Now during these days Peter stood up among the brothers (there was a crowd of about a hundred and twenty persons all together).

the sun shall be changed into darkness and the moon into blood, ere the great, open Day of the Lord arrives.

who must be kept in heaven till the period of the great Restoration. Ages ago God spoke of this by the lips of his holy prophets;

the apostles gave their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus with great power, and great grace was upon them all.

When Ananias heard this, he fell down and expired. (Great awe came over all who heard of it.)

Great awe came over the whole church and over all who heard about this.

Now Stephen, who was full of grace and power, performed great wonders and miracles among the people.

Now a famine came over the whole of Egypt and Canaan, attended with great misery, so that our ancestors could not find provender.

So there was great rejoicing in that town.

Now for some time previous a man called Simon had been practising magic arts in the town, to the utter astonishment of the Samaritan nation; he made himself out to be a great person,

and all sorts and conditions of people attached themselves to him, declaring he was that Power of God which is known as 'the Great Power.'

After arresting him he put him in prison, handing him over to a guard of sixteen soldiers, with the intention of producing him to the People after the passover.

When they had passed the first guard and the second they came to the iron gate leading into the city, which opened to them of its own accord; they passed out, and after they had gone through one street, the angel immediately left him.

Now when day broke there was a great commotion among the soldiers over what could have become of Peter.

At Iconium the same thing happened. They went into the synagogue of the Jews and spoke in such a way that a great body both of Jews and Greeks believed.

But when the apostles, Paul and Barnabas, heard this they rent their clothes and sprang out among the crowd,

The church sped them on their journey, and they passed through both Phoenicia and Syria informing the brothers, to the great joy of all, that the Gentiles were turning to God.

Now it happened as we went to the place of prayer that a slave-girl met us, possessed by a spirit of ventriloquism, and a source of great profit to her owners by her power of fortune-telling.

The crowd also joined in the attack upon them, while the praetors, after having them stripped and after ordering them to be flogged with rods,

all of a sudden there was a great earthquake which shook the very foundations of the prison; the doors all flew open in an instant and the fetters of all the prisoners were unfastened.

Both the crowd and the politarchs were disturbed when they heard this;

As he wished to cross to Achaia, the brothers wrote and urged the disciples there to give him a welcome. And on his arrival he proved of great service to those who by God's grace had believed,

It was about that time that a great commotion arose over the Way. This was how it happened.

Now the danger is not only that we will have our trade discredited but that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will fall into contempt and that she will be degraded from her majestic glory, she whom all Asia and the wide world worship."

When they heard this they were filled with rage and raised the cry, "Great is Artemis of Ephesus!"

but when they discovered he was a Jew, a roar broke from them all, and for about two hours they shouted, "Great is Artemis of Ephesus! Great is Artemis of Ephesus!"

The secretary of state then got the mob calmed down, and said to them, "Men of Ephesus, who on earth does not know that the city of Ephesus is Warden of the temple of the great Artemis and of the statue that fell from heaven?

The seven days were almost over when the Asiatic Jews, catching sight of him in the temple, stirred up all the crowd and laid hands on him,

Some of the crowd roared one thing, some another, and as he could not learn the facts owing to the uproar, he ordered Paul to be taken to the barracks.

By the time he reached the steps, he had actually to be carried by the soldiers on account of the violence of the crowd,

As he gave permission, Paul stood on the steps and motioned to the people. A great hush came over them, and he addressed them as follows in Hebrew.

So next day Agrippa and Bernice proceeded with great pomp to the hall of audience, accompanied by the military commanders and the prominent civilians of the town. Festus then ordered Paul to be brought in.

When he brought this forward in his defence, Festus called out, "Paul, you are quite mad! Your great learning is driving you insane."

For a number of days we made a slow passage and had great difficulty in arriving off Cnidus; then, as the wind checked our progress, we sailed under the lee of Crete off Cape Salmone,

and coasting along it with great difficulty we reached a place called Fair Havens, not far from the town of Lasea.

When a moderate southerly breeze sprang up, they thought they had secured their object, and after weighing anchor they sailed along the coast of Crete, close inshore.

Running under the lee of a small island called Clauda, we managed with great difficulty to get the boat hauled in;

When they had gone without food for a long time, Paul stood up among them and said, "Men, you should have listened to me and spared yourselves this hardship and loss by refusing to set sail from Crete.

When we did reach Rome, Paul got permission to live by himself, with a soldier to guard him.