living God, who made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things in them,

who in past generations permitted all nations to walk in their own ways;

And having appointed them elders in every church, and having prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

But some of those of the sect of the Pharisees who had believed, rose and said, that it is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.

that the rest of men may seek the Lord, even all the nations on whom my name has been called, says the Lord who does these things,

Wherefore I judge that we ought not to trouble those who turned to God from the gentiles,

For Moses from ancient times has those who preach him in every city, being read in the synagogues every sabbath.

writing by their hand, The apostles and elders and brothers, to the brothers in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, who are of the gentiles, greeting.

Since we heard that some going out from us have troubled you with words subverting your souls, to whom we gave no charge,

men who have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

but Paul thought not best to take with them one who deserted them at Pamphylia and did not go with them to the work.

who was commended by the brothers in Lystra and Iconium.

Him Paul wished to have go with him; and he took and circumcised him on account of the Jews who were in those places; for all knew that his father was a Greek.

And on the sabbath we went out of the gate, by the river, where the proseuche [place of prayer] usually was, and sitting down we spoke to the women who came together.