until that day in which, having by the Holy Spirit charged the apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up;

to whom also he presented himself living, after he had suffered, with many proofs; being seen by them during forty days, and speaking of the things which concern the kingdom of God;

and, being assembled with them, commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to await the promise of the Father, which said he ye have heard of me.

And he said to them, It is not yours to know times or seasons, which the Father has placed in his own authority;

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

And as they were gazing into heaven, as he was going, behold, also two men stood by them in white clothing,

for he was numbered amongst us, and had received a part in this service.

beginning from the baptism of John until the day in which he was taken up from us, one of these should be a witness with us of his resurrection.

And they gave lots on them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

and how do we hear them each in our own dialect in which we have been born,

Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death, inasmuch as it was not possible that he should be held by its power;

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.

Brethren, let it be allowed to speak with freedom to you concerning the patriarch David, that he has both died and been buried, and his monument is amongst us unto this day.

he, seeing it before, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that neither has he been left in hades nor his flesh seen corruption.

Having therefore been exalted by the right hand of God, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which ye behold and hear.

For David has not ascended into the heavens, but he says himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit at my right hand

And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, Be saved from this perverse generation.

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

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 leaping up he stood and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, 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 as he held Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the portico which is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.

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.

but God has thus fulfilled what he had announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer.

and he may send Jesus Christ, who was foreordained for you,

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 Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the high priestly family;

if we this day are called upon to answer as to the good deed done to the infirm man, how he has been healed,

He is the stone which has been set at nought by you the builders, which is become the corner stone.

But they, having further threatened them, let them go, finding no way how they might punish them, on account of the people, because all glorified God for what had taken place;

And the heart and soul of the multitude of those that had believed were one, and not one said that anything of what he possessed was his own, but all things were common to them;

so that they brought out the sick into the streets and put them on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter, when he came, might overshadow some one of them.

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.

And they bring them and set them in the council. And the high priest asked them,

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.

And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke.

And the high priest said, Are these things then so?

And he said, Brethren and fathers, hearken. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,

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 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 Jacob went down into Egypt and died, he and our fathers,

He dealt subtilly with our race, and evil entreated the fathers, casting out their infants that they might not live.

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 Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.

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

For he thought that his brethren would understand that God by his hand was giving them deliverance. But they understood not.

And on the morrow he shewed himself to them as they were contending, and compelled them to peace, saying, Ye are brethren, why do ye wrong one another?

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

And Moses fled at this saying, and became a sojourner in the land of Madiam, where he begat two sons.

And Moses seeing it wondered at the vision; and as he went up to consider it, there was a voice of the Lord,

He led them out, having wrought wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

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;

Our fathers had the tent of the testimony in the wilderness, as he that spoke to Moses commanded to make it according to the model which he had seen;

But the Most High dwells not in places made with hands; as says the prophet,

But being full of the Holy Spirit, having fixed his eyes on heaven, he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God,

And kneeling down, he cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And having said this, he fell asleep.

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.

for he was not yet fallen upon any of them, only they were baptised to the name of the Lord Jesus.

saying, Give to me also this power, in order that on whomsoever I may lay hands he may receive the Holy Spirit.

And he rose up and went. And lo, an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a man in power under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to worship at Jerusalem,

was returning and sitting in his chariot: and he was reading the prophet Esaias.

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 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 Philip was found at Azotus, and passing through he announced the glad tidings to all the cities till he came to Caesarea.

But Saul, still breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, came to the high priest

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?

And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus, whom thou persecutest.

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 he was three days without seeing, and neither ate nor drank.

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 Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many concerning this man how much evil he has done to thy saints at Jerusalem;

and here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call upon thy name.

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.

And straightway there fell from his eyes as it were scales, and he saw, and rising up was baptised;

and, having received food, got strength. And he was with the disciples who were in Damascus certain days.

And straightway in the synagogues he preached Jesus that he is the Son of God.

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

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 he was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem,

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

And he found there a certain man, Aeneas by name, who had been lying for eight years upon a couch, who was paralysed.

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

But Peter, putting them all out, and kneeling down, prayed. And, turning to the body, he said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes, and, seeing Peter, sat up.

And having given her his hand, he raised her up, and having called the saints and the widows, presented her living.

And it came to pass that he remained many days in Joppa with a certain Simon, a tanner.

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.

He lodges with a certain Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea.

and related all things to them, he sent them to Joppa.