and they saw tongues of what looked like fire distributing themselves over the assembly, and on the head of each person a tongue alighted.

At once the eyes of all who were sitting in the Sanhedrin were fastened on him, and they saw his face looking just like the face of an angel.

The passage of Scripture which he was reading was this: "Like a sheep He was led to slaughter, and just as a lamb before its shearer is dumb so He opened not His mouth.

For a period of about forty years, He fed them, like a nurse, in the Desert.

Even with words like these they had difficulty in preventing the thronging crowd from offering sacrifices to them.

He, having received an order like that, lodged them in the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.

For the things you are saying sound strange to us. We should therefore like to be told exactly what they mean."

Then Paul would have liked to go in and address the people, but the disciples would not let him do so.

"I am a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city. I was carefully trained at the feet of Gamaliel in the Law of our forefathers, and, like all of you to-day, was zealous for God.

"I should like to hear the man myself," said Agrippa. "to-morrow," replied Festus, "you shall." Accordingly, the next day, Agrippa and Bernice came in state