And hearing, they were cut through and were minded to kill them.

but if it be of God, you will not be able to destroy them, lest perchance you may also be found fighting against God.

And the twelve calling to them the multitude of the disciples, said, It is not pleasing that we, leaving the word of God, serve tables.

But brethren, look out seven men from you of good report, full of the Spirit and wisdom, whom we shall appoint over this interest;

And the word of God increased, and the number of the disciples multiplied exceedingly in Jerusalem, and a great multitude of the priests were obedient unto the faith.

Then they bribed men, saying, that we have heard him speaking words blasphemous against Moses and God.

And he said, Men, brothers and fathers, hear ye; The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, while he was in Mesopotamia, before he migrated into Haran, and He said to him;

and God gave him no inheritance in it, not the step of his foot; and he promised to give it to him, and his seed after him, for an inheritance, there being no child to him.

And thus God spoke, that his seed shall sojourn in a strange land, and they will enslave it and oppress it four hundred years.

And the nation whom they shall serve I will judge, says God, and after these things they shall come out and serve me in this place.

and God was with him, and delivered him out of all his troubles, and gave him grace and wisdom before Pharaoh the king of Egypt; and he placed him governor over Egypt and all his house.

When the time of the promise which God made with Abraham drew nigh, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

During which time Moses was born, and was beautiful to God; who was kept three months in the house of his father.

And he supposed that his brethren would understand that God through his hand is giving them salvation: but they did not recognize it.

I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob. And Moses trembling, did not dare to investigate.

And this Moses whom they denied, saying, Who hath established thee a ruler and a judge? him hath God sent a ruler and deliverer, with the hand of an angel having appeared unto him in a bush.

This Moses is the one having said to the sons of Israel, A prophet will God raise up to you of your brethren, like unto me.

And God turned away, and gave them up to serve the host of the heaven; as has been written in the book of the prophets: Slain victims and sacrifices you have not brought unto me forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel.

And ye took up the shrine of Moloch, and the star of the god Remphan, images which you made to worship them; and I will transport you beyond Babylon.

which our fathers receiving, brought in along with Joshua in the dispossession of the nations, whom God drove out, from the face of our fathers, until the days of David,

who found favor before God, and asked that he should build a tabernacle for the house of Jacob.

And hearing these words, they were cut through their hearts and gnashed their teeth at him.

But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, and looking up to heaven, saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

and said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

to whom all from small even unto the great gave heed, saying, This one is the power of God, called Great.

But when they believed Philip preaching the gospel concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

But the apostles in Jerusalem, having heard that Samaria has received the word of God, sent to them Peter and John:

And Peter said to him, Thy silver be unto destruction with thee, because thou hast thought to obtain the gift of God with money.

There is neither part nor lot to thee in this word: for thy heart is not right before God.

and immediately he was preaching Jesus in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God.

But there was a certain disciple in Joppa, by name Tabitha, who being interpreted is called Dorcas: and she was full of good works and alms which she was doing.

devout, and fearing God with all his house, and doing many alms to the people, and praying to God always;

saw openly in a vision about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming to him and saying to him, Cornelius.

And he looking upon him, and being afraid, said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Thy prayer and thine alms have come up for a memorial before God.

And the voice again the second time came to him, Whatsoever things God has cleansed, do not count unclean;

And while Peter was at a loss within himself, as to what the vision he saw might be, behold, the men having been sent by Cornelius, making inquiry for the house of Simon, stood at the gate,

And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a man righteous and fearing God, and being of good report by all the nation of the Jews, was warned by a holy angel to send for thee to come into his house, and to hear words with thee.

and he said to them, You know how it is an unlawful thing for a Jewish man to associate with, or come to one of another nation; and God has shown me not to call any man unconsecrated or unclean.

and says, Cornelius, thy prayer has been heard, and thine alms have been remembered before God.

Then I immediately sent for thee; and thou hast done well being present. Now therefore we are all present before God, to hear all things which have been commanded thee of the Lord.

And Peter, opening his mouth, said, In truth I apprehend that God is no respecter of persons:

Jesus, the one from Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Ghost and power: who went about doing good, and healing all oppressed by the devil: because God is with Him.

God raised him on the third day, and gave him to be made manifest;

not to all the people, but to the witnesses having been chosen of God, to us, who ate and drank along with him after He arose from the dead:

and He commanded us to preach to the people, and to witness that He is the One ordained of God the Judge of the living and the dead.

for they were hearing them speaking with tongues, and magnifying God.

But the apostles and brethren being throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also received the word of God.

And a voice a second time was heard from heaven, Whatsoever things God has cleansed, consider thou not unconsecrated.

Since then God gave unto them the equal gift, as also unto us, believing on the Lord Jesus Christ; who was I, to be able to resist God?

And hearing these things, they acquiesced, and glorified God, saying, Then God has also given unto the Gentiles repentance unto life.

Who, coming, and seeing the grace of God, rejoiced, and continued to exhort all, with purpose of heart to abide with the Lord:

because he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and faith. And a great multitude was added to the Lord.

Then indeed Peter was kept in prison: but prayer to God in his behalf was incessantly made by the church.

And having come through the first guard and the second, they came to the iron gate leading into the city; which opened to them of its own accord: and having come out, they came on to the first street; and the angel immediately departed from him.

And he knocking at the door of the gate, a damsel, by name Rhoda, came to hearken:

and recognizing the voice of Peter, from joy did not open the gate, but running in, she proclaimed that Peter stands before the gate.

and the people shouted, It is the voice of God and not of man.

And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not the glory to God; and being eaten by worms, he breathed out his soul.

And being in Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they also had John as their helper.

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

said, O thou full of all guile and rascality, thou son of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease perverting the right ways of God?

And Paul, rising up, and beckoning with his hand said; Israelitish men, and those fearing God, hear.

The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people during their sojourn in the land of Egypt, and with a strong arm led them out of it;

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

Men, brethren, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you fearing God, unto us the word of this salvation was sent.

And God raised him from the dead;

that God has fulfilled this unto our children, raising up Jesus, as in the second Psalm it has been written, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.

For David, indeed having served his own generation according to the will of God, went to sleep, and did see corruption:

but he, whom God raised up, did not see corruption.

And the synagogue having been adjourned, many of the Jews and pious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking with them, continued to persuade them to abide in the grace of God.

And Paul and Barnabas speaking boldly, said, It was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you: since you have rejected it, and judge yourselves not worthy of eternal life, behold we now turn to the Gentiles.

And the priest of Jupiter, being in front of the city, having brought oxen and garlands to the gate, wished to offer sacrifices to them, along with the multitudes.

Men, why are you doing these things? We are also men of like suffering with you, preaching the gospel to you that you should turn from these vanities to the living God, who created the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all things which are in them:

indeed he did not leave himself without witnesses, doing good, giving to you the rains from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to abide in the faith, and it behooves them through many tribulations to enter into the kingdom of God.

and thence they sailed away into Antioch, whence they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they fulfilled.

And arriving, and convening the church, they reported so many things as God did with them, and that He opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.

And arriving into Jerusalem, they were received by the church, and the apostles, and the elders, and they proclaimed so many things as God did with them.

And there being much disputation, Peter, having arisen, said to them, Men, brethren, you know that from ancient days God chose among you, that the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel through my mouth, and believe.

And God, who knows the heart, witnessed to them, giving to them the Holy Ghost, as also to us;

Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke on the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

And the whole multitude became silent, and continued to hear Barnabas and Paul, relating how many miracles and wonders God wrought among the Gentiles through them.

Symeon hath related how God in the first place interposed to take a people from the Gentiles, in His name.

Therefore I judge, that we should not burden those from the Gentiles turning to God:

Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, along with the whole church, to send men chosen from them into Antioch along with Paul and Barnabas; Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leaders among the brethren:

it seemed good to us, being of one accord, having chosen men to send them to you along with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no more burden than these necessary things,

who was of good report by the brethren in Lystra and Iconium.

And when he saw the vision, we immediately sought to depart into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.

And on the Sabbath day we went out from the gate by the river, where we were accustomed that prayer should be, and having sat down, we spoke to the women having assembled.

And a certain woman Lydia by name, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, worshiping God, was hearing us: whose heart the Lord opened to give attention to the words spoken by Paul.

She, following Paul and us, continued to cry out, saying, These men are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation.

But at midnight Paul and Silas, praying, continued to sing praises to God: and the prisoners heard them.

and leading them into his house, he set a table by them, and rejoiced throughout his house, having believed in God.

but when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that the word of God was preached by Paul in Berea, they came thither also, agitating and stirring up the rabbles.

For going through, and seeing your devotions, I also found an altar on which it was superscribed, To THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore I now preach unto you Him whom you are ignorantly worshiping.

God having made the world and all things which are in it, being himself Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands;

that they should seek God, if perhaps indeed they might feel after him, and find him, though not being far from each one of you.

Then being the offspring of God, we ought not to think that divinity is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, the invention of art and the device of man.

Then indeed God winking at the times of ignorance, now commands all men everywhere to repent: