The former narrative I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus both did and taught from the beginning

And while in assembly with them, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for what had been promised by the Father, which [said he] ye heard from me;

who said, Men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This Jesus, who hath been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same manner in which ye beheld him going into heaven.

Then they returned to Jerusalem, from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, within a sabbathdays journey.

from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us, must one be made a witness with us of his resurrection.

to take the part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell away, that he might go to his own place.

Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven.

Being then a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn to him with an oath that he would set one sprung from his loins upon his throne,

Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit, he hath poured forth this, which ye both see and hear.

And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this perverse generation.

And a certain man lame from his birth was carried along, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of those who entered the temple;

And he gave heed to them, expecting to receive something from them.

But the author of life ye killed; whom God raised from the dead, whereof we are witnesses.

Repent therefore and turn from your ways, that your sins may be blotted out, in order that the times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

whom heaven indeed must receive until the times of a restoration of all things; of which times God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from the days of old.

Moses indeed said, "A prophet will the Lord your God raise up to you from among your brethren, as be raised up me; him shall ye hear in all things, whatever he shall speak to you.

And it shall come to pass, that every soul which doth not hear that prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people."

To you first, God, having raised up his servant, sent him to bless you in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.

being indignant that they taught the people, and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

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

And now I say to you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone; for if this design or this work be of men, it will come to nought;

They therefore went away from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame in behalf of that name;

But some of those who belonged to the socalled synagogue of the Freedmen, and of the Cyrenaeans and Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, arose and disputed with Stephen;

and said to him, "Go forth from thy country and thy kindred, and come into the land which I will show thee."

Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Haran; and from thence, after his father was dead, he caused him to remove into this land wherein ye now dwell;

And the Lord said to him, "Loose the sandals from thy feet; for the place where thou standest is holy ground.

This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, "A prophet will God raise up to you from among your brethren, as he raised up me."

to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back into Egypt,

which also our fathers received and brought in with Joshua, at their taking possession of the gentiles whom God drove out from before our fathers, until the days of David;

For from many that had unclean spirits came they out crying with a loud voice; and many that were palsied, and that were lame, were cured.

to whom they gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the Power of God, which is called Great.

But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, Arise, and go towards the south, to the way that goeth down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert way.

In his humiliation judgment was refused him; and who shall describe his generation? for his life is taken away from the earth."

And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus; and suddenly there shone around a him a light from heaven;

And Saul arose from the earth; but when his eyes were opened, he saw nothing; and they led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.

But Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how great evils he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem.

And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name.

And immediately there fell off from his eyes as it were scales; and he received sight, and arose, and was baptized.

Now, while Peter was doubting within himself what the vision which he had seen meant, lo! the men who were sent from Cornelius had made inquiry for Simons house, and stood before the gate;

And they said, Cornelius a centurion, a righteous man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by a holy angel to send for thee to his house, and to hear words from thee.

Then he called them in, and lodged them. And on the morrow he arose and went forth with them, and certain of the brethren from Joppa accompanied him.

I therefore sent to thee immediately; and thou hast done well in coming here. Now therefore we are all present before God, to hear all things that have been commanded thee from the Lord.

Ye yourselves know what was spoken of through the whole of Judaea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism which John preached,

not to all the people, but to witnesses before appointed by God, to ourselves, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead;

But Peter rehearsed the matter to them in order from the beginning, saying,

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

And lo! immediately there stood three men at the house where I was, having been sent to me from Caesarea.

And in those days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

And lo! an angel of the Lord came to him, and a light shone in the room; and he smote Peter on the side, and roused him, saying, Rise up quickly. And his chains fell from his hands.

And when they had passed the first, and the second guard, they came to the iron gate that leadeth to the city, which opened to them of itself; and they went out and passed on through one street, and the angel immediately departed from him.

And when Peter had come to himself, he said, Now I know certainly, that the Lord hath sent forth his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.

And Herod, when he had sought for him and found him not, examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be led away [to execution]. And he went down from Judea to Caesarea, and there abode.

And he was highly displeased with the Tyrians and Sidonians; but they came to him with one accord, and having made Blastus the kings chamberlain their friend, sued for peace; because their country drew its nourishment from that of the king.

And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, having performed their service, taking with them also John, surnamed Mark.

They therefore being sent forth by the Holy Spirit, came down to Seleucia, and from thence sailed to Cyprus.

But Elymas the magian (for so is his name interpreted) withstood them, seeking so turn away the proconsul from the faith.

And Paul and his company, having put to sea from Paphos, came to Perga in Pamphylia. But John, departing from them, returned to Jerusalem.

And they, going on from Perga, came to Antioch in Pisidia; and they went into the synagogue on the sabbathday, and sat down.

From the seed of this man hath God, according to his promise, brought to Israel a Saviour, Jesus;

And when they had accomplished all that was written of him, they took him down from the cross, and laid him in a tomb.

But God raised him from the dead,

and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people.

God hath fulfilled to us their children, in raising up Jesus [from the dead]; as it is also written in the first Psalm: "Thou art my Son; I have this day begotten thee."

And that he raised him up from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he hath thus spoken: "I will give you the sure holy things promised to David."

but he whom God raised from the dead did not see corruption.

and by him every one that believeth is justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

Then Paul and Barnabas said boldly and plainly, It was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you; but seeing ye thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of the everlasting life, lo! we turn to the gentiles.

But the Jews stirred up the women of rank who worshipped God, and the chief men of the city, and raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them from their borders.

And at Lystra there sat a certain man who had not the use of his feet, a cripple from his birth, who never had walked.

and saying, Men, why do ye these things? We also are men of like nature with you, bringing to you glad tidings, that ye may turn from these vanities to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea, and all things that are therein;

although he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, giving you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.

And with these words, they hardly restrained the multitudes from sacrificing to them.

But there came thither Jews from Antioch and Iconium; who, having persuaded the multitudes, and stoned Paul, dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead.

And there came down certain men from Judaea, and taught the brethren, Unless ye are circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye cannot be saved.

which were known from the beginning."

Wherefore my judgment is, that we should not trouble those who from among the gentiles are turning to God;

but that we should write to them by letter to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from that which hath been strangled, and from blood.

For Moses from the times of old hath had in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath.

Then it was decided by the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among themselves, and send them to Antioch, with Paul and Barnabas, namely, Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren.

And they wrote by them, "The apostles, and the elders, and the brethren, to the brethren who are from the gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greeting.

Whereas we have heard, that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, to whom we gave no command;

to abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, ye will do well. Farewell."

And when they had remained some time, they were dismissed with peace from the brethren to those who sent them.

And there arose a sharp contention, so that they parted from each other, and Barnabas took Mark and sailed to Cyprus.

And setting sail from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothrace, and on the day following to Neapolis;

explaining them, and setting forth that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead, and that "this is the Christ,Jesus whom I am making known to you."

that they should seek God, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he is not far from every one of us.

inasmuch as he hath fixed a day, in which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he hath appointed; having given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.

Thus Paul departed from among them.

After these things, Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth.

And having found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, and Priscilla his wife, (because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome,) he came to them;

And when both Silas and Timothy had come from Macedonia, Paul was wholly engaged in the word, testifying to the Jews, that Jesus was the Christ.

And when they set themselves against him, and reviled, he shook his garments, and said to them, Your blood be upon your own heads! I am clean; from this time I will go to the gentiles.

And he drove them from the judgmentseat.

but having taken leave of them, saying, I will return to you, if God will, he set sail from Ephesus.

But when some were hardened, and believed not, but spoke evil of the way [of the Lord] before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, discoursing daily in the school of Tyrannus.

so that even handkerchiefs, or aprons, were carried from his body to the sick, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out.

But when the Recorder had quieted the multitude, he said, Men of Ephesus, who is there among men that doth not know that the city of the Ephesians is guardian of the great Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?

But we set sail from Philippi, after the days of unleavened bread, and came to them at Troas in five days, where we abode seven days.

And there sat on the window a certain young man named Eutychus, having fallen into a deep sleep; and as Paul was discoursing at great length, he sank down with sleep, and fell from thee third story, and was taken up dead.