and gathered them together, and commanded them, that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but to "Wait for the promise of the father, whereof ye have heard of me.

And he said unto them, "It is not for you to know the times, or the seasons which the father hath put in his own power:

They wondered all, and marveled: saying among themselves, "Behold, are not all these which speak of Galilee?

These are not drunken, as ye suppose - For it is yet but the third hour of the day -

For David speaketh of him, 'Aforehand, saw I God always before me: For he is on my righthand, that I should not be moved.

because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt suffer thine holy to see corruption.

He saw before, and spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul should not be left in hell: neither his flesh should see corruption.

For David is not ascended into heaven, but he said,

And sold their possessions and goods, and departed them to all men, as every man had need.

For the time will come, that every soul which shall not hear that same prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.'

And beholding also the man which was healed standing with them, they could not say against it,

and laid it down at the apostles' feet. And distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.

Pertained it not unto thee only? And after it was sold, was not the price in thine own power? How is it that thou hast conceived this thing in thine heart? Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God."

But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors and brought them forth, and said,

When the ministers came and found them not in the prison, they returned and told,

saying, "Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? And behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and ye intend to bring this man's blood upon us."

And to him they agreed, and called the apostles, and beat them, and commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

And daily in the temple, and in every house they ceased not, teaching and preaching Jesus Christ.

Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples together and said, "It is not meet that we should leave the word of God and serve at the tables.

And they could not resist the wisdom, and the spirit, with which he spake.

and brought forth false witnesses which said, "This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place and the law,

and he gave him none inheritance in it - no, not the breadth of a foot - But promised that he would give it to him to possess and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.

till another king arose which knew not of Joseph.

The same dealt subtly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, and made them to cast out their young children, that they should not remain alive.

For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hands should save them: but they understood not.

'I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.' Moses trembled and durst not behold.

to whom our fathers would not obey: But cast it from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,

saying unto Aaron, 'Make us gods to go before us. For we know not what is become of this Moses that brought us out of the land of Egypt.'

Howbeit, he that is highest of all dwelleth not in temples made with hands, as saith the prophet,

Hath not my hand made all these things?'

Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them, which showed before of the coming of that Just, whom ye have betrayed and murdered.

And ye also have received a law by the ordinance of angels, and have not kept it."

And he kneeled down and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. For they know not what they do." And when he had thus spoken he fell asleep.

Thou hast neither part nor fellowship in this business. For thy heart is not right in the sight of God.

The tenor of the scripture which he read was this, "He was led as a sheep to be slain: And like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth.

Because of his humbleness, he was not esteemed. Who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth."

All that heard him were amazed and said, "Is not this he that spoiled them which called on this name in Jerusalem? And came hither for the intent that he should bring them bound unto the high priests?"

But their layings wait was known of Saul. And they watched at the gates day and night to kill him.

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

And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to couple himself with the disciples, and they were all afraid of him and believed not that he was a disciple.

Because Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter was there - they sent unto him, desiring him that he would not be grieved to come unto them.

and saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel come down unto him, as it had been a great sheet, knit at the four corners, and was let down to the earth,

And the voice spake unto him again the second time, "What God hath cleansed that make thou not common."

and go with them, and doubt not. For I have sent them."

And he said unto them, "Ye do know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to company or come unto an alien: But God hath showed me that I should not call any man common or unclean:

Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, "Of a truth I perceive, that God is not partial:

not to all the people, but unto us witnesses chosen before of God, which ate and drank with him, after he arose from death.

"Can any man forbid water that these should not be baptised, which have received the holy ghost as well as we?"

But the voice answered me again from heaven, 'Count not thou those things common, which God hath cleansed.'

And when Herod would have brought him out unto the people, the same night slept Peter between two soldiers, bound with two chains; And the keepers before the door kept the prison.

And he came out, and followed him: and wist not that it was truth which was done by the angel; but thought he had seen a vision.

And when she knew Peter's voice, she opened not the entry for gladness, but ran in and told how Peter stood before the entry.

When Herod had called for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded them to depart. And he descended from Jewry to Caesarea, and there abode.

And the people gave a shout, saying, "It is the voice of a god and not of a man."

And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the honour, and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.

"O full of all subtlety and deceitfulness, and child of the devil, and the enemy of all righteousness: thou ceasest not to pervert the straight ways of the Lord.

And now behold the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind and not see the sun for a season." And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; And he went about, seeking them that should lead him by the hand.

And when John had fulfilled his course, he said, 'Whom ye think that I am? The same am I not, but behold there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.'

The inhabiters of Jerusalem, and their rulers: because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath day; they have fulfilled them in condemning him.

Wherefore he saith also in another place, 'Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy to see corruption.'

And that by him are all that believe justified from all things, from the which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

'Behold ye despisers, and wonder, and perish ye: for I do a work in your days, which ye shall not believe, if a man would declare it you.'"

Nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he showed his benefits, in giving us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness."

And with these sayings, scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them.

And when there was risen dissension and disputing not a little unto Paul and Barnabas, against them: they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should ascend to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.

Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them which from among the gentiles are turned to God:

But Paul thought it not meet to take him unto their company which departed from them at Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.

they came to Mysia, and sought to go into Bithynia, but the spirit suffered them not.

and a vision appeared to Paul in the night. There stood a man of Macedonia and prayed him saying, "Come into Macedonia and help us."

And this did she many days. But Paul, not content, turned about and said to the spirit, "I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ that thou come out of her." And he came out the same hour.

and preach ordinances which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, seeing we are Romans."

And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds, and was baptised, with all that belonged unto him, straightway.

Then said Paul unto them, "They have beaten us, openly un-condemned, for all that we are Romans, and have cast us into prison: and now would they send us away privily? Nay not so, but let them come themselves and fetch us out."

And some of them believed and came and companied with Paul and Silas. Also of the honorable Greeks, a great multitude; and of the chief women, not a few.

But the Jews which believed not, having indignation, took unto them evil men which were vagabonds, and gathered a company, and set all the city on a roar, and made assault unto the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

But when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the heads of the city crying, "These that trouble the world are come hither also,

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul, and Silas by night unto Berea. Which, when they were come thither, they entered into the Synagogue of the Jews.

And many of them believed, also of worshipful women which were Greeks; and of men, not a few.

And they took him, and brought him into Mars Street, saying, "May we not know what is this new doctrine whereof thou speakest?

God, that made the world, and all that are in it, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, he dwelleth not in temples made with hands,

That they should seek God, if they might feel and find him: though he be not far from every one of us.

Forasmuch then as we are the generation of God, we ought not to think that the godhead is like unto gold, silver, or stone, graven by craft and imagination of man.

And the time of this ignorance God regarded not: but now he biddeth all men everywhere to repent,

Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, "Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace:

When they desired him to tarry longer time with them, he consented not,

and said unto them, "Have ye received the holy ghost since ye believed?" And they said unto him, "No. We have not heard whether there be any holy ghost or no."

When divers waxed hard hearted, and believed not, but spake evil of the way of the Lord, and that before the multitude: he departed from them; And separated the disciples away; And disputed daily in the school of one called Tyrannus.

And God wrought not small miracles by the hands of Paul.

For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith which made silver shrines for Diana, was not a little beneficial unto the craftsmen:

Moreover, ye see and hear that not alone at Ephesus: but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be not gods which are made with hands:

so that not only this our craft cometh into peril to be set at nought: but that also the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised. And her magnificence should be destroyed, which all Asia, and the world worshippeth."

When Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not.

Certain also of the chief of Asia which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he would not press into the common hall.

Some cried one thing, and some another and the congregation was all out of quiet, and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together.

When the town clerk had ceased the people he said, "Ye men of Ephesus: what man is it that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which came from heaven?

And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.

For Paul had determined to leave Ephesus as they sailed, because he would not spend the time in Asia. For he hasted to be, if he could possibly, at Jerusalem at the day of Pentecost.

And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, and know not what shall come on me there,

For I am sure of this: that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, which will not spare the flock.

Therefore awake and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one of you, both night and day with tears.