to whom also he had shewed himself alive, after he had suffered, by many infallible proofs, during forty days being frequently seen by them, and speaking of the things which relate to the kingdom of God:

Cretans and Arabians, we hear them speaking in our own several tongues the marvellous things of God.

"And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour our of my spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:

Men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus the Nazarean, a man from God, pointed out to you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as yourselves also know:

him, by the destined counsel and foreknowledge of God delivered up, ye have seized, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: forasmuch as it was not possible that he should be held thereby.

Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn to him with an oath, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Messiah to sit upon his throne;

This very Jesus hath God raised up, of which we all are witnesses.

He therefore being exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, hath poured out this, which ye now see and hear.

Let all the house of Israel therefore know assuredly, that God hath made him Lord and Messiah, even that very Jesus whom ye crucified.

Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said unto Peter and the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?

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

praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added the saved ones daily to the church.

when a certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple called Beautiful, to ask alms of those who were entering into the temple;

And springing up he stood on his feet, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.

And all the people beheld him walking and praising God:

and they took notice of him, that it was the same person who had sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with astonishment and amazed at what had happened to him.

The God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.

but ye slew the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead: of which we are witnesses.

But the things which God before announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Messiah should suffer, he hath thus fulfilled.

whom the heaven indeed must receive, until the times of restoration of all things, which God hath spoken of by the mouth of all his holy prophets from the beginning of the world.

For Moses truly said unto the fathers, "A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you from among your brethren, like myself; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall speak to you.

Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And "in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed."

Unto you in the first instance, hath God, after raising up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, to the end that every one of you should turn away from your iniquities.

if we are this day examined relative to the good deed done to the infirm man, by what means he was restored;

be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarean, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by him doth this man stand here sound in your presence.

But Peter and John, answering them, said, If it be right in the sight of God to obey you rather than God, be yourselves the judges.

Then they with many additional threatenings dismissed them, finding no pretext how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for what had been done.

Now when they heard it, they lifted up their united voice to God, and said, Lord, thou art the God which made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all things which are in them:

And while they were praying, the place in which they were assembled was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.

it remained unsold, was it not vested in thee? and when sold, was it not in thine own power? why then hast thou determined in thine heart to do this deed? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.

Then Peter and the apostles answering said, We must obey God rather than men.

The God of our fathers hath raised up Jesus, whom ye had killed, suspending him on a tree.

Him hath God exalted at his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, to give repentance unto Israel, and remission of sins.

And we are witnesses of these things; and the Holy Ghost also, which God hath given to those who obey him.

But when they heard this, they were cut asunder as with a saw, and took counsel how to make away with them.

but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; and in that case would be found fighters against God.

Then the twelve assembling the multitude of the disciples, said, It is not fit that we should leave the word of God, to make distribution to the tables.

And the word of God increased: and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem was multiplied greatly; and a vast body of the priests were obedient to the faith.

Then they suborned men to say, We heard him speak blasphemous things against Moses, and against God.

He replied, Men, brethren, and fathers, hear me: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,

Then he went out from the country of the Chaldeans, and, dwelt in Charran: and from thence, after his father was dead, God removed him as a sojourner into this very country, in which we now dwell.

Then spake God to him thus, That his seed should sojourn in a foreign land: and that they should enslave it, and grievously afflict it, four hundred years.

And the nation by which they shall be enslaved will I judge, said God: and after these things they shall come out, and shall worship me in this place.

And the patriarchs, envious, sold Joseph into Egypt: yet God was with him,

But as the time of the promise which God had with an oath confirmed unto Abraham drew nigh, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

At which time Moses was born, and was endued with singular beauty from God, who was brought up three months in the house of his father:

For he thought that his brethren would understand that God by his hand would give them deliverance: but they understood not.

"I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Then Moses trembling, dared not to look farther.

This very Moses whom they had rejected, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and redeemer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

This is the Moses who said unto the children of Israel, "A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up for you from among your brethren, as myself; him shall ye hear."

Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, Have ye offered me slain beasts and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

Yet have ye taken up the tabernacle of Moloc, and the star of your god Remphan, those figures which ye made to pay adoration to them: and I will transport you beyond Babylon.

Which also our fathers having received, brought in with Joshua into the place possessed by the Gentiles, whom God drove out from before the presence of our fathers, unto the days of David;

who found favour before God, and sought to procure an habitation for the God of Jacob.

Now when they heard these things, they were cut through their hearts as with a saw, and gnashed upon him with their teeth.

But he being full of the Holy Ghost, and looking up stedfastly to heaven, saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God;

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

to whom all gave heed from the small to the great, saying, This man is the great power of God.

But when they believed Philip, who preached the glad tidings of the things which related to the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptised both men and women.

But when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John:

But Peter said unto him, May thy silver with thyself go into perdition, because thou hast imagined that the gift of God can be purchased with money.

There is for thee neither part nor lot in this word: for thy heart is not right before God.

Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray to God, if haply this thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee.

And Philip said, If thou believest with the whole heart, it is allowable. Then he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

And immediately he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God.

But the disciples taking him by night, got him off through the wall, letting him down in a basket.

Then had the churches peace through all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, being edified; and walking in the fear of God, and in the consolation of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.

But there was at Joppa a woman, a disciple, named Tabitha, (which by interpretation is called Dorcas:) this woman was full of good works and of alms which she did.

a man of piety, and who feared God with all his house, giving much alms to the people, and praying to God continually.

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

Then looking stedfastly on him, and being terrified, he said, What means this, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.

And the voice again a second time came to him, What God hath cleansed, call not thou unclean.

Then they said, Cornelius a centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report with all the nation of the Jews, has been divinely admonished by a holy angel to send for thee to his house, to hear words from thee.

And he said unto them, Ye know how contrary it is to established usage, for a man who is a Jew to associate with or visit one of another nation; but God hath shewed me to call no man common or unclean.

and said, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thy alms are remembered before God.

Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast done well in coming. Now therefore are all we here present before God, to hear all things that are given in charge to thee from God.

Then Peter opening his mouth, said, In truth I perceive that God is not a respecter of persons:

respecting Jesus, who was of Nazareth, how God had anointed him with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were tyrannically oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

him God raised up the third day, and ordained that he should be visibly manifested;

not to all the people, but to witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he was arisen from the dead.

And hath commanded us to proclaim to the people, and to bear our testimony that this is the person who is ordained of God the Judge of the living and the dead.

For they heard them speaking in different languages, and magnifying God. Then Peter addressed them,

NOW the apostles and brethren who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.

But the voice replied the second time from heaven, What God hath cleansed, call not thou common.

If God then gave an equal gift to them even as to us, on believing on the Lord Jesus Christ; I, indeed, who was I, that I should be able to restrain God?

So when they heard these things they were satisfied, and glorified God, saying, Well! then hath God even to the Gentiles given repentance unto life.

Who, when he arrived there, and beheld the grace of God, rejoiced, and exhorted them all, with full purpose of heart to adhere to the Lord.

For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and a great multitude was added to the Lord.

So then Peter was kept in prison: but fervent prayer was offered up by the church to God for him.

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

But instantly the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not the glory to God: and being devoured with worms, he expired.

And being at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had John also as their attendant.

who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man; he inviting to his house Barnabas and Saul, desired earnestly to hear the word of God.

Then Paul arose, and waving his hand, said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, hear me.

The God of this people Israel selected our fathers, and exalted the people during their abode in the land of Egypt, and with a mighty arm brought he them out of it.

And from that time they desired a king: and God gave them Saul the son of Kis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, during forty years.

From this man's seed according to the promise hath God raised up to Israel a Saviour, Jesus:

Men and brethren, children of the race of Abraham, and all among you who fear God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.

But God raised him from the dead: