to whom He also presented Himself alive, after He suffered, by many proofs; being seen by them during forty days, and speaking the things concerning the Kingdom of God.

Cretans, and Arabians??e hear them speaking in our own languages the wonderful works of God?"

'And it shall be in the last days', saith God, 'I will pour out of My Spirit upon 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 Nazarene, a man accredited from God to you by miracles, and wonders, and signs, which God did through Him in the midst of you, even as ye yourselves know;

This Man, delivered up by the settled counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye, having fastened to the cross, through the hand of lawless ones, did slay:

Whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death; because it was not possible that He should be held by it.

being, therefore, a prophet, and knowing that with an oath God swore to him, that out of the fruit of his loins One should sit on his throne;

"This Jesus God raised up; of which fact we all are witnesses.

Being, therefore, exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He was pouring forth this which ye both see and hear.

"Therefore, let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God made Him both Lord and Christ??his Jesus Whom ye crucified."

for the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all those afar off??s many as the Lord our God shall call to Him."

praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord was adding to them daily those who were being saved.

And a certain man, lame from his mother's womb, was being carried along, whom they were wont to lay daily at the gate of the temple??hich was called "Beautiful"??o ask alms of those entering the temple;

and, leaping forth, he stood, and was walking about; and he entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.

And all the people saw him walking about, and praising God;

and they were recognizing him, that this was he who was wont to sit for alms, at the Beautiful gate of the temple; and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened to him.

The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His Child Jesus, Whom ye, indeed, delivered up, and denied before Pilate's face, when he gave judgment to release Him;

and the Prince of life ye killed; Whom God raised from the dead??f which fact we are witnesses.

but God thus fulfilled what He before announced through the mouth of all His prophets, that His Christ should suffer.

Whom Heaven must retain, until the times of restoration of all things of which God spake through the mouth of all His holy prophets from the beginning.

Moses, indeed, said, 'A prophet will the Lord your God raise up for you from among your brethren, as He did me; to Him shall ye hearken in all things, whatsoever He shall say to you.

Ye are the sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your Seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.'

To you first, God, having raised up His Child, sent Him forth, blessing you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities."

if we are this day examined in regard to a good deed done to an impotent man, by what means this person has been made whole;

be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Nazarene, Whom ye crucified, Whom God raised from the dead, in Him does this man stand here before you well!

But Peter and John, answering, said to them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to hearken to you, rather than to God, judge ye;

And they, when they had further threatened them, released them, finding no way to punish them, on account of the people; because all were glorifying God for what had taken place;

And they, having heard it, lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, "Lord, Thou Who didst make the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all things in them;

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

While remaining, did it not remain your own? and, when sold, did it not continue in your own authority? Why did you conceive in your heart this thing? You did not lie to men, but to God."

But Peter and the apostles, answering, said, "It is proper to obey God rather than men.

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, Whom ye slew, having suspended Him on a tree:

This One God exalted as a Prince and Savior, with His right hand, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

And we are witnesses of these things; also the Holy Spirit, Whom God gave to those who obey Him."

but, if it be of God, ye will not be able to overthrow them; lest perhaps ye be found even fighting against God."

And the twelve, having called the multitude of the disciples to them, said, "It is not proper that we, leaving the word of God, should serve tables;

And the word of God was increasing, and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem was being multiplied exceedingly; a great multitude also of the priests were becoming obedient to the faith.

Then they suborned men, who said, "We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and against God."

But he said, "Brethren and fathers, the God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, while he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,

And God spake thus; that his seed would be a sojourner in a foreign land; and they would bring it into servitude, and ill-use it four hundred years.

'And the nation to which they shall be in bondage will I judge,' said God; 'and, after these things, shall they come forth, and they shall serve Me in this place.'

And the patriarchs, moved with jealousy, sold Joseph into Egypt. And God was with him,

But, as the time of the promise which God promised to Abraham was drawing nigh, the people increased and were multiplied in Egypt,

In which season Moses was born, and was beautiful to God; who was nourished three months in the house of his father;

And he was supposing that his brethren understood that God, through his hand, would give them deliverance; but they understood not.

'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob.' And Moses, becoming terrified, was not daring to examine it.

This Moses whom they denied, saying, 'Who appointed you a ruler and a judge?' him hath God sent as both ruler and redeemer, with the hand of the angel that appeared to him in the bush.

This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, A Prophet will God raise up for you of your brethren, as He did me.

But God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it has been written in a book of the prophets, 'Did ye offer to Me slain beasts and sacrifices, forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

And ye took up the tent of Moloch, and the star of the god Rephan??he figures which ye made to worship them; and I will remove you beyond Babylon.'

which also our fathers, having received in succession, brought in with Joshua, in taking possession of the nations which God thrust out before the face of our fathers, until the days of David;

who found favor in the sight of God, and asked that he might find 'A habitation for the God of Jacob.'

Now, while hearing these things, they were being cut to their hearts, and were gnashing their teeth over him.

But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looking intently into Heaven, saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God;

and he said, "Behold I see Heaven opened, and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God!"

Those, therefore, who were dispersed, went about, proclaiming the good tidings of the word.

to whom all were giving heed, from small to great, saying, "This man is the power of God, which is called Great."

But, when they believed Philip proclaiming the glad tidings concerning the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were being immersed, both men and women.

Now the apostles in Jerusalem, hearing that Samaria had received the word of God, sent to them Peter and John;

But Peter said to him, "Your money perish with you, because you thought to acquire the gift of God with money!

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

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

[And Philip said, "If you believe with all your heart, you may." And he answered and said, "I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God."]

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

and straightway in the synagogues he was preaching Jesus, that He is the Son of God.

Now there was in Joppa a certain disciple, Tabitha by name, (which being translated means Dorcas): this woman was full of good works and alms which she was accustomed to do.

New a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of a band, called the Italian band??2 devout, and fearing God with all his house, giving many alms to the people, and praying to God continually??3 saw in a vision manifestly, about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of God coming in to him, and saying to him, "Cornelius!"

And he, looking intently on him, and becoming much afraid, said, "What is it, lord?" And he said to him, "Your prayers and alms went up for a memorial before God.

And a voice came to him again, a second time, "What God cleansed, count not common."

Now, as Peter was much perplexed in himself as to what the vision which he saw might mean, behold, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon's house, stood at the gate;

And they said, "Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man, and one fearing God, well reported of also by all the nation of the Jews, was divinely warned by a holy angel to send for you to his house, and to hear words from you."

and he says to them, "Ye know that it is unlawful for a Jew to join himself with, or come to, one of another race; and yet God showed me that I should call no man common or unclean.

and says, 'Cornelius, your prayer was heard, and your alms were remembered before God.

At once, therefore, I sent to you; and you did well, in coming. Now, therefore, we are all present before God, to hear all the things that have been commanded you by the Lord."

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

how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power; Who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed by the Devil; because God was with Him.

Him God raised on the third day, and gave Him to become manifest;

not to all the people, but to witnesses before appointed by God??o us who ate and drank with Him after He rose from the dead.

And He commanded us to preach to the people, and to fully testify that it is He Who hath been ordained by God Judge of the living and dead.

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

Now the apostles, and the brethren who were in Judaea, heard that the gentiles also received the word of God.

But a voice answered a second time out of the heaven, 'What God cleansed, make not common.'

If, therefore, God gave them the like gift, as to us who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?"

And, having heard these things, they were silent, and glorified God, saying, "Then, to the gentiles also God gave repentance unto life."

who, having come, and having seen the grace of God, rejoiced, and was exhorting all that, with purpose of heart, they should cleave to the Lord;

because he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit, and of faith; and a great multitude was added to the Lord.

and, having found him, he brought him to Antioch. And it came to pass that, even for a whole year, they met together in the assembly, and taught a great multitude; and that the disciples got the name "Christian" first in Antioch.

Peter, therefore, was kept in the prison; but prayer was being earnestly made by the assembly to God in his behalf.

And, having passed the first and second watch; they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them of its own accord; and, going out, they passed on through one street, and straightway the angel departed from him.

And, when he knocked at the door of the gate, a maid came near to answer, Rhoda by name.

And, recognizing the voice of Peter, she opened not the gate for joy; but, running in, she told them that Peter was standing before the gate.

And the people were shouting, "It is the voice of a god, and not of a man!"

And immediately an angel of the Lord smote him, because he did not give God the glory; and, having been eaten by worms, he expired.

But the word of God was growing, and multiplying.

And, having arrived in Salamis, they declared the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews; and they had John also as an attendant.

who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man; the same having called for Barnabas and Saul, desired to hear the word of God;

And Paul, standing up, and beckoning with his hand, said, "Men of Israel, and ye who fear God, hearken!

The God of this people Israel chose our fathers; and He exalted the people in their sojourn in the land of Egypt; and, with a high arm, He led them forth out of it.

And afterward they asked for a king; and God gave them Saul, a son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years;

From the seed of this one, God, according to promise, brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus;