Then the maid-servant who kept the door said to Peter: Are you not also one of the disciples of this man? He said: I am not.

And Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. Then they said to him: Are not you also one of his disciples? He denied, and said: I am not.

Then Pilate again entered the governor's palace, and called Jesus, and said to him: Are you the king of the Jews?

Then Pilate said to him: You are a king, then? Jesus answered; You say that I am a king. For this purpose was I born, and for this purpose I came into the world, that I might testify to the truth. Every one that is of the truth, hears my voice.

But you have a custom, that I release to you one during the passover. Are you willing, then, that I should release to you the king of the Jews?

and he went into the governor's palace again, and said to Jesus: Whence are you? But Jesus gave him no answer.

After this Pilate sought to release him. But the Jews cried out, saying: If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend. Every one that makes himself a king, speaks against Caesar

Whosever sins you forgive, they are forgiven them: whosever sins you retain, they are retained.

Jesus said to him: Because you have seen me you have believed: blessed are they who, though they have not seen, yet have believed.

Many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book;

but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life through his name.

Simon Peter said to them: I am going a fishing. They said to him: We also are going with you. They went out and entered the ship; and that night they caught nothing.

And there are also many other things that Jesus did; if they should be written, every one of them, I suppose that not even the world itself could contain the books that would be written.

They were amazed and astonished, and said one to another: Are not all these that are speaking, Galileans?

But others deriding, said: They are full of new wine.

For these men are not drunk, as you suppose: for it is the third hour of the day.

This Jesus has God raised up, of which we all are witnesses.

For the promise is to you, and your children, and to all that are afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.

But when Peter saw it, he answered the people: Men of Israel, why are you astonished at this? or, why do you look so earnestly on us, as if by our own power or godliness we had caused this man to walk?

and you slew the Author of life, whom God has raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.

You are the sons of the prophets, and of the covenant that God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

if we are this day examined with respect unto the good deed done to the infirm man, by what means he has been saved,

And when they heard it, they lifted up their voice with one consent to God, and said: Lord, thou art God, who didst make the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all things that are in them; who, by the mouth of David thy servant, didst say,

But Peter said to her: Why is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they shall carry you out.

And some one came and reported to them: Behold, the men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.

and we are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit also, whom God has given to them that obey him.

and said to them: Men of Israel, consider well with yourselves what you are about to do to these men.

And the chief priest said: Are these things so?

And on the next day he showed himself to them, as they were fighting, and endeavored to persuade them to peace, saying, Men, you are brothers: why do you injure one another?

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

For I perceive that you are in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.

And Philip ran forward, and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah; and he said: Do you understand what you are reading?

and said: Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your deeds of charity are remembered before God.

Therefore, I immediately sent to you; and you have done well in coming. Now, there fore, we are all here present before God, to hear all things that are given in charge to you by God.

And we are witnesses of all that he did, both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew by hanging him on a tree.

And they said to her: You are mad. But she confidently affirmed that it was even so. Then said hey: It is his angel.

For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, be cause they did not know him, nor the words of the prophets, which are read every sabbath-day, have fulfilled them in condemning him.

And he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people.

and saying: Men, why are you doing these things? We also are human beings, with passions like your own, and we preach the gospel to you, that you may turn from these vanities to the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them;

Known to God from eternity are all bis works.

She followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying: These men are the servants of the most High God, who show us the way of salvation.

And having brought them to the magistrates, they said: These men, who are Jews, do greatly trouble our city;

and they teach customs which it is not lawful for us, who are Romans, to receive or to observe.

But Paul called out with a loud voice, saying: Do yourself no harm, for we are all here.

But Paul said to them: Having publicly scourged us uncondemned, us who are Romans, they threw us into prison: and do they now put us out secretly? No, verily: but let them come and lead us out.

And they took him, and brought him to Mars hill, saying: Are we able to understand what this new teaching is, which is announced by you?

God, who made the world, and all things that are in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands;

For in him we live, and move, and have our being: as also some of your own poets have said: For we his offspring are.

But the evil spirit answered and said: Jesus I acknowledge, and Paul I know; but who are you?

and you see and hear, that not only at Ephesus, but throughout almost the whole of Asia, this Paul, by his persuasions, has drawn away a great multitude, saying, that they which are made with hands are not gods.

For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples, nor revilers of your goddess.

Therefore, if Demetrius, and the artists who are with him, have a charge against any one, the courts are in session, and the proconsuls are there; let them accuse each other.

For we are in danger of being called to answer for this day's tumult, since there is no cause by which we shall be able to account for this concourse.

and he came to us, and taking Paul's girdle, he bound his own hands and feet, and said: Thus says the Holy Spirit; the Jews that are in Jerusalem will so bind the man to whom this girdle belongs; and they will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.

And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said to him: You see, brother, how many myriads of the Jews there are that believe, and they are all zealous for the law.

And they have heard it reported of you, that you teach all the Jews that are among the Gentiles to apostatize from Moses; commanding them not to circumcise their children, nor to walk according to the customs.

Take them, and join with them in their vow of abstinence, and pay their expenses, in order that they may shave their heads; and all will know that the things which they have heard reported of you are nothing; but that you yourself also walk orderly, and keep the law.

Are you not that Egyptian, who, before these days, made an insurrection, and led out into the wilderness four thousand men of the Assassins?

I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, yet educated in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, and instructed according to the strict discipline of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, as you all are this day.

And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said to me, Arise, and go into Damascus, and there you shall be told of all things that are appointed for you to do.

And when the centurion heard that, he went out and told it to the officer, saying: "What are you about to do? for this man is a Roman.

And the officer came and said to him: Tell me, are you a Roman? He answered: Yes.

Now, therefore, do you, together with the Sanhedrin, give notice to the officer, that he bring him down to you to-morrow, as if you intended to inquire more accurately into the matters concerning him: and before he comes near, we are ready to kill him.

Do not, however, be persuaded by them; for more than forty men of them are lying in wait for him; and they have bound themselves under a curse, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him. And now they are ready, waiting for a promise from you.

for you can understand that there are not more than twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem to worship.

nor are they able to prove the things of which they now accuse me.

But this I confess to you, that after the way which they call sect, so do I worship the God of my fathers; believing all things that are written in the law and in the prophets;

Therefore, said he, let those among you who are men of influence, go down with me, and accuse this man, if there is any wickedness in him.

But Festus, willing to confer a favor on the Jews, answered Paul, and said: Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged before me concerning these things?

If, however, I be an offender, and have done any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die. But if the things of which these men accuse me are nothing, no one can deliver me to them. I appeal to Caesar.

For it seems to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not to make known the charges that are against him.

Then Agrippa said to Paul: You are permitted to speak for yourself. Then Paul stretched forth his hand, and answered for himself.

especially, since you are acquainted with all the customs and questions that are among the Jews. For this reason, I beseech you to hear me patiently.

And as he spoke these things in his defense, Festus said, with a loud voice; Paul, you are mad; much learning drives you to madness.

and said, Fear not, Paul; you must stand in the presence of Caesar; and behold, God has given you all that are sailing with you.

among whom are you also the called of Jesus Christ,

to all that are in Rome, be loved of God, called saints: Grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

So that, as far as I am able, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also, who are in Rome.

(for, since the creation of the world, his attributes, which are invisible, are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, both his eternal power and divinity,) that they may be without excuse;

who, acknowledging the judgment of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but approve those who practice them.

For which reason, you are without excuse, man, who ever you are, that judge; for in that in which you judge an other, you condemn yourself; for you who judge, practice the same things.

but to those who are contentious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, anger and wrath,

For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

For when the Gentiles, who have not a law, do, by nature, the things of the law, these who have not a law, are a law to themselves,

But if you are named Jew, and rest in the law, and make your boast in God.

if you are also confident that you yourself are a guide for the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

Then, why not say, (as we are slanderously reported as saying, and, as some affirm, that we do say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? Of such persons the condemnation is just.

their feet. are swift to shed blood;

destruction and misery are in their ways;

Now we know that what the law says, it speaks- to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world become guilty before God.

Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins. are covered.

Comes this blessedness then on those who are circumcised only, or on those who are uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was counted to Abraham for righteousness.

and the father of circumcision to those who are not only circumcised, but who, also, walk in the steps of that faith which our father Abraham had while he was yet uncircumcised.

For if they that are of the law be heirs, the faith is made powerless, and the promise is unmeaning;

Therefore, the inheritance is by faith, that it may be according to grace, in order that the promise may be sure to all his posterity, not to those only who are of the law, but to those, also, who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

(as it is written: I have made you a father of many nations,) in the sight of him in whom he believed, even God, who makes the dead alive, and calls those things which are not, as though they were.

much more, then, since we are now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from the wrath through him.

It can not be. How shall we that are dead to sin, live any longer in it?

Therefore, we are buried with him, by immersion, into death, that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so also we should walk in a new life.

For sin shall not have dominion over you; for you are not under law, but under grace.