And a voice again for a second time, What God has cleansed, thou shall not make profane.

Now while Peter was bewildered in himself whatever the vision which he saw might be, that lo, the men who were sent from Cornelius, having inquired the house of Simon, stood at the gate.

And they said, Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man, and fearing God, and being well testified by the whole nation of the Jews, was divinely warned by a holy agent to summon thee to his house, and to hear sayings from thee.

And he said to them, Ye understand how it is unlawful for a Jewish man to fraternize or to visit with a foreign man, and yet God demonstrated to me not to call one man profane or unclean.

And he says, Cornelius, thy prayer was heard, and thy charities are remembered before God.

Immediately therefore I sent to thee, and thou did well having come. Now therefore we are all present in the sight of God, to hear all the things commanded thee by God.

And having opened his mouth, Peter said, In truth, I am overwhelmed that God is not partial,

The word that he sent forth to the sons of Israel, preaching good-news, peace by Jesus Christ (this man is Lord of all),

Jesus of Nazareth--how God anointed him with Holy Spirit and with power, who passed through doing good, and healing all those who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with him.

This man God raised up the third day, and granted him to become manifest,

not to all the people, but to witnesses who were previously chosen by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he arose from the dead.

And he commanded us to preach to the people, and to solemnly testify that this is the man designated by God, Judge of the living and the dead.

For they heard them speaking in tongues and magnifying God. Then Peter answered,

Now the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles also received the word of God.

But a voice answered me for a second time out of heaven, What God has cleansed, thou shall not make profane.

If then God gave to them the identical gift as also to us who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, but what power was I to hinder God?

And when they heard these things, they relaxed and glorified God, saying, Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life.

And some of them were men, Cyprians and Cyrenians, who, having come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching good-news, the Lord Jesus.

who, having arrived, and having seen the grace of God, rejoiced. And he encouraged all, with purpose of heart, to remain in the Lord.

Because he was a good man, and full of Holy Spirit and of faith. And a considerable multitude was added to the Lord.

Indeed therefore Peter was kept in the prison, but fervent prayer was being made by the church to God for him.

And behold, an agent of Lord stood near, and light shone in the room. And after striking the side of Peter, he raised him up, saying, Get up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.

And when they passed a first and a second watch, they came to the iron gate, the one leading to the city, which opened spontaneously to them. And after going out, they advanced one street. And straightaway the agent withdrew from h

And when Peter knocked the door of the gate, a servant girl named Rhoda came to hearken.

And after recognizing Peter's voice, she did not open the gate for joy, but having ran in, she reported Peter was standing in front of the gate.

And the populace shouted, The voice of a god, and not of a man.

And immediately an agent of Lord struck him, because he did not give glory to God. And after becoming worm-eaten, he expired.

But the word of God grew and multiplied.

And after becoming in Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and they also had John for a helper.

who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man, having summoned Barnabas and Saul, sought to hear the word of God.

And Paul having stood up, and having motioned with the hand, he said, Men, Israelites, and those who fear God, listen.

The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and raised up the people during the sojourn in the land of Egypt. And with a lofty arm he brought them out of it.

And afterward they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

From this man's seed according to promise, God brought salvation to Israel,

Men, brothers, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to you the word of this salvation was sent.

But God raised him from the dead,

And we proclaim good-news to you: the promise to the fathers, which happened because God has fulfilled this to us their children, having raised up Jesus,

For indeed David, who served his own generation in the plan of God, became asleep, and was added near his fathers, and saw decay.

But he whom God raised up saw no decay.

Now after the synagogue was dismissed, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who, while conversing, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

And on the coming Sabbath almost all the city was assembled to hear the word of God.

But having spoken boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, It was necessary for the word of God to be spoken first to you, but since ye thrust it away, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.

And there they were preaching the good-news.

and saying, Men, why are ye doing these things? We also are men of like nature with you, proclaiming good-news to you, to turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all the thi

although he did not leave himself without evidence, doing good and giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts of food and gladness.

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

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that it was necessary for us to enter into the kingdom of God through many tribulations.

and from there they sailed to Antioch, from where they were delivered to the grace of God for the work that they fulfilled.

And after arriving, and after gathering the assembly together, they reported as many things as God did with them, and that he opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.

And after arriving in Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles and the elders. And they reported as many things as God did with them.

And when much debate occurred, Peter having risen up, he said to them, Men, brothers, ye know that from past days among us, God chose the Gentiles to hear through my mouth the word of the good-news, and to believe.

And God, who knows the heart, testified to them, having given them the Holy Spirit, just as also to us.

Now therefore why do ye challenge God, to place a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

And all the multitude kept silent, and they heard Barnabas and Paul describing how many signs and wonders God did among the Gentiles through them.

And after they were quiet, James answered, saying, Men, brothers, hear me.

Simeon described how God first came to help, to take from the Gentiles a people for his name.

Known to God from the age are all his works.

Therefore I judge not to trouble those from the Gentiles who are turning to God,

But Paul and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching good-news, the word of the Lord, with many others also.

but Paul, having selected Silas, went forth after being delivered to the grace of God by the brothers.

And after he saw the vision, straightaway we sought to go forth into Macedonia, concluding that the Lord called us to preach the good-news to them.

And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple of the city of Thyatira, a woman who worshiped God, was listening, whose heart the Lord opened to heed the things being spoken by Paul.

This woman having followed Paul and us was crying out, saying, These men are bondmen of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation.

Now toward midnight Paul and Silas, while praying, were singing praises to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

And having brought them into his house, he set out a table, and rejoiced, having believed in God with all his house.

But when the Jews of Thessalonica also learned that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Berea, they came there also, agitating the crowds.

And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, Whatever does this babbler want to say? But others, He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities, because he brought the good-news--Jesus and t

For, passing through and examining your religious objects, I also found an altar on which had been engraved, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye worship unknowingly, him I proclaim to you.

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

Being therefore offspring of God, we ought not think the Divine to be like gold, or silver, or stone handiwork of the skill and thought of man.

Indeed therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God now commands for all men everywhere to repent.

And having departed from there, he went into the house of a certain man named Justus, who worships God, whose house was adjoining the synagogue.

And he remained a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

saying, This man is persuading men to worship God against the law.

but separated from them, having said, I must definitely keep the coming feast at Jerusalem, but I will return again to you, God willing. And he launched from Ephesus.

And this man began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Aquila and Priscilla heard him, they took him aside, and expounded to him the way of God more accurately.

And after entering into the synagogue, he spoke boldly for three months, discoursing and persuading the things about the kingdom of God.

And God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul,

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

But I make nothing of the matter, nor do I hold my life precious to myself, so as to fully complete my course with joy, and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to solemnly testify the good-news of the grace of God.

And now behold, I have seen that ye will no longer see my face, ye all among whom I passed through preaching the kingdom of God.

For I did not withdraw from declaring to you the whole plan of God.

Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit placed you guardians, to tend the church of the Lord and God, which he purchased by his own blood.

And now brothers, I commit you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you an inheritance among all those who have been sanctified.

And since he was not persuaded, we were quiet, having said, May the will of the Lord happen.

And having greeted them, he reported one by one what God did among the Gentiles through his ministry.

And when the men heard, they glorified God, having said to him, Thou see, brother, how many thousands there are of the Jews who have believed, and they are all zealots of the law.

What is it therefore? Certainly the multitude needs to get together, for they will hear that thou have come.

I am indeed a Jewish man, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but reared in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, reared accurately in the paternal law, being a zealot of God, as ye all are today.

And a certain Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good report by all the Jews who dwell there,

And he said, The God of our fathers appointed thee to know his will, and to see the Righteous man, and to hear a voice from his mouth,

And Paul, after looking intently at the council, said, Men, brothers, I have been a citizen in all good conscience to God until this day.

Then Paul said to him, God is going to smite thee, a whitewashed wall. Thou even sit judging me according to the law, and violating law, thou command me to be struck?

And those who stood by said, Thou revile God's high priest?

But this I confess to thee, that according to the Way that they call a sect, so serve I the paternal God, believing all things written according to the law and the prophets,

having hope toward God, which they themselves also await, to come to be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

And in this I fashion myself, having a conscience always nonstumbling before God and men.

And now for the hope of the promise made by God to the fathers, I stand being judged,

Why is it judged incredible with you, if God raises the dead?

to open their eyes to turn about from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, for them to receive remission of sins and a lot among those who have been sanctified by faith in me.