Let your heart be changed, and make prayer to God that you may have forgiveness for your evil thoughts.

So they, having given their witness and made clear the word of the Lord, went back to Jerusalem, giving the good news on their way in a number of the small towns of Samaria.

But an angel of the Lord said to Philip, Get up, and go to the south, to the road which goes from Jerusalem to Gaza, through the waste land.

And the Spirit said to Philip, Go near, and get on his carriage.

And he said, How is that possible when I have no guide? And he made Philip get up by his side.

Now the place in the book where he was reading was this: He was taken, like a sheep, to be put to death; and as a lamb is quiet when its wool is being cut, so he made no sound:

Being of low degree, his cause was not given a hearing: who has knowledge of his family? for his life is cut off from the earth.

So Philip, starting from this writing, gave him the good news about Jesus.

But Philip came to Azotus, and went through all the towns, preaching the good news, till he came to Caesarea.

But get up, and go into the town, and it will be made clear to you what you have to do.

And Saul got up from the earth, and when his eyes were open, he saw nothing; and he was guided by the hand into Damascus.

And the Lord said to him, Get up, and go to the street which is named Straight, and make search at the house of Judas for one named Saul of Tarsus: for he is at prayer;

And straight away it seemed as if a veil was taken from his eyes, and he was able to see; and he got up, and had baptism;

And straight away, in the Synagogues, he was preaching Jesus as the Son of God.

But Saul got knowledge of their design. And they kept watch day and night on the roads out of the town, so that they might put him to death:

And Peter said to him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ makes you well: get up and make your bed. And straight away he got up.

Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, that is, Dorcas: this woman was given to good works and acts of mercy at all times.

And it came about, in those days, that she got ill and came to her death: and when she had been washed, they put her in a room which was high up.

But Peter made them all go outside, and went down on his knees in prayer; and turning to the body, he said, Tabitha, get up. And, opening her eyes, she saw Peter and got up.

A serious-minded man, fearing God with all his family; he gave much money to the poor, and made prayer to God at all times.

And he, looking on him in fear, said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and your offerings have come up to God, and he has kept them in mind.

Now send men to Joppa, and get one Simon, named Peter,

And when the angel who said these words to him had gone away, he sent for two of his house-servants, and a God-fearing man of the army, one of those who were waiting on him at all times;

And the voice came to him a second time, What God has made clean, do not you make common.

And they said, Cornelius, a captain, an upright and God-fearing man, respected by all the nation of the Jews, had word from God by an angel to send for you to his house, and to give hearing to your words.

And the day after that, they came to Caesarea. And Cornelius was waiting for them, having got together his relations and his near friends.

But Peter, lifting him up, said, Get up, for I am a man as you are.

And he said to them, You yourselves have knowledge that it is against the law for a man who is a Jew to be in the company of one who is of another nation; but God has made it clear to me that no man may be named common or unclean:

Who said, Cornelius, your prayer has come to the ears of God, and your offerings are kept in his memory.

Send, then, to Joppa, and get Simon, named Peter, to come to you; he is living in the house of Simon, a leather-worker, by the sea.

So, straight away, I sent for you; and you have done well to come. And now, we are all present before God, ready to give attention to all the things which the Lord has given you to say.

Then Peter said, Truly, I see clearly that God is no respecter of persons:

The word which he sent to the children of Israel, giving the good news of peace through Jesus Christ (who is Lord of all)--

About Jesus of Nazareth, how God gave the Holy Spirit to him, with power: and how he went about doing good and making well all who were troubled by evil spirits, for God was with him.

On the third day God gave him back to life, and let him be seen,

Not by all the people, but by witnesses marked out before by God, even by us, who took food and drink with him after he came back from the dead.

And he gave us orders to give news of this to the people, and to give public witness that this is he whom God has made judge of the living and the dead.

And they were talking in tongues, and giving glory to God. Then Peter said,

Now the Apostles and the brothers who were in Judaea had news that the word of God had been given to the Gentiles.

But the voice, coming a second time from heaven, said, What God has made clean, do not you make common.

And he gave us an account of how he had seen the angel in his house, saying, Send to Joppa, and get Simon, named Peter, to come to you;

Who will say words to you through which you and all your family may get salvation.

If then God gave them, when they had faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the same as he gave to us, who was I to go against God?

And hearing these things they said nothing more, but gave glory to God, saying, Then to the Gentiles as to us has God given a change of heart, so that they may have life.

But some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, when they came to Antioch, gave the good news about the Lord Jesus to the Greeks.

Who, when he came and saw the grace of God, was glad; and he made clear to them the need of keeping near the Lord with all the strength of their hearts:

For he was a good man and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith: and a great number were joined to the Lord.

So Peter was kept in prison: but the church made strong prayer to God for him.

And a great light was seen shining in the room, and an angel of the Lord came to Peter and, touching him on his side so that he came out of his sleep, said, Get up quickly. And his chains came off his hands.

Then the angel said, Put on your shoes and get ready to go. And he did so. And he said, Put your coat round you and come with me.

But he made a sign to them with his hand to be quiet, and gave them an account of how the Lord had taken him out of prison. And he said, Give the news to James and the brothers. And then he went away.

And the people, with loud cries, said, It is the voice of a god, not of a man.

And straight away the angel of the Lord sent a disease on him, because he did not give the glory to God: and his flesh was wasted away by worms, and so he came to his end.

And at Salamis they were preaching the word of God in the Synagogues of the Jews: and John was with them, helping them.

Who was with the ruler, Sergius Paulus, an able man. This man sent for Barnabas and Saul, desiring to have knowledge of the word of God.

And Paul, getting up and making a sign with his hand, said, Men of Israel, and you who have the fear of God, give ear.

The God of this people Israel made selection of our fathers, lifting the people up from their low condition when they were living in the land of Egypt, and with a strong arm took them out of it.

Then at their request for a king, God gave them Saul, the son of Kish, a man of the family of Benjamin, who was their king for forty years.

From this man's seed has God given to Israel a Saviour, even Jesus, as he gave his word;

And when John was completing his work, he said, What do I seem to you to be? I am not he; but one is coming after me, whose shoes I am not good enough to undo.

My brothers, children of the family of Abraham, and those among you who have the fear of God, to us the word of this salvation is sent.

But God gave him back from the dead:

And we are giving you the good news of the undertaking made to the fathers,

Which God has now put into effect for our children, by sending Jesus; as it says in the second Psalm, You are my Son; this day I have given you being.

Now David, having done God's work for his generation, went to sleep, and was put with his fathers, and his body came to destruction:

But he, who was lifted up by God, did not see destruction.

Now when the meeting was ended, a number of the Jews and of the God-fearing Gentiles who had become Jews, went after Paul and Barnabas: who put before them how important it was to keep on in the grace of God.

And on the Sabbath after, almost all the town came together to give hearing to the word of God.

Then Paul and Barnabas without fear said, It was necessary for the word of God to be given to you first; but because you will have nothing to do with it, and have no desire for eternal life, it will now be offered to the Gentiles.

And the Gentiles, hearing this, were glad and gave glory to the word of God: and those marked out by God for eternal life had faith.

But the Jews, working up the feelings of the God-fearing women of high position and of the chief men of the town, got an attack started against Paul and Barnabas, driving them out of those parts.

Having got news of it, they went in flight to the towns of Lycaonia, Lystra, and Derbe, and the country round about:

And went on preaching the good news there.

Said in a loud voice, Get up on your feet. And, jumping up, he went walking about.

Good people, why are you doing these things? We are men with the same feelings as you, and we give you the good news so that you may be turned away from these foolish things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things in them:

Who in the past let all nations go in the ways which seemed good to them.

But he was not without witness, because he did good, and gave you rain from heaven and times of fruit, making your hearts full of food and joy.

But some Jews came to that place from Antioch and Iconium, and got control over the people; and after stoning Paul, they had him pulled out of the town, taking him for dead.

But when the disciples came round him, he got up and went into the town: and the day after he went away with Barnabas to Derbe.

And having made a number of disciples through the preaching of the good news in that town, they went back to Lystra and Iconium and Antioch,

Making strong the souls of the disciples, saying to them that they were to keep the faith, and that we have to go through troubles of all sorts to come into the kingdom of God.

And from there they went by ship to Antioch, where they had been handed over to the grace of God for the work which they had not done.

And when they came there, and had got the church together, they gave them an account of all the things which God had done through them, and how he had made open a door of faith to the Gentiles.

And when they came to Jerusalem, they had a meeting with the church and the Apostles and the rulers, and they gave an account of all the things which God had done through them.

But some of the Pharisees, who were of the faith, got up and said, It is necessary for these to have circumcision and to keep the law of Moses.

And when there had been much discussion, Peter got up and said to them, My brothers, you have knowledge that some time back it was God's pleasure that by my mouth the good news might be given to the Gentiles so that they might have faith.

And God, the searcher of hearts, was a witness to them, giving them the Holy Spirit even as he did to us;

Why then are you testing God, by putting on the neck of the disciples a yoke so hard that not even our fathers or we were strong enough for it?

But we have faith that we will get salvation through the grace of the Lord Jesus in the same way as they.

And all the people were quiet while Barnabas and Paul gave an account of the signs and wonders which God had done among the Gentiles by them.

Symeon has given an account of how God was first pleased to take from among the Gentiles a people for himself.

For this reason my decision is, that we do not put trouble in the way of those who from among the Gentiles are turned to God;

Then it seemed good to the Apostles and the rulers and all the church, to send men from among them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; Judas, named Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers:

It seemed good to us, having come to an agreement together, to send these men to you, with our well loved Barnabas and Paul,

For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us, to put on you nothing more than these necessary things;

So they, being sent away, came down to Antioch, and having got the people together, they gave them the letter.

But Paul and Barnabas kept on in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of God, with a number of others.

And after some days, Paul said to Barnabas, Let us go back and see the brothers in every town where we have given the word of God, and see how they are.

And when he had seen the vision, straight away we made the decision to go into Macedonia, for it seemed certain to us that God had sent us to give the good news to them.

And a certain woman named Lydia, a trader in purple cloth of the town of Thyatira, and a God-fearing woman, gave ear to us: whose heart the Lord made open to give attention to the things which Paul was saying.