"be it known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ, the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, in him does this man stand before you strong and well.

"Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made with hands; as said the prophet.

"The God who made the universe and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands,

At length the recorder got them quiet. "Men of Ephesus," he said, "who here does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple-guardian of the great Diana and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?

"For it does seem to me unreasonable to send a person without signifying the charges against him."

When the natives saw the reptile hanging on his hand, they began saying to one another, "No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet justice does not allow him to live."