Therefore, when they came together, they asked him, saying: Lord, wilt thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?

And when he had spoken these things, while they were looking on him, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.

who also said: Men of Galilee, why stand you gazing up into heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, shall come in the same manner in which you saw him go into heaven.

Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus the Nazarene, clearly pointed out to you as a man from God, by mighty deeds and wonders and signs, which God did by him in your midst, as you yourselves also know,

him, delivered up by the fixed purpose and foreknowledge of God, you took, and with wicked hands did crucify and slay:

whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible for him to be held in subjection by it.

For David speaks with reference to him: I saw the Lord always in my presence: for he is at my right hand, that I should not be moved.

Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn to him with an oath, that he would cause one from the fruit of his loins to sit on his throne;

But Peter, fixing his eyes on him with John, said: Look on us.

And he took him by his right hand and raised him up: and immediately his feet and ankles received strength.

And all the people saw him walking and praising God;

and they recognized him, that it was he that had sat for charity at the Beautiful gate of the temple. And they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

The God of Abra ham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Son Jesus, whom you delivered up, and whom you rejected in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to release him.

And his name, by faith in his name, has made this man strong whom you see and know; even the faith which is by him, has given him this entire soundness in the presence of you all.

For Moses said to the fathers, A prophet like me shall the Lord your God raise up for you from among your brethren; him shall you hear in all things that he shall say to you.

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

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

And the young men arose and wound him in his mantle, and carried him out, and buried him.

But the chief priest arose, and all that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation;

And having heard this, they entered the temple, early in the morning, and taught. But the chief priest, and those who were with him, came and called together the Sanhedrin, and all the eldership of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

The God of our fathers has raised up Jesus, whom you slew by hanging him on a tree.

Him has God exalted to his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, in order to give to Israel repentance and remission of sins:

and we are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit also, whom God has given to them that obey him.

For before these days Theudas arose, declaring himself to be some great one; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves; and he was slain; and all, as many as believed him, were scattered and brought to naught.

After this man, Judas the Galilean arose, in the days of the enrollment, and drew over many people after him; and he was destroyed, and all, as many as believed him, were scattered.

And they were persuaded by him; and when they had called the apostles in and scourged them, they commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

Then they instigated men to say: We have heard him speak impious words against Moses, and against God.

And they excited the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and took him by violence, and brought him into the Sanhedrin.

For we have heard him say, that this Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us.

And all that sat in the Sanhedrin, looking earnestly upon him, saw his face that it was like the face of an angel.

and said to him: Get out from your land, and from your kindred, and come into a land that I will show you.

And he gave him no inheritance in it, not a foot breadth: and yet he promised to give it for a possession to him, and to his posterity after him, when as yet he had no child.

And he gave him the covenant of circumcision, and thus he begot Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot the twelve patriarchs.

And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,

and delivered him from all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharoah, king of Egypt: and he made him governor over Egypt, and his whole house.

And Joseph sent and called to him his father Jacob, and all his kindred, seventy-five souls.

But having been exposed, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and educated him as her own son.

And seeing one of them unjustly treated, he defended and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian.

But he that was doing the injury to his neighbor, thrust him. away, saying, Who made you a ruler or a judge over us?

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

When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight, and as he was drawing near to observe it, the voice of the Lord came to him:

Then said the Lord to him: Loose your shoes from your feet; for the place in which you stand is holy ground.

This Moses, whom they rejected, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? him God sent as a ruler and as a redeemer, by the hand of the angel that appeared to him in the bush.

This is that Moses, who said to the sons of Israel, A prophet like me will the Lord your God raise up for you from among your brethren; him shall you hear.

This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers; he received the living oracles, that he might give them to us.

To him our fathers were not willing to be obedient; but they rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

saying to Aaron: Make us gods that shall go be fore us; for, as for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has become of him.

The tabernacle of the testimony was with our fathers in the wilderness, built as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to build it, according to the pattern which he had seen:

But Solomon built him a house.

"When they heard these things, they were enraged in their hearts, and gnashed upon him with their teeth.

And they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and, with one consent, rushed upon him,

and drove him out of the city, and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man called Saul.

But devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.

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

But Peter said to him: Your money perish with you, because you thought that the gift of God might be purchased with money.

And Philip ran forward, and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah; and he said: Do you understand what you are reading?

He answered: How can I, unless some one instruct me? And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

in his humiliation. The sentence against him was taken away; but who shall describe the men of his generation? For his life was taken from the earth.

And Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached to him Jesus.

And he commanded the chariot to stand still; and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he immersed him.

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

and asked of him letters to Damascus, for the synagogues, that, if he should find any who were of this persuasion, either men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

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

And when he had fallen to the earth, he heard a voice saying to him: Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?

The men who journeyed with him stood amazed; for they heard a voice, but saw no one.

And Saul arose from the earth, and when his eyes were opened, he saw no one; but they led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.

Now there was a certain disciple in Damascus, named Ananias; and the Lord said to him in a vision: Ananias. He answered: Behold me, Lord.

And the Lord said to him: Arise, and go into the street that is called Straight, and in quire at the house of Judas for one called Saul of Tarsus: for behold, he is praying;

and he has seen in a vision a man named Ananias, coming in and laying his hand on him, that he may receive his sight.

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

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

And Ananias went, and entered the house, and laying his hands on him, said: Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me, that you may receive your sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit.

And all that heard him were astonished, and said: Is not this he who destroyed in Jerusalem those that call on this name, and who has come hither for this purpose, that he might carry them bound to the chief priests?

And, after many days had passed, the Jews determined to kill him.

And their plot was made known to Saul; and they watched the gates day and night, that they might kill him.

But the disciples took him by night, and let him down through the vail in a basket,

And having come to Jerusalem, he attempted to associate with the disciples: and they were all afraid of him, for they did not believe that he was a disciple.

But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and told them how he had seen the Lord on the road, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had boldly preached in Damascus in the name of Jesus.

he conversed and reasoned with the Hellenists; but they under took to kill him.

And when the brethren learned this, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him out to Tarsus.

And Peter said to him: Aeneas, Jesus the Christ restores you to health; arise, and spread your bed for yourself. And he immediately arose;

and all that dwelt in Lydda and Saron saw him; and they turned to the Lord.

And as Lydda was near to Joppa, the disciples, having heard that Peter was there, sent two men to him, requesting him to make no delay in coming to them.

Then Peter arose, and went with them; and when he had come, they brought him into the upper room; and all the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments that Dorcas made while she was with them.

He distinctly saw, in a vision, about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of God coming in to him, and saying to him, Cornelius.

And having looked steadily on him, he was afraid, and said: "What is it, Lord? He said to him: Your prayers and your charitable deeds have come up for a memorial before God.

When the angel who spoke to him had departed, he called two of his household servants, and a devout soldier, one of those who waited on him,

And there came a voice to him: Rise, Peter, kill and eat.

And the voice came to him again a second time: What God has cleansed, you must not call common.

While Peter was thinking of the vision, the Spirit said to him: Behold, three men ask for you:

Then he called them in, and lodged them. On the morrow he arose, and went with them; and some of the brethren from Joppa accompanied him.

And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and did him homage.

But Peter raised him up, saying: Stand up; I also am a man.

And; conversing with him, he went in, and found many that had come together.

but, in every nation, he that fears him and works righteousness is accepted by him.

how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit, and with power; who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed by the devil; for God was with him.

And we are witnesses of all that he did, both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew by hanging him on a tree.

Him God raised up the third day, and caused him to appear,

not to all the people, but to witnesses who were be fore appointed by God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him, after he rose from the dead.

To him all the prophets bear testimony, that whoever believes on him shall receive remission of sins through his name.