And assembling them, he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which [says he] you have heard from me;

For he was numbered with us, and obtained the inheritance of this service.

For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his dwelling be desolate and let no one dwell in it, and his superintendency let another take.

and there appeared to them divided tongues as of fire, and [one] sat on each one of them;

and when this sound was [heard], the multitude came together and were astonished, for they each one heard them speaking in his own language.

For these are not drunk as you suppose, for it is the third hour of the day [9 A.M.],

And I will show prodigies in heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and a cloud of smoke.

For David says of him, I saw the Lord always before me, he is on my right hand that I should not be moved;

for thou wilt not leave my soul in hades, nor suffer thy Holy One to see destruction.

For David ascended not to heaven, but he says, The Lord said to my lord, Sit on my right hand

And Peter said to them, Change your minds, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

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

And fear was on every soul, and many prodigies and miracles were performed by the apostles.

and they knew him, that he was the one who sat for charity at the beautiful gate of the temple, and they were filled with wonder and astonishment at what had happened to him.

and they laid hands on them and put them in prison till the next day; for it was now evening.

And there is salvation in no other; for there is no other name given under heaven among men, by which we can be saved.

saying, What shall we do to these men? for that a notable miracle has been performed by them is manifest to all that live at Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it;

for we cannot but tell what we have seen and heard.

And threatening them still further, they dismissed them, not being able to punish them, on account of the people, because all glorified God for what was done;

for the man was more than forty years old on whom this miracle of the cure was performed.

For of a truth, in this city, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the gentiles and people of Israel, were assembled together against thy holy servant Jesus whom thou hast anointed,

For no one among them was needy; for those who possessed lands or houses sold and brought the prices of the things sold,

And Ananias hearing these words fell down and expired; and great fear was upon all who heard.

And Peter answered her, Tell me whether you sold the field for so much? And she said, Yes; for so much.

And great fear was on all the assembly [church], and on all that heard of these things.

Then the commander going away with the officers brought them without violence, for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned;

For before these days Theudas arose, saying that he was somebody, to whom a number of men, about four hundred, adhered, who was destroyed, and all who obeyed him passed away and came to nothing.

They went therefore from the presence of the Sanhedrim, rejoicing that they were accounted worthy to suffer shame for the name of [Christ];

for we have heard him say, that Jesus this Nazoraean will destroy this place and change the customs which Moses gave us.

And [God] gave him no inheritance in it, not the breadth of a foot, and promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his posterity after him, when as yet he had no son.

And God said thus; that his posterity should be a stranger in a foreign land, and they shall enslave it and treat it injuriously four hundred years;

and delivered him from all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and [he] made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

and the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's family was made known to Pharaoh.

And Joseph sent and called for his father Jacob, and all the family of seventy-five souls.

and they carried him back to Shechem and buried him in the tomb which Abraham bought for money of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem.

but being exposed, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up and nourished him as her own son.

And seeing one injured he defended him, and executed judgment for the oppressed, smiting the Egyptian.

And forty years being completed there appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, an angel in a flame of fire, in a bush.

And the Lord said to him, Put off your shoes from your feet; for the place on which you stand is holy ground.

This is the Moses who said to the children of Israel, A prophet shall God raise up for you, of your brothers, like me.

saying to Aaron, Make us gods to go before us; for this Moses who led us up out of Egypt, we know not what has happened to him.

who found favor with God and desired to find a dwelling for the God of Jacob.

And pious men buried Stephen and made a great lamentation for him.

For impure spirits came out of many who had them, crying with a loud voice; and many paralytics and lame persons were cured;

And they attended to him because for a long time he had astonished them with his magic arts.

who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit;

for it had not yet fallen on any of them, only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

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

for I see you are in the gall of bitterness and bond of wickedness.

And Simon answered and said, Pray to the Lord for me, that none of the things which you have said may come upon me.

And he said [No]; for how can I unless some one teaches me? And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

In his humiliation his judgment was taken away; and who will tell of his generation? for his life was taken from the earth.

And when they went up from the water the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, and the eunuch saw him no more; for he went his way rejoicing.

And the Lord said to him, Arise and go to the street called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas for [a man] by the name of Saul of Tarsus; for behold, he prays,

But the Lord said to him, Go, for he is a chosen vessel to me, to bear my name both before nations and kings, and the children of Israel;

for I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name.

And all that heard him were astonished and said, Is not this he that destroyed those who called on this name at Jerusalem, and has come here for this purpose, that he might lead them bound to the chief priests?

Then had the church peace in all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, and being built up, and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.

And he found there a certain man by the name of AEneas, who had lain on a bed for eight years, and was a paralytic.

And Peter said to him, AEneas, Jesus Christ cures you; arise and make your bed for yourself. And he immediately arose;

And now send men to Joppa and call for a certain Simon who is called Peter;

and he beheld heaven opened, and a certain vessel like a great sheet descending, let down by four corners to the earth,

But Peter said, By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten any thing common and impure.

And while Peter doubted with himself what the vision which he had seen meant, behold, even [then] the men sent by Cornelius, having inquired for the house of Simon, stood at the gate,

arise and go down and go with them without hesitation, for I have sent them.

And Peter went down to the men and said, Behold, I am the man whom you seek; what is the cause for which you have come?

And they said, Cornelius a centurion, a righteous man, and one that fears God, and esteemed by all the nation of the Jews, was divinely instructed by a holy angel to send for you to his house and hear words from you.

and he said to them, You know that it is not lawful for a Jew to associate with a man of another nation, or come into his house; and God has taught me not to call any man common or impure;

wherefore, being sent for I also came without objecting. I ask therefore for what reason you have sent for me?

Jesus from Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and power, who went about doing good and curing all that were subjugated by the devil, for God was with him;

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

I was in the city of Joppa praying, and I saw a vision in a trance, a vessel like a great sheet descending, let down by the four corners from heaven, and it came to me;

And I said, By no means, Lord, for nothing common or impure has ever entered into my mouth.

And behold, immediately three men came to the house in which I was, being sent for me from Caesarea.

And a report concerning them was brought to the ears of the church at Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to go as far as Antioch;

for he was a good man and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a great multitude were added to the Lord.

And he went to Tarsus to seek for Saul,

And seeing that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to apprehend Peter also,??nd it was during the days of unleavened bread,??4 and having seized he put him in prison, committing him to four companies of four soldiers each to guard him, wishing after the passover to bring him before the people.

Peter therefore was kept by the guard; but prayer was made incessantly by the church to God for him.

And while they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.

and coming to Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews; and they also had John for a servant.

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

but Elymas the magian, for so his name is interpreted, opposed them, seeking to turn away the proconsul from the faith.

And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell upon him a mist and darkness, and going about he sought guides.

And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the synagogue rulers sent to them, saying, Men and brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.

And Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand, said, Men of Israel, and you that fear God, hear.

And after this he gave judges four hundred and fifty years till Samuel the prophet.

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

and removing him, he raised up for them David for a king, of whom also he said and testified, I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.

Men and brothers, children of the race of Abraham, and you that fear God, the word of this salvation is sent to you.

For those living at Jerusalem, and their rulers, not knowing him and the words of the prophets which are read every sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning [him];

For David, having in his generation served the will of God, fell asleep, and was gathered to his fathers and saw destruction;

Behold, despisers, and wonder and perish, for I perform a work in your days, a work which you shall by no means believe even if one declares it to you.

For thus has the Lord commanded us; I have set you for a light of nations, that you should be a salvation even to the end of the earth.

Then they spent a long time in speaking boldly for the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace by granting miracles and prodigies to be performed by their hands.

and thence sailed to Antioch, whence they had been commended to the favor of God for the work which they performed.

Simeon has related how God first visited the gentiles to take a people for his name.

For Moses from ancient times has those who preach him in every city, being read in the synagogues every sabbath.

men who have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to put no greater burden upon you except these necessary things;