Being therefore come together they asked Him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?

"And it shall come to pass in the last days (saith God) that I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy; and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:

yea and on my servants and on my handmaids, in those days, I will pour out of my Spirit, and they also shall prophesy.

And I will give prodigies in the heaven, and signs upon the earth; blood, and fire, and smoky vapour.

that Thou wilt not leave my soul in the invisible state, nor suffer thine holy one to see corruption.

Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; and Thou wilt fill me with joy by the light of thy countenance."

For Moses said unto the fathers, the Lord your God will raise up a prophet unto you, of your brethren, like me, Him shall ye hear in all things whatever He shall say unto you;

and every soul, who will not hearken to that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people: yea and all the prophets from Samuel,

And therefore as to the present affair I advise you to refrain from these men and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nothing;

but we will constantly attend to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.

and God said, "I will judge the nation, to which they shall be in slavery; and afterwards they shall come out, and shall worship me in this place."

Wilt thou kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian yesterday?

I have seen the oppression of my people that are in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. Therefore come now, and I will send thee into Egypt."

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

"Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what house will ye build for me, saith the Lord, or what is the place of my rest?

And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise and go into the city, and it shall be told thee, what thou must do.

for I will shew him how great sufferings he must endure for my name.

in which were all kinds of four-footed creatures, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.

Send therefore to Joppa, and call hither Simon, who is sirnamed Peter, (he lodgeth in the house of one Simon a tanner, by the sea-side,) who when he cometh, will talk with thee.

And looking stedfastly upon it, I observed four-footed creatures and wild beasts, and reptiles, and fowls of the air.

whose sirname is Peter, who will tell thee things, by which thou shalt be saved and all thy family.

said, O thou son of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, who art full of all deceit and craft, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

And having removed him, He raised up David for their king, to whom also He gave testimony and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, who will perform all my will.

And that He raised Him from the dead, no more to return to the place of corruption, He hath said thus, "I will give you the sure mercies of David."

Wherefore he saith also in another place, Thou wilt not suffer thine holy One to see corruption.

Now David having served his own generation according to the will of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw corruption: but He whom God raised,

"Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and vanish; for I do a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though any one should declare it unto you."

as it is written, "After this will I return, and rebuild the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will repair its ruins, and set it up again.

That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from fornication: from which ye will do well to keep yourselves. Farewel.

Because He hath fixed a day, in which He will judge the world in righteousness, by that man whom He hath appointed thereto; having given assurance of it to all men, by raising Him from the dead.

And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some laughed at it: and others said, We will hear thee again concerning this matter.

But as they opposed and blasphemed, he shook his garment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clear of it: from henceforth I will go to the Gentiles.

But if it be a question about words, and names, and your law, settle it yourselves; for I will be no judge of these matters.

saying, I must by all means keep the approaching feast at Jerusalem; but I will return to you again, God willing. So he sailed from Ephesus;

So that we are not only in danger of this, that the business we follow will come to nothing; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana will be despised; and her magnificence destroyed, whom all Asia and the whole world worshippeth.

And now, being constrained by the spirit, behold I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will befal me there:

For I know this, that after my departure grievous wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

And as he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done.

What then is to be done? The people must necessarily meet together; for they will hear that thou art come.

And he said, The God of our Fathers hath before appointed thee to know his will, and to see the just One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

And I saw Him saying unto me, Make haste and go quickly out of Jerusalem; for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.

But he said unto me, Go away; for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.---

Then said Paul to him, "God will smite thee, thou whited wall: dost thou sit to judge me according to the law, and contrary to the law commandest me to be smitten?"

I will hear thee, when thine accusers are also come. And he ordered him to be kept in Herod's palace.

And when Felix heard these things he put them off, (for he had been more particularly informed concerning this way of religion,) and said, When Lysias the tribune comes down, I will thoroughly examine your matters.

And as he was reasoning of justice, temperance, and a future judgement, Felix trembled, and said, Go thy way for this time, and I will take a proper opportunity to call for thee again.

Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent to the Gentiles, and they will hear it.