I have given an earlier account, O Theophilus, of all the things which Jesus did, and of his teaching from the first,

till the day in which, having given command, through the Holy Spirit, to the apostles whom he did choose out, he was taken up,

to whom also he did present himself alive after his suffering, in many certain proofs, through forty days being seen by them, and speaking the things concerning the reign of God.

And being assembled together with them, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, 'Ye did hear of me;

and he said unto them, 'It is not yours to know times or seasons that the Father did appoint in His own authority;

And these things having said -- they beholding -- he was taken up, and a cloud did receive him up from their sight;

Then did they return to Jerusalem from the mount that is called of Olives, that is near Jerusalem, a sabbath's journey;

They all united in devoting themselves to Prayer, and so did some women, and Mary, the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

because he was numbered among us, and did receive the share in this ministration,

'It behoveth, therefore, of the men who did go with us during all the time in which the Lord Jesus went in and went out among us,

to receive the share of this ministration and apostleship, from which Judas, by transgression, did fall, to go on to his proper place;'

and they were all amazed, and did wonder, saying one unto another, 'Lo, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

Cretes and Arabians, we did hear them speaking in our tongues the great things of God.'

“Men of Israel, listen to these words: This Jesus the Nazarene was a man pointed out to you by God with miracles, wonders, and signs that God did among you through Him, just as you yourselves know.

this one, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, being given out, having taken by lawless hands, having crucified -- ye did slay;

whom God did raise up, having loosed the pains of the death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it,

therefore did my heart rejoice, my tongue was glad: and my body shall rest in hope.

a prophet, therefore, being, and knowing that with an oath God did swear to him, out of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, to raise up the Christ, to sit upon his throne,

Seeing this in advance, he spoke concerning the resurrection of the Messiah:

He was not left in Hades,
and His flesh did not experience decay.

'This Jesus did God raise up, of which we are all witnesses;

for David did not go up to the heavens, and he saith himself: The Lord saith to my lord, Sit thou at my right hand,

assuredly, therefore, let all the house of Israel know, that both Lord and Christ did God make him -- this Jesus whom ye did crucify.'

and with many other discourses did he conjure and exhort them, to save themselves from that depraved generation.

then those, indeed, who did gladly receive his word were baptized, and there were added on that day, as it were, three thousand souls,

and continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they did eat their meals with gladness, and simplicity of heart,

Peter looked him straight in the eye, and so did John, and said, "Look at us."

and springing up, he stood, and was walking, and did enter with them into the temple, walking and springing, and praising God;

The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, did glorify His child Jesus, whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, he having given judgment to release him,

and ye the Holy and Righteous One did deny, and desired a man -- a murderer -- to be granted to you,

and the Prince of the life ye did kill, whom God did raise out of the dead, of which we are witnesses;

and on the faith of his name, this one whom ye see and have known, his name made strong, even the faith that is through him did give to him this perfect soundness before you all.

“And now, brothers, I know that you did it in ignorance, just as your leaders also did.

and God, what things before He had declared through the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ should suffer, He did thus fulfil;

Moses, indeed, said: 'The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, as He did me. You must attentively listen to everything that He tells you.

and also all the prophets from Samuel and those following in order, as many as spake, did also foretell of these days.

to you first, God, having raised up His child Jesus, did send him, blessing you, in the turning away of each one from your evil ways.'

and they laid hands upon them, and did put them in custody unto the morrow, for it was evening already;

and many of those hearing the word did believe, and the number of the men became, as it were, five thousand.

and having set them in the midst, they were inquiring, 'In what power, or in what name did ye do this?'

be it known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye did crucify, whom God did raise out of the dead, in him hath this one stood by before you whole.

for we cannot but speak what we did see and hear.'

and they having heard, with one accord did lift up the voice unto God, and said, 'Lord, thou art God, who didst make the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all that are in them,

You said through the Holy Spirit, by the mouth of our father David Your servant:

Why did the Gentiles rage
and the peoples plot futile things?

The kings of the earth did set themselves in array; and the rulers assembled together, against the Lord, and against His Christ.'

For, in truth, against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou didst anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, did meet together,

to do whatever Thy hand and Thy counsel did determine before to come to pass.

and of the multitude of those who did believe the heart and the soul was one, and not one was saying that anything of the things he had was his own, but all things were to them in common.

and with great power did the apostles give witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.

for there was not any one among them who did lack, for as many as were possessors of fields, or houses, selling them, were bringing the prices of the thing sold,

and did keep back of the price -- his wife also knowing -- and having brought a certain part, at the feet of the apostles he laid it.

And Peter said, 'Ananias, wherefore did the Adversary fill thy heart, for thee to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back of the price of the place?

while it remained, did it not remain thine? and having been sold, in thy authority was it not? why is it that thou didst put in thy heart this thing? thou didst not lie to men, but to God;'

and Ananias hearing these words, having fallen down, did expire, and great fear came upon all who heard these things,

After an interval of about three hours, his wife came in, but she did not know what had happened.

“Tell me,” Peter asked her, “did you sell the field for this price?”

“Yes,” she said, “for that price.”

Then Peter said to her, “Why did you agree to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look! The feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out!”

did not venture to approach near them. the number of those who believed in the Lord, both men and women, increas'd more and more.

and laid their hands upon the apostles, and did put them in a public prison;

and having heard, they did enter at the dawn into the temple, and were teaching. And the chief priest having come, and those with him, they called together the sanhedrim and all the senate of the sons of Israel, and they sent to the prison to have them brought,

But when the temple police got there, they did not find them in the jail, so they returned and reported,

and coming near, a certain one told them, saying -- 'Lo, the men whom ye did put in the prison are in the temple standing and teaching the people;'

[Immediately] the captain, with his officers, went [to the Temple] and brought the apostles back again, but did not use any violence because they feared that the people might stone them.

“Didn’t we strictly order you not to teach in this name? And look, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to bring this man’s blood on us!”

and the God of our fathers did raise up Jesus, whom ye slew, having hanged upon a tree;

Him did God exalt with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

for before these days rose up Theudas, saying, that himself was some one, to whom a number of men did join themselves, as it were four hundred, who was slain, and all, as many as were obeying him, were scattered, and came to nought.

Every day, both in the temple [courts] and from house [to house], they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the good news [that] the Christ [was] Jesus.

And the thing was pleasing before all the multitude, and they did choose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch,

whom they did set before the apostles, and they, having prayed, laid on them their hands.

And the word of God did increase, and the number of the disciples did multiply in Jerusalem exceedingly; a great multitude also of the priests were obedient to the faith.

And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.

They did stir up also the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and having come upon him, they caught him, and brought him to the sanhedrim;

and he said, 'Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken: The God of the glory did appear to our father Abraham, being in Mesopotamia, before his dwelling in Haran,

'Then having come forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, he dwelt in Haran, and from thence, after the death of his father, He did remove him to this land wherein ye now dwell,

He didn’t give him an inheritance in it, not even a foot of ground, but He promised to give it to him as a possession, and to his descendants after him, even though he was childless.

Then He gave him the covenant of circumcision. After this, he fathered Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; Isaac did the same with Jacob, and Jacob with the 12 patriarchs.

and did deliver him out of all his tribulations, and gave him favour and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he did set him -- governor over Egypt and all his house.

in the mean time a famine spread over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, so that our fathers did not know where to get provisions.

and Joseph having sent, did call for his father Jacob, and all his kindred -- with seventy and five souls --

And Jacob went down to Egypt, and came to his end there, and so did our fathers;

'And according as the time of the promise was drawing nigh, which God did swear to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

until a different king who did not know Joseph ruled over Egypt.

this one, having dealt subtilely with our kindred, did evil to our fathers, causing to expose their babes, that they might not live;

and he having been exposed, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and did rear him to herself for a son;

and having seen a certain one suffering injustice, he did defend, and did justice to the oppressed, having smitten the Egyptian;

He assumed his brothers would understand that God would give them deliverance through him, but they did not understand.

But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?

You do not want to do away with me {the same way} you did away with the Egyptian yesterday, [do you]?'

and Moses having seen did wonder at the sight; and he drawing near to behold, there came a voice of the Lord unto him,

I am the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob. So Moses began to tremble and did not dare to look.

seeing I have seen the affliction of My people that is in Egypt, and their groaning I did hear, and came down to deliver them; and now come, I will send thee to Egypt.

This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.

this one did bring them forth, having done wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years;

this is the Moses who did say to the sons of Israel: A prophet to you shall the Lord your God raise up out of your brethren, like to me, him shall ye hear.

'This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the messenger who is speaking to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers who did receive the living oracles to give to us;

to whom our fathers did not wish to become obedient, but did thrust away, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

Then God turned away and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:

House of Israel, did you bring Me offerings and sacrifices
40 years in the wilderness?

'The tabernacle of the testimony was among our fathers in the wilderness, according as He did direct, who is speaking to Moses, to make it according to the figure that he had seen;

which also our fathers having in succession received, did bring in with Joshua, into the possession of the nations whom God did drive out from the presence of our fathers, till the days of David,

Did not My hand make all these things?