But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and related to them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had spoken boldly in Damascus in the name of Jesus.

But Lydda being nigh to Joppa, the disciples hearing that Peter was there sent two men to him requesting, Do not delay to come to us.

And when the angel who spoke to him had departed, he called two of the house servants, and a pious soldier of those that attended constantly on him,

And they said, Cornelius a centurion, a righteous man, and one that fears God, and esteemed by all the nation of the Jews, was divinely instructed by a holy angel to send for you to his house and hear words from you.

and he said to them, You know that it is not lawful for a Jew to associate with a man of another nation, or come into his house; and God has taught me not to call any man common or impure;

And Peter opening his mouth said, Of a truth I perceive that God is not a respecter of persons,

but in every nation he that fears him and does righteousness is acceptable to him.

Jesus from Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and power, who went about doing good and curing all that were subjugated by the devil, for God was with him;

and he commanded us to preach to the people and testify fully that he is appointed by God the judge of living and dead.

To him all the prophets bear witness, that every one who believes in him has forgiveness of sins through his name.

And those of the circumcision who came with Peter were astonished, that on the gentiles also the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out;

Can any forbid water that these should be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit as we also have?

And he commanded that they should be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then they desired him to remain some days.

AND the apostles and brothers who were in Judea heard that the gentiles received the word of God.

saying, You went in to men that were uncircumcised, and eat with them.

If therefore God gave the gift equally to them and to us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I should be able to forbid God?

and one of them, by the name of Agabus, standing up signified by the spirit that a great famine was about to come on all the world; which also came under Claudius Caesar.

AND at that time Herod the king put forth his hands to injure some of the church.

And seeing that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to apprehend Peter also,??nd it was during the days of unleavened bread,??4 and having seized he put him in prison, committing him to four companies of four soldiers each to guard him, wishing after the passover to bring him before the people.

And when Herod was about to bring him forward, on that night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards kept watch before the door.

And going out he followed him, and knew not that it was real which was done by the angel, but thought he saw a vision.

And Peter coming to himself said, Now I know that the Lord has really sent his angel and delivered me from the hand of Herod and all the expectation of the Jews.

and knowing the voice of Peter she did not open the gate from joy, but ran in and told that Peter stood before the gate.

But they said to her, You are mad. But she asserted strongly that it was so. And they said, It is his angel.

And Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand, said, Men of Israel, and you that fear God, hear.

Men and brothers, children of the race of Abraham, and you that fear God, the word of this salvation is sent to you.

and [although] they found no cause of death [in him], they requested of Pilate that he might be destroyed;

that God has fulfilled this to us their children in raising up Jesus, as it is written also in the first psalm, You are my son, to-day have I begotten you.

And that he raised him from the dead never more to return to destruction, he said thus; I will give you the sure promises of David.

Be it known to you therefore, men and brothers, that through this man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins,

See then that what is said by the prophets does not come upon you;

And when they had gone out, [the people] requested that these words might be spoken to them on the next sabbath.

And both Paul and Barnabas speaking boldly said, It was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you; but since you cast it away, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the gentiles.

For thus has the Lord commanded us; I have set you for a light of nations, that you should be a salvation even to the end of the earth.

And at Iconium they went together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude of the Jews and Greeks believed.

This man heard Paul speaking, who, looking steadily at him and seeing that he had faith to be cured,

and saying, Men, why do you do these things? We are also men subject to like sufferings with you, preaching that you should turn from these vain [services] to the living God, who made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things in them,

But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the multitudes, and having stoned Paul, they dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

And having preached the good news to that city, and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, and Iconium, and Antioch,

confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God.

And having arrived, and assembled the church, they reported what God had done with them, and that he had opened the door of faith to the gentiles.

There being therefore no little dissension and disputation of Paul and Barnabas with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas and some others of them should go up to the apostles and elders at Jerusalem, concerning this question.

But some of those of the sect of the Pharisees who had believed, rose and said, that it is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.

And after there had been much debate, Peter rose and said to them, Men and brothers, you know that in former days God chose among you that the gentiles should hear by my mouth the word of the gospel and believe.

But we believe that we shall be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus in the same manner as they.

that the rest of men may seek the Lord, even all the nations on whom my name has been called, says the Lord who does these things,

Wherefore I judge that we ought not to trouble those who turned to God from the gentiles,

Since we heard that some going out from us have troubled you with words subverting your souls, to whom we gave no charge,

that you should abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and blood, and things strangled, and fornication, from which if you keep yourselves you will do well. Farewell.

And having staid [some] time, they were dismissed in peace by the brothers to those that sent them.

And there was a sharp contention, so that they separated from each other; and Barnabas taking Mark sailed to Cyprus.

Him Paul wished to have go with him; and he took and circumcised him on account of the Jews who were in those places; for all knew that his father was a Greek.

And when he saw the vision we immediately sought to go into Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the good news to them.

and thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, [and] a colony. And we spent some days in that city.

and this she did for many days. And Paul being grieved turned around and said to the spirit, I command you, in the name of Jesus Christ, to come out of her. And it came out of her in that hour.

And her masters seeing that the hope of their gain was gone, seizing Paul and Silas dragged them to the market, to the rulers,

And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and all the doors were immediately opened, and the bands of all were removed.

And the jailer awaking from sleep and seeing the doors of the prison opened, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.

And taking them that hour of the night, he washed them from their stripes, and was baptized, he and all his, immediately,

And the lictors told these words to the prefects, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans;

explaining and asserting that the Christ ought to suffer and to rise from the dead; and that this Jesus whom I preach to you is the Christ.

and Jason has received them; and they all do things contrary to the ordinances of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.

And when the Jews in Thessalonica knew that the word of God was preached by Paul at Berea, they came there exciting the multitudes.

Then he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and those that were pious, and in the market every day with those he met.

And Paul standing in the midst of the Areopagus said, Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are extremely devoted to the worship of demons.

that they should seek God, if perhaps they might feel after and find him, and indeed he is not far from every one of us.

for he argued powerfully against the Jews, publicly showing by the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.

and he said to them, Have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed? And they said to him, We have not heard that there is a Holy Spirit.

Paul said, John indeed baptized [administered] the baptism of a change of mind, telling the people to believe on him that was to come after him, that is, on Jesus.

And this was done for two years, so that all who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

so that napkins and aprons were brought from him to the sick, and their diseases left them, and the evil spirits went out of them.

And some of the travelling Jewish exorcists undertook to call over those that had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches.

And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped upon them, and overcome them, and prevailed against them, so that they escaped from his house, naked and wounded.

And sending two that served him into Macedonia, Timothy and Erastus, he continued a time in Asia.

And there was at that time no small tumult about the way [of the Lord].

assembling them together and laborers of like employments, said, Men, you know that our prosperity is derived from this employment,

and you see and hear, that not only at Ephesus, but in almost all Asia, this Paul has led away a great multitude by persuasion, saying that things which are made by hands are not gods.

But knowing that he was a Jew, there was one voice from all, for about two hours, crying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.

And the clerk having stilled the multitude, said, Men of Ephesus, what man is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great Diana, and of the Jove descended [image]?

And we going before by ship sailed to Assos, being about to take in Paul at that place; for so had he appointed, being about to go on foot himself.

For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, that it might not be necessary for him to spend a long time in Asia; for he hastened, if it was possible for him, to be at Jerusalem at the day of Pentecost.

And when they had come to him, he said to them, You know from the first day that I came into Asia, how I was with you at all times,

serving the Lord with all humility, and tears and trials that befell me by the conspiracies of the Jews,

how I kept not back from declaring to you and teaching you publicly and from house to house any thing that was profitable,

except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city, saying, That bonds and afflictions await me.

But life precious to myself, I make of no account that I may finish my course and the service which I received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

And now, behold, I know that you all among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom shall see my face no more.

Wherefore I call you to witness this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men;

For I know that after my departure grievous wolves will come among you, not sparing the flock,

Wherefore watch, remembering that for three years, night and day, I ceased not to admonish every one of you with tears.

you yourselves know that these hands have served my necessities and those with me.

I have showed you all things, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

grieving most of all for the word which he said, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the ship.

and coming to us, and taking Paul's girdle, and binding his hands and feet, he said, These things, says the Holy Spirit; Thus will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owns this girdle, and deliver him into the hands of the gentiles.

and they have been informed of you, that you teach all the Jews among the gentiles to apostatize from Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children, nor to walk according to the customs.

What then is [to be done]? They will hear everywhere that you have come.

take them and be purified with them, and pay their expenses, that they may shave their heads, and all will know that the information which they have of you is not correct, but that you walk also yourself keeping the law.

But concerning the gentiles who have believed, we have sent, judging that they should avoid things offered to idols, and blood, and things strangled, and fornication.

For they had before seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him, and supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.

And while they were seeking to kill him, a report went up to the chiliarch of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in commotion;