praising God, and looked on with favor by all the people. Meanwhile the Lord kept adding to them daily those that were being saved.

"Rulers and elders of the people, if we are being examined today concerning a benefit conferred upon a cripple, as to how has this man been cured,

So when they had further threatened them they let the apostles go, being quite unable to find any way of punishing them because of the people, for everybody was glorifying God over what had happened.

"But he gave him no inheritance in it, no, not a single square yard of ground; yet he promised to bestow the land as a permanent possession on him and his posterity??e at that time being childless.

And as they were going on their way they came to a certain water, and the eunuch said: "See, here is water! What hinders my being baptized?"

One of them, who was Agabus, rose up, and being instructed by the Spirit, predicted that a great famine was about to come upon the whole inhabited earth. (It came in the reign of Claudius.)

Instantly an angel of the Lord smote him, because he had not given God the glory, and being eaten up by worms, he died.

"The God who made the universe and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands,

"for in him we live and move and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said, "'For we also are his offspring.'

He had been instructed in the ways of the Lord, and being full of zeal, he used to speak and to teach accurately the facts about Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.

For indeed we are in danger of being accused in regard to this day's riot, since there is no cause for it, nor shall we be able to give account for this disorderly gathering."

And as we were being terribly battered by the storm, the next day they began to throw the freight overboard,