After saying this, Jesus was taken up while those who had gathered together were watching, and a cloud took him out of their sight.

'Men, brethren, it behoved this Writing that it be fulfilled that beforehand the Holy Spirit spake through the mouth of David, concerning Judas, who became guide to those who took Jesus,

(This man bought a piece of land with the money which he took for his treachery, and he fell there face downward and his body broke in two, and all his intestines poured out.

And when this sound took place, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because every one heard them speaking in his own language.

Cretans and Arabs—we all hear them speaking in our [native] tongues about the mighty works of God!”

But there were some who said with a sneer: "They have had too much new wine."

him, delivered up by the fixed purpose and foreknowledge of God, you took, and with wicked hands did crucify and slay:

Therefore my heart was cheered, and my tongue told its delight; Yes, even my body, too, will rest in hope;

And fear was upon every soul, and many wonders and signs took place through the apostles' means.

And day by day, continuing stedfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,

And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ancle bones received strength.

and they took knowledge of him, that it was he that sat for alms at the Beautiful Gate of the temple; and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him.

And now, brothers, I know you acted in ignorance, as your rulers did too.

You yourselves are the heirs of the Prophets, and heirs, too, of the Covenant which God made with your ancestors, when he said to Abraham--'In your descendants will all the nations of the earth be blessed.'

And they took them and put them in prison till the morning, for it was now evening.

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.

and having commanded them to go away out of the sanhedrim, they took counsel with one another,

The kings of the earth took their stand. The rulers met against the Lord, and too, against His Christ.'

"whilst thou stretchest forth thy hand to heal; grant too, that signs and wonders may be done through the name of thy holy Servant, Jesus."

And no one among them was in need; for everyone who had land or houses, exchanging them for money, took the price of them,

And kept back part of the price, his wife having knowledge of it, and took the rest and put it at the feet of the Apostles.

And hearing these words, Ananias fell down suddenly and died; and great fear and awe gripped those who heard of it.

And the young men went and made ready his body, and took it out, and put it in the earth.

Peter said to her, "How could both of you agree in such a way to test the Spirit of the Lord? Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door; they will carry you out, too."

And straight away she went down at his feet, and her life went from her: and the young men came in and saw her dead, and they took her out and put her in the earth with her husband.

And they even took into the streets people who were ill, and put them on beds, so that when Peter went by, some of them might be in his shade.

The inhabitants, too, of the towns in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem came in crowds, bringing sick persons and some who were harassed by foul spirits, and they were cured, one and all.

Now the high priest took a stand, and all his friends, the party of the Sadducees; and being filled with jealousy,

And they took the Apostles and put them in the common prison.

But in the night an angel of the Lord, opening the doors of the prison, took them out and said,

Then the captain and some of the police went and took them, but not violently, for fear that they might be stoned by the people.

And they took them into the Sanhedrin, and the high priest said to them,

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you took and hung on a cross;

God took him up to his right hand as our leader and savior, in order to give repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.

When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them.

After him, at the time of the enrollment for the Roman tax, Judas the Galilean appeared and influenced people to desert and follow him, but he too perished and all his followers were scattered.

So they took his advice, and having called for the apostles and scourged them, they charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

These they took to the Apostles, who, after prayer, put their hands on them.

And the people, with the rulers and the scribes, were moved against him, and they came and took him before the Sanhedrin,

"[And when] these patriarchs, [still living in Canaan as young men], became jealous of [their brother] Joseph, they sold him [as a slave to traveling merchants who took him] to Egypt. But God was with him [during all that time],

And took him out of all his pressures, and gave him grace and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt; and set him leader over Egypt and his whole house.

This man deceitfully took advantage of our people [and] mistreated our ancestors, {causing them to abandon their infants} so that they would not be kept alive.

And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.

when he was full forty years old, he took the resolution to visit his brethren the children of Israel.

And when he saw one of them being treated unjustly, he defended him and took vengeance for the oppressed by striking down the Egyptian.

At these words Moses took to flight, and became an exile in Midian; and there he had two sons born to him.

This man took them out, having done wonders and signs in Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the waste land, for forty years.

He, too, it was who was present at the assembly in the Desert, with the angel who talked to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors, and who received living truths to impart to you.

And saying to Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: as for this Moses, who took us out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has become of him.

Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

Which our fathers, in their turn, took with them when, with Joshua, they came into the heritage of the nations whom God was driving out before the face of our fathers, till the time of David,

"You people, stubborn in will, heathenish in hearts and ears, you are always resisting the Holy Spirit, as your forefathers did, too.

So Simon himself came to believe too, and after he was baptized he continued to be devoted to Philip, and he was always thrilled at seeing such great signs and wonder-works continuously performed.

and said, "Give me this power too, that when I lay my hands on anyone he may receive the Holy Spirit."

When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away; the official saw him no more, for he went on home rejoicing;

Then Saul got up off the ground, but he could not see anything, although his eyes were wide open. So they took him by the hand and led him into Damascus,

And for three days he was not able to see, and he took no food or drink.

and here too he hath authority from the chief priests to apprehend all that call upon thy name.

and he took food and was strengthened. And he was certain days with the disciples that were at Damascus.

And after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill him:

Then the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall in a basket.

But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus.

he conversed and reasoned with the Hellenists; but they under took to kill him.

So when the brothers found this out, they took him down to Caesarea, and from there sent him back to Tarsus.

So Peter at once got up and went with them. When he reached there, they took him to the room upstairs, and all the widows took their stand around him, crying and showing him the shirts and coats that Dorcas had made while she was still with them.

And he took her hand, lifting her up; and, sending for the saints and widows, he gave her to them, living.

a religious man, too, who revered God with all his household, who was always liberal in his many deeds of charity to the people, and who had the habit of praying to God.

This took place three times; then all at once the thing was taken up into the sky.

So he took them in for the night. And the day after, he went with them, taking some of the brothers from Joppa with him.

But Peter took him up, saying, Stand up; I myself also am a man.

you yourselves know the thing which took place throughout all Judea, starting from Galilee, after the baptism which John proclaimed.

We are ourselves, too, witnesses to all that he did in Judea and in Jerusalem; yet they put him to death by hanging him on a cross!

Not by all the people, but by witnesses marked out before by God, even by us, who took food and drink with him after he came back from the dead.

Then the Jewish believers who had gone along with Peter were astounded because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been showered upon the heathen too,

Now the apostles and the brothers all over Judea heard that the heathen too had accepted God's message.

So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision took issue with him,

Saying, You went to men without circumcision, and took food with them.

This took place three times; then all at once the whole thing was drawn back into the sky.

And the Spirit told me to go with them without any hesitation at all. These six brothers, too, went with me, and we all went into the man's house.

So, when the apostles and the brothers from Judea heard these things, they stopped arguing [See verse 2] and gave honor to God, saying, "[This means] that God has permitted the Gentiles also [as well as the Jews] to repent [i.e., change their hearts and lives] so they, too, could have [the promise of never ending] life."

Now those who had been scattered because of the persecution that took place over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, proclaiming the message to no one except Jews alone.

But there were some of them, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, who on reaching Antioch began to speak to the Greeks too, and proceeded to tell them the good news about the Lord Jesus.

For Barnabas was a good man and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith--and a large number of people took their stand on the Lord's side.

and after he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. Now for a whole year their meeting with the church lasted, and they taught large numbers of people. It was at Antioch too that the disciples first came to be known as "Christians."

And one of them {named} Agabus stood up [and] indicated by the Spirit [that] a great famine was about to come over the whole inhabited earth (which took place in the time of Claudius).

and when he saw that this was agreeable to the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter too -- it was at the time of the feast of Unleavened Bread.

So he went out and followed, and he did not know that what took place through the angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision.

And Peter being as himself, said, Now know I truly that the Lord sent his messenger, and took me out of the hands of Herod, and all the expectation of the people of the Jews.

And Herod sought him out earnestly, but not being able to find him, after having examined the guards strictly, he commanded them to be executed. And going down from Jerusalem to Caesarea, took up his abode there.

So, on a day appointed, Herod, dressed in his royal robes, took his seat on his throne, and made them a popular address,

And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their ministry, and took with them John, whose surname was Mark.

Then the deputy, seeing that which took place, believed; being delighted with the teaching of the Lord.

but they went on from Perga and arrived at Antioch in Pisidia. On the sabbath they went to the synagogue and took seats.

The God of this people Israel made selection of our fathers, lifting the people up from their low condition when they were living in the land of Egypt, and with a strong arm took them out of it.

When He had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, He gave their land [to our ancestors] as an inheritance—this took about four hundred and fifty years.

[This took] about four hundred and fifty years. And after these [things], he gave [them] judges until Samuel the prophet.

And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.

But when the Jews saw the large crowds [gathered to hear the Gospel] they became very jealous and took sharp issue with the things Paul said, and [even] spoke against them.

At Iconium too they went to the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Jews and Greeks came to believe.

So when an inclination took place [on the part] of both the Gentiles and the Jews, together with their rulers, to mistreat [them] and to stone them,