They therefore, being come together, asked him saying, Lord, is it at this time that thou restorest the kingdom to Israel?

And having said these things he was taken up, they beholding him, and a cloud received him out of their sight.

who also said, Men of Galilee, why do ye stand looking into heaven? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven, shall thus come in the manner in which ye have beheld him going into heaven.

Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus the Nazaraean, a man borne witness to by God to you by works of power and wonders and signs, which God wrought by him in your midst, as yourselves know

him, given up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye, by the hand of lawless men, have crucified and slain.

for David says as to him, I foresaw the Lord continually before me, because he is at my right hand that I may not be moved.

Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn to him with an oath, of the fruit of his loins to set upon his throne;

Let the whole house of Israel therefore know assuredly that God has made him, this Jesus whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.

And Peter, looking stedfastly upon him with John, said, Look on us.

And having taken hold of him by the right hand he raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones were made strong.

And all the people saw him walking and praising God;

and they recognised him, that it was he who sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple; and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

And Peter, seeing it, answered the people, Men of Israel, why are ye astonished at this? or why do ye gaze on us as if we had by our own power or piety made him to walk?

The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he had judged that he should be let go.

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

Moses indeed said, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up to you out of your brethren like me: him shall ye hear in everything whatsoever he shall say to you.

And indeed all the prophets from Samuel and those in succession after him, as many as have spoken, have announced also these days.

To you first God, having raised up his servant, has sent him, blessing you in turning each one of you from your wickedness.

be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazaraean, whom ye have crucified, whom God has raised from among the dead, by him this man stands here before you sound in body.

And the young men, rising up, swathed him up for burial, and having carried him out, buried him.

And the high priest rising up, and all they that were with him, which is the sect of the Sadducees, were filled with wrath,

And when they heard it, they entered very early into the temple and taught. And when the high priest was come, and they that were with him, they called together the council and all the elderhood of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

Him has God exalted by his right hand as leader and saviour, to give repentance to Israel and remission of sins.

And we are his witnesses of these things, and the Holy Spirit also, which God has given to those that obey him.

for before these days Theudas rose up, alleging himself to be somebody, to whom a number of men, about four hundred, were joined; who was slain, and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed and came to nothing.

After him rose Judas the Galilean in the days of the census, and drew away a number of people after him; and he perished, and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered abroad.

Then they suborned men, saying, We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God.

And they roused the people, and the elders, and the scribes. And coming upon him they seized him and brought him to the council.

for we have heard him saying, This Jesus the Nazaraean shall destroy this place, and change the customs which Moses taught us.

And all who sat in the council, looking fixedly on him, saw his face as the face of an angel.

and said to him, Go out of thy land and out of thy kindred, and come into the land which I will shew thee.

Then going out of the land of the Chaldeans he dwelt in Charran, and thence, after his father died, he removed him into this land in which ye now dwell.

And he did not give him an inheritance in it, not even what his foot could stand on; and promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he had no child.

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

And the patriarchs, envying Joseph, sold him away into Egypt. And God was with him,

and delivered him out of all his tribulations, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he appointed him chief over Egypt and all his house.

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

And when he was cast out, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and brought him up for herself to be for a son.

And when a period of forty years was fulfilled to him, it came into his heart to look upon his brethren, the sons of Israel;

and seeing a certain one wronged, he defended him, and avenged him that was being oppressed, smiting the Egyptian.

But he that was wronging his neighbour thrust him away, saying, Who established thee ruler and judge over us?

And when forty years were fulfilled, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai, in a flame of fire of a bush.

And the Lord said to him, Loose the sandal of thy feet, for the place on which thou standest is holy ground.

This Moses, whom they refused, saying, Who made thee ruler and judge? him did God send to be a ruler and deliverer with the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, A prophet shall God raise up to you out of your brethren like me him shall ye hear.

This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received living oracles to give to us;

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

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

but Solomon built him a house.

And hearing these things they were cut to the heart, and gnashed their teeth against him.

And they cried out with a loud voice, and held their ears, and rushed upon him with one accord;

and having cast him out of the city, they stoned him. And the witnesses laid aside their clothes at the feet of a young man called Saul.

And pious men buried Stephen and made great lamentation over him.

and the crowds with one accord gave heed to the things spoken by Philip, when they heard him and saw the signs which he wrought.

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

And Peter said to him, Thy money go with thee to destruction, because thou hast thought that the gift of God can be obtained by money.

And Philip, running up, heard him reading the prophet Esaias, and said, Dost thou then know what thou art reading of?

And he said, How should I then be able unless some one guide me? And he begged Philip to come up and sit with him.

And the passage of the scripture which he read was this: He was led as a sheep to slaughter, and as a lamb is dumb in presence of him that shears him, thus he opens not his mouth.

And Philip, opening his mouth and beginning from that scripture, announced the glad tidings of Jesus to him.

And he commanded the chariot to stop. And they went down both to the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptised him.

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

and asked of him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues, so that if he found any who were of the way, both men and women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

But as he was journeying, it came to pass that he drew near to Damascus; and suddenly there shone round about him a light out of heaven,

and falling on the earth he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why dost thou persecute me?

But the men who were travelling with him stood speechless, hearing the voice but beholding no one.

And Saul rose up from the earth, and his eyes being opened he saw no one. But leading him by the hand they brought him into Damascus.

And there was a certain disciple in Damascus by name Ananias. And the Lord said to him in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, here am I, Lord.

And the Lord said to him, Rise up and go into the street which is called Straight, and seek in the house of Judas one by name Saul, he is of Tarsus: for, behold, he is praying,

and has seen in a vision a man by name Ananias coming in and putting his hand on him, so that he should see.

And the Lord said to him, Go, for this man is an elect vessel to me, to bear my name before both nations and kings and the sons of Israel:

for I will shew to him how much he must suffer for my name.

And Ananias went and entered into the house; and laying his hands upon him he said, Saul, brother, the Lord has sent me, Jesus that appeared to thee in the way in which thou camest, that thou mightest see, and be filled with the Holy Spirit.

Now when many days were fulfilled, the Jews consulted together to kill him.

But their plot became known to Saul. And they watched also the gates both day and night, that they might kill him;

but the disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.

And having arrived at Jerusalem he essayed to join himself to the disciples, and all were afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.

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

and speaking boldly in the name of the Lord. And he spoke and discussed with the Hellenists; but they sought to kill him.

And the brethren knowing it, brought him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus.

And Peter said to him, Aeneas, Jesus, the Christ, heals thee: rise up, and make thy couch for thyself. And straightway he rose up.

And all who inhabited Lydda and the Saron saw him, who turned to the Lord.

But Lydda being near to Joppa, the disciples having heard that Peter was there, sent two men to him, beseeching him, Thou must not delay coming to us.

And Peter rising up went with them, whom, when arrived, they brought up into the upper chamber; and all the widows stood by him weeping and shewing him the body-coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.

saw plainly in a vision, about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of God coming unto him, And saying to him, Cornelius.

But he, having fixed his eyes upon him, and become full of fear, said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Thy prayers and thine alms have gone up for a memorial before God.

And when the angel who was speaking to him had departed, having called two of his household and a pious soldier of those who were constantly with him,

And he became hungry and desired to eat. But as they were making ready an ecstasy came upon him:

And there was a voice to him, Rise, Peter, slay and eat.

And there was a voice again the second time to him, What God has cleansed, do not thou make common.

But as Peter continued pondering over the vision, the Spirit said to him, Behold, three men seek thee;

Having therefore invited them in, he lodged them. And on the morrow, rising up he went away with them, and certain of the brethren from Joppa went with him.

And when Peter was now coming in, Cornelius met him, and falling down did him homage.

But Peter made him rise, saying, Rise up: I myself also am a man.

And he went in, talking with him, and found many gathered together.

but in every nation he that fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.

Jesus who was of Nazareth: how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power; who went through all quarters doing good, and healing all that were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.

We also are witnesses of all things which he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem; whom they also slew, having hanged him on a cross.

This man God raised up the third day and gave him to be openly seen,

not of all the people, but of witnesses who were chosen before of God, us who have eaten and drunk with him after he arose from among the dead.