I have given an earlier account, O Theophilus, of all the things which Jesus did, and of his teaching from the first,

And when they were all together, with him, he gave them orders not to go away from Jerusalem, but to keep there, waiting till the word of the Father was put into effect, of which, he said, I have given you knowledge:

And when he had said these things, while they were looking, he was taken up, and went from their view into a cloud.

And said, O men of Galilee, why are you looking up into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken from you into heaven, will come again, in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.

Then they went back to Jerusalem from the mountain named Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey away.

Starting from the baptism of John till he went up from us, one will have to be a witness with us of his coming back from death.

To take that position as a servant and Apostle, from which Judas by his sin was shut out, so that he might go to his place.

And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like the rushing of a violent wind, and all the house where they were was full of it.

Now there were living at Jerusalem, Jews, God-fearing men, from every nation under heaven.

And how is it that every one of us is hearing their words in the language which was ours from our birth?

In Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and those who have come from Rome, Jews by birth and others who have become Jews,

But God gave him back to life, having made him free from the pains of death because it was not possible for him to be overcome by it.

He, having knowledge of the future, was talking of the coming again of Christ from the dead, that he was not kept in hell and his body did not see destruction.

And with more such words he gave his witness, offering them salvation and saying, Come out from this evil generation.

And a certain man who from birth had had no power in his legs, was taken there every day, and put down at the door of the Temple which is named Beautiful, requesting money from those who went into the Temple;

And he gave attention to them, hoping to get something from them.

And put to death the Lord of life; whom God gave back from the dead; of which fact we are witnesses.

So then, let your hearts be changed and be turned to God, so that your sins may be completely taken away, and times of blessing may come from the Lord;

And that he may send the Christ who was marked out for you from the first, even Jesus:

Who is to be kept in heaven till the time when all things are put right, of which God has given word by the mouth of his holy prophets, who have been from the earliest times.

For Moses said, The Lord will give you a prophet from among your people, like me; you will give ear to everything which he will say to you.

And every soul who does not give attention to that prophet, will be cut off from among the people.

And all the prophets from Samuel and those who came after, every one of them, gave word of these days.

To you, first, God sent his servant, blessing you by turning every one of you from his sins.

Being greatly troubled because they were teaching the people and preaching Jesus as an example of the coming back from the dead.

Take note, all of you, and all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you put to death on the cross, whom God gave back from the dead, even through him is this man now before you completely well.

For it is not possible for us to keep from saying what we have seen and have knowledge of.

And with great power the Apostles gave witness of the coming back of the Lord Jesus from the dead; and grace was on them all.

And at these words, Ananias went down on the earth, and his life went from him: and great fear came on all who were present.

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.

The others, in fear, kept back from joining them: but the people made much of them;

And numbers of people came together from the towns round about Jerusalem, with those who were ill and those who were troubled with unclean spirits: and they were all made well.

So they went away from the Sanhedrin, happy to undergo shame for the Name.

Take then from among you seven men of good name, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, to whom we may give control of this business.

But some of those who were of the Synagogue named that of the Libertines, and some of the men of Cyrene and of Alexandria and those from Cilicia and Asia, had arguments with Stephen.

And said to him, Go out of your land, and away from your family, and come into the land to which I will be your guide.

Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and went into Haran; and from there, when his father was dead, he was guided by God into this land, where you are living now:

And made him free from all his troubles, and gave him wisdom and the approval of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and all his house.

And they were taken over to Shechem, and put to rest in the place which Abraham got for a price in silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob. And Moses, shaking with fear, kept his eyes from looking at it.

And the Lord said, Take off the shoes from your feet, for the place where you are is holy.

This is the same Moses, who said to the children of Israel, God will give you a prophet from among your brothers, like me.

But God was turned from them and let them give worship to the stars of heaven, as it says in the book of the prophets, Did you make offerings to me of sheep and oxen for forty years in the waste land, O house of Israel?

For unclean spirits came out from those who had them, crying with a loud voice; and a number of those who were ill and broken in body were made well.

To whom they all gave attention, from the smallest to the greatest, saying, This man is that power of God which is named Great.

But an angel of the Lord said to Philip, Get up, and go to the south, to the road which goes from Jerusalem to Gaza, through the waste land.

Being of low degree, his cause was not given a hearing: who has knowledge of his family? for his life is cut off from the earth.

So Philip, starting from this writing, gave him the good news about Jesus.

And made a request for letters from him to the Synagogues of Damascus, so that if there were any of the Way there, men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

And while he was journeying, he came near Damascus; and suddenly he saw a light from heaven shining round him;

And Saul got up from the earth, and when his eyes were open, he saw nothing; and he was guided by the hand into Damascus.

But Ananias said, Lord, I have had accounts of this man from a number of people, how much evil he has done to your saints at Jerusalem:

And here he has authority from the chief priests to make prisoners all who give worship to your name.

And straight away it seemed as if a veil was taken from his eyes, and he was able to see; and he got up, and had baptism;

But his disciples took him by night and let him down from the wall in a basket.

And they said, Cornelius, a captain, an upright and God-fearing man, respected by all the nation of the Jews, had word from God by an angel to send for you to his house, and to give hearing to your words.

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.

And Cornelius said, Four days from now I was in my house in prayer at the ninth hour; and I saw before me a man in shining clothing,

That word you yourselves have knowledge of, which was made public through all Judaea, starting from Galilee, after the baptism of which John was the preacher,

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.

I was in the town of Joppa, at prayer: and falling into a deep sleep, I saw in a vision a vessel like a great cloth let down from heaven, and it came down to me:

But the voice, coming a second time from heaven, said, What God has made clean, do not you make common.

And at that minute, three men, sent from Caesarea, came to the house where we were.

Now in those days prophets came from Jerusalem to Antioch.

And Herod, when he sent for him, and he was not there, after questioning the watchmen, gave orders that they were to be put to death. Then he went down from Judaea to Caesarea for a time.

And Barnabas and Saul came back from Jerusalem, when their work was ended, taking with them John named Mark.

So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia; and from there they went by ship to Cyprus.

But Elymas, the wonder-worker (for that is the sense of his name), put himself against them, with the purpose of turning the ruler from the faith.

O you, who are full of false tricks and evil ways, a son of the Evil One, hating all righteousness, will you for ever be turning people from the right ways of the Lord?

Then Paul and those who were with him went by ship from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia: and there John went away from them and came back to Jerusalem.

But they, going through from Perga, came to Antioch in Pisidia; and they went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath and were seated.

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.

From this man's seed has God given to Israel a Saviour, even Jesus, as he gave his word;

And when they had done all the things said in the Writings about him, they took him down from the tree, and put him in the place of the dead.

But God gave him back from the dead:

And for a number of days he was seen by those who came with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses before the people.

And about his coming back from the dead, never again to go to destruction, he has said these words, I will give you the holy and certain mercies of David.

And through him everyone who has faith is made free from all those things, from which the law of Moses was not able to make you free.

But they, shaking off the dust of that place from their feet, came to Iconium.

And at Lystra there was a certain man, who from birth had been without the use of his feet, never having had the power of walking.

And when the people saw what Paul had done, they said in a loud voice, in the language of Lycaonia, The gods have come down to us in the form of men.

Good people, why are you doing these things? We are men with the same feelings as you, and we give you the good news so that you may be turned away from these foolish things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things in them:

But he was not without witness, because he did good, and gave you rain from heaven and times of fruit, making your hearts full of food and joy.

And even with these words, it was hard for them to keep the people from making an offering to them.

But some Jews came to that place from Antioch and Iconium, and got control over the people; and after stoning Paul, they had him pulled out of the town, taking him for dead.

And when they had made selection of some to be rulers in every church, and had given themselves to prayer and kept themselves from food, they put them into the care of the Lord in whom they had faith.

And from there they went by ship to Antioch, where they had been handed over to the grace of God for the work which they had not done.

Now certain men came down from Judaea, teaching the brothers and saying that without circumcision, after the rule of Moses, there is no salvation.

Symeon has given an account of how God was first pleased to take from among the Gentiles a people for himself.

Says the Lord, who has made these things clear from the earliest times.

For this reason my decision is, that we do not put trouble in the way of those who from among the Gentiles are turned to God;

But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from blood.

For Moses, from times long past, has his preachers in every town, reading his law in the Synagogues every Sabbath.

Then it seemed good to the Apostles and the rulers and all the church, to send men from among them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; Judas, named Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers:

Because we have knowledge that some who went from us have been troubling you with their words, putting your souls in doubt; to whom we gave no such order;

To keep from things offered to false gods, and from blood, and from things put to death in ways which are against the law, and from the evil desires of the body; if you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. May you be happy.

But Paul was of the opinion that it was not right to take with them one who had gone away from them in Pamphylia, and had not gone on with the work.

And there was a sharp argument between them, so that they were parted from one another, and Barnabas took Mark with him and went by ship to Cyprus;

So, from Troas we went straight by ship to Samothrace and the day after to Neapolis;

And from there to Philippi, which is the most important town of Macedonia and a Roman colony: and we were there for some days.