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.

Cretes and Arabs, do we hear them speak in our tongues of the great works of God.

In the last days, says God, I will pour out of my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;

Men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus the Nazoraean, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and prodigies and miracles, which God performed by him in the midst of you, as you yourselves know,

this man, delivered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have affixed to the cross, and killed by the hand of the wicked,

him has God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, as it was not possible that he should be held by it.

Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God swore with an oath to him to set a descendant of his on his throne,

This Jesus has God raised up, whose witnesses we all are.

Being therefore exalted on the right hand of God, and receiving the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he has poured this out which you both see and hear.

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

For the promise is to you and your children, and to all that are afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.

praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added the saved, day by day, to the assembly [church].

And a certain man lame from his birth was carried and placed daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask charity of those going into the temple;

and leaping up he stood and walked and entered with them into the temple, walking and leaping, praising God.

And all the people saw him walking and praising God;

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.

but what God had before declared by the mouth of all the prophets that his Anointed should suffer, he has so accomplished.

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.

Moses indeed said, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up to you, of your brothers, like me; him shall you hear in all things which he shall speak to you;

You are the children of the prophets, and of the promise which God promised to our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

God having raised up his servant has sent him to you first, to bless you by turning each [one of you] from your evil ways.

if we are to-day examined concerning the good work done to the sick man, by what means he has been cured,

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.

But Peter and John answered and said to them, Whether it is right in the sight of God to obey you rather than God, judge;

And threatening them still further, they dismissed them, not being able to punish them, on account of the people, because all glorified God for what was done;

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,

And when they had prayed the place was shaken in which they were assembled, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and spoke the word of God with boldness.

Continuing unsold was it not yours, and when it was sold was it not at your disposal? Why did you propose this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.

And Peter answering, and the apostles, said, It is necessary to obey God rather than man.

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

him has God exalted, a Prince and Saviour at his right hand, to give a change of mind to Israel and the forgiveness of sins.

And we are his witnesses of these things, and also the Holy Spirit which God has given to those that obey him.

but if it is from God, you cannot destroy them; lest you be found at some time to be fighting against God.

and every day in the temple, and from house to house, they ceased not teaching and preaching the good news of Christ Jesus.

And the twelve calling the multitude of the disciples, said, It is not desirable that we should leave the word of God to serve tables.

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;

And the word of God increased, and the number of the disciples was greatly multiplied at Jerusalem, and a great multitude of the priests obeyed the faith.

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

And he said, Men, brothers, and fathers, hear. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

And [God] gave him no inheritance in it, not the breadth of a foot, and promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his posterity after him, when as yet he had no son.

And God said thus; that his posterity should be a stranger in a foreign land, and they shall enslave it and treat it injuriously four hundred years;

and the nation which they shall serve will I judge, said God, and after that they shall come forth and serve me in this place.

And the patriarchs envying Joseph sold him into Egypt; and God was with him

But when the time of the promise which God made with an oath to Abraham was at hand, the people increased and became numerous in Egypt,

At that time Moses was born, and was beautiful in the sight of God, and was nourished three months in his father's house;

And he thought his brothers would understand that God would give them salvation by his hand; but they understood not.

I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob. And Moses being afraid dared not look at it.

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.

And God turned and gave them up to serve the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets; Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me forty years in the wilderness, house of Israel,

and take up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of the god Rephan, figures which you made to worship? I will even remove you beyond Babylon.

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.

But he being full of the Holy Spirit, looking steadily to heaven saw the glory of God and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

and said, Behold, I see the heavens opened and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

Being scattered abroad, therefore, they went everywhere preaching the good news of the word;

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

But because they believed Philip preaching the good news of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized both men and women.

And the apostles at Jerusalem hearing that Samaria had received the word of God, sent to them Peter and John,

But Peter said to him, Your money go to perdition with you; because you have thought to purchase the gift of God with money.

You have no part nor inheritance in this work; for your heart is not right before God.

They then having fully testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the good news to many villages of the Samaritans.

And Philip opening his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him the good news of Jesus.

But Philip was found at Azotus, and passing through he preached the good news to all the cities till he came to Caesarea.

and immediately in the synagogues he preached Jesus, that this is the Son of God.

And there was at Joppa a certain female disciple called Tabitha, which being interpreted is called, Dorcas; she was full of good works and charities which she bestowed.

a pious man, and one fearing God with all his house, and bestowing many charities on the people, and praying to God always,

saw clearly in a vision, about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of God coming to him, and saying to him, Cornelius.

And looking steadily at him and being afraid, he said, What is wanted, Lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and charities have come up as a memorial before God.

And a voice came to him again, a second time, What God has purified, regard not common.

And while Peter doubted with himself what the vision which he had seen meant, behold, even [then] the men sent by Cornelius, having inquired for the house of Simon, stood at the gate,

And they said, Cornelius a centurion, a righteous man, and one that fears God, and esteemed by all the nation of the Jews, was divinely instructed by a holy angel to send for you to his house and hear words from you.

and he said to them, You know that it is not lawful for a Jew to associate with a man of another nation, or come into his house; and God has taught me not to call any man common or impure;

and said, Cornelius, your prayer is heard and your charities are remembered before God.

Immediately therefore I sent to you, and you have done well to come. Now therefore we are all present before God to hear all things which God has commanded you.

And Peter opening his mouth said, Of a truth I perceive that God is not a respecter of persons,

The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching the good news of peace by Jesus Christ,??e is Lord of all,??37 you know; the word which was [preached] through all Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism which John preached,

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;

This [man] did God raise up on the third day, and permitted him to be made manifest,

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;

and he commanded us to preach to the people and testify fully that he is appointed by God the judge of living and dead.

for they heard them speaking with tongues and magnifying God. Then Peter answered,

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

And a voice answered from heaven a second time, What God has purified do not you regard common.

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?

And hearing these things they were silent, and glorified God, saying, Then to the gentiles also has God indeed given the change of mind to life.

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;

for he was a good man and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a great multitude were added to the Lord.

Peter therefore was kept by the guard; but prayer was made incessantly by the church to God for him.

And passing through the first guard, and the second, they came to the iron gate leading into the city, which opened to them of itself, and going out they went forward one street, and immediately the angel left him.

And knocking at the door of the gate, a female servant, called Rhoda, came to listen,

and knowing the voice of Peter she did not open the gate from joy, but ran in and told that Peter stood before the gate.

and the people shouted, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.

And an angel of the Lord instantly smote him because he gave not glory to God, and being eaten with worms he expired.

And the word of God grew and was increased.

and coming to Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews; and they also had John for a servant.

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;