whom God raised up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was impossible that he should be held by it.

Therefore being a prophet and knowing that God swore with an oath, that from the fruit of his loins One should sit upon the throne;

And you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and ask that a man who was a murderer should be delivered unto you,

and those things which God proclaimed through the mouth of all the prophets that his Christ should suffer, he hath thus fulfilled.

He dealing fraudulently with our race, afflicted our fathers, that they should expose their infants, so that they should not live.

who found favor before God, and asked that he should build a tabernacle for the house of Jacob.

asked from him letters to Damascus against the synagogues, in order that if he should find any being of the way, both men and women, he might lead them bound to Jerusalem.

And they determined that each one of them should send to the ministry to the brethren dwelling in Judea, as each one of the disciples was prosperous;

And Herod having sought him, and found him not, condemning the guards, commanded that they should be put to death; and having gone down from Judea to Caesarea, he tarried.

fulfilled the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath; and having found no cause of death, asked Pilate that he should be executed;

And they going out, they continued to entreat them that these words should be spoken to them on the next Sabbath.

And Paul and Barnabas speaking boldly, said, It was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you: since you have rejected it, and judge yourselves not worthy of eternal life, behold we now turn to the Gentiles.

Men, why are you doing these things? We are also men of like suffering with you, preaching the gospel to you that you should turn from these vanities to the living God, who created the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all things which are in them:

And there being much disputation, Peter, having arisen, said to them, Men, brethren, you know that from ancient days God chose among you, that the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel through my mouth, and believe.

Therefore I judge, that we should not burden those from the Gentiles turning to God:

And on the Sabbath day we went out from the gate by the river, where we were accustomed that prayer should be, and having sat down, we spoke to the women having assembled.

But having embarked Paul, they led him even to Athens: and receiving commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him as quickly as possible, they departed from him.

that they should seek God, if perhaps indeed they might feel after him, and find him, though not being far from each one of you.

And Paul said, John baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on the one coming after him, that is Jesus.

how I omitted nothing of those things which are profitable, that I should not declare unto you and teach you publicly and from house to house,

the chiliarch commanded that he should be led into the castle, saying that he should be tested by scourges, in order that he might know on account of what cause they continued so to cry out against him.

and ascertaining that he is from Cilicia, said, I will hear thee, when thy accusers may also be present, having commanded that he should be kept in Herod's judgment hall.

whom it behooves to be present before me, and accuse me, if they should have anything against me.

Then indeed Festus responded, that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and himself was about to go away quickly:

And having tarried with them not more than eight or ten days, having come down to Caesarea, on the following day, sitting on the tribunal, he commanded that Paul should be brought forth.

Then they, having come together to this place, making no delay, immediately sitting on the judgment-seat, I commanded that the man should be led forth;

And Paul having demanded that he should be kept for the diagnosis of Augustus, I demanded that he should be kept until I shall send him to Caesar.

but first to those in Damascus, and also in Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and to the Gentiles, I was preaching that they should repent and turn to God, doing things worthy of repentance.

And when it was determined that we should sail away into Italy, they committed both Paul and certain other prisoners to the centurion, Julius by name, of the band of Augustus.

and fearing lest they may fall out against rough places, casting four anchors from the stern, they were praying that the day should come.

And the counsel of the soldiers was that they should kill the prisoners, lest some one, having outswum them, might escape: