And the multitude came together from the cities about Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those troubled by impure spirits, all of whom were cured.

And now I tell you, abstain from these men, and let them alone; because if this design, or this work, is from men, it will be destroyed;

but if it is from God, you cannot destroy them; lest you be found at some time to be fighting against God.

They went therefore from the presence of the Sanhedrim, rejoicing that they were accounted worthy to suffer shame for the name of [Christ];

and every day in the temple, and from house to house, they ceased not teaching and preaching the good news of Christ Jesus.

Look out therefore, brothers, from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Holy Spirit, and of wisdom, whom we may set over this business;

But some members of the synagogue called that of the Libertines and Cyrenians and Alexandrians and of those from Cilicia and Asia, arose and disputed with Stephen,

and said to him, Go out from your country and your kindred, and come to a land which I will show you.

Then going out from the land of the Chaldeans, he lived in Haran. And thence, after the death of his father, he removed into this land in which you now live.

and delivered him from all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and [he] made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

And the Lord said to him, Put off your shoes from your feet; for the place on which you stand is holy ground.

But Saul persecuted the church, and going from house to house, seizing men and women, committed them to prison.

to whom all from the least to the greatest attended, saying, This is the power of God which is called great.

Turn your mind therefore from this your wickedness, and pray the Lord if perhaps the thought of your mind may be forgiven you;

And an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, Arise and go to the south, by the way that leads from Jerusalem to Gaza; this is a wilderness.

In his humiliation his judgment was taken away; and who will tell of his generation? for his life was taken from the earth.

And Philip opening his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him the good news of Jesus.

And as they went on the way they came to a certain water, and the eunuch said, Behold water; what hinders me from being baptized?

And when they went up from the water the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, and the eunuch saw him no more; for he went his way rejoicing.

And he was going and had come nigh to Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven,

And Saul arose from the earth, and his eyes being opened he saw nothing; and leading him by the hand they conducted him to Damascus.

and here he has power from the chief priests to bind all that call on your name.

And immediately there fell from his eyes as it were scales, and he received his sight, and rising up was baptized,

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.

Then he called them in and entertained them. And the next day he arose and went with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa went with him.

And Cornelius said, From the fourth hour of the day I fasted till this hour, and at the ninth hour I was praying in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in splendid clothing,

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;

not to all the people, but to witnesses chosen before by God, to us, who eat and drank with him after he rose from the dead;

I was in the city of Joppa praying, and I saw a vision in a trance, a vessel like a great sheet descending, let down by the four corners from heaven, and it came to me;

And a voice answered from heaven a second time, What God has purified do not you regard common.

And behold, immediately three men came to the house in which I was, being sent for me from Caesarea.

And in those days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch;

And behold, an angel of the Lord came, and a light shone in the building; and striking Peter on the side he awoke him saying, Arise quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.

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.

And Herod seeking and not finding him, examined the guards, and commanded them to be put to death, and going down from Judea to Caesarea remained [there].

AND Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, having performed the service, taking with them also John who was called Mark.

but Elymas the magian, for so his name is interpreted, opposed them, seeking to turn away the proconsul from the faith.

And those with Paul, sailing from Paphos, went to Perga in Pamphylia; but John left them and returned to Jerusalem.

And passing on from Perga, they went to Antioch in Pisidia, and going into the synagogue on the Sabbath they sat down.

and when they had performed all things written of him, they took him down from the cross and placed him in a tomb.

But God raised him from the dead,

and he appeared many days to those who went up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people.

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.

and every one who believes is justified by him from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

But the Jews excited the pious and honorable women, and the first men of the city, and raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out from their limits.

And there sat a certain man at Lystra, infirm in his feet, lame from his birth, who had never walked.

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,

although indeed he left not himself without a witness, doing good, giving rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.

And saying these things they with difficulty restrained the multitudes from sacrificing to 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 certain persons having come down from Judea taught the brothers, If you are not circumcised according to the custom of Moses you cannot be saved.

known from eternity.

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

but to send to them to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and fornication, and things strangled, and blood.

For Moses from ancient times has those who preach him in every city, being read in the synagogues every sabbath.

Then it seemed good to the apostles and elders, with all the assembly [the church], to send delegates from themselves to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas, Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers,

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

AND sailing from Troas we came in a direct course to Samothracia, and on the next day to Neapolis,

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 according to his custom Paul went in to them, and reasoned with them three sabbaths from the Scriptures,

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.

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.

because he has appointed a day in which he is about to judge the world in righteousness, by the man whom he has appointed, giving assurance to all by raising him from the dead.

So Paul went out from the midst of them;

And finding a certain Jew by the name of Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy, and his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome, he went to them,

And when Silas and Timothy came from Macedonia, Paul gave himself wholly to preaching the word, testifying to the Jews Christ Jesus.

But when they disputed and blasphemed, shaking his garments he said to them, Your blood be upon your heads; I, pure, from this time will go to the gentiles.

And he drove them from the tribunal.

but taking leave of them and saying, I will return to you again, if God will, he sailed from, Ephesus,

But when some were hardened and believed not, speaking evil of the way before the multitude, he left them and separated the disciples from them, and reasoned day by day in the school of one Tyrannus.

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 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.

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

And they advanced Alexander from the multitude, the Jews putting him forward; and Alexander motioning with his hand, wished to defend himself before the people.

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 we sailed from Philippi, after the days of unleavened bread, and came to those at Troas in five days, where we staid seven days.

And a young man by the name of Eutychus sitting in a window, falling into a deep sleep while Paul preached long, and being overcome by sleep, fell from the third story down, and was taken up dead.

And from Miletus sending to Ephesus he called for the elders of the church.

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,

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

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

for I have not kept back from declaring to you all the counsel of God.

AND when we had torn ourselves from them we set sail, and going in a straight course came to Cos, and on the next day to Rhodes, and thence to Patara.

Having completed our voyage from Tyre we went to Ptolemais, and having saluted the brothers continued with them one day.

And having continued there many days, there came down a certain prophet from Judea by the name of Agabus,

and some of the disciples from Caesarea went up with us, conducting [us] to Mnason a Cyprian, an early disciple with whom we lodged.

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.

AND when the seven days were nearly completed, the Jews from Asia seeing him in the temple excited all the multitude, and laid hands on him,

as the chief priest also bears me witness, and all the eldership, from whom also receiving letters to the brothers I went to Damascus, to bring those who were there bound to Jerusalem to be punished.

And when I was on the way and had come nigh to Damascus, about noon suddenly a great light from heaven shone around me,

And when I could not see from the brightness of that light, being led by the hand by those with me, I came to Damascus.

and saw him [Christ], saying to me, Hasten and depart immediately from Jerusalem, for they will not receive your testimony of me.

And they heard him to this word, and lifted up their voice saying, Take away such a man from the earth; it is not fit that he should live.

Then those about to examine him immediately withdrew from him; and the chiliarch was afraid, knowing that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.

And there being a great dissension, the chiliarch, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the troops to come down and take him by force from the midst of them, and conduct him to the fortress.

But do not therefore be persuaded by them; for more than forty men of them lie in wait, who have taken an oath not to eat nor drink till they have killed him, and now they are ready, awaiting an answer from you.