until that day in which, having by the Holy Spirit charged the apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up;

to whom also he presented himself living, after he had suffered, with many proofs; being seen by them during forty days, and speaking of the things which concern the kingdom of God;

For John indeed baptised with water, but ye shall be baptised with the Holy Spirit after now not many days.

but ye will receive power, the Holy Spirit having come upon you, and ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.

And as they were gazing into heaven, as he was going, behold, also two men stood by them in white clothing,

Brethren, it was necessary that the scripture should have been fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before, by the mouth of David, concerning Judas, who became guide to those who took Jesus;

For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his homestead become desolate, and let there be no dweller in it; and, Let another take his overseership.

beginning from the baptism of John until the day in which he was taken up from us, one of these should be a witness with us of his resurrection.

But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and spoke forth to them, Men of Judaea, and all ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and give heed to my words:

And it shall be in the last days, saith God, that I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your elders shall dream with dreams;

the sun shall be changed to darkness and the moon to blood, before the great and gloriously appearing day of the Lord come.

And it shall be that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus the Nazaraean, a man borne witness to by God to you by works of power and wonders and signs, which God wrought by him in your midst, as yourselves know

him, given up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye, by the hand of lawless men, have crucified and slain.

Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death, inasmuch as it was not possible that he should be held by its power;

for David says as to him, I foresaw the Lord continually before me, because he is at my right hand that I may not be moved.

Brethren, let it be allowed to speak with freedom to you concerning the patriarch David, that he has both died and been buried, and his monument is amongst us unto this day.

Having therefore been exalted by the right hand of God, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which ye behold and hear.

until I have put thine enemies to be the footstool of thy feet.

And Peter said to them, Repent, and be baptised, each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for remission of sins, and ye will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, Be saved from this perverse generation.

praising God, and having favour with all the people; and the Lord added to the assembly daily those that were to be saved.

And having taken hold of him by the right hand he raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones were made strong.

And Peter, seeing it, answered the people, Men of Israel, why are ye astonished at this? or why do ye gaze on us as if we had by our own power or piety made him to walk?

The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he had judged that he should be let go.

But ye denied the holy and righteous one, and asked that a man that was a murderer should be granted to you;

And, by faith in his name, his name has made this man strong whom ye behold and know; and the faith which is by him has given him this complete soundness in the presence of you all.

but God has thus fulfilled what he had announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer.

Repent therefore and be converted, for the blotting out of your sins, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

whom heaven indeed must receive till the times of the restoring of all things, of which God has spoken by the mouth of his holy prophets since time began.

And it shall be that whatsoever soul shall not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from among the people.

Ye are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God appointed to our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

being distressed on account of their teaching the people and preaching by Jesus the resurrection from among the dead;

be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazaraean, whom ye have crucified, whom God has raised from among the dead, by him this man stands here before you sound in body.

He is the stone which has been set at nought by you the builders, which is become the corner stone.

And salvation is in none other, for neither is there another name under heaven which is given among men by which we must be saved.

But that it be not further spread among the people, let us threaten them severely no longer to speak to any man in this name.

But Peter and John answering said to them, If it be righteous before God to listen to you rather than to God, judge ye;

who hast said by the mouth of thy servant David, Why have the nations raged haughtily and the peoples meditated vain things?

And Joseph, who had been surnamed Barnabas by the apostles (which is, being interpreted, Son of consolation), a Levite, Cyprian by birth,

But a certain man, Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,

And she fell down immediately at his feet and expired. And when the young men came in they found her dead; and, having carried her out, they buried her by her husband.

And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders done among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch,

And the multitude also of the cities round about came together to Jerusalem, bringing sick persons and persons beset by unclean spirits, who were all healed.

Then the captain, having gone with the officers, brought them, not with violence, for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.

But Peter answering, and the apostles, said, God must be obeyed rather than men.

Him has God exalted by his right hand as leader and saviour, to give repentance to Israel and remission of sins.

for before these days Theudas rose up, alleging himself to be somebody, to whom a number of men, about four hundred, were joined; who was slain, and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed and came to nothing.

And now I say to you, Withdraw from these men and let them alone, for if this counsel or this work have its origin from men, it will be destroyed;

but if it be from God, ye will not be able to put them down, lest ye be found also fighters against God.

They therefore went their way from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to be dishonoured for the name.

And God spoke thus: His seed shall be a sojourner in a strange land, and they shall enslave them and evil entreat them four hundred years;

and the nation to which they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God; and after these things they shall come forth and serve me in this place.

And when he was cast out, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and brought him up for herself to be for a son.

For he thought that his brethren would understand that God by his hand was giving them deliverance. But they understood not.

This Moses, whom they refused, saying, Who made thee ruler and judge? him did God send to be a ruler and deliverer with the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

to whom our fathers would not be subject, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,

who have received the law as ordained by the ministry of angels, and have not kept it.

and the crowds with one accord gave heed to the things spoken by Philip, when they heard him and saw the signs which he wrought.

But a certain man, by name Simon, had been before in the city, using magic arts, and astonishing the nation of Samaria, saying that himself was some great one.

And they gave heed to him, because that for a long time he had astonished them by his magic arts.

But Simon, having seen that by the laying on of the hands of the apostles the Holy Spirit was given, offered them money,

And Peter said to him, Thy money go with thee to destruction, because thou hast thought that the gift of God can be obtained by money.

Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and supplicate the Lord, if indeed the thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee;

for I see thee to be in the gall of bitterness, and bond of unrighteousness.

And he said, How should I then be able unless some one guide me? And he begged Philip to come up and sit with him.

But rise up and enter into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.

And Saul rose up from the earth, and his eyes being opened he saw no one. But leading him by the hand they brought him into Damascus.

And there was a certain disciple in Damascus by name Ananias. And the Lord said to him in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, here am I, Lord.

And the Lord said to him, Rise up and go into the street which is called Straight, and seek in the house of Judas one by name Saul, he is of Tarsus: for, behold, he is praying,

and has seen in a vision a man by name Ananias coming in and putting his hand on him, so that he should see.

And Ananias went and entered into the house; and laying his hands upon him he said, Saul, brother, the Lord has sent me, Jesus that appeared to thee in the way in which thou camest, that thou mightest see, and be filled with the Holy Spirit.

but the disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.

And he found there a certain man, Aeneas by name, who had been lying for eight years upon a couch, who was paralysed.

And in Joppa there was a certain female disciple, by name Tabitha, which being interpreted means Dorcas. She was full of good works and alms-deeds which she did.

And Peter rising up went with them, whom, when arrived, they brought up into the upper chamber; and all the widows stood by him weeping and shewing him the body-coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.

But a certain man in Caesarea, by name Cornelius, a centurion of the band called Italic,

He lodges with a certain Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea.

and he beholds the heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending, as a great sheet, bound by the four corners and let down to the earth;

And as Peter doubted in himself what the vision which he had seen might mean, behold also the men who were sent by Cornelius, having sought out the house of Simon, stood at the gate,

And they said, Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man, and fearing God, and borne witness to by the whole nation of the Jews, has been divinely instructed by a holy angel to send for thee to his house, and hear words from thee.

And he said to them, Ye know how it is unlawful for a Jew to be joined or come to one of a strange race, and to me God has shewn to call no man common or unclean.

Send therefore to Joppa and fetch Simon, who is surnamed Peter; he lodges in the house of Simon, a tanner, by the sea who when he is come will speak to thee.

The word which he sent to the sons of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ, (he is Lord of all things,)

This man God raised up the third day and gave him to be openly seen,

And he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that he it is who was determinately appointed of God to be judge of living and dead.

Can any one forbid water that these should not be baptised, who have received the Holy Spirit as we also did?

And he commanded them to be baptised in the name of the Lord. Then they begged him to stay some days.

I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in an ecstasy I saw a vision, a certain vessel descending like a great sheet, let down by four corners out of heaven, and it came even to me:

who shall speak words to thee whereby thou shalt be saved, thou and all thy house.

And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, John baptised with water, but ye shall be baptised with the Holy Spirit.

If then God has given them the same gift as also to us when we had believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who indeed was I to be able to forbid God?

and one from among them, by name Agabus, rose up and signified by the Spirit that there was going to be a great famine over all the inhabited earth, which also came to pass under Claudius.

which also they did, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

Peter therefore was kept in the prison; but unceasing prayer was made by the assembly to God concerning him.

And going forth he followed him and did not know that what was happening by means of the angel was real, but supposed he saw a vision.

And when he had knocked at the door of the entry, a maid came to listen, by name Rhoda;

And having made a sign to them with his hand to be silent, he related to them how the Lord had brought him out of prison; and he said, Report these things to James and to the brethren. And he went out and went to another place.

And Herod having sought him and not found him, having examined the guards, commanded them to be executed. And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea and stayed there.

And he was in bitter hostility with the Tyrians and Sidonians; but they came to him with one accord, and, having gained Blastus the king's chamberlain, sought peace, because their country was nourished by the king's.