But through the grace of our Lord Jesus, we believe that we are saved, in the same manner in which they are also.

having written through their hand; The apostles and elders, brethren to the brethren who are from the Gentiles throughout Antioch and Syria and Cilicia greeting.

Since we heard that certain ones having come out from us troubled you, disturbing your souls with words which we did not command:

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

men who have imperiled their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

and having spent the time, they were discharged by the brethren with peace back to the apostles who sent them.

And after many days Paul said to Barnabas, Having returned let us now visit the brethren in every city in which we preached the word of the Lord, how they are doing.

Paul wished him to go out with him; and having taken him circumcised him on account of the Jews who were in those places: for they all knew his father that he was a Greek.

And while they were traveling through the cities, they delivered to them the decrees which were adjudicated by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem, to keep.

Then the churches were indeed strengthened in faith, and abounded in number daily.

And having come opposite Mysia, they were endeavoring to go on into Bithynia, and the Spirit of Jesus did not permit them;

and thence into Philippi, which is the first city of the Macedonian region, a colony. And we were in that city spending some days.

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 when she and her household were baptized, she entreated us, saying, If you have found me to be faithful to the Lord, having come into my house, abide: and she constrained us.

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.

and leading them to the magistrates, said, These men do exceedingly trouble our city, being Jews,

and they proclaimed customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, or to do, being Romans.

And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and all the doors were immediately opened, and the bonds of all were loosed.

But Paul shouted with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are here.

And they spoke to him the word of the Lord, along with all who were in his house.

And taking them that hour of the night, he washed the blood from their stripes; and he and his were baptized immediately:

And the lictors proclaimed these words to the magistrates. And hearing that they are Romans, they were alarmed;

And having traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came into Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.

And certain ones of them were persuaded, and identified themselves with Paul and Silas, and of the pious Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.

But the Jews giving away to jealousy, and receiving to themselves certain wicked men of those around the forum, and raising a mob, continued to put the city in an uproar; and assaulting the house of Jason, they were seeking to lead them out to the people:

but not finding them, they dragged Jason and certain brethren to the rulers of the city, roaring that, These who have turned the world upside down are also come hither;

whom Jason has received: and all these are doing contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another King, Jesus.

but these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, who received the word with all enthusiasm, searching the scriptures daily, if these things are so.

And taking him, they led him to the Areopagus, saying; Are we able to know what is this new teaching, spoken by thee?

For you bring certain strange things to our hearing: therefore we desire to know what these things wish to be.

But all the Athenians and itinerant strangers were accustomed to devote their time to nothing else, than to tell something new, or to hear something.

And Paul standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said, Athenian men, I perceive that in all things you are very religious.

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;

For in him we live and move and have our being, as indeed certain ones of your own poets have said, For we are truly his offspring.

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.

and because they were of the same craft, abode with them, and they labored: for they were tentmakers by trade.

And they opposing, and blaspheming, shaking his garments, he said to them, Your blood be upon your own head; I am pure: from now I will go to the Gentiles.

But Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.

And he spent a year and six months teaching the word of God among them.

And Paul being about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, If it were some injustice or wicked rascality, O Jews, I would bear with you according to reason:

but if there are questions about the words and name, and law appertaining to you, yourselves shall see to it; I do not wish to be judge of these things.

And he said, Into what then were you baptized? And they said, Into the baptism of John.

And they, having heard, were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus;

And they were all about twelve men.

But when some were becoming hardened and disbelieving, speaking evil of the way in the presence of the multitude, departing from them he separated his disciples, daily expounding in the school of Tyrannus.

so that napkins and aprons were carried from his body and placed on the sick, and diseases departed from them, and evil spirits went out of them.

And there were certain seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish high priest, doing this.

But the evil spirit responding said to them, I know Jesus, and am acquainted with Paul; but who are you?

And when these things were fulfilled, Paul purposed in spirit, having traveled through Macedonia and Achaia, to go on into Jerusalem, saying that, After I am there it behooves me also to see Rome.

and you see and hear, that not only at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, that this Paul having persuaded them has turned away a great multitude, saying that there are no gods made with hands.

And not only is this interest in danger to us to come into disrepute; but even the temple of the great goddess Diana to be considered for nought, and they are about even to despise the majesty of her, whom all Asia and the world worships.

For you have led in these men, who are neither robbers of temples, nor are they blaspheming your goddess.

If indeed therefore Demetrius, and the mechanics along with him, have a charge against any one, the courts are in session, and there are lawyers: let them implead one another.

But if you are seeking something concerning other things, it shall be settled in the lawful church.

For indeed we are in danger of prosecution for the disturbance this day, there being no cause concerning which we shall be able to give a reason for this uproar.

and we, after the days of unleaven bread, sailed from Philippi, and came to them into Troas within five days; where we spent seven days.

and there were many lamps in the upper room, where we were assembled.

And they led up the boy alive, and were comforted exceedingly.

how I omitted nothing of those things which are profitable, that I should not declare unto you and teach you publicly and from house to house,

witnessing both to Jews, and to Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

I have not sought the silver, or gold, or raiment of any one;

being especially grieved at the word which he had spoken, that they were about to see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the ship.

And he says, I am Jewish man, having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, having been brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel according to the accuracy of patristic law, being a zealot of God, as you all are this day;

And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee to know His will, and see the Just One, and hear the voice from His mouth;

And they crying out, and rending their garments, and throwing dust into the air,

And when they were extending him to the scourges, Paul said to the centurion standing by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and uncondemned?

And the centurion hearing, having come to the chiliarch, announced to him, saying, What are you about to do? for this man is a Roman.

And the chiliarch, having come to him, said; Tell me, are you a Roman? And he said, Yes.

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

And there was a great clamor: and certain ones of the scribes on the part of the Pharisees, rising up, continued to strive, saying, We find nothing evil in this man: but has a spirit or an angel spoken to him?

And there were more than forty having made this plot:

Now therefore do you appeal to the chiliarch along with the sanhedrim, that he may lead him down to you, as about to investigate matters concerning him more thoroughly: and we are ready to kill him before he comes nigh.

Therefore do not be persuaded by them: for more than forty of them lie in wait for him, who have obligated themselves by an oath, neither to eat nor drink until they may kill him: and now they are ready, awaiting the promise from you.

whom I found accused concerning questions of their law, having no charge worthy of death or bonds.

But in order that I may not weary you excessively, I exhort you to hear us patiently according to your clemency.

For having found this man pestilential, and stirring up seditions to all the Jews who are throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:

with whom you yourself, having made inquiry, are able to know concerning all these things of which we accuse him.

And the Jews were consenting, saying, Truly these things are so.

you being able to know, that there are not more than twelve days to me since I came up to Jerusalem to worship.

Neither did they find me in the temple disputing with any one, or causing an excitement of the multitude, neither in the synagogues, nor throughout the city:

neither are they able to prove before you the things which they are now accusing me.

But I confess this to you, that according to the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of our fathers, believing all things which have been written in the law and in the prophets:

in which they found me having been purified in the temple, not with rabble, nor with an uproar; and were certain Jews from Asia,

Or let them tell what injustice they found, while I was standing before the sanhedrim,

And having tarried with them not more than eight or ten days, having come down to Caesarea, on the following day, sitting on the tribunal, he commanded that Paul should be brought forth.

And he being present, the Jews having come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing against him charges many and heavy, which they were not able to prove.

And Festus, wishing to confer a gratification on the Jews, responding to Paul, said, Are you willing, having gone up to Jerusalem, there to be judged by me concerning these things?

And Paul said, I am standing at the tribunal of Caesar, where it behooves me to be judged. To the Jews I have done nothing wrong, as you indeed well know.

And while they were spending many days there, Festus expounded to the king the matters appertaining to Paul, saying, A certain man has been left a prisoner by Felix:

knowing me originally, if they may be willing to testify, that according to the most rigid sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

And now for the hope of the promise which is from God to our fathers, I stand being judged:

unto which our twelve tribes constantly worshiping night and day, hope to attain: concerning which hope I am accused by the Jews, O king.

to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness unto light, and from the power of Satan unto God, in order that they may receive remission of sins, and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.

Then having received help from God, I have stood unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said were about to come to pass: