But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

And having said these things, as they were looking upon Him, He was lifted up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight.

Who also said - Men of Galilee! why stand ye looking into heaven? This Jesus who hath been taken up from you into heaven, shall so come, in like manner as ye yourselves have gazed upon him going into heaven.

Upon arriving at the house where they were staying, they went upstairs. [Those present were]: Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James, the son of Alpheus, Simon the Zealous [one] and Judas, the son of James. [Note: Judas Iscariot, the twelfth apostle, had already committed suicide].

(Now Judas Iscariot acquired a piece of land [indirectly] with the [money paid him as a] reward for his treachery, and falling headlong, his body burst open in the middle and all his intestines poured out.

And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.

and upon the rumour of this event, the multitude came together, and were confounded, every man hearing the disciples speak in his own language.

No, this is what was predicted by the prophet Joel ??17 In the last days, saith God, then will I pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams:

And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:

yea, even upon my bondmen and upon my bondwomen in those days will I pour out of my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.

and I will give wonders in the heaven above, and signs upon the earth beneath -- blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke,

the sun shall be changed into darkness and the moon into blood, ere the great, open Day of the Lord arrives.

And it shall be that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

But God released him from the pangs of death and raised him to life, it being impossible for death to retain its hold upon him.

For David says in reference to Him, "'I constantly fixed my eyes upon the Lord, because He is at my right hand in order that I may continue unshaken.

Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins he would set one upon his throne;

So He has been exalted to God's right hand and has received from His Father, as promised, and poured out upon us the Holy Spirit, as you see and hear.

And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles.

praising God and enjoying favor with all the people [of the area]. And every day the Lord added to their number [i.e., to the church] those who were being saved [i.e., upon their obedience to the Gospel].

And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us.

And he fixed his eyes upon them, expecting to receive something from them.

And Peter, seeing it, made answer unto the people: - Ye men of Israel! Why marvel ye at this man? Or, upon us, why are ye intently looking, as though, by our own power or godliness, we had made him walk?

Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out: that seasons of refreshing may come upon you from the presence of the Lord;

And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,

and the Saducees came upon them, Being grieved that they had healed the lame man, and preached thro' Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

and they laid hands upon them, and did put them in custody unto the morrow, for it was evening already;

And it came to pass upon the morrow, there were gathered together of them the rulers, and elders, and scribes, to Jerusalem,

if we this day are called upon to answer as to the good deed done to the infirm man, how he has been healed,

Nevertheless, lest it further spread abroad among the people, let us charge them with threats, to be no more speaking upon this name, to any soul of man.

And, calling them, they gave them the sweeping charge, - not to be sounding aloud, nor even to be teaching, upon the name of Jesus.

for above forty years of age was the man upon whom had been done this sign of the healing.

And they, upon hearing the story, all lifted up their voices to God and said, "O Sovereign Lord, it is Thou who didst make Heaven and earth and sea, and all that is in them,

Kings of the earth stood up, and rulers were gathered together upon one and the same, against the Lord, and against his Christ.

And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants to speak thy word with all boldness,

Now the whole body of believers were but one heart, and one soul: no one look'd upon what he possessed, as his own, but every thing was held in common.

And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.

upon which Peter said, Ananias, how could satan inspire thine heart to lye to the holy ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

And Ananias hearing these words fell down and gave up the ghost: and great fear came upon all that heard it.

"How was it," replied Peter, "that you two agreed to try an experiment upon the Spirit of the Lord? The men who have buried your husband are already at the door, and they will carry you out."

And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.

so as into the broad places to bring forth the ailing, and to lay them upon couches and mats, that at the coming of Peter, even his shadow might overshadow some one of them;

and laid their hands upon the apostles, and did put them in a public prison;

But in the night the angel of the Lord threw open the jail doors and let them out, and said to them,

Upon hearing this, they entered into the temple about daybreak and began to teach.Now when the high priest and his associates came, they called the Council together, even all the Senate of the sons of Israel, and sent orders to the prison house for them to be brought.

saying, "The jail we found quite safely locked, and the warders were on guard at the doors, but upon going in we found no one there."

Upon hearing this, the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the chief priests wonder'd bow this could be.

Upon this the Commander went with the officers, and brought the Apostles; but without using violence; for they were afraid of being stoned by the people.

Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.

and the God of our fathers did raise up Jesus, whom ye slew, having hanged upon a tree;

And said unto them - Men of Israel! be taking heed unto yourselves, what ye are about to inflict upon these men.

And they were persuaded by him; and, calling unto them the Apostles, they, with beating, charged them not be speaking upon the name of Jesus; and let them go.

whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands upon them.

And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council,

And all that sat in the Sanhedrin, looking earnestly upon him, saw his face that it was like the face of an angel.

And, upon that, Stephen spoke as follows: "Brothers and Fathers, hear what I have to say. God, who manifests himself in the Glory, appeared to our ancestor Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, and before he settled in Haran, and said to him--

But a famine came upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great distress, and our fathers found no food.

He having deceived our race by sophistry, inflicted evil upon our fathers, to make their babes cast out, that they should not breed.

And when a period of forty years was fulfilled to him, it came into his heart to look upon his brethren, the sons of Israel;

Seeing one of them being imposed upon, he interfered and defended the man who was being ill treated, striking down the Egyptian.

The next day he again appeared upon the scene, when some of them were fighting, and tried to make peace between them. 'Men,' he said, 'you are brothers; how is it that you are ill-treating one another?'

Upon this Moses fled, and became a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons.

And having received it in their turn, our fathers brought it in with Joshua upon dispossessing the nations whom God drove out before our fathers, until the time of David.

Now when they heard this [accusation and understood its implication], they were cut to the heart, and they began grinding their teeth [in rage] at him.

"I can see Heaven wide open," he said, "and the Son of Man standing at God's right hand."

Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,

And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

Then falling on his knees [in worship], he cried out loudly, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them [do not charge them]!” When he had said this, he fell asleep [in death].

And Saul was assenting to his death, and there came in that day a great persecution upon the assembly in Jerusalem, all also were scattered abroad in the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles;

who upon their arrival, prayed for them that they might receive the holy spirit.

(For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)

Then they laid their hands upon them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

"Give me also this power of yours, so that, if I place my hands upon any one, he may receive the Holy Spirit."

"A curse upon you and upon your money," Peter exclaimed, "for thinking that God's free gift can be bought with gold!

for I perceive you are upon the brink of misery, led captive by your sin.

Then answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the Lord for me, that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me.

Upon this he rose and went. Now, as it happened, an Ethiopian eunuch who was in a position of high authority with Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, as her treasurer, had visited Jerusalem to worship there,

and was returning, and sitting upon his chariot he was reading the prophet Isaiah.

And, he, said - How indeed should be able - unless someone shall guide me? And he called upon Philip, to come up and sit with him.

And the contents of the Writing that he was reading was this: 'As a sheep unto slaughter he was led, and as a lamb before his shearer dumb, so he doth not open his mouth;

“In humiliation His judgment was taken away [justice was denied Him].
Who will describe His generation?
For His life is taken from the earth.”

then Philip enter'd upon the subject, and show'd how the whole passage was applicable to Jesus.

And as they went along the way, they came upon a certain water, and the eunuch says, Behold water; what hinders my being baptised?

and he fell upon the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

So Saul got up from the ground, but [although] his eyes were open he could see nothing. And leading him by the hand, they brought [him] into Damascus.

He has seen a man called Ananias come and lay his hands upon him so that he may recover his sight."

and here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call upon thy name.

And Ananias went and entered into the house; and laying his hands upon him he said, Saul, brother, the Lord has sent me, Jesus that appeared to thee in the way in which thou camest, that thou mightest see, and be filled with the Holy Spirit.

Instantly there dropped from his eyes what seemed to be scales, and he could see once more. Upon this he rose and received baptism;

All those who heard him continued to be amazed and said, “Is this not the man who in Jerusalem attacked those who called on this name [of Jesus], and had come here [to Damascus] for the express purpose of bringing them bound [with chains] before the chief priests?”

but Saul was appriz'd of their plot. and as they were night and day upon the watch at the gates, in order to kill him,

Barnabas, however, got hold of him and brought him to the apostles. To them he related how he had seen the Lord upon the road, how He had spoken to him, and how he had spoken freely in the name of Jesus at Damascus.

And he found there a certain man, Aeneas by name, who had been lying for eight years upon a couch, who was paralysed.

Peter said to him, Eneas, Jesus, who is the Messiah, gives thee health: rise, and make your bed your self: upon which he immediately rose.

But Peter putting them all out, fell upon his knees, and prayed; and turning to the body, said, Tabitha, arise! And she opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

And it became known throughout the whole of Joppa, and many believed upon the Lord.

And he, fastening his eyes upon him, and being affrighted, said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are gone up for a memorial before God.

And after the angel who was speaking to him was gone, he called two of his household servants and a devout soldier who was in constant attendance upon him,

On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:

And he became hungry and desired to eat. But as they were making ready an ecstasy came upon him: