And while in assembly with them, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for what had been promised by the Father, which [said he] ye heard from me;

for John indeed baptized with water, but ye will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days hence.

But he said to them, It belongeth not to you to know times or seasons, which the Father appointed by his own authority.

And they were amazed, and marveled, saying, Behold, are not all these who speak Galilaeans?

For these are not drunken, as ye suppose; for it is the third hour of the day;

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

For David saith concerning him, "I saw the Lord always before me; because he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.

because thou wilt not abandon my soul to the underworld, nor wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption.

For David did not ascend into the heavens; but he himself saith, The Lord said to my lord, "Sit thou on my right hand,

and they sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as any one had need.

And it shall come to pass, that every soul which doth not hear that prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people."

And there is salvation in no other; for there is not another name under heaven, that hath been given among men, by which we must be saved.

And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all, nor teach, in the name of Jesus.

And the multitude of those who believed were of one heart, and of one soul; and not one of them said that aught of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.

and laid them at the feet of the apostles; and distribution was made to every one, according as he had need.

While it remained, was it not thine own? And after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? Why didst thou conceive this thing in thy heart? Thou didst not lie to men, but to God.

And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in.

But an angel of the Lord in the night opened the prisondoors, and brought them forth and said,

But the officers that came did not find them in the prison; and they returned and brought word,

Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence, that they might not be stoned; for they feared the people.

saying, We strictly commanded you not to teach in this name, and lo! ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and mean to bring this mans blood upon us.

but if it be of God, ye will not be able to overthrow them; lest haply ye be found also fighting against God.

And they were persuaded by him; and having called the apostles, they beat them, and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and released them.

and every day, in the temple, and in houses, they ceased not to teach, and to publish the glad tidings concerning Jesus the Christ.

And the twelve called the multitude of the disciples to them, and said, It doth not seem to us proper, that we should leave the word of God, and provide for tables.

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

and set up false witnesses, who said, This man ceaseth not to speak words against the holy place, and the Law.

and he gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on; and he promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his posterity after him, when as yet he had no child.

until another king arose, who knew not Joseph.

The same dealt subtly with our race, and illtreated our fathers, so that they should cast out their infants, that they might not be preserved alive.

For he supposed his brethren would understand that God through his hand would give them salvation; but they understood not.

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

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

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

Yet the Most High dwelleth not in [temples] made with hands; as saith the prophet,

Did not my hands make all these things?"

Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? And they slew those who foretold the coming of the righteous one, of whom ye have now become the betrayers and murderers;

ye who received the Law as ordained through angels, and did not keep it.

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

For it had not yet fallen upon any of them; but they had only been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.

Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter; for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.

And the passage of the scripture which he was reading was this: "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so he openeth not his mouth.

And all that heard him were amazed, and said, Is not this he that destroyed in Jerusalem those who called on this name? And he hath come hither for this purpose, that he may bring them bound to the chief priests.

but their plot became known to Saul; and they were even watching the gates day and night to kill him.

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

And when he had come to Jerusalem, he attempted to join himself to the disciples; and they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.

And as Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, having heard that Peter was there, sent to him two men with the entreaty, Do not delay to come to us.

But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything common and unclean.

And a voice came to him again, the second time, That which God hath cleansed, call not thou common.

And he said to them, Ye know that it is an unlawful thing for a Jew to keep company with one of another nation, or to come near him; but God showed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

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

not to all the people, but to witnesses before appointed by God, to ourselves, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead;

Can any one forbid water, that these should not be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit even as we have?

But I said, Not so, Lord; for nothing common or unclean ever entered my mouth.

But a voice answered the second time out of heaven, That which God hath cleansed, call not thou common.

And when Herod was about to bring him forth, on that night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and keepers before the door were guarding the prison.

And he went out, and followed; and he knew not that what was done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision.

and recognizing Peters voice, she opened not the gate for gladness; but ran in, and told them that Peter was standing before the gate.

And Herod, when he had sought for him and found him not, examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be led away [to execution]. And he went down from Judea to Caesarea, and there abode.

And thereupon the people shouted, The voice of a god, and not of a man!

But immediately an angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory, and he was eaten by worms, and expired.

and said, O full of all deceit, and of all mischief, son of the Devil, enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou wilt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and darkness; and going about he sought to find some who would lead him by the hand.

And as John was finishing his course, he said, Who do ye think that I am? I am not He. But lo I there cometh after me one, the sandal of whose feet I am not worthy to loose.

For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, not knowing him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath, fulfilled them in condemning him.

Wherefore also in another Psalm he saith, "Thou wilt not suffer thy holy one to see corruption:"

but he whom God raised from the dead did not see corruption.

and by him every one that believeth is justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

"Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish! for I work a work in your days, a work which ye will not believe, though one should plainly declare it to you."

And at Lystra there sat a certain man who had not the use of his feet, a cripple from his birth, who never had walked.

although he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, giving you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.

Wherefore my judgment is, that we should not trouble those who from among the gentiles are turning to God;

But Paul did not think it proper to take with them a man who had left them in Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.

they came to Mysia, and were attempting to go into Bithynia; but the Spirit of Jesus did not permit them.

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

and they teach customs which it is not lawful for us Romans to receive or observe.

And he took them with him at that hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and he was immediately baptized, himself and all that belonged to him.

And some of them were convinced, and joined themselves to Paul and Silas, and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the women of high rank not a few.

but not finding them, they dragged Jason and some of the brethren before the city magistrates, crying out, These men that have turned the world upside down have come hither also;

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night to Berea; who, having come there, went into the synagogue of the Jews.

Many of them therefore believed; and of the Grecian women of rank and men, not a few.

The God who made the world and all things therein, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

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

Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Deity is like to gold or silver or stone, graven by the art and device of man.

And the Lord said to Paul through a vision in the night, Be not afraid, but speak on, and be not silent;

but if it be questions of doctrine, and names, and your law, look to it yourselves; I will not be a judge of these matters.

And when they asked him to stay longer, he consented not;

he said to them, Did ye receive the Holy Spirit when ye believed? And they said to him, No, we did not even hear whether there is a Holy Spirit.

But when some were hardened, and believed not, but spoke evil of the way [of the Lord] before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, discoursing daily in the school of Tyrannus.

and ye see and hear, that this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, not only of Ephesus, but of almost all Asia, saying, that those are not gods, which are made with hands.

And there is not only danger that this branch of our business will come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana will be despised, and her magnificence destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worship.

And when Paul wished to go in to the people, the disciples would not suffer him.

And some also of the Asiarchs, who were his friends, sent to him, and entreated him not to venture into the theatre.

Some therefore were crying one thing, and some another; for the assembly was in confusion, and the greater part knew not wherefore they had come together.

But when the Recorder had quieted the multitude, he said, Men of Ephesus, who is there among men that doth not know that the city of the Ephesians is guardian of the great Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?

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

For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not be detained in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.

And now behold, I go, bound in my spirit, to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will befall me there;

for I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God.

For I know this, that after my departure grievous wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.