And, Lydda being near to Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent to him two men, entreating him, "Delay not to come to us!"

And now why do you delay? Arising, be immersed, and wash away your sins, calling on His name.'

When, therefore, they came together here, I, making no delay, the next day, sitting on the judgment-seat, ordered the man to be brought;

but, if I delay, that you may know how you ought to behave yourself in a house of God, which, indeed, is an assembly of the living God, a pillar and basis of the truth,

and swore by Him Who liveth forever and ever, Who created the heaven and the things therein, and the earth and the things therein, and the sea and the things therein, that there shall be delay no longer;