and they said, Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking at heaven? This Jesus taken up from you to heaven shall so come in the manner in which you have seen him go to heaven.

Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called [the Mount] of Olives, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath day's journey [distant].

and this became known to all who lived at Jerusalem, so that that field was called in their language Aceldamach, which is Field of blood.

In the last days, says God, I will pour out of my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;

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.

Being therefore exalted on the right hand of God, and receiving the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he has poured this out which you both see and hear.

And all the people saw him walking and praising God;

And as he held Peter and John, all the people ran to them in the porch which is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.

but what God had before declared by the mouth of all the prophets that his Anointed should suffer, he has so accomplished.

And when they heard it they lifted up their voice with one consent to God, and said, Master, thou who hast made heaven, and the earth, the sea, and all things in them,

And Peter answered her, Tell me whether you sold the field for so much? And she said, Yes; for so much.

And many miracles and prodigies were performed among the people by the hands of the apostles; and they were all of one accord in Solomon's porch;

so that they brought the sick into the streets and placed them on little beds and couches, that as Peter passed along even his shadow might overshadow some of them.

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.

for we have heard him say, that Jesus this Nazoraean will destroy this place and change the customs which Moses gave us.

And all who sat in the Sanhedrin looking steadily at him saw his face like the face of an angel.

And the chief priest said, Are these things then so?

And he gave him the ordinance of circumcision; and so he begat Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac, Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.

and the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's family was made known to Pharaoh.

At that time Moses was born, and was beautiful in the sight of God, and was nourished three months in his father's house;

This man brought them out, having performed prodigies and miracles in Egypt, and at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

But he being full of the Holy Spirit, looking steadily to heaven saw the glory of God and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

and said, Behold, I see the heavens opened and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

And the multitudes attended with one accord to the things said by Philip, when they heard him and saw the miracles which he performed.

for I see you are in the gall of bitterness and bond of wickedness.

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.

And the eunuch answered and said to Philip, Of whom I pray you does the prophet say this? of himself or of some other one?

And when they went up from the water the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, and the eunuch saw him no more; for he went his way rejoicing.

And Saul arose from the earth, and his eyes being opened he saw nothing; and leading him by the hand they conducted him to Damascus.

and all those who lived at Lydda and Sharon saw him, and turned to the Lord.

saw clearly in a vision, about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of God coming to him, and saying to him, Cornelius.

he lodges with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea.

Send therefore to Joppa and call Simon who is called Peter; he lodges at the house of Simon a tanner, by the sea, who when he has come will speak to you.

I was in the city of Joppa praying, and I saw a vision in a trance, a vessel like a great sheet descending, let down by the four corners from heaven, and it came to me;

and looking into it attentively I perceived and saw the quadrupeds of the earth and wild beasts and reptiles and birds of heaven.

And the angel said to him, Gird yourself, and tie on your sandals. And he did so. And he said to him, Put your cloak about you, and follow me.

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.

But they said to her, You are mad. But she asserted strongly that it was so. And they said, It is his angel.

But Peter continued knocking; and having opened they saw him, and were astonished.

And he was displeased with the Tyrians and Sidonians; but they came with one accord to him, and having persuaded Blastus who was over the king's bedchamber, desired peace, because their country was nourished by the king's.

but Elymas the magian, for so his name is interpreted, opposed them, seeking to turn away the proconsul from the faith.

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

For David, having in his generation served the will of God, fell asleep, and was gathered to his fathers and saw destruction;

but he whom God raised up saw not destruction.

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

And at Iconium they went together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude of the Jews and Greeks believed.

and saying, Men, why do you do these things? We are also men subject to like sufferings with you, preaching that you should turn from these vain [services] to the living God, who made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things in them,

And the apostles and elders were assembled together to see about this matter.

AND after some days Paul said to Barnabas, Let us return and visit the brothers in every city in which we preached the word of the Lord, [and see] how they do.

And there was a sharp contention, so that they separated from each other; and Barnabas taking Mark sailed to Cyprus.

And when he saw the vision we immediately sought to go into Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the good news to them.

And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and all the doors were immediately opened, and the bands of all were removed.

but these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with all readiness, examining the Scriptures daily [to see] if these things were so.

Then the brothers immediately sent Paul away, as if to go by sea; but Silas and Timothy remained there.

And while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was moved within him as he saw the city wholly devoted to idolatry.

And some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers disputed with him, and some said, What does this trifler mean to say? And others, He seems to be a preacher of strange demons; because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection.

So Paul went out from the midst of them;

And he said to them, With what then were you baptized? And they said, With John's baptism.

And this was done for two years, so that all who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

so that napkins and aprons were brought from him to the sick, and their diseases left them, and the evil spirits went out of them.

And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped upon them, and overcome them, and prevailed against them, so that they escaped from his house, naked and wounded.

So the word of the Lord increased powerfully and prevailed.

And when these things were accomplished, Paul was disposed by the Spirit, passing through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there I must see Rome.

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 we going before by ship sailed to Assos, being about to take in Paul at that place; for so had he appointed, being about to go on foot himself.

And now, behold, I know that you all among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom shall see my face no more.

I have coveted no man's silver or gold or clothing;

I have showed you all things, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

And they all wept much, and fell on Paul's neck and kissed him,

grieving most of all for the word which he said, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the ship.

and coming to us, and taking Paul's girdle, and binding his hands and feet, he said, These things, says the Holy Spirit; Thus will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owns this girdle, and deliver him into the hands of the gentiles.

and having heard, they glorified God, and said to him, You see, brother, how many ten thousands there are of those who have believed, among the Jews, and all are zealots of the law;

And those that were with me saw the light, but they heard not the voice of him that spoke to me.

And when I could not see from the brightness of that light, being led by the hand by those with me, I came to Damascus.

And he said, The God of our fathers chose you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and hear the voice of his mouth,

and saw him [Christ], saying to me, Hasten and depart immediately from Jerusalem, for they will not receive your testimony of me.

the chiliarch commanded him to be brought into the fortress, ordering that he should be examined with scourges, that he might know for what reason they cried so against him.

And those standing by said, Do you revile God's chief priest?

For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit, but the Pharisees confess both.

And on the following night the Lord stood by him and said, Be of good courage, for as you have testified of me at Jerusalem, so you must also testify at Rome.

But a son of Paul's sister hearing of this lying in wait, went and entering into the fortress told Paul.

And the Jews also assented, saying, These things are so.

But this I confess to you, that in the way which they call a heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers; believing all things written in the law and the prophets,

Or let them say whether they found any unrighteousness in me when I stood before the Sanhedrim,

And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all the men present with us, you see this man, of whom all the multitude of the Jews besought me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying out that he ought no longer to live.

at midday I saw in the way O king, a light from heaven shining around me and those going with me, exceeding the brightness of the sun;

and sailing through the sea by Cilicia and Pamphylia we came to Myra in Lycia;

saying to them, Men, I see that the voyage will be with injury and much loss, not only of the cargo and ship, but also of our lives.

And the sailors seeking to escape from the ship, and letting down the boat into the sea, with the pretence that they were about to put out anchors from the fore part of the ship,

And being satisfied with food they lightened the ship, casting the wheat into the sea.

And taking up the anchors, they committed [the ship] to the sea, loosening at the same time the fastenings of the rudder and raising the top sail to the wind, they bore down towards the shore.

And falling on a place with a sea on both sides, they run the ship aground. And the bow being firmly fixed, remained immoveable; and the stern was broken by violence.

And when the barbarians saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said one to another, This man is undoubtedly a murderer, whom though saved from the sea justice has not permitted to live.

And thence, the brothers hearing of us came out to meet us even to the Forum of Appius, and the Three Taverns [fifty-one miles]; and when Paul saw them, thanking God he took courage.

For this reason, therefore, I have called you to see and converse with you, because I am loaded with this chain on account of the hope of Israel.

saying, Go to this people and say, Hearing you shall hear and not understand, and seeing you shall see and not perceive;

for the heart of this people has become hard, and they hear imperfectly with their ears, and they have shut their eyes, lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I should cure them.