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

To whom He also, after He suffered, manifested Himself alive in many testimonials, being seen by them forty days, and speaking the things concerning the kingdom of God:

And while they were gazing up into the heaven, He going, and behold, two men stood by them in white garments, who also said,

And they nominated two, Joseph, called Barsabas who was called Justus, and Matthias.

And praying they said, Thou, O Lord, Heart-searcher of all, show up the one of these two, whom thou hast chosen

And they were all astounded and marveled, saying, Are not all these who are speaking, Galileans?

And it shall come to pass, that every one who may call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

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

Then let all the house of Israel assuredly know that God hath made this same Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.

For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all who are afar off, so many as the Lord our God may call.

And all those who believed were together and had all things common,

praising God, and having favor unto all the people. And the Lord was daily adding to them those who were being saved.

And a certain man, being lame from his mother's womb was habitually carried, whom they placed daily at the gate of the temple called Beautiful, to ask alms of those entering into the temple;

who seeing Peter and John about to come into the temple, asked to receive alms.

The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, and the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Child, Jesus, who you indeed delivered up and denied before the face of Pilate having decided to release Him.

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

and you slew the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, whose witnesses we are.

And through the faith of his name, his name hath made sound this one who you see and know, and through him faith has given unto him this soundness, in the presence of you all.

and he may send forth Jesus, who has been preached unto you as the Christ,

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.

if we are this day judged for the benefaction of the impotent man, by whom he has been saved,

let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ, the Nazarene whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, through him this man now stands sound in your presence.

and seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say against it.

for the man on whom this miracle of healing was wrought was more than forty years old.

For in truth they were assembled together in this city, against thy holy Child Jesus, whom thou didst anoint; both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel,

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.

Then a multitude, of the cities around about Jerusalem, came together, carrying their sick and those tormented by unclean spirits, who were all being healed.

And a certain one coming announced to them, Behold, the men whom you placed in the prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people.

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you have slain, hanging him on the wood;

And we are witnesses of these words, and the Holy Ghost, whom God has given to those who obey him.

For before these days Theudas arose, saying that he was somebody, to whom a number of men, about four hundred, adhered, who were slain, and all, so many as confided in him, were dispersed, and came to nothing.

But brethren, look out seven men from you of good report, full of the Spirit and wisdom, whom we shall appoint over this interest;

the Antiochian proselyte, whom they placed before the apostles, and having prayed, they placed their hands on them.

And the nation whom they shall serve I will judge, says God, and after these things they shall come out and serve me in this place.

until another king arose over Egypt, who knew not Joseph.

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

And the one injuring his neighbor thrust him away, saying, Who appointeth you a leader and a judge over us?

Seeing, I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and heard their groaning, and have come down to deliver them. And come now, I will send thee into Egypt.

And this Moses whom they denied, saying, Who hath established thee a ruler and a judge? him hath God sent a ruler and deliverer, with the hand of an angel having appeared unto him in a bush.

And this is the one being in the church in the wilderness with the angel speaking to him in Mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received the living oracles to give unto us;

to whom our fathers were not willing to be obedient, but thrust him away, and turned back in their hearts towards Egypt,

saying to Aaron, Make us gods who shall go before us: for this Moses, who led us out from the land of Egypt, we know not what happened to him.

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,

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

who received the law in the administrations of angels, and did not keep it.

to whom all from small even unto the great gave heed, saying, This one is the power of God, called Great.

who, having come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost.

And rising up, he departed. And, behold, an Ethiopian man, a eunuch, an officer of Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasury, had been to Jerusalem to worship,

In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare His generation? because his life is taken from the earth.

And the eunuch responding to Philip, said, I pray thee, concerning whom does the prophet speak this? concerning himself, or some other man?

and falling on the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? And he said, Who art thou, Lord?

And He said, I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.

and having received food, he was strengthened. And he was with the disciples who were in Damascus some days;

And he found there a certain man, by name Eneas, lying on a bed eight years, who was paralyzed.

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.

And Peter rising up came along with them; whom, on arrival, they led to the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and showing him the chitoons and himations, so many as Dorcas made, while with them.

And now send men to Joppa, and call for a certain Simon, who is called Peter:

And when the angel speaking to him went away, calling two of his household servants, and a devout soldier of those who waited on him continually;

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 having called them in, he lodged them. And on the following day, rising up he went out with them, and certain ones of the brethren, who were from Joppa went along with him.

Therefore send to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is called Peter. He is lodging in the house of Simon the tanner by the sea.

Jesus, the one from Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Ghost and power: who went about doing good, and healing all oppressed by the devil: because God is with Him.

And we are witnesses in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they even slew, hanging him on the wood.

not to all the people, but to the witnesses having been chosen of God, to us, who ate and drank along with him after He arose from the dead:

And the faithful ones who were of the circumcision, so many as came along with Peter, were astonished, because the gift of the Holy Ghost was poured out on the Gentiles also;

And he proclaimed to us how he saw an angel standing in his house, and saying, Send to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is called Peter;

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

Since then God gave unto them the equal gift, as also unto us, believing on the Lord Jesus Christ; who was I, to be able to resist God?

And of them there were certain Cyprian and Cyrenean men, who, having come into Antioch, were speaking to the Greeks also, preaching the gospel of the Lord Jesus.

Who, coming, and seeing the grace of God, rejoiced, and continued to exhort all, with purpose of heart to abide with the Lord:

whom having seized, he also put in prison, having committed him to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him; wishing to bring him out to the people after the passover.

And he was very angry with the Tyrians and Sidonians: and they unanimously came to him, and having persuaded Blastus who was over the chamber of the king, they continued to seek peace; because their country is supported by the kings.

And having gone through the whole island to Paphos, they found a certain man, a magician, a Jewish false prophet, to whom was the name of Bar-Jesus:

who was with Sergius Paulus, the proconsul, an intelligent man. He, having called Barnabas and Saul, sought to hear the word of God;

And Saul, (who is also Paul), being filled with the Holy Ghost, fixing his eyes on him,

and having deposed him, he raised up to them David for a king; to whom witnessing he also said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man according to my own heart, who will do all my wishes.

who appeared to those coming up with him to Jerusalem from Galilee many days, who are now his witnesses to the people.

but he, whom God raised up, did not see corruption.

And the synagogue having been adjourned, many of the Jews and pious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking with them, continued to persuade them to abide in the grace of God.

And there was a certain man sitting there in Lystra, impotent in his feet, being lame from the womb of his mother, who never did walk about.

He heard Paul speaking, who fixing his attention on him, and seeing that he had faith to be saved,

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:

who in bygone generations, suffered all nations to walk in their own ways;

And electing elders for them in every church, praying with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

And God, who knows the heart, witnessed to them, giving to them the Holy Ghost, as also to us;

in order that the residue of men may seek out the Lord, even all the Gentiles, on whom my name has been called upon them, says the Lord, who doeth these things

having written through their hand; The apostles and elders, brethren to the brethren who are from the Gentiles throughout Antioch and Syria and Cilicia greeting.

men who have imperiled their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

and having spent the time, they were discharged by the brethren with peace back to the apostles who sent them.

But Paul thought that he would not take with them, him who having departed from them from Pamphylia, and not having gone along with them into the work.

who was of good report by the brethren in Lystra and Iconium.

Paul wished him to go out with him; and having taken him circumcised him on account of the Jews who were in those places: for they all knew his father that he was a Greek.

And it came to pass, we going to the prayer, a certain damsel having a spirit of divination met us, who brought much gain to her masters telling fortunes.

She, following Paul and us, continued to cry out, saying, These men are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation.

who, having received such a charge, cast them into the interior prison, and fastened their feet into the wood.

And they spoke to him the word of the Lord, along with all who were in his house.

opening and proving, that it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead, and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is the Christ.

but not finding them, they dragged Jason and certain brethren to the rulers of the city, roaring that, These who have turned the world upside down are also come hither;

whom Jason has received: and all these are doing contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another King, Jesus.

But the brethren immediately sent away both Paul and Silas to Berea by night, who coming into the synagogue of the Jews departed;