from the day on which, having given commandment through the Holy Ghost to the apostles whom He had chosen, He was received up.

To whom He also, after He suffered, manifested Himself alive in many testimonials, being seen by them forty days, and speaking the things concerning the kingdom of God:

and being assembled together with them, He commanded them, Not to depart from Jerusalem, but to await the promise of the Father which ye heard from me;

He said to them; It is not your province, to know the times or seasons, which the Father placed in His own authority.

And having spoken these words, they looking, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him from their eyes.

And while they were gazing up into the heaven, He going, and behold, two men stood by them in white garments, who also said,

because he was numbered among us and received the lot of this ministry.

Then indeed he purchased a field by the reward of iniquity, and falling headlong, burst asunder in the middle, and all his bowels burst out;

beginning from the baptism of John, until the day on which He was taken up from us, it behooveth one of these to be witness of His resurrection along with us.

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

And how do we hear each one in our own dialect in which we were born,

whom God raised up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was impossible that he should be held by it.

For David says in reference to him, I foresaw my Lord always before me, because he is on my right hand, in order that I may not be moved.

Men, brethren, it is lawful to speak to you with boldness concerning the patriarch David, because he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.

foreseeing he spoke concerning the resurrection of Christ, that He was not left in Hades, neither did His flesh see corruption.

For David hath not ascended into the heavens, but he says, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,

And with many other words did he testify and exhort them, saying, Be saved from this wicked generation.

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

And taking him by the right hand he raised him up; and immediately the bottoms of his feet and his ankle-bones were strengthened.

And leaping out, he stood, and continued to walk around, and came into the temple with them, walking around and leaping, and praising God.

And they recognized him, that he was the one sitting for alms at Beautiful Gate of the temple; and they were filled with astonishment and delight at that which had happened to him.

And he holding on to Peter and John; all the people ran together to them in the porch called Solomon's, exceedingly astonished.

and those things which God proclaimed through the mouth of all the prophets that his Christ should suffer, he hath thus fulfilled.

and he may send forth Jesus, who has been preached unto you as the Christ,

Moses indeed said; The Lord our God will raise up to you from your brethren a prophet like unto me; Him you will hear concerning all things so many as he may speak to you.

assembled in Jerusalem, and Annas the high priest and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and so many as were of the family of the high priest.

if we are this day judged for the benefaction of the impotent man, by whom he has been saved,

And there is salvation in no other; for there is no other name given under heaven among men by which it behooveth us to he saved.

a farm belonging to him, having sold it, he brought the money and laid it at the feet of the apostles.

And the high priest and all those being with him, being the sect of the Sadducees, were filled with rage,

And hearing, they came into the temple at daydawn, and were teaching. And the high priest coming and those with him, called together the sanhedrim and all the eldership of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to bring them.

and he said to them; Israelitish men, take heed to yourselves in reference to these men what you are about to do.

For before these days Theudas arose, saying that he was somebody, to whom a number of men, about four hundred, adhered, who were slain, and all, so many as confided in him, were dispersed, and came to nothing.

After him Judas the Galilean arose, in the days of the enrollment, and led the people after him; he also perished, and all, so many as confided in him, were scattered abroad.

and they were not able to resist the wisdom and spirit with which he was speaking.

And the high priests said; Are these things so?

And he said, Men, brothers and fathers, hear ye; The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, while he was in Mesopotamia, before he migrated into Haran, and He said to him;

And after his father died he migrated himself thence into this country in which you now dwell,

and God gave him no inheritance in it, not the step of his foot; and he promised to give it to him, and his seed after him, for an inheritance, there being no child to him.

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

and God was with him, and delivered him out of all his troubles, and gave him grace and wisdom before Pharaoh the king of Egypt; and he placed him governor over Egypt and all his house.

And Jacob went down into Egypt, and he and our fathers died there.

He dealing fraudulently with our race, afflicted our fathers, that they should expose their infants, so that they should not live.

And he being exposed, the daughter of Pharaoh took him, and adopted him for a son to herself.

And seeing a certain one suffering affliction, he interposed, and executed vengeance in behalf of the oppressed one, slaying the Egyptian.

And he supposed that his brethren would understand that God through his hand is giving them salvation: but they did not recognize it.

On the following day, he appeared to them fighting, and undertook to reduce them to peace, saying, Men, you are brethren; therefore do not injure one another.

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

And Moses, seeing the sight, was astonished: and he coming nigh to investigate, the voice of the Lord came:

He led them out, doing wonders and miracles in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

And the tabernacle of testimony was with our fathers in the wilderness, as the one speaking to Moses commanded him to make it according to the example he had seen;

who found favor before God, and asked that he should build a tabernacle for the house of Jacob.

But the Most High dwelleth not in houses built with hands, as the prophet says,

But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, and looking up to heaven, saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

And putting down his knees, he cried with a loud voice, Lord, do not impute this sin to them. And saying this, he fell asleep.

But Saul was laying waste the church, entering into the houses, and arresting men and women, he committed them to prison.

And the multitudes were unanimously giving heed to the things spoken by Philip, while they were hearing and seeing the miracles which he was performing.

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

For he had not yet fallen on any of them: but they were only baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Give me this power, that on whomsoever I may lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.

And rising up, he departed. And, behold, an Ethiopian man, a eunuch, an officer of Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasury, had been to Jerusalem to worship,

and was returning, and sitting upon his chariot he was reading the prophet Isaiah.

And he said, How could I, unless some one shall guide me? And he called upon Philip coming up, to sit with him;

and the place of the scripture which he was reading was this, He was led like a sheep to the slaughter; and as a lamb before the one shearing him is dumb, so he opens not his mouth.

And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they both came down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized 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 Philip was found at Azotus: and going through he preached the gospel to all the cities, until he came to Caesarea.

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

asked from him letters to Damascus against the synagogues, in order that if he should find any being of the way, both men and women, he might lead them bound to Jerusalem.

And it came to pass, while prosecuting the journey he drew near to Damascus, suddenly a light from heaven shone around him;

and falling on the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? And he said, Who art thou, Lord?

And He said, I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.

And Saul arose from the ground; and his eyes being open, he saw nothing: but leading him by the hand, they led him into Damascus;

and he was three days not seeing, neither did he eat nor drink.

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

And the Lord said to him, Arising, go to the street which is called Straight, and seek a Tarsean, by name Saul, in the house of Judas; for, behold, he is praying,

and he saw a man, Ananias by name, coming in, and putting his hands on him, in order that he may look up.

And Ananias responded, Lord I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he has done to thy saints in Jerusalem:

and he here has authority from the chief priests to bind all those calling on thy name.

And the Lord said to him, Go: because he is a vessel of election to me, to bear my name both before the Gentiles, and kings, and sons of Israel:

for I will show him how many things it behooves him to suffer for my name's sake.

And Ananias departed, and came into the house: and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, Jesus, that appeared to you in the way in which thou didst come, hath sent me, that thou mayest look up, and he filled with the Holy Ghost.

And immediately there fell from his eyes as scales: and he looked up; and having stood up, was baptized,

and having received food, he was strengthened. And he was with the disciples who were in Damascus some days;

and immediately he was preaching Jesus in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God.

And all those hearing were astonished, and continued to say, Is not this the one laying waste those calling on this name in Jerusalem? and has come hither for this, that he may lead them bound to the chief priests.

And Saul continued to be the more filled up with dynamite, and he was confounding the Jews dwelling in Damascus, proving that Jesus is the Christ.

And arriving in Jerusalem, he was endeavoring to join himself to the disciples: and all were afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.

But Barnabas taking him, led him to the apostles, and related to them how he saw the Lord on the way, and that He spoke to him, and how he preached boldly in Damascus in the name of Jesus.

And he was with them going in and coming out in Jerusalem, preaching boldly in the name of the Lord;

and he was speaking and arguing against the Hellenists, and they undertook to kill him.

And he found there a certain man, by name Eneas, lying on a bed eight years, who was paralyzed.

And Peter said to him, Eneas, Jesus Christ heals thee: arise, and take up thy bed: and immediately he arose.

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

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

And he looking upon him, and being afraid, said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Thy prayer and thine alms have come up for a memorial before God.

he is lodging with a certain Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea.

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

And he became hungry, and wished to eat: but they getting it ready, an ecstasy came on him,

and he saw the heaven open, and a certain vessel like a great sheet came down, and resting upon the earth with four rope ends: