And he said to them, It is not for you to have knowledge of the time and the order of events which the Father has kept in his control.

But you will have power, when the Holy Spirit has come on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judaea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

And they made prayers and said, Lord, having knowledge of the hearts of all men, make clear which of these two has been marked out by you,

This Jesus God has given back to life, of which we all are witnesses.

And so, being lifted up to the right hand of God, and having the Father's word that the Holy Spirit would come, he has sent this thing, which now you see and have knowledge of.

For David has not gone up into heaven, but says, himself, The Lord said to my Lord, Be seated at my right hand,

For this reason, let all Israel be certain that this Jesus, whom you put to death on the cross, God has made Lord and Christ.

The God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has given glory to his servant Jesus; whom you gave up, turning your backs on him, when Pilate had made the decision to let him go free.

And his name, through faith in his name, has made this man strong, whom you see and have knowledge of: yes, the faith which is through him has made him well, before you all.

But the things which God had made clear before, by the mouth of all the prophets, that the Christ would have to undergo, he has put into effect in this way.

Who is to be kept in heaven till the time when all things are put right, of which God has given word by the mouth of his holy prophets, who have been from the earliest times.

If we are questioned today about a good work done to a man who was ill, as to how he has been made well,

He is the stone which you builders had no use for, but which has been made the chief stone of the building.

Saying, What are we to do with these men? for certainly it is clear to all who are living in Jerusalem that a most important sign has been done by them, and it is not possible to say that it is not so.

Who has said, by the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of our father David your servant, Why are the nations so violently moved, and why are the thoughts of the people so foolish?

But Peter said, Ananias, why has the Evil One put it into your heart to be false to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

While you had it, was it not your property? and after you had given it in exchange, was it not still in your power? how has this purpose come into your mind? you have been false, not to men, but to God.

Him God has put on high at his right hand, as a Ruler and a Saviour, to give to Israel a change of heart and forgiveness of sins.

And we are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who keep his laws.

Then they got men to say, He has said evil against Moses and against God, in our hearing.

For he has said in our hearing that this Jesus of Nazareth will put this place to destruction and make changes in the rules which were handed down to us by Moses.

And saying to Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: as for this Moses, who took us out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has become of him.

But still, the Most High has not his resting-place in houses made with hands, as the prophet says,

Being of low degree, his cause was not given a hearing: who has knowledge of his family? for his life is cut off from the earth.

And he has seen a man named Ananias coming in and putting his hands on him, so that he may be able to see.

But Ananias said, Lord, I have had accounts of this man from a number of people, how much evil he has done to your saints at Jerusalem:

And here he has authority from the chief priests to make prisoners all who give worship to your name.

And Ananias went out and came to the house, and putting his hands on him, said, Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, whom you saw when you were on your journey, has sent me, so that you may be able to see, and be full of the Holy Spirit.

And he, looking on him in fear, said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and your offerings have come up to God, and he has kept them in mind.

And the voice came to him a second time, What God has made clean, do not you make common.

And he said to them, You yourselves have knowledge that it is against the law for a man who is a Jew to be in the company of one who is of another nation; but God has made it clear to me that no man may be named common or unclean:

Who said, Cornelius, your prayer has come to the ears of God, and your offerings are kept in his memory.

So, straight away, I sent for you; and you have done well to come. And now, we are all present before God, ready to give attention to all the things which the Lord has given you to say.

But in every nation, the man who has fear of him and does righteousness is pleasing to him.

And he gave us orders to give news of this to the people, and to give public witness that this is he whom God has made judge of the living and the dead.

To him all the prophets give witness, that through his name everyone who has faith in him will have forgiveness of sins.

But I said, No, Lord; for nothing common or unclean has ever come into my mouth.

But the voice, coming a second time from heaven, said, What God has made clean, do not you make common.

And hearing these things they said nothing more, but gave glory to God, saying, Then to the Gentiles as to us has God given a change of heart, so that they may have life.

And when Peter came to his senses he said, Now, truly, I am certain that the Lord has sent his angel and taken me out of the hands of Herod, against all the hopes of the Jews.

From this man's seed has God given to Israel a Saviour, even Jesus, as he gave his word;

Which God has now put into effect for our children, by sending Jesus; as it says in the second Psalm, You are my Son; this day I have given you being.

And about his coming back from the dead, never again to go to destruction, he has said these words, I will give you the holy and certain mercies of David.

And through him everyone who has faith is made free from all those things, from which the law of Moses was not able to make you free.

For so the Lord has given us orders, saying, I have given you for a light to the Gentiles so that you may be for salvation to the ends of the earth.

Symeon has given an account of how God was first pleased to take from among the Gentiles a people for himself.

After these things I will come back, and will put up the tent of David which has been broken down, building up again its broken parts and making it complete:

Says the Lord, who has made these things clear from the earliest times.

For Moses, from times long past, has his preachers in every town, reading his law in the Synagogues every Sabbath.

Whom Jason has taken into his house: and they are acting against the orders of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.

And he has made of one blood all the nations of men living on all the face of the earth, ordering their times and the limits of their lands,

Because a day has been fixed in which all the world will be judged in righteousness by the man who has been marked out by him for this work; of which he has given a sign to all men by giving him back from the dead.

And you see, for it has come to your ears, that not only at Ephesus, but almost all through Asia, this Paul has been teaching numbers of people and turning them away, saying that those are not gods who are made by men's hands:

And when they had come, he said to them, You yourselves have seen what my life has been like all the time from the day when I first came into Asia,

Give attention to yourselves, and to all the flock which the Holy Spirit has given into your care, to give food to the church of God, for which he gave his blood.

Crying out, Men of Israel, come to our help: this is the man who is teaching all men everywhere against the people and the law and this place: and in addition, he has taken Greeks into the Temple, and made this holy place unclean.

For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and of what has come to your ears.

And when they had put leather bands round him, Paul said to the captain who was present, Is it the law for you to give blows to a man who is a Roman and has not been judged?

And Paul, looking fixedly at the Sanhedrin, said, My brothers, my life has been upright before God till this day.

And Paul said, Brother, I had no idea that he was the high priest: for it has been said, You may not say evil about the ruler of your people.

And there was a great outcry: and some of the scribes on the side of the Pharisees got up and took part in the discussion, saying, We see no evil in this man: what if he has had a revelation from an angel or a spirit?

And Paul sent for a captain and said, Take this young man to your chief, for he has news for him.

So he took him to the chief captain and said, Paul, the prisoner, made a request to me to take this young man to you, for he has something to say to you.

To whom I gave answer that it is not the Roman way to give a man up, till he has been face to face with those who are attacking him, and has had a chance to give an answer to the statements made against him.

But, in my opinion, there is no cause of death in him, and as he himself has made a request to be judged by Caesar, I have said that I would send him.

But I have no certain account of him to send to Caesar. So I have sent for him to come before you, and specially before you, King Agrippa, so that after the business has been gone into, I may have something to put in writing.

And when he made his answer in these words, Festus said in a loud voice, Paul, you are off your head; your great learning has made you unbalanced.

For the king has knowledge of these things, to whom I am talking freely; being certain that all this is common knowledge to him; for it has not been done in secret.

And when they had gone away they said to one another, This man has done nothing which might give cause for death or prison.

Saying, Have no fear, Paul, for you will come before Caesar, and God has given to you all those who are sailing with you.

And when the people saw it hanging on his hand, they said to one another, Without doubt this man has put someone to death, and though he has got safely away from the sea, God will not let him go on living.

And they said to him, We have not had letters from Judaea about you, and no one of the brothers has come to us here to give an account or say any evil about you.

For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.