And, being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which said He, "Ye heard from Me;

because John, indeed, immersed in water, but ye shall be immersed in the Holy Spirit, not many days hence."

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

And they were amazed, and wondered, saying, "Behold, are not all these who are speaking Galilaeans?

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

Whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death; because it was not possible that He should be held by it.

For David says concerning Him, 'I beheld the Lord in my presence continually; because He is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.

because Thou wilt not leave My soul behind unto Hades; neither wilt Thou give Thy Holy One to see corruption.

For David did not ascend into Heaven; but he himself says, 'The Lord said to my Lord, sit at My right hand,

and they were selling their possessions and goods, and were distributing them to all, according as any one had need.

And it shall be, that every soul that will not hearken to that Prophet, shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.'

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

And the heart and soul of the multitude of those who believed were one; and not even one was saying that any of the things belonging to him was his own, but they had all things common.

and were laying them, at the feet of the apostles; and distribution was being made according as any one had need.

While remaining, did it not remain your own? and, when sold, did it not continue in your own authority? Why did you conceive in your heart this thing? You did not lie to men, but to God."

Now it came to pass about three hours after, that his wife also, not knowing what had happened, came in;

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

But the officers, having come, did not find them in the prison, and, returning, they told,

Then the captain, having gone away with the officers, brought them, not with violence, for they were fearing the people, lest they should be stoned;

saying, "We strictly charged you not to teach in This Name; and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching! and intend to bring upon us the blood of This Man!"

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

And to him they assented; and calling the apostles to them, beating them, they charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go,

And every day, in the temple, and at their homes, they ceased not teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.

And the twelve, having called the multitude of the disciples to them, said, "It is not proper that we, leaving the word of God, should serve tables;

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

and set up false witnesses, who said, "This man does not cease speaking words against this holy place, and the law;

and He gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot-breadth; and He promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his Seed after him, when he had no child.

"Now there came a famine upon the whole of Egypt and Canaan, and great tribulation; and our fathers were not finding sustenance.

until there arose another king in Egypt, who knew not Joseph.

The same, dealing craftily with our race, ill-treated our fathers, in causing their children to be cast out, that they might not be preserved alive.

And he was supposing that his brethren understood that God, through his hand, would give them deliverance; but they understood not.

'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob.' And Moses, becoming terrified, was not daring to examine it.

to whom our fathers wished not to become obedient, but thrust him away, and in their hearts turned back again to Egypt;

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

Yet the Most High dwelleth not in houses made with hands; as says the prophet,

Did not My hand make all these things?'

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who declared beforehand concerning the coming of the Righteous One??f Whom just now ye became the betrayers and murderers;

who, indeed, received the law as the ministrations of angels, and did not keep it."

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

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

Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this: "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and, as a lamb dumb before its shearer, so He openeth not His mouth.

And all who heard were astonished, and said, "Is not this he who destroyed, in Jerusalem, those calling upon this name, and had come here for this purpose, that he might bring them bound to the high priests?"

but their plot became known to Saul. And they were watching the gates also, both day and night, that they might kill him;

but the disciples, taking him by night, let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.

Now, having come to Jerusalem, he was trying to join himself to the disciples; and they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.

And, Lydda being near to Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent to him two men, entreating him, "Delay not to come to us!"

And a voice came to him again, a second time, "What God cleansed, count not common."

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 before appointed by God??o us who ate and drank with Him after He rose from the dead.

"Can any one forbid the water, that these should not be immersed, who, indeed, received the Holy Spirit as well as we?"

But a voice answered a second time out of the heaven, 'What God cleansed, make not common.'

And, when Herod was about to bring him forth, in that night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains; and guards before the door were keeping the prison.

And, going forth, he was following him; and he knew not that it was true, which was being done by the angel, but was thinking that he saw a vision.

And, recognizing the voice of Peter, she opened not the gate for joy; but, running in, she told them that Peter was standing before the gate.

And Herod, having sought for him, and not finding him, having examined the guards, ordered that they be led away to death. And, going down from Judaea to Caesarea, he tarried there.

And the people were shouting, "It is the voice of a god, and not of a man!"

And immediately an angel of the Lord smote him, because he did not give God the glory; and, having been eaten by worms, he expired.

said, "O full of all guile, and all villainy, son of the Devil, enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting 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 on him a mist and a darkness; and, going about, he was seeking some to lead him by the hand.

And, as John was fulfilling his course, he said, 'What do ye suppose me to be? I am not He. But, behold, there cometh One after me, the sandals of Whose feet I am not worthy to unloose.'

For those dwelling in Jerusalem, and their rulers, not knowing Him, nor the voices of the prophets which are being read every sabbath, fulfilled them, in having condemned Him;

and, though finding not one cause of death, they asked of Pilate that He should be slain.

Wherefore, in another place, He saith, 'Thou wilt not give Thy Holy One to see corruption.'

but He Whom God raised up did not see corruption.

and in Him every one who believes is justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

and yet He left not Himself without witness, doing good, giving you rains from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness."

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

Wherefore, I judge that we should not trouble those who from among the gentiles are turning to God;

But Paul was not thinking it proper to take him with them, who withdrew from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.

and, having come over against Mysia, they were trying to go on into Bithynia, and the Spirit of Jesus did not permit them;

And a vision appeared to Paul by night: a certain man of Macedonia was standing, and beseeching him, saying, "Crossing over into Macedonia, help us!"

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

And, having taken them with him, at that hour of the night he washed their stripes; and was immersed, himself and all his, immediately;

And some of them were persuaded, and cast in their lot with Paul and Silas; also, of the devout Greeks, a great number; and, of the principal women, not a few.

But, not finding them, they dragged Jason and certain brethren before the rulers of the city, shouting, "These who turned the inhabited earth upside down are present here also;

But the brethren straightway sent away both Paul and Silas by night to Beraea; who, indeed, having arrived, went into the synagogue of the Jews.

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

The God Who made the world and all things therein, The Same being Lord of Heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands,

that they should seek God, if, perhaps, they might feel after Him, and find Him, although, in truth, He is not far from each one of us;

"Being, therefore, God's offspring, we ought not to suppose that the God-head is like gold, or silver, or stone, graven by man's art and device!

But certain men, joining themselves to him, believed; among whom also were Dionysius??he Areopagite??nd a woman, Damaris by name, and others with them.

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

but, if they are questions about a word, and names, and your own law, ye yourselves shall see to it. I am not disposed to be a judge of such matters."

And, though they asked him to remain a longer time with them, he consented not;

and he said to them, "Did ye receive the Holy Spirit, after having believed?" And they said to him, "Nay, we did not even hear whether there is a Holy Spirit."

And ye perceive and hear that, not only at Ephesus, but almost in all Asia, this Paul, having persuaded, turned away a great multitude, saying, that they are not gods that are made with hands.

And not only is there danger to us that this branch of our business will come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana be reckoned of no account, and also her magnificence will be destroyed, whom all Asia and the inhabited earth worship."

And, Paul purposing to enter in unto the people, the disciples were not permitting him.

And some also of the chief men of Asia, being his friends, sending to him, were beseeching him not to venture himself into the theater.

Some, therefore, were crying one thing, and some another; for the assembly had become confused, and the greater part knew not for what cause they had come together.

But the town-clerk, having quieted the multitude, says, "Men of Ephesus, who, indeed, of men is there that does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple-keeper of the great Diana, and of the image that fell down from Jupiter?

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

how I shrank not from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and from teaching you publicly, and from house to house,

And, now, behold, I, bound by the Spirit, am going to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there;

But I make not my soul of any value as dear to myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify the Gospel of the grace of God.

for I shrank not from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

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

Wherefore, watch, remembering that for three years, night and day, I ceased not to admonish every one with tears.

And, having found the disciples, we tarried there seven days; who, indeed, said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

And, when we heard these things, both we and those of that place were beseeching him not to go up to Jerusalem.