And in those days Peter standing up in the midst of the brothers, said??he multitude together was about a hundred and twenty??16 Men and brothers, it was necessary that the Scripture should be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David, concerning Judas who became a guide to them that apprehended Jesus;

beginning from the baptism of John till the day on which he was taken up from us, should be made with us a witness of his resurrection.

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

For David says of him, I saw the Lord always before me, he is on my right hand that I should not be moved;

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

But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart that you should lie to the Holy Spirit, and that you should keep back a part of the price of the land?

Then the commander going away with the officers brought them without violence, for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned;

And the twelve calling the multitude of the disciples, said, It is not desirable that we should leave the word of God to serve tables.

And God said thus; that his posterity should be a stranger in a foreign land, and they shall enslave it and treat it injuriously four hundred years;

Can any forbid water that these should be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit as we also have?

And he commanded that they should be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then they desired him to remain some days.

If therefore God gave the gift equally to them and to us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I should be able to forbid God?

And both Paul and Barnabas speaking boldly said, It was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you; but since you cast it away, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the gentiles.

For thus has the Lord commanded us; I have set you for a light of nations, that you should be a salvation even to the end of the earth.

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,

There being therefore no little dissension and disputation of Paul and Barnabas with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas and some others of them should go up to the apostles and elders at Jerusalem, concerning this question.

And after there had been much debate, Peter rose and said to them, Men and brothers, you know that in former days God chose among you that the gentiles should hear by my mouth the word of the gospel and believe.

that you should abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and blood, and things strangled, and fornication, from which if you keep yourselves you will do well. Farewell.

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

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.

But concerning the gentiles who have believed, we have sent, judging that they should avoid things offered to idols, and blood, and things strangled, and fornication.

Then Paul taking the men, on the following day being purified with them went into the temple, announcing the completion of the days of purification till an offering should be offered for each one of them.

And they heard him to this word, and lifted up their voice saying, Take away such a man from the earth; it is not fit that he should live.

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 he commanded the centurion that Paul should be kept, and be freed from bonds, and that he should forbid none of his friends to serve him.

Then Festus answered that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he would go down there shortly;

And Agrippa [said] to Festus, I should like to hear the man also myself. And he said, To-morrow you shall hear him.

but preached first to those at Damascus and Jerusalem, and in all the country of Judea, and to the gentiles, that they should change their minds and turn to God, performing works worthy of a change of mind.

Having obtained therefore help from God, I have continued to this day, testifying to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said should take place;

that the Christ should suffer, and that he first from the resurrection of the dead should proclaim light both to the people and the nations.

AND when it was determined that we should sail to Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion by the name of Julius, of the cohort of Augustus.

and taking it out they used helps, under-girding the ship; and fearing lest they should fall on the shoal, letting down the mast they were driven in that condition.

And neither sun nor stars appearing for many days, and no slight storm being upon us, at last all hope that we should be saved was taken away.

and fearing lest we should fall on rough places, casting out four anchors from the stern, they prayed for day.

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.