Truly, I made the first history, O Theophilus, concerning all things which Jesus began both to do and to teach,

from the day on which, having given commandment through the Holy Ghost to the apostles whom He had chosen, He was received up.

and being assembled together with them, He commanded them, Not to depart from Jerusalem, but to await the promise of the Father which ye heard from me;

He said to them; It is not your province, to know the times or seasons, which the Father placed in His own authority.

Ye Galilean men, why stand you looking up into the heaven? this same Jesus, the One having been received up into the heaven, will so come in the manner in which you saw Him going up into the heaven.

Then they returned into Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, being a journey of a Sabbath day.

Men, brethren, it behooved the scripture which the Holy Ghost predicted through the mouth of David concerning Judas, the one becoming leader to those arresting Jesus, to be fulfilled;

which indeed was known to all those dwelling at Jerusalem, so that field, in their own dialect, is called Acheldamach; that is, field of blood.

Therefore the men having come together with us all the time in which the Lord Jesus came in unto us and went out,

beginning from the baptism of John, until the day on which He was taken up from us, it behooveth one of these to be witness of His resurrection along with us.

to receive the place of this ministry and apostleship from which Judas departed to go into his own place.

And how do we hear each one in our own dialect in which we were born,

indeed Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the regions of Libya which is beyond Cyrene, and Roman sojourners, both Jews and proselytes,

but this is that which has been spoken by the prophet Joel;

Israelitish men, hear these words, Jesus the Nazarene, a man having been demonstrated unto you from God by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did through Him in your midst, as yourselves know;

Therefore on the right hand of God exalted, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, has poured out this which you both see and hear.

Peter said, Silver and gold do not belong to me; but I give thee that which I have. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, walk about.

And they recognized him, that he was the one sitting for alms at Beautiful Gate of the temple; and they were filled with astonishment and delight at that which had happened to him.

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

whom it behooves heaven indeed to receive until the times of the restitution of all things which God spoke through the mouth of all his prophets from the beginning.

Ye are the sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, In thy seed shall the families of the earth be truly blessed.

This is the stone rejected by your builders, which has become the head of the corner.

And there is salvation in no other; for there is no other name given under heaven among men by which it behooveth us to he saved.

for we are not able not to speak those things which we have seen and heard.

And they having threatened them, in addition sent them away, finding nothing to the end that they can punish them, on account of the people, because all continued to glorify God over that which had taken place;

And having heard, they unanimously lifted up their voice to God, and said, O Lord, thou having created the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things which are in them,

And they praying, the place in which they were assembled was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.

And of the multitude who believed there was one heart and soul, and no one was saying that any of those things which belonged to him were his own, but all things were common to them.

And Joseph called Barnabas by the apostles, which is interpreted, Son of consolation, a Levite, a Cyprian by race,

and they were not able to resist the wisdom and spirit with which he was speaking.

for we have heard him saying, that this Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place, and change the customs which Moses delivered unto us.

Come out from thy country and from thy kindred, and come hither into the land which I will show unto thee.

And after his father died he migrated himself thence into this country in which you now dwell,

And they were carried over into Shechem, and buried in a tomb which Abraham purchased from the sons of Emmor in Shechem with a sum of money.

When the time of the promise which God made with Abraham drew nigh, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

During which time Moses was born, and was beautiful to God; who was kept three months in the house of his father.

whether do you wish to kill me, in the manner in which you slew the Egyptian yesterday?

And the Lord said to him, Loose the sandal of thy feet: for the place on which thou standest is holy ground.

And ye took up the shrine of Moloch, and the star of the god Remphan, images which you made to worship them; and I will transport you beyond Babylon.

which our fathers receiving, brought in along with Joshua in the dispossession of the nations, whom God drove out, from the face of our fathers, until the days of David,

Which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? and they slew those proclaiming concerning the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you became:

And the multitudes were unanimously giving heed to the things spoken by Philip, while they were hearing and seeing the miracles which he was performing.

And Simon responding said, You pray to the Lord for me, in order that none of these things of which you have spoken may come upon me.

and the place of the scripture which he was reading was this, He was led like a sheep to the slaughter; and as a lamb before the one shearing him is dumb, so he opens not his mouth.

And the Lord said to him, Arising, go to the street which is called Straight, and seek a Tarsean, by name Saul, in the house of Judas; for, behold, he is praying,

And Ananias departed, and came into the house: and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, Jesus, that appeared to you in the way in which thou didst come, hath sent me, that thou mayest look up, and he filled with the Holy Ghost.

But there was a certain disciple in Joppa, by name Tabitha, who being interpreted is called Dorcas: and she was full of good works and alms which she was doing.

in which were all quadrupeds, and creeping things of the earth, and birds of the heaven.

And Peter having come down to the men, said, Behold, I am he whom you are seeking: what is the cause on account of which you are present?

Then I immediately sent for thee; and thou hast done well being present. Now therefore we are all present before God, to hear all things which have been commanded thee of the Lord.

the word which he sent to the sons of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ: he is Lord of all.

This word you know, which was throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;

into which looking, I was investigating, and I saw quadrupeds of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and the birds of the heaven.

And, behold, immediately three men were standing at the house in which we were, having been sent to me from Cornelius.

who will speak words to you, by which you and your whole family may be saved.

And one of them by name Agabus, standing up, signified through the Spirit that there is about to be a great famine throughout the whole world: which took place under the reign of Claudius.

And having come out, he was following; and did not know that it is true which was done by the angel; but he was thinking that he saw a vision.

And having come through the first guard and the second, they came to the iron gate leading into the city; which opened to them of its own accord: and having come out, they came on to the first street; and the angel immediately departed from him.

And they ministering to the Lord, and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Now separate unto me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.

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

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 when they perfected all the things which had been written concerning him, taking him down from the cross, placed him in a sepulchre.

And we preach unto you the promise, which was made to the fathers,

and in him every one believing is justified from all things from which ye were not able to be justified by the law of Moses.

Then beware, lest the word which has been spoken by the prophets may come upon you;

Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and vanish away: because I work a work in your days, a work which you may not believe, though one may proclaim it to you.

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 thence they sailed away into Antioch, whence they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they fulfilled.

Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke on the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

But through the grace of our Lord Jesus, we believe that we are saved, in the same manner in which they are also.

After these things I will return, and will build again the throne of David, which has fallen down; and will build again the ruins of the same, and will set it up again:

Since we heard that certain ones having come out from us troubled you, disturbing your souls with words which we did not command:

to abstain from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which keeping yourselves, you will do well. Fare ye well.

And after many days Paul said to Barnabas, Having returned let us now visit the brethren in every city in which we preached the word of the Lord, how they are doing.

And while they were traveling through the cities, they delivered to them the decrees which were adjudicated by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem, to keep.

and thence into Philippi, which is the first city of the Macedonian region, a colony. And we were in that city spending some days.

and they proclaimed customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, or to do, being Romans.

For going through, and seeing your devotions, I also found an altar on which it was superscribed, To THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore I now preach unto you Him whom you are ignorantly worshiping.

God having made the world and all things which are in it, being himself Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands;

as He has appointed a day, in which he is about to judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; giving faith to all, having raised Him from the dead.

For indeed we are in danger of prosecution for the disturbance this day, there being no cause concerning which we shall be able to give a reason for this uproar.

And when they came to him, he said to them, You know, that from the first day from which I came unto Asia, how I was with you all the time,

serving the Lord with all humility, and tears, and temptations, which came upon me through the plots of the Jews:

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,

And now, behold, I go to Jerusalem bound in spirit, not knowing the things which shall come upon me in it:

But I consider my life worthy of no consideration to myself, so as to finish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to bear testimony to the gospel of the grace of God.

Take heed to yourselves, and all the flock, over which the Holy Ghost has placed you shepherds, to shepherdise the church of God, which He bought with His own blood.

being especially grieved at the word which he had spoken, that they were about to see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the ship.

And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said to me, Rising up, go into Damascus; and there it shall be told thee concerning all things which have been ordained for thee to do.

because thou shalt be a witness for Him to all men of those things which thou hast seen and heard.

And the chiliarch taking him by the hand, and having gone away privately, asked him, What is that which you have to tell me?

and wishing to know the cause on account of which they clamored against him, I led him into their sanhedrim:

Then indeed the soldiers, according to that which had been commanded them, taking Paul led him by night to Antipatris:

with whom you yourself, having made inquiry, are able to know concerning all these things of which we accuse him.

neither are they able to prove before you the things which they are now accusing me.

But I confess this to you, that according to the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of our fathers, believing all things which have been written in the law and in the prophets:

having hope towards God, which they themselves also receive, that there is going to be a resurrection, both of the just and unjust.

in which they found me having been purified in the temple, not with rabble, nor with an uproar; and were certain Jews from Asia,

except concerning this one voice, which I cried out standing in their midst, that concerning the resurrection of the dead I am judged before you this day.

And after certain day, Felix with Drusilla his wife, being a Jewess, coming, sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith which is towards Christ Jesus.