And he was gazing at him, and becoming terrified, he said, What is it, lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and your merciful deeds have come up for a memorial before God.

But Peter said, Not so, Lord, for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.

And while Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said to him, Behold, three men are looking for you.

And going down to the men, those sent to him from Cornelius, Peter said, Behold, I am the one you are seeking. For what reason have you come?

And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man and one who fears God, and one of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and to hear words from you.

And he said to them, You know that it is an unlawful thing for a man, a Jew to keep company with or to come near to one of another nation. But God has shown me not to call any man common or unclean.

And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour. And at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing.

And he said, Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your merciful deeds have been remembered before God.

Then Peter opened his mouth and said, Truly I see that God is no respecter of persons;

And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then they begged him to stay certain days.

But I said, Not so, Lord, for nothing common or unclean has at any time entered into my mouth.

And he declared to us how he had seen an angel in his house, who stood and said to him, Send men to Joppa and call for Simon whose last name is Peter,

And I remembered the Word of the Lord, how He said, John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.

And behold! An angel of the Lord stood by, and a light shone in the building. And striking Peter's side, he raised him up, saying, Rise up quickly! And his chains fell off his hands.

And the angel said to him, Gird yourself and put on your sandals. And he did so. And he says to him, Throw your robe around you and follow me.

And having come to himself, Peter said, Now I know surely that the Lord has sent His angel and has delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.

And they said to her, You are mad. But she kept on saying that it was so. And they said, It is his angel.

But, waving to them with his hand to be quiet, he declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, Go tell these things to James and to the brothers. And he departed and went into another place.

And on a certain day, Herod sat on his throne, dressed in royal clothing, and made a speech to them.

As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, So, then, separate Barnabas and Saul to Me for the work to which I have called them.

Then Saul (who is also Paul), filled with the Holy Spirit, set his eyes on him

and said, O son of the Devil, full of all deceit and all craftiness, enemy of all righteousness, will you not stop perverting the right ways of the Lord?

But going through from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day and sat down.

And rising up and signaling with his hand, Paul said, Men, Israelites, and those fearing God, listen.

And when He had removed him, He raised up David to them to be their king; to whom He also witnessed and said, I have found David the son of Jesse to be a man after My own heart, who shall fulfill all My will.

Of this man's seed God has raised to Israel, according to His promise, a Savior, Jesus;

And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Who do you think that I am? I am not He. But behold, One comes after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to loose.

But speaking boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, It was necessary for the Word of God to be spoken to you first. But since indeed you put it far from you and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the nations.

For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, "I have set You to be a light of the nations, for salvation to the end of the earth."

said with a loud voice, Stand up on your feet! And he leaped and walked.

And indeed being set forward by the church, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the nations. And they caused great joy to all the brothers.

And after much disputing, Peter rose up and said to them, Men, brothers, you recognize that from ancient days God chose among us that through my mouth the nations should hear the Word of the gospel, and believe.

"After this I will return and will build again the tabernacle of David which has fallen down; and I will build again its ruins, and I will set it up,

And some days afterward, Paul said to Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brothers in every city where we have announced the Word of the Lord, to see how they are holding to it.

Then having set sail from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia, and the next day to Neapolis;

And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was usually made. And we sat down and spoke to the women who came together there.

And when she was baptized, she and her household, she begged us, saying, If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay. And she constrained us.

And she did this many days. But being distressed, and turning to the demonic spirit, Paul said, I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her! And it came out in that hour.

And bringing them near to the judges, they said, These men, being Jews, are exceedingly troubling our city.

And leading them outside, he said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved, and your household.

And bringing them up to the house, he set a table before them and rejoiced, believing in God with all his household.

But Paul said to them, Having beaten us publicly, men who are Romans and uncondemned, they threw us into prison. And now do they put us out secretly? No indeed! But coming themselves, let them bring us out.

But the disobeying Jews becoming jealous, and having taken aside some wicked men of the market-loafers, and gathering a crowd, they set all the city in an uproar. And coming on the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the mob.

And certain philosophers from the Epicureans and from the Stoics met him. And some said, What will this babbler say? And others said, He seems to be an announcer of foreign demons (because he preached Jesus and the resurrection to them).

And standing in the middle of the Areopagus, Paul said, Men, Athenians, I see that you are fearful of gods in everything.

For in Him we live and move and have our being, as also certain of your own poets have said, For we are also His offspring.

And hearing of a resurrection of the dead, some indeed mocked; and others said, We will hear you again concerning this.

And they resisting and blaspheming, shaking his garment, he said to them, Your blood is on your own heads. I am pure from it. From now on I will go to the nations.

For I am with you, and no one shall set on you to hurt you, for I have many people in this city.

But Gallio being pro-consul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rushed against Paul and brought him to the judgment seat,

And Paul being about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, If indeed then, it was anything wrong or wicked criminality, O Jews, according to reason I would endure you.

And he drove them from the judgment seat.

And all the Greeks seized Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio did not care for any of these things.

And they asking him to stay a longer time with them, he did not consent

he said to them, Have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed? And they said to him, We did not so much as hear whether the Holy Spirit is.

And he said to them, Then to what were you baptized? And they said, To John's baptism.

And Paul said, John truly baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe into Him coming after him, that is, into Jesus Christ.

But answering the evil spirit said, Jesus I know, and I comprehend Paul, but who are you?

And assembling the workmen about such things, he said, Men, you know that from this trade is our wealth.

And quieting the crowd, the town clerk said, Men, Ephesians! What one of you does not know that the city of the Ephesians is a worshiper of the great goddess Artemis, and of That Fallen from the Sky?

And Paul went down and fell on him, and embracing him said, Do not be terrified, for his soul is in him.

And when they had come to him, he said to them, You know how I was with you at all times, from the first day I arrived in Asia,

I have shown you all things, that working in this way we ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

And finding a ship sailing over to Phoenicia, going on board, we set sail.

And finding disciples, we stayed there seven days; who said to Paul through the Spirit that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

And coming to us, and taking Paul's belt, and binding his hands and feet, he said, The Holy Spirit says these things: So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man whose belt this is, and will deliver him into the hands of the nations.

And hearing, they glorified the Lord, and said to him, You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are who believe, and they are all zealous of the Law.

And as Paul was about to be led into the fortress, he said to the chiliarch, Is it lawful for me to say a thing to you? And he said, Do you know Greek?

But Paul said, I am a man, a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no small city. And I beseech you, allow me to speak to the people.

And hearing that he spoke to them in the Hebrew dialect, they all the more kept silence. And he said,

And I answered, Who are you, lord? And he said to me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you persecute.

And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said to me, Arise and go into Damascus. And there it shall be told you all things which are appointed for you to do.

coming to me and standing by, said to me, Brother Saul, look up! And the same hour I looked up on him.

And he said, The God of our fathers has chosen you to know His will and to see the Just One, and to hear a voice out of His mouth.

And I said, Lord, they know that I was imprisoning and beating those who believed on You throughout the synagogues.

And He said to me, Go, for I will send you far away to the nations.

And as they stretched him with thongs, Paul said to the centurion who stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman and uncondemned?

And coming up the chiliarch said to him, Tell me, are you a Roman? And He said, Yes.

And the chiliarch answered, With a great sum I bought this citizenship. And Paul said, But I was even born free.

On the next day, he desiring to know with certainty why he was accused by the Jews, he freed him from his bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all their sanhedrin to appear. And bringing Paul down, he set him among them.

And looking earnestly on the sanhedrin, Paul said, Men, brothers, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.

Then Paul said to him, God shall strike you, whitened wall! For do you sit judging me according to the Law, and against law command me to be stricken?

And they who stood by him said, Do you revile God's high priest?

Then Paul said, I did not know, brothers, that he was the high priest; for it is written, "You shall not speak evil of the ruler of your people."

And when he had said this, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees; and the multitude was divided.

And there arose a great cry. And the scribes who were on the Pharisees' side arose and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him, let us not fight against God.

And the following night the Lord stood by him and said, Be of good cheer, Paul, for as you have testified of Me in Jerusalem, so you also must bear witness at Rome.

And they came to the chief priests and elders and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse that we will eat nothing until we have killed Paul.

And calling one of the centurions, Paul said, Bring this young man to the chiliarch, for he has a certain thing to tell him.

So he took him and brought him to the chiliarch and said, Paul the prisoner called me and asked me to bring this young man to you, who has something to say to you.

And he said, The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the sanhedrin tomorrow, as though they would inquire something more exactly about him.

And provide animals, so that they may set Paul on them and bring him to Felix the governor.

he said, I will hear you when your accusers have also come. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod's Praetorium.

Then he said, those having power among you may go down with me. If there is a thing amiss in this man, let them accuse him.

And staying among them more than ten days, going down to Caesarea, on the next day sitting on the judgment seat, he commanded Paul to be brought.

Defending himself, Paul said, Neither against the Law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I offended in anything.

But Festus, wanting to please the Jews, answered Paul and said, Will you go up to Jerusalem and be judged there before me about these things?

But Paul said, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be judged. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you very well know.

Therefore, when they had come here, without any delay I sat on the judgment seat the next day and commanded the man to be brought,