"For the promise belongs to you and to your children and to all who are afar off, whomever the Lord may call."

"And they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to this idol, and began to rejoice over what they had made with their hands.

"In this city, too, he has authority from the chief priests to arrest all those who call upon thy name."

And again a second time came to him a voice, saying, "What God has cleansed you must not call common."

To them he said: "You know, yourselves, that it is illegal for a Jew to associate with or to visit one of another nation; but God has taught me that I should not call any man common or unclean. For this reason, when sent for, I came without demur.

"But for the second time a voice spoke from the sky, 'What God has cleansed, you must not call common.'

And they began to call Barnabas "Zeus," and Paul, since he was the principal speaker, "Hermes";

"Since these facts cannot be gainsaid, you ought to be calm and do nothing reckless.

On the following day we went with Paul to call on James, and all the elders were present.

"But this I confess to you, that I worship the God of our ancestors, according to the Way which they call a heresy, believing everything that is according to the Law, or is written in the Prophets,