Now there were some Greeks among those who had come up to worship at the festival;

When they heard the sound, the people standing by said it had thundered; others said, "An angel spoke to him."

Now for all the Signs he had performed before them, they did not believe in him ??38 that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: Lord, who has believed what they heard from us, And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

Now before the passover festival Jesus knew the time had come for him to pass from this world to the Father. He had loved his own in this world and he loved them to the end;

so at supper, knowing that though the devil had suggested to Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,

the Father had put everything into his hands ??knowing that he had come from God and was going to God,

then poured water into a basin, and began to wash the feet of the disciples, wiping them with the towel he had tied round him.

When he had gone out, Jesus said, Now at last the Son of man is glorified, and in him God is glorified: [if God is glorified in him,]

They would not be guilty, if I had not come and spoken to them; but, as it is, they have no excuse for their sin ??23 he who hates me hates my Father also.

They would not be guilty, if I had not done deeds among them such as no one has ever done; but, as it is, they have seen ??and they have hated ??both me and my Father.

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his right ear (the servant's name was Malchus);

and brought him first of all to Annas (for Annas was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year ??14 the Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it was for their interests that one man should die for the people).

Now the servants and the attendants were standing and warming themselves at a charcoal fire which they had lit (for it was cold), and Peter also stood beside them and warmed himself.

Then Annas had him bound and sent him to Caiaphas the high priest.

Said one of the high priest's servants, a kinsman of the man whose ear had been cut off by Peter, "Did I not see you with him in the orchard?"

They retorted, "If he had not been a criminal, we would not have handed him over to you."

(that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, by which he had indicated the kind of death he was to die).

Then Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged.

Jesus answered, "You would have no power over me, unless it had been granted you from above. So you are less guilty than he who betrayed me to you."

Pilate had written an inscription to be put on the cross; what he wrote was, JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

Now many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus had been crucified was close to the city; besides, the inscription was in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.

So the soldiers went and broke the legs of the first man and of the other man who had been crucified along with him;

accompanied by Nicodemus (he who had first come to Jesus by night) who brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds of it;

Now at the spot where he had been crucified there was an orchard, and in the orchard a new tomb where no one had yet been laid;

On the first day of the week Mary of Magdala went early to the tomb, when it was still dark; but as she saw the boulder had been removed from the tomb,

but that the napkin which had been round his head was folded up by itself, instead of lying beside the other bandages.

Upon this the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, went inside too, and when he saw for himself he was convinced.

and noticed two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet.

Away went Mary of Magdala to the disciples with the news, "I have seen the Lord!" ??telling them what he had said to her.

On the evening of that same day ??the first day of the week ??though the disciples had gathered within closed doors for fear of the Jews, Jesus entered and stood among them, saying, "Peace be with you!"

Peter turned round and saw that the favourite disciple of Jesus was following, the disciple who had leant on his breast at supper and put the question, "Lord, who is to betray you?"

down to the day when, after issuing his orders by the holy Spirit to the disciples whom he had chosen, he was taken up to heaven.

After his sufferings he had shown them that he was alive by a number of proofs, revealing himself to them for forty days and discussing the affairs of God's Realm.

On entering the city they went to the upper room where they were in the habit of meeting; there were Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James (the son of Alphaeus) and Simon who had been a Zealot, with Judas the son of James.

"My brothers," said he, "it had to be fulfilled, that scripture which the holy Spirit uttered beforehand by the lips of David with regard to Judas who acted as guide to those who arrested Jesus.

(He was a prophet; he knew God had sworn an oath to him that he would seat one of his descendants on his throne;

The believers all kept together; they shared all they had with one another,

and when they recognized this was the very man who used to sit and beg at the Gate Beautiful, they were lost in awe and amazement at what had happened to him.

But when Peter saw this, he said to the people, "Men of Israel, why are you surprised at this? Why do you stare at us, as if we had made him walk by any power or piety of ours?

The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers has glorified Jesus his servant, whom you delivered up and repudiated before Pilate. Pilate had decided to release him,

Now I know, brothers, that you acted in ignorance, like your rulers ??18 though this was how God fulfilled what he had announced beforehand by the lips of all the prophets, namely the sufferings of his Christ.

but as they saw the man who had been healed standing beside them, they could say nothing.

However, to keep things from going any further with the people, we had better threaten them that they are not to tell anyone in future about this Name."

Then they threatened them still further and let them go; on account of the people they found themselves unable to find any means of punishing them, for everybody was glorifying God over what had happened

(the man on whom this miracle of healing had been performed, being more than forty years old).

On being released they went to their friends and related what the high priests and elders had said;

mustering to carry out what thy hand had traced, thy purpose had decreed.

[Relocated to before vs 34] Now there was but one heart and soul among the multitude of the believers; not one of them considered anything his personal property, they shared all they had with one another.

But a man called Ananias, who with his wife Sapphira had sold some property,

After an interval of about three hours his wife happened to come in, quite unconscious of what had occurred.

The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been considered worthy of suffering dishonour for the sake of the Name;

they were carried across to Shechem and laid in the tomb which Abraham had bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

As the time approached for the promise God had made to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

When he had completed his fortieth year, it occurred to him to visit his brothers, the sons of Israel.

He saw one of them being badly treated, so he defended him, struck down the Egyptian, and thus avenged the man who had been wronged.

At that Moses fled; he became a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he had two sons born to him.

The Moses they refused, when they said, 'Who made you ruler and umpire?' ??that was the very man whom God sent to rule and to redeem them, by aid of the angel who had appeared to him in the bush.

They actually made a calf in those days, offered sacrifice to this idol, and grew festive over what their own hands had manufactured.

In the desert our fathers had the tent of witness as arranged by Him who told Moses to make it after the pattern he had seen.

For unclean spirits came screaming and shrieking out of many who had been possessed, and many paralytics and lame people were healed.

Now for some time previous a man called Simon had been practising magic arts in the town, to the utter astonishment of the Samaritan nation; he made himself out to be a great person,

They attached themselves to him because he had dazzled them with his skill in magic for a considerable time.

But when they believed Philip, who preached the gospel of the Reign of God and the name of Jesus, they had themselves baptized, both men and women;

When the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they despatched Peter and John,

(As yet it had not fallen upon any of them; they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)

So he got up and went on his way. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a high official of Candace the queen of the Ethiopians (he was her chief treasurer), who had come to Jerusalem for worship

By humbling himself he had his doom removed. Who can tell his family? For his life is cut off from the earth.

and the Jews, after a number of days had elapsed, conspired to make away with him.

Barnabas, however, got hold of him and brought him to the apostles. To them he related how he had seen the Lord upon the road, how He had spoken to him, and how he had spoken freely in the name of Jesus at Damascus.

There he found a man called Aeneas who had been bed-ridden for eight years with paralysis.

When the angel who spoke to him had left, he called two of his menservants and a religiously minded soldier who belonged to his personal retinue,

Peter was quite at a loss to know the meaning of the vision he had seen; but just then, the messengers of Cornelius, who had made inquiries for the house of Simon, stood at the door

They said, "Cornelius, a captain, a good man who reverences God and enjoys a good reputation among the whole Jewish nation, was instructed by a holy angel to send for you to his house and to listen to what you had to say."

and on the next day he reached Caesarea. [vs 24b transposed to follow vs 27] (For Cornelius had been expecting him and had called his kinsfolk and intimate friends together.)

not by all the People but by witnesses whom God had previously selected, by us who ate and drank with him after his resurrection from the dead,

Now the Jewish believers who had accompanied Peter were amazed that the gift of the holy Spirit had actually been poured out on the Gentiles ??46 for they heard them speak with 'tongues' and magnify God. At this Peter asked,

Now the apostles and the brothers in Judaea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.

He related to us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying, 'Send to Joppa for Simon who is surnamed Peter;

Now those who had been scattered by the trouble which arose over Stephen made their way as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, but they preached the word to none except Jews.

When they had passed the first guard and the second they came to the iron gate leading into the city, which opened to them of its own accord; they passed out, and after they had gone through one street, the angel immediately left him.

When he grasped the situation, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was surnamed Mark, where a number had met for prayer.

He beckoned to them to keep quiet and then described to them how the Lord had brought him out of prison. "Report this to James," he said, "and to the brothers." And off he went to another place.

and in a moment an angel of the Lord struck him, because he had not given due glory to God; he was eaten up by worms and so expired.

Then the proconsul believed, when he saw what had happened; he was astounded at the doctrine of the Lord.

From his offspring God brought to Israel, as he had promised, a saviour in Jesus,

before whose coming John had already preached a baptism of repentance for all the people of Israel.

and, after carrying out all that had been predicted of him in scripture, they lowered him from the gibbet and laid him in a tomb.

For many days he was seen by those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem; they are now his witnesses to the People.

So Paul and Barnabas spoke out fearlessly. "The word of God," they said, "had to be spoken to you in the first instance; but as you push it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, well, here we turn to the Gentiles!

When the Gentiles heard this they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord and believed, that is, all who had been ordained to eternal life;

He heard Paul speaking, and Paul, gazing steadily at him and noticing that he had faith enough to make him better,

Now when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, "The gods have come down to us in human form!"

They chose presbyters for them in every church, and with prayer and fasting entrusted them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

thence they sailed for Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work they had now completed.

On their arrival they gathered the church together and reported how God had been with them, what he had done, and how he had opened a door into faith for the Gentiles.

On arriving at Jerusalem they were received by the church, the apostles and the presbyters, and they reported how God had been with them and what he had done.

So the whole meeting was quieted and listened to Barnabas and Paul recounting the signs and wonders God had performed by them among the Gentiles.

When they had finished speaking, James spoke. "Brothers," he said, "listen to me.

for Moses has had his preachers from the earliest ages in every town, where he is read aloud in the synagogues every sabbath."

Then after some time had passed the brothers let them go with a greeting of peace to those who had sent them.