And assembling them, he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which [says he] you have heard from me;

And he said to them, It is not your [province] to know the times or seasons which the Father has appointed by his own authority;

And they were astonished and wondered, saying, Are not all these that speak Galileans?

For these are not drunk as you suppose, for it is the third hour of the day [9 A.M.],

him has God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, as it was not possible that he should be held by it.

For David says of him, I saw the Lord always before me, he is on my right hand that I should not be moved;

for thou wilt not leave my soul in hades, nor suffer thy Holy One to see destruction.

foreseeing he spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that he was not left in hades neither did his flesh see destruction.

For David ascended not to heaven, but he says, The Lord said to my lord, Sit on my right hand

and they sold their possessions and estates, and distributed them to all as any one had need;

and every soul which will not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from the people.

and seeing the man standing with them cured, they could not dispute it.

And calling them, they charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.

And threatening them still further, they dismissed them, not being able to punish them, on account of the people, because all glorified God for what was done;

and laid them at the apostles' feet; and distribution was made to each as any one had need.

Continuing unsold was it not yours, and when it was sold was it not at your disposal? Why did you propose this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.

And after an interval of about three hours, his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in.

But an angel of the Lord opening the prison doors by night led them out and said,

But the officers going did not find them in the prison; and returning they reported,

saying, We charged you strictly not to teach in this name, and behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and wish to bring this man's blood on us.

And they were persuaded by him, and calling the apostles and scourging them, they charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and dismissed them.

and every day in the temple, and from house to house, they ceased not teaching and preaching the good news of Christ Jesus.

And the twelve calling the multitude of the disciples, said, It is not desirable that we should leave the word of God to serve tables.

and were not able to resist the wisdom and spirit with which he spoke.

And [God] gave him no inheritance in it, not the breadth of a foot, and promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his posterity after him, when as yet he had no son.

till another king arose who knew not Joseph.

This [king] dealt deceitfully with our race, and treated injuriously our fathers, causing their infants to be exposed that they might not be preserved alive.

And he thought his brothers would understand that God would give them salvation by his hand; but they understood not.

I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob. And Moses being afraid dared not look at it.

whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him away and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

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

But the Most High dwells not in [temples] made with hands, as the prophet says;

has not my hand made all these things?

Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you now have become betrayers and murderers,

who have received the law by orders of angels and have not kept it.

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

for it had not yet fallen on any of them, only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

You have no part nor inheritance in this work; for your heart is not right before God.

And the passage of Scripture which he was reading, was this; As a sheep is led to slaughter, and as a lamb before one that shears him is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.

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

and their design was made known to Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him;

but the disciples took him by night and sent him away by the wall, letting him down in a store-basket.

And going to Jerusalem he endeavored to join the disciples; and they all feared him, not believing that he was a disciple.

But Lydda being nigh to Joppa, the disciples hearing that Peter was there sent two men to him requesting, Do not delay to come to us.

And a voice came to him again, a second time, What God has purified, regard not common.

and he said to them, You know that it is not lawful for a Jew to associate with a man of another nation, or come into his house; and God has taught me not to call any man common or impure;

And Peter opening his mouth said, Of a truth I perceive that God is not a respecter of persons,

not to all the people, but to witnesses chosen before by God, to us, who eat and drank with him after he rose from the dead;

And a voice answered from heaven a second time, What God has purified do not you regard common.

And seeing that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to apprehend Peter also,??nd it was during the days of unleavened bread,??4 and having seized he put him in prison, committing him to four companies of four soldiers each to guard him, wishing after the passover to bring him before the people.

And when Herod was about to bring him forward, on that night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards kept watch before the door.

And going out he followed him, and knew not that it was real which was done by the angel, but thought he saw a vision.

and knowing the voice of Peter she did not open the gate from joy, but ran in and told that Peter stood before the gate.

And Herod seeking and not finding him, examined the guards, and commanded them to be put to death, and going down from Judea to Caesarea remained [there].

and the people shouted, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.

And an angel of the Lord instantly smote him because he gave not glory to God, and being eaten with worms he expired.

said, O full of all deceit and all craft, son of a devil, enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell upon him a mist and darkness, and going about he sought guides.

And when John completed his course, he said, Who do you suppose I am? I am not [the Christ]; but behold, there comes after me one the sandal of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.

For those living at Jerusalem, and their rulers, not knowing him and the words of the prophets which are read every sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning [him];

Wherefore also in another place he says, Thou wilt not suffer thy holy one to see destruction.

but he whom God raised up saw not destruction.

and every one who believes is justified by him from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

See then that what is said by the prophets does not come upon you;

although indeed he left not himself without a witness, doing good, giving rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.

And they remained there not a little time with the disciples.

AND certain persons having come down from Judea taught the brothers, If you are not circumcised according to the custom of Moses you cannot be saved.

Wherefore I judge that we ought not to trouble those who turned to God from the gentiles,

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but Paul thought not best to take with them one who deserted them at Pamphylia and did not go with them to the work.

coming by Mysia they endeavored to go into Bithynia; and the Spirit of Jesus did not permit them;

And a vision appeared by night to Paul; a certain man of Macedonia standing, asking him, and saying, Come over into Macedonia and help us.

and preach customs which it is not lawful for us, being Romans, to receive or observe.

And taking them that hour of the night, he washed them from their stripes, and was baptized, he and all his, immediately,

And some of them believed and adhered to Paul and Silas; of the pious Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.

but not finding them, they dragged Jason and some brothers to the rulers of the city, crying, These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

And the brothers immediately, by night, sent away Paul and Silas to Berea; and when they came they went into the synagogue of the Jews;

Many of them therefore believed, both of honorable Grecian women, and of men not a few.

The God who made the world and all things in it, this [God] being Lord of heaven and earth dwells not in temples made with hands,

that they should seek God, if perhaps they might feel after and find him, and indeed he is not far from every one of us.

Being therefore an offspring of God, we ought not to think the Deity to be like gold or silver or stone, a work of art and human device.

And the Lord said to Paul, in a vision by night, Fear not, but speak and be not silent,

but if it is a question of doctrine, and of names, and of your law, look to it yourselves; for I will not be a judge of these things.

And they asking him to stay a longer time with them he did not consent,

and he said to them, Have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed? And they said to him, We have not heard that there is a Holy Spirit.

But when some were hardened and believed not, speaking evil of the way before the multitude, he left them and separated the disciples from them, and reasoned day by day in the school of one Tyrannus.

and you see and hear, that not only at Ephesus, but in almost all Asia, this Paul has led away a great multitude by persuasion, saying that things which are made by hands are not gods.

And not only this work of ours is in danger of coming into contempt, but even the temple of the great goddess Diana of being set at nought, and her majesty also which all Asia and the world worships, of being destroyed.

And Paul wishing to go in to the people, the disciples did not permit him;

and some of the rulers of Asia also, who were friendly to him, sending to him, besought him not to expose himself in the theatre.

Some therefore cried one thing, and some another; for the assembly was confused, and the greater part knew not for what reason they had come together.

And the clerk having stilled the multitude, said, Men of Ephesus, what man is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great Diana, and of the Jove descended [image]?

But Paul going down fell on him, and embracing him, said, Be not troubled, for his life is in him.

And they brought away the child alive, and were not a little comforted.

For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, that it might not be necessary for him to spend a long time in Asia; for he hastened, if it was possible for him, to be at Jerusalem at the day of Pentecost.

how I kept not back from declaring to you and teaching you publicly and from house to house any thing that was profitable,

And behold now, I go constrained by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things which shall befall me there,

for I have not kept back from declaring to you all the counsel of God.

For I know that after my departure grievous wolves will come among you, not sparing the flock,