So, when they came together, they began to ask him, "Master, are you at this time about to restore the kingdom of Israel?"

and they said: "Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing into the sky? This same Jesus who has been taken up from you into the sky will come back in just the same way as you have seen him going into the sky."

When the day of Pentecost was fully come, and they were all together in the same place,

there came suddenly from the sky a sound like the onrush of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

"In the last days, God says, it shall come to pass that I will pour out my Spirit upon all mankind; "Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams;

Into darkness shall the sun be turned, And into blood the moon, Ere the day of the Lord come, that great and terrible day.

And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were wrought by the apostles.

"Repent then! and reform, from the blotting out of your sins, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord;

While they were addressing the people the priests, the commander of the Temple, and the Sadducees came upon them,

But many of those who had heard the message believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

About three hours later his wife came in, not knowing what had happened;

Instantly she fell down at his feet and expired, and when the young men came in they found her dead, and carried her out and buried her husband.

The people of the towns near Jerusalem also continued to come in crowds, bringing their sick and those who were harried by unclean spirits, and all of them were healed.

But the officers who went did not find them in the prison; so they came back and reported,

When the officer in charge of the Temple and the high priest heard these words, they were perplexed concerning them, wondering what would come of it.

And some one came and told them that the very men whom they had put in prison were standing in the Temple, and teaching to the people.

"And now, I say to you, hold aloof from these men. Let them alone; for if this scheme or work be of human origin it will come to nothing;

and said to him, "Leave your country and your kindred, and come to whatever land I will show you.

"'And the nation, whichever it is, that enslaves them I will judge, said God, 'and after ward they shall come out, and they shall worship me in this place.

"Then there came a famine over the whole of Egypt and Canaan, and great distress, so that our ancestors could not find food.

"Then Joseph sent and invited Jacob his father and all his family, numbering seventy-five souls, to come to him;

"And when he was forty years old it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel;

"Next day he came upon two of them fighting, and tried to make peace between them. "'Sirs,' he said, 'you are brothers. Why are you wronging each other?'

"Truly I have seen the oppression of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their groans, and am come down to rescue them; and now, come, I will send you into Egypt.

For with a loud cry unclean spirits would come out of many possessed by them, and many that were palsied and lame were healed.

Who came down and prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit,

So he arose and went. And behold an Ethiopian man, a eunuch, who was a high official (a chief treasurer) of Candace, the queen of Ethiopia, who had come to Jerusalem to worship

And as they were going on their way they came to a certain water, and the eunuch said: "See, here is water! What hinders my being baptized?"

And when they had come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, but continued on his way rejoicing.

His hearers were all astonished, and began to say. "Is not this the very man who in Jerusalem made havoc of those who called upon the Name? Did he not come hither for the express purpose of carrying them all in chains to the high priests?"

So he came to Jerusalem, and attempted to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, because they did not believe that he was a disciple.

Now Peter, as he was going from town to town, came down also to the saints who lived in Lydda.

And as Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, when they heard that Peter was there, sent two men to him with the entreaty, "Delay not to come to us."

A voice came to him, saying, "Rise, Peter, kill and eat."

And again a second time came to him a voice, saying, "What God has cleansed you must not call common."

"Cornelius," they answered, "a captain, a devout man, and God-fearing, of whom the whole, Jewish nation speaks well, was instructed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house, and to listen to your message."

To them he said: "You know, yourselves, that it is illegal for a Jew to associate with or to visit one of another nation; but God has taught me that I should not call any man common or unclean. For this reason, when sent for, I came without demur.

"So I sent for you without delay, and you have been kind enough to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God, to listen to what the Lord has commanded you to speak."

so, when Peter came up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party disputed with him,

At that time some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

One of them, who was Agabus, rose up, and being instructed by the Spirit, predicted that a great famine was about to come upon the whole inhabited earth. (It came in the reign of Claudius.)

And when they had passed the first guard and the second, they came to the iron gate that led to the city. This opened to them of its own accord; and they went out passed on through one street; and suddenly the angel left him.

When he knocked at the door of the gate, a maid servant named Rhoda came to answer.

When morning came there was no small stir among the soldiers as to what could possibly have become of Peter.

Now Herod was violently displeased with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they came to him, with one accord, and after conciliating Blastus, the royal chamberlain, they begged for peace because their country depended upon the king's country for its food supply.

Then they themselves, passing through from Perga, came to Antioch in Pisidia. Here they went into the synagogue on the Sabbath Day and sat down.

"For many days he was seen by those that came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, and are now his witnesses to the people.

"Beware, then, lest that spoken of in the prophets come upon you.

But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came to Iconium.

And he sprang up and began to walk about. Then the crowds, when they saw what Paul had done, shouted in the Lycaonian tongue, saying, "The gods are come down to us in human form."

And now a party of Jews came down form Antioch and Iconium, and after persuading the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead.

Then passing through Pisidia they came to Pamphylia and,

after preaching the word in Perga, they came down to Attaleia.

But some men came down from Judea and attempted to teach the brethren, saying, "Unless you are circumcised according to Moses' custom, you cannot be saved."

And he came also to Derbe and Lystra, where there was a certain disciple named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewess, and of a Greek father.

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

and thence came to Philippi, a city of Macedonia, the fore most in its district, a Roman colony. There we stayed for some time.

When she was baptized, and her household, she urged us, saying, "If in your judgment I am a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house." And she compelled us to come.

She persisted in this for many days, until Paul, worn out, turned round and said to the spirit, "I charge you, in the name of Jesus Christ, to come out of her." In that very hour it came out of her.

The jailer reported the words to Paul, saying. "The praetors have sent to release you; so come out, and go in peace."

But Paul said: "They have flogged us publicly, uncondemned, men that are Roman citizens; and have thrown us into prison. Are they now going to get rid of us secretly? No, indeed! Let them come here, themselves and take us out."

So they came and conciliated them, and after taking them out of prison, begged them to leave the town.

So Paul and Silas came out of the prison, and went to Lydia's house; and after they had seen the brethren and encouraged them, they left Philippi.

Now when they had gone through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica. Here there was a Jewish synagogue,

And when they had failed to find Paul and Silas, they began to drag Jason and some of the brethren before the politarchs, shouting. "These fellows who have upset the habitable earth are come hither also.

As soon as the Jews in Thessalonica learned that the word of God was preached by Paul in Berea also, they came there, and stirred up and troubled the crowds.

Those who were caring for Paul brought him as far as Athens, and there left him, with instructions to Silas and Timothy to come to him with all speed.

Here he found a certain Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife, Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome.

Paul came to them, and because he was of the same trade with them, he lodged with them, and worked with them??or by trade they were tentmakers.

When they came to Ephesus he left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.

Then, setting sail from Ephesus, he landed at Caesarea; he went up to Jerusalem and saluted the church, and came down to Antioch.

Now a certain Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, a learned man and mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus.

Now it happened that while Apollos was in Corinth, Paul, after passing through the hinterland, came to Ephesus, where he found a few disciples.

and after Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they began to speak with tongues, and to prophesy.

Many also of those who became believers used to come to confess and to declare their deeds.

"So there is danger not only that our trade come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana will be brought into disrepute, and that she herself may even be deposed from her magnificence, she whom all Asia and the world now worships."

Now some were shouting one thing, some another, for the assembly was in an uproar, and the majority had no idea why they were come together.

And when he had passed through those districts and encouraged the disciples in many addresses, he came into Greece where he spent three months.

And when he met us at Assos, we took him in, and came to Mitylene.

We sailed from thence, and arrived next day off Chios; and the day after we touched at Samos; and the following day we came to Mitylene.

From Miletus he sent to Ephesus for the elders of the church to come to him;

I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come among you, and they will not spare the flock;

and while we remained there many days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

He came to us, and taking Paul's girdle, he bound his own feet and hands, saying, "Thus says the Holy Spirit, 'so will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the owner of this girdle, and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'"

"What then ought to be done? They will certainly hear that you are come.

While they were attempting to kill him, news came to the tribune commander of the garrison that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

Then the tribune came up and seized him, and ordered that he be bound with two chains. "Who is he?" he began asking, "and what has he done?"

So when he had given leave, Paul stood on the stairs, beckoning with his hands to the people. There came a great hush, and he spoke to them as follows, in Hebrew.

"And as I was seeing nothing for the glory of the light, I was led by the hand of my companions, and so came into Damascus.

"came to me, and standing by me, said to me, "'Brother Saul, receive your sight' "In that very hour I regained my sight and looked up at him.

So the tribune came to Paul and asked him, "Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?" "Yes," he said.

The next day, as he wished to learn the real reason why the Jews accused Paul, he unbound him, and commanded the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin to come together, and brought Paul down, and placed him before them.

"This man Paul had been seized by the Jews, and was about to be killed by them, when I came upon them with the troops, and rescued him, as I had learned that he was a Roman citizen.

"I will hear your case when your accusers also are come." And he ordered him to be kept in custody in Herod's palace.

Five days later, Ananias the high priest came down to Caesarea with some of the elders, and with an orator, named Tertullus. They laid information before the governor against Paul.

"Then the chief captain, Lysias came and violently took him from us.

"Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and to offer sacrifices.

Some days later Felix came, with his wife Drusilla, a Jewess; he sent for Paul, and listened to him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus.

When he came in, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him and brought a number of serious charges against him, which they could not prove.

A short time after this King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea to pay their respects to Festus.