CODEX
SINAITICUS: The New Testament translated from the Sinaitic Manuscript
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Copyright ©2004 Jackson H.
Snyder II
ACTS OF
THE APOSTLES
Acts 1
1
The former discourse I made, O Theophilus, concerning all things that Jesus began
both to do and to teach,
2
till the day in which he was taken up, after he had, through the Holy Spirit,
given commandments to the apostles whom he had chosen:
3
to whom he also showed himself alive, after he had suffered, by many infallible
proofs, appearing to them for forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining
to the kingdom of God.
4
And being assembled together with them he charged them not to depart from
5
for John indeed baptized in water, but you shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit
not many days hence.
6
They that had come together therefore asked him, saying: Lord, dost thou at
this time restore the kingdom to
8
but you shall receive power, after the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you
shall be my witnesses, both in
9
And when he had said these things, as they beheld, he was taken up, and a cloud
received him out of their sight.
10
And while they were looking steadfastly toward heaven as he departed, behold,
two men stood by them in white garments,
11
who also said: Men of Galilee, why stand looking towards heaven? This Jesus,
who has been taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as you
saw him go into heaven.
12
Then they returned to
13
And when they had come in, they went up into an upper room where they were
abiding, both Peter and John, and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas,
Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and
Judas the brother of James.
14
These all continued with one accord in prayer, with the women, and Mary the
mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
15
And in these days Peter rose up in the midst of the brethren and said (and
there was a multitude of names together, about a hundred and twenty):
16
Men, brethren, it was needful that the Scripture should be fulfilled which the
Holy Spirit spoke before through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who
became leader to those that took Jesus;
17
for he was numbered among us, and had obtained the part of this ministry.
18
This man therefore purchased a field with the reward of iniquity, and, having
fallen headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out:
19
which also became known to all that dwell in Jerusalem, so that that field is
called in their own language, Akeldama, that is, a field of blood.
20
For it is written in the book of Psalms: Let his habitation become deserted,
and let no one dwell in it, and: His overseer’s office let another take.
21
Therefore of these men who have accompanied us all the time, during which the
Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
22
beginning from the baptism of John, till the day in which he was taken up from
us, must one become a witness with us of his resurrection.
23
And they appointed two, Joseph, who is called Barsabbas, who was surnamed
Justus, and Matthias.
24
And praying, they said: Thou, Lord, who knowest the hearts of all, make known
which one of these two thou hast chosen,
25
that he may take the place of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas
turned away to go to his own place.
26
And they gave lots for them; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was
numbered with the eleven apostles.
Acts 2
1
And when the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all together at the
same time.
2
And suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of a rushing, violent blast, and
filled the whole house where they were sitting;
3
and there appeared to them tongues like fire distributing themselves, and it
sat on each one of them;
4
and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other
tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
5
And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under
heaven;
6
but when this sound had come, the multitude came together and were perplexed,
because they heard them speaking, each one in his own language.
7
And they were all astonished, and wondered, saying: Behold, are not all these
that speak Galileans?
8
And how hear we, each one in our own language in which we were born,
9
Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and we that dwell in Mesopotamia, Judea also
and
10
Phrygia also and
11
Cretes and Arabians, how hear we them speaking in our own tongues, the mighty
works of God?
12
And they were all astonished and in doubt, saying one to another: What can this
be?
13
But others, mocking, said: They are full of sweet wine.
14
But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and said to them:
Men of Judea, and all you that dwell in
15
For these are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is the third hour of the day;
16
but this is that which was spoken through the prophet Joel:
17
And it shall come to pass in the last days, says 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;
18
and indeed on my servants and on my handmaids will I pour out in those days of
my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.
19
And I will show wonders in heaven above and signs In the earth beneath, blood
and fire and vapor of smoke.
20
The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the great
day of the Lord shall come.
21
And it shall come to pass that whoever shall have called on the name of the
Lord shall be saved.
22
Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man eminently
distinguished among you on the part of God by mighty deeds and wonders and
signs, which God did through him in the midst of you, as yourselves know,
23
him delivered up by the fixed counsel and foreknowledge of God, you, through
the hands of lawless men, did crucify and slay:
24
whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, inasmuch as it was not
possible that he should be held in subjection by it.
25
For David says in reference to him: I foresaw the Lord always in my presence,
for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.
26
Therefore did my heart rejoice and my tongue was glad: moreover, also, my flesh
shall rest in hope,
27
because thou wilt not leave my soul in hades, neither wilt thou suffer thy Holy
One to see corruption.
28
Thou didst make known to me the ways of life, thou shalt make me full of joy
with thy countenance.
29
Men, brethren, I may freely say to you of the patriarch David, that he both
died and was buried, and his sepulcher is among us till this day.
30
Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him
that he would set of the fruit of his loins upon his throne;
31
foreseeing, he spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that neither was he left in
hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.
32
This Jesus has God raised up, of whom we all are witnesses.
33
Therefore, having been exalted to the right hand of God, and having received
from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which
you both see and hear.
34
For David did not ascend into the heavens, but himself says: The Lord said to
my Lord: Sit at my right hand,
35
till I make thy enemies thy footstool.
36
Therefore, let all the house of
37
And hearing it they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest
of the apostles: Men, brethren, what must we do?
38
And Peter said to them: Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of
Jesus Christ, for remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the
Holy Spirit.
39
For the promise is to you and to your children and to all that are afar off, as
many as the Lord our God shall have called.
40
And with many other words did he testify, and exhort them, saying: Save
yourselves from this perverse generation.
41
They therefore gladly received his word and were baptized, and were added on
that day, about three thousand souls.
42
And they continued steadfastly in the teaching of the apostles and the
fellowship, the breaking of the bread and the prayers.
43
And fear came on every soul; and many wonders and signs were done through the
apostles in
44
And all that believed were together, and had all things in common;
45
and sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all as any one
had need;
46
and continuing daily with one accord in the temple, breaking bread also from
house to house, they partook of food in gladness and singleness of heart,
47
praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord daily added
together the saved.
Acts 3
1
But Peter and John were going up into the temple, at the hour of prayer, which
is the ninth.
2
And a man, lame from his mother’s womb, was borne along; whom they laid daily
at the gate of the temple that is called Beautiful, to ask charity from them
that went into the temple:
3
who, seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked to receive
charity.
4
But Peter, looking intently upon him with John, said: Look on us.
5
And he gave heed to them, expecting to receive something from them.
6
But Peter said: Silver and gold have I not; but what I have, this I give thee:
in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, walk.
7
And, taking him by the right hand, he raised him up, and immediately his feet
and ankles became strong;
8
and leaping up, he stood and walked, and entered with them into the temple,
walking and leaping and praising God.
9
And all the people saw him walking and praising God;
10
and they recognized him, that it was he that sat for charity at the Beautiful
gate of the temple; and they were filled with amazement and astonishment at
that which had happened to him.
11
But while he was holding Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in
the porch called Solomon’s, greatly amazed.
12
And seeing it, Peter answered to the people: Men of Israel, why wonder at this
man, or on us why earnestly look as if by our own power of godliness we had
made him to walk;
13
The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob the God of our
fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in
the presence of Pilate, though he had determined to release him;
14
the holy and just one you however denied, and demanded that a murderer should
be given to you;
15
but the author of life you slew, whom God raised from the dead, of whom we are
witnesses.
16
And his name, by faith in his name, has made this man strong, whom you see and
know: even the faith that is through him has given him this entire soundness in
the presence of you all.
17
And now, brethren, I know that through ignorance you did it, as did also your
rulers:
18
but the things that God foretold through the mouth of all the prophets, that
his Anointed should suffer, he has thus fulfilled.
19
Repent therefore and turn, that your sins may be blotted out that seasons of
refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,
20
and he may send him that was destined for you, Christ Jesus,
21
whom heaven must receive, till the times of the restoration of all things that
God has spoken through the mouth of his holy prophets of ancient times.
22
Moses indeed said: A prophet shall the Lord our God raise up for you from among
your brethren, like me: him shall you hear in all things whatever he shall say
to you.
23
And it shall come to pass that every soul that will not hear that prophet shall
be utterly destroyed from among the people.
24
And all the prophets also, from Samuel and those after, as many as have spoken,
have also foretold these days.
25
You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God covenanted with
our fathers, saying to Abraham: And in thy offspring shall all the families of
the earth be blessed.
26
To you first, God having raised up his Servant, sent him to bless you, in
turning every one away from your iniquities.
Acts 4
1
But as they were speaking to the people, there came upon them the priests and
the captain of the temple and the Sadducees,
2
being vexed because they taught the people, and announced in Jesus the
resurrection from the dead;
3
and they laid their hands on them, and put them in prison till the morrow; for
it was already evening.
4
But many of them that heard the word believed, and the number of the men
amounted to five thousand.
5
And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers and the elders and
scribes, came together in
6
Annas also the chief priest, and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and as many
as were of the family of the chief priest;
7
and, placing them in the midst, they inquired: In what power or in what name
did you this?
8
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: Rulers of the people and
elders,
9
if we are this day examined with respect to the good deed done to the infirm
man, by what means he has been saved,
10
be it known to you all and to all the people of
11
This is the stone that was set at naught by you builders, which has become the
head of the corner.
12
And salvation is in none other; neither indeed is there another name under
heaven, given among men, by which we must be saved.
13
And seeing the boldness of Peter and of John, and perceiving that they were men
without learning, and plain, they were astonished; they also recognized them
that they had been with Jesus;
14
and seeing the man that had been cured standing with them, they had nothing to
say in reply.
15
But having commanded them to go out of the Sanhedrim, they conferred one with
another,
16
saying: What must we do to these men? For indeed that a well-known sign has
been done by them is manifest to all that dwell in
17
but that it may spread no further among the people, let us severely threaten
them that they speak no more in this name to any one of men.
18
And having called them, they commanded them to speak not at all, neither to
teach in the name of Jesus.
19
But Peter and John, answering, said to them: Whether it is right in the sight
of God to hear you rather than God, judge you;
20
for we can but speak the things that we have seen and heard.
21
And having further threatened them, they let them go, not finding how they
might punish them, because of the people; for all glorified God on account of
what had been done;
22
for the man on whom this sign of healing had been done was more than forty
years old.
23
But having been let go, they came to their own, and told all that the chief
priests and elders had said to them.
24
And having heard, they, with one accord, lifted up a voice to God and said:
Lord, thou that madest the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all things
that in them are.
25
that through the Holy Spirit by the mouth of our father David thy servant didst
say: Why did Gentiles rage and peoples desire vain things?
26
The kings of the land stood up, and the rulers were collected together against
the Lord and against his Anointed.
27
For in truth there were collected in this city against thy holy Servant Jesus,
whom thou didst anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with Gentiles and
peoples of
28
to do all that thy hand and thy counsel before determined to be done.
29
And now. Lord, look upon their threatenings, and give to thy servants to speak
thy word with all boldness,
30
in stretching forth thy hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done
through the name of thy holy Servant Jesus.
31
And after they had prayed, the place where they were collected together was
shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and spoke the word of
God with boldness.
32
And the heart and the soul of the multitude of believers were one; and not even
one said that any of the things he had was his own; but they had all things in
common.
33
And with great power did the apostles give testimony of the resurrection of the
Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.
34
For neither was there any needy person among them; for as many as were
possessors of lands or of houses sold them, and brought the prices of the
things sold,
35
and laid them at the feet of the apostles; and distribution was made to each as
any one had need.
36
But Joseph, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, which is, when
translated, Son of consolation, a Levite, by birth a Cyprian,
37
having a field, sold it, and brought the money and laid it at the feet of the
apostles.
Acts 5
1
But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,
2
and kept back part of the price, his wife also having knowledge of it, and
having brought a certain part, laid it at the feet of the apostles.
3
But Peter said: Ananias, why has Satan filled thy heart, that thou shouldst
attempt to deceive the Holy Spirit, and that thou shouldst keep back part of
the price of the field?
4
While it remained, did it not remain thine, and when sold, was it not in thy
own right? Why is it that thou didst conceive this thing in thy heart? Thou
hast not lied to men, but to God.
5
And Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and expired; and great fear came on
all that heard.
6
But the younger men, having risen, wound him up, and, having carried him out,
buried him.
7
But there was an interval of about three hours, and his wife, not knowing what
had been done, came in.
8
And Peter answered to her: Tell me, did you sell the field for so much? And she
said: Yes, for so much.
9
And Peter said to her: Why is it that you have agreed together to tempt the
Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of them that have buried thy husband are
at the door, and shall carry thee out.
10
And she fell down immediately at his feet and expired. And the young men coming
in found her dead, and having carried her out buried her by her husband.
11
And great fear came upon the whole church, and upon all that heard these
things.
12
And through the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among
the people: and they were all with one accord in Solomon’s porch;
13
but of the rest, no one ventured to join himself to them, but the people
magnified them;
14
and believers in the Lord were the more added, multitudes of both men and
women:
15
so that they brought out the sick even into the streets, and laid them on beds
and couches, that even the shadow of Peter as he came might overshadow some one
of them.
16
And there came together also the multitude of the cities round about
17
But the chief priest arose and all those with him, which is the sect of the
Sadducees, and were filled with zeal,
18
and laid their hands on the apostles and put them in the public prison.
19
But an angel of the Lord during the night opened the doors of the prison and
brought them out and said:
20
Go, and stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.
21
And hearing, they entered about daybreak into the temple and taught. And the
chief priest came and those with him, and called together the Sanhedrim and all
the eldership of the sons of
22
But the attendants came and found them not in the prison; and, having returned,
reported,
23
saying: The prison we found closed in all safety, and the guards standing
before the doors, but on opening we found no one within.
24
And when both the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these
words, they were in doubt concerning them, what this might be.
25
And some one came and told them: Behold, the men whom you put in the prison are
in the temple, standing and teaching the people.
26
Then went the captain with the attendants and brought them, not with violence,
for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.
27
And they brought them and made them stand in the Sanhedrim. And the chief
priest asked them,
28
saying: We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, and behold, you have
filled
29
But answering, Peter and the apostles said: We must obey God rather than men.
30
The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you slew by hanging on a tree:
31
him has God exalted to his right hand as a prince and savior, to give
repentance to
32
And we are witnesses of these things, and the Holy Spirit, whom he has given to
those that obey him.
33
And hearing, they were cut to the heart, and counseled to kill them.
34
but there arose a certain one in the Sanhedrim, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a
teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and commanded to put the men out
a little while;
35
and said to them: Men of Israel, take heed to yourselves with respect to these
men, what you are about to do.
36
For before these days arose Theudas, saying that himself was somebody, to whom
a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain, and all
as many as were persuaded by him were scattered and came to naught.
37
After this man arose Judas the Galilean, in the days of the enrollment, and
drew off people after him; and he was destroyed, and all as many as were
persuaded by him were dispersed.
38
And now, I say to you, stand off from these men and let them alone; for if this
counsel or this work be of men, it will come to naught;
39
but if it is of God, you cannot overthrow them, lest perhaps you also be found
fighting against God.
40
And they were persuaded by him; and having called the apostles in, and beaten
them, they charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
41
They then went from the presence of the Sanhedrim rejoicing, because they were
thought worthy to be dishonored for the name.
42
Also every day in the temple and from house to house, they ceased not to teach
and preach Christ Jesus.
Acts 6
1
And in these days, as the disciples were increasing in number, there arose a
murmuring of the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were
neglected in the daily ministration.
2
But the twelve, calling to them the multitude of the disciples, said: It is not
pleasing to us that we should leave the word of God and serve tables.
3
But look out, brethren, from among you seven men of good report, full of spirit
and wisdom, whom we will appoint over this business;
4
and we will attend continually to prayer and the ministry of the word.
5
And the saying was pleasing in the sight of all the multitude; and they chose
out Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and
Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicholas a proselyte of
Antioch,
6
whom they placed before the apostles; and they prayed and laid their hands on
them.
7
And the word of God increased, and the number of the disciples was enlarged in
8
But Stephen, full of grace and power, did great wonders and signs among the
people.
9
And there arose some of those that were of the synagogue called the synagogue
of the Freedmen, and of the Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and of those from
Cilicia and
10
and were not able to withstand the wisdom and the spirit with which he spoke.
11
Then they suborned men to say: We have heard him speak blasphemous words
against Moses and God;
12
and they excited the people and the elders and the scribes; and, coming upon
him, they seized him, and led him to the Sanhedrim;
13
and set up false witnesses who said: This man ceases not to speak words against
the holy place and the law;
14
for we have heard him say that this Jesus the Nazarene shall destroy this
place, and change the customs that Moses delivered to us.
15
And all that sat in the Sanhedrim, looking earnestly on him, saw his face as
the face of an angel.
Acts 7
1
And the chief priest said: Are these things so?
2
And he said: Men, brethren and fathers, hear. The God of glory appeared to our
father Abraham while he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in
3
and said to him: Come out from thy land and from thy kindred, and come into the
land that I will show thee.
4
Then he came out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in
5
and he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot-breadth, though he had
promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his posterity after him,
while he had no child.
6
But God spoke thus, that his posterity should sojourn in a strange land, and
they would bring them into bondage, and afflict them four hundred years;
7
and the nation to which they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God, and
after that ‘they shall come forth and serve me in this place.’
8
And he gave him the covenant of circumcision; and so he begot Isaac, and
circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob the twelve
patriarchs.
9
And the patriarchs envied Joseph and sold him into
10
and delivered him from all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom in
the sight of Pharaoh, king of
11
But there came a famine over the whole of
12
And Jacob, hearing that there was grain in
13
And the second time, Joseph was made known to his brothers, and the race of
Joseph became known to Pharaoh.
14
And Joseph sent and called to him his father Jacob, and all his kindred,
seventy-five souls.
15
And Jacob went down into
16
and were carried over to Sychem and laid in the sepulcher which Abraham bought
for its value in silver, from the sons of Hamor, the father of Sychem.
17
But as the time of the promise which God had made to Abraham drew near, the
people increased and multiplied in
18
till there arose another king, who knew not Joseph.
19
This man dealt insidiously with our race, and afflicted our fathers, so that
they exposed their infants, that they might not live.
20
At which time Moses was born, and he was beautiful before God. And he was
nursed three months in his father’s house;
21
but when he was exposed, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up and nursed him as
a son for herself.
22
And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians; and he was mighty
in his words and deeds.
23
But when the time of forty years was completed for him, it came into his heart
to look after his brethren, the sons of
24
And, seeing one unjustly treated, he defended him, and avenged him that was
oppressed by smiting the Egyptian.
25
And he thought that his brethren would understand that God, through his hand,
was giving salvation to them; but they understood not.
26
And on the following day he showed himself to them as they fought, and urged
them to peace, saying: Men, you are brethren: why treat one another unjustly?
27
But he that treated his neighbor unjustly thrust him away, saying: Who
appointed thee ruler and judge over us?
28
Wilt thou kill me as thou didst kill the Egyptian yesterday?
29
And at that saying Moses fled and became a sojourner in the
30
And when forty years were completed, there appeared to him in the wilderness of
mount Sinai an angel in flaming fire of a bush.
31
And Moses, seeing, wondered at the sight; but as he drew near to behold it,
there came the voice of the Lord:
32
I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob. And
Moses trembled and ventured not to behold.
33
And the Lord said to him: Loose the sandal of thy feet; for the place on which
thou standest is holy ground.
34
I have surely seen the affliction of my people that are in
35
This Moses, whom they denied, saying: Who appointed thee ruler and judge? this
man God sent both as ruler and deliverer, with the hand of the angel that
appeared to him in the bush.
36
This man led them out after having performed wonders and signs in the
37
This is the Moses who said to the sons of
38
This is he that was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel that
spoke to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received the living
oracles to give to us,
39
to whom our fathers would not become obedient, but thrust him away and turned
in their heart to
40
saying to Aaron: Make us gods that shall go before us; for this Moses, who
brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has become of him.
41
And they made a calf in those days and offered sacrifice to the idol, and
rejoiced in the works of their hands.
42
But God turned and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven, as it is
written in the book of the prophets: Victims and sacrifices did you offer to me
forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel,
43
and did you take up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of the god Remphan,
the images that you made to worship? and I will remove you beyond
44
Our fathers in the wilderness had the tabernacle of testimony, as he had
appointed who spoke to Moses that he should make it according to the pattern
which he had seen;
45
which also our fathers received and brought in with Joshua, when they took
possession of the nations, whom God thrust out from the face of our fathers
till the days of David:
46
who found favor in the sight of God, and asked that he might find a dwelling
for the house of Jacob.
47
But Solomon built him a house.
48
However, the Most High dwells not in places made with hands, as says the
prophet:
49
Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what kind of a house will
you build for me, says the Lord, or what the place of my rest?
50
Did not my hand make all these things?
51
Stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy
Spirit, as your fathers, also you.
52
Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed those who
foretold concerning the coming of the Just One, of whom you have now become the
betrayers and murderers:
53
who received the law as the arrangements of angels, and have not kept it.
54
And hearing these things, they were cut to their hearts, and gnashed upon him
with their teeth.
55
But being full of the Holy Spirit, he looked up into heaven and saw the glory
of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God;
56
and he said: Behold, I see the heavens opened and the Son of man standing at
the right hand of God.
57
And having cried with a loud voice, they stopped their ears and rushed with one
accord upon him,
58
and having cast him out of the city, they stoned him. And the witnesses laid
off their clothes at the feet of a young man called Saul;
59
and they stoned Stephen, calling on the Lord and saying: Lord Jesus, receive my
spirit.
60
And he kneeled down and cried with a loud voice: Lord, let not this sin stand
against them. And having said this, he fell asleep. And Saul was consenting to
his death.
Acts 8
1
And there arose at that day a great persecution against the church that was in
2
But godly men helped to bury Stephen, and made great lamentation over him.
3
But Saul made havoc of the church, entering into every house, and, dragging men
and women, he committed them to prison.
4
They therefore that had been scattered went everywhere, preaching the word;
5
but Philip went down to the city of
6
And the multitudes with one accord gave heed to the things that were spoken by
Philip, when they heard and saw the signs that he did.
7
For there were many of those that had unclean spirits; these, crying with a
loud voice, came out of them; and many paralytics and lame persons were cured;
8
and there arose great joy in that city.
9
But a certain man named Simon before this used magic in the city, and
astonished the nation of
10
to whom they gave heed, from small to great, saying: This man is the
power of God, which is called great.
11
And they gave heed to him because he had for a long time astonished them with
his magic arts.
12
But when they believed Philip, preaching concerning the
13
And Simon himself also believed, and having been baptized, he continued with
Philip, and seeing the mighty deeds and signs that were done, he was
astonished.
14
But the apostles that were in
15
who went down and prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit.
16
For he had not yet fallen on any one of them, but they had only been baptized
into the name of the Lord Jesus.
17
Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
18
But Simon, seeing that through the laying on of the apostles’ hands the Spirit
was given, offered them money,
19
saying: Give me also this authority, that on whomever I shall have laid hands,
he may receive the Holy Spirit.
20
But Peter said to him: Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought to
purchase for thyself with money the gift of God.
21
Thou hast no part, neither lot, in this matter; for thy heart is not right in
the sight of God.
22
Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray the Lord if perhaps the
thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee;
23
for I perceive that thou art bitter gall and a bundle of unrighteousness.
24
But Simon answered and said: Pray you to the Lord for me, that none of the
things that you have spoken may come upon me.
25
They therefore having testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to
26
But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying: Arise, and go toward the
south, to the road that goes down from
27
And he arose and went; and behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch, a high officer
of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had
come to Jerusalem to worship,
28
was also returning, and, sitting in his chariot, was reading the prophet
Isaiah.
29
And the Spirit said to Philip: Go forward and join thyself to this chariot.
30
And running forward, Philip heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said:
Understandest thou, then, what thou readest?
31
But he said: How should I unless some one guide me? And he requested Philip to
come up and sit with him.
32
And the passage of Scripture which he was reading was this: As a sheep for
slaughter was he led; and as a lamb before his shearer is dumb, so opens he not
his mouth.
33
In his humiliation his judgment* was taken away: his generation who shall
describe? for his life is taken from the earth.
* The justice due him.
34
And the eunuch answered and said to Philip: I pray thee, of whom speaks the
prophet this? Of himself or of some other man?
35
But Philip opened his mouth and began at the same Scripture, and preached to
him Jesus.
36
And as they went along the road, they came to some water; and the eunuch says:
Behold, water: what hinders me from being baptized?
37
[no verse]
38
And he commanded the chariot to stop, and both went down into the water, both
Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.
39
But when they had come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away
Philip; and the eunuch saw him no more, for he went on his way rejoicing.
40
But Philip was found it Azotus; and passing through he preached the gospel in
all the cities till he came to
Acts 9
1
But Saul, yet breathing threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the
Lord, went to the chief priest
2
and asked of him letters to
3
But as he was going, it came to pass that he drew near to
4
and having fallen to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him: Saul, Saul,why
persecutest thou me?
5
And he said: Who art thou, Lord? And he said: I am Jesus whom thou persecuteth!
6
But rise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
7
But the men that journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing indeed the voice,
but seeing no one.
8
And Saul arose from the ground; but when his eyes were opened, he saw nothing;
and leading him by the hand, they brought him into
9
And he was three days without sight, and he ate not, neither did he drink.
10
But there was in
11
And the Lord said to him: Arise, and go into the street that is called
Straight, and inquire in the house of Judah for one named Saul, of Tarsus; for
behold, he prays,
12
and has seen a man named Ananias coming in and laying his hand on him, that he
may receive sight.
13
But Ananias answered: Lord, I have heard from many of this man, what evils he
has done to thy saints in
14
and how he has authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy
name.
15
But the Lord said to him: Go; for a chosen vessel is this man to me, to bear my
name before Gentiles and kings also, and the sons of
16
for I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name.
17
And Ananias went, and entered into the house, and having laid his hands on him,
said: Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to thee on the way by which
thou earnest, has sent me, that thou mayest receive sight and be filled with
the Holy Spirit.
18
And immediately there fell from his eyes as if scales; and he received sight,
and arose and was baptized;
19
and having taken food, he was strengthened. And he was with the disciples in
20
and immediately in the synagogues he preached Jesus, that this is the Son of
God.
21
But all that heard were astonished, and said: Is not this he that destroyed in
22
But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews that dwelt in
23
But when many days were fulfilled, the Jews counselled together to kill him;
24
but their plot was made known to Saul. And they also watched the gates day and
night, that they might kill him;
25
and his disciples took him. and by night let him down through the wall,
lowering him in a basket.
26
And when he had come to
27
But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and told them how on
the way he had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken to him, and how in
28
And he was with them going in and out in
29
he spoke to, and also disputed with, the Hellenists; but they undertook to kill
him.
30
And the brethren, knowing it, brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth
to
31
Then indeed the church throughout the whole of Judea and Galilee and
32
But it came to pass that Peter, passing through all places, came down also to
the saints that dwell in Lydda.
33
And he found there a man named Aeneas, that had lain on a bed for eight years,
who was a paralytic.
34
And Peter said to him: Aeneas, Jesus Christ restores thee to health: arise, and
make thy bed for thyself. And he immediately arose;
35
and all that dwelt in Lydda and Saron saw him, and they turned to the Lord.
36
And there was in Joppa a female disciple named Tabitha, which, translated, is
called Dorcas; she was full of good works and charities that she did.
37
But it came to pass in those days that, having been taken sick, she died; and
they washed her and laid her in an upper room.
38
And as Lydda was near to Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there,
sent two men to him, beseeching: Delay not to come to us,
39
And Peter arose and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the
upper room; and all the widows stood by him weeping and showing the coats and
garments which Dorcas made while she was with them.
40
But having put them all out, Peter kneeled down and prayed; and turning to the
body, he said: Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes, and, seeing Peter, she
sat up.
41
But giving her a hand, he raised her up; and having called the saints and
widows, he presented her alive.
42
And it became known throughout the whole of Joppa, and many believed on the
Lord.
43
And it came to pass that he remained many days in Joppa with one Simon, a
tanner.
Acts 10
1
But a man in
2
devout and fearing God with all his house who gave many charities to the people
and prayed to God always,
3
saw in a vision, evidently about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of God
coming in to him and saying to him: Cornelius.
4
But looking earnestly on him and becoming afraid, he said: What is it, Lord?
And he said to him: Thy prayers and thy charities have come up for a memorial
before God.
5
And now, send men to Joppa and call for one Simon, who is surnamed Peter:
6
he lodges with one Simon, a tanner, who has a house by the sea.
7
And when the angel that spoke to him had gone away, he called two of the
household servants, and a devout soldier of those that waited on him,
8
and having made known all things to them, he sent them to Joppa.
9
But on the morrow, as they went on their way and drew near to the city. Peter
went up on the housetop to pray, about the sixth hour.
10
And he became very hungry and desired to eat. But while they made ready, he
fell into a trance,
11
and saw heaven opened, and some vessel, like a great sheet, descending, let
down by the four corners upon the earth:
12
in which were all manner of fourfooted beasts, and creeping things of the
earth, and birds of the heaven.
13
And there came a voice to him: Rise, Peter, kill and eat.
14
But Peter said: By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything common and
unclean.
15
And a voice came again a second time to him: The things that God has cleansed
call thou not common.
16
And this was done three times, and immediately the vessel was taken up into
heaven.
17
But while Peter was doubting in himself, what the vision that he had seen might
be, behold, the men that had been sent by Cornelius, having inquired for the
house of Simon, stood at the gate,
18
and, calling, asked if Simon who is surnamed Peter lodged there.
19
But while Peter carefully considered about the vision, the Spirit said to him:
Behold, men seek thee;
20
but arise and go down, and go with them, doubting nothing, for I have sent
them.
21
And Peter went down to the men and said: Behold, I am he whom you seek: what is
the cause for which you are present?
22
And they said: Cornelius, a centurion, a man just and fearing God, well
reported of also by all the nation of the Jews, was warned by a holy angel to
send for thee to his house, and to hear words from thee.
23
Having called them in therefore, he lodged them. But on the morrow he arose and
went forth with them; and some of the brethren that were of Joppa accompanied
him.
24
And on the next day he entered into
25
But as Peter went in, Cornelius met him, fell at his feet and worshipped.
26
But Peter raised him up, saying: Stand up: I myself also am a man.
27
And conversing with him, he went in, and found many that had come together,
28
and said to them: You know that it is not lawful for a man a Jew to join
himself to or go in to one of another race; yet God has showed me that I must
call no man common or unclean:
29
wherefore, having been sent for, I came also without objecting. I ask
therefore, for what purpose have you sent for me?
30
And Cornelius said: Four days ago up to this hour, was I at the ninth praying
in my house; and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,
31
and said: Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thy charities are remembered
before God.
32
Send therefore to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter; he lodges
in the house of Simon a tanner, by the sea.
33
Immediately therefore I sent to thee, and thou hast done well in coming. Now
therefore we all are present before God, to hear all things that have been
commanded thee by the Lord.
34
And Peter opened his mouth and said: In truth, I comprehend that God is not a
respecter of persons,
35
but in every nation he that fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to
him,
36
the word that he sent to the sons of
37
You know the word that was published throughout the whole of Judea, beginning
from
38
JESUS OF NAZARETH, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and power, who
went about doing good and giving health to all that were oppressed by the
devil, for God was with him;
39
and we are witnesses of all things that he did in the country of the Jews and
in
40
This man God raised on the third day and made him manifest,
41
not to all the people, but to witnesses that were before appointed by God, to
us who
34
ate and drank with him after he had risen from the dead;
42
and he charged us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is he that
has been appointed by God as judge of living and dead.
43
To him give all the prophets witness that, through his name, every one that
believes on him shall receive remission of sins.
44
While Peter was yet speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all that
heard the word.
45
And the believers of the circumcision, as many as came with Peter, were
astonished, because on the Gentile; also the gift of the Holy Spirit had been
poured out;
46
for they heard them speaking with tongues and magnifying God. Then Peter
answered:
47
Can any one forbid water, that those should not be baptized who have received
the Holy Spirit even as we?
48
And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they
besought him to remain some days,
Acts 11
but
the apostles and the brethren that were throughout
2
And when Peter went up to
3
saying: Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.
4
And Peter began and laid the matter before them in order, saying:
5
I was in a city, Joppa, praying, and I saw in a trance a vision, some vessel,
like a great sheet, descending, let down from heaven by four corners, and it
came even to me.
6
Into which having looked attentively, I observed and saw fourfooted beasts of
the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and birds of the
heavens.
7
And I heard also a voice saying to me: Rise, Peter, kill and eat.
8
But I said: By no means, Lord, for a common or unclean thing has never entered
my mouth.
9
But a voice answered a second time from heaven: The things that God has
cleansed, call thou not common.
10
And this was done three times, and all were drawn up again into heaven.
11
And behold, immediately three men, sent from
12
And the Spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting. And these six brethren
also went with me, and we entered the man’s house.
13
And he told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying: Send
to Joppa and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter,
14
who shall speak words to thee, by which thou shalt be saved, and all thy house.
15
But when I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them as on us also in the
beginning.
16
And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said: John indeed baptized in
water, but you shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit.
17
If then God gave to them the like gift as to us also, when we believed on the
Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could withstand God?
18
And when they heard these things they were silent, and glorified God, saying:
Then has God given to the Gentiles also repentance to life.
19
They therefore that were scattered abroad because of the affliction that arose
against Stephen, travelled as far as Phenice and
20
But some of them were men of
21
And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great multitude that believed
turned to the Lord.
22
And the report concerning them came to the ears of the church that was in
23
who, having come and seen the grace of God, rejoiced, and exhorted all that
with determination of the heart they should adhere to the Lord;
24
for he was a man good and full of the Holy Spirit and faith. And a great
multitude was added to the Lord.
25
But he went out to
26
And it happened to them that they met together in the church for a whole year
and taught a great multitude; also, that the disciples were called Christians
first in
27
But in those days there came down prophets from
28
and one of them, named Agabus, rose up, and signified through the Spirit that
there was about to be a great famine over the whole habitable land: which came
to pass in the days of Claudius.
29
And as any one of the disciples was prosperous, they determined each one of
them to send to the relief of the brethren that dwelt in
30
which they also did, sending to the elders through the hand of Barnabas and
Saul.
Acts 12
1
But at that time Herod the king laid hands on some of those who were of the
church, to afflict them,
2
And he slew James the brother of John with the sword.
3
And, seeing that it was pleasing to the Jews, he apprehended Peter also (but
these were the days of unleavened bread);
4
whom having seized he put in prison, delivering him to four tetrads of soldiers
to guard him, intending after passover to bring him out to the people.
5
Peter was, indeed, therefore, kept in prison; but earnest prayer was made to
God by the church for him.
6
But when Herod was about to bring him forth, on that night Peter was sleeping
between two soldiers, bound with two chains: guards also before the door
watched the prison.
7
And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by, and light shone in the house; and
striking Peter on the side, he raised him up, saying: Rise up quickly.
And his chains fell off from his hands.
8
The angel also said to him: Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And he did
so. And he said to him: Throw thy mantle about thee and follow me.
9
And going out he followed, and knew not that what had been done by the angel
was true, but thought that he saw a vision.
10
But after passing through the first and second guard, they came to the iron
gate that leads into the city, which opened to them of its own accord; and
having gone out they went along one street; and immediately the angel departed
from him.
11
And Peter, having come to himself, said: Now I know in truth that the Lord has
sent his angel, and delivered me from the hand of Herod and from all the
expectation of the people of the Jews.
12
And being aware of this, he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, who
is surnamed Mark, where many were assembled and praying.
13
But when he knocked at the door of the entrance there came a maidservant named
Rhoda to listen;
14
and recognizing Peter’s voice, she opened not the entrance for joy, but running
in, told that Peter stood before the entrance.
15
But they said to her: Thou art mad. She however, strongly affirmed that it was
so. But they said: It is his angel.
16
Peter, however, continued knocking; and, having opened, they saw him and were
astonished.
17
But beckoning to them with his hand that they should be silent, he told how the
Lord had brought hin out of the prison: he said also: Tell these things to
James and the brethren. And he went out and departed to another place.
18
But when it was day there was no little consternation among the soldiers, what
had become of Peter.
19
But Herod, having sought for him, and not finding him, examined the guards and
commanded them to be put to death; and having gone down from Judea to Caesarea,
he continued there.
20
And he was of hostile mind toward the Tyrians and Sidonians; but they came to
him with one consent, and having gained the good will of Blastus, who had
charge of the king’s bedchamber, they sought for peace, because their country
was sustained by that of the king.
21
And on an appointed day, Herod, having clothed himself in royal apparel, seated
himself on the tribunal and made an oration to them.
22
And the people shouted: The voice of God, and not of a man,
23
But an angel of the Lord immediately smote him, because he gave not the glory
to God; and, having been eaten by worms, he expired.
24
And the word of God increased and multiplied.
25
And Barnabas and Saul returned from
Acts 13
1
And there were in the church that was in
2
And as they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said: Set
apart to me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.
3
Then, having fasted and prayed and laid hands on them, they sent them away.
4
They therefore having been sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to
5
and being in
6
But having passed through the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a man,
a magician, a Jewish false prophet, whose name was BarJesus,
7
who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man called
for Barnabas and Saul, and requested to hear the word of God.
8
But Elymas the magician, for so is his name translated, withstood them, seeking
to turn away the proconsul from the faith.
9
But Saul, who is also Paul, being filled with the Holy Spirit, looked earnestly
upon him
10
and said: O full of all deceit and all mischief, son of the devil, enemy of all
righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the straight ways of the Lord?
11
And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind,
not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell upon him a mist and
darkness, and going about, he sought persons to lead him by the hand.
12
Then the proconsul, seeing what had been done, believed, being astonished at
the teaching of the Lord.
13
And Paul and his companions, having loosed from Paphos, came to Perga of
Pamphylia; but John departing from them, returned to
14
But they continued their journey from Perga and came to Antioch of Pisidia; and
having entered the synagogue on the sabbath day, they sat down.
15
And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue
sent to them saying: Men, brethren, if there is in you any word of exhortation
for the people, speak.
16
And Paul arose, and, beckoning with Ills hand, said: Men of Israel and you that
fear God, hear.
17
The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and the people he exalted
during the sojourn in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm brought he
them out of it;
18
and for a time of about forty years he nourished them in the wilderness;
19
and after he had destroyed seven nations in the
20
for about four hundred and fifty years. And after this he gave judges till
Samuel the prophet,
21
And after that they asked for a king; and God gave them Saul the son of
22
and he removed him and raised up for them David as a king; to whom he also gave
testimony: I have found David the son of Jesse, a man according to my heart,
who shall do all my will.
23
From this man’s posterity, God, according to promise, has brought to
24
John having preached, before his entrance, the baptism of repentance to all the
people of
25
But as John was fulfilling his course, he said: Who do you suppose that I am? I
am not he: but behold, there comes after me one, the sandal of whose feet I am
not worthy to loose.
26
Men, brethren, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you that fear God,
to us is the word of this salvation sent.
27
For they that dwell in
28
and though they found no cause of death, they asked of Pilate that he might be
put to death.
29
And when they had fulfilled all things that are written concerning him, they
took him down from the tree and laid him in a sepulcher.
30
But God raised him from the dead;
31
and he appeared for many days to those that went up with him from Galilee to
32
And we announce to you glad tidings of the promise made to the fathers, that
God has fulfilled this to our children by raising up Jesus,
33
as it is also written in the second Psalm: Thou art my Son, this day have I
begotten thee.
34
But that he raised him from the dead no more to return to corruption, he has
thus spoken: I will give you the faithful, holy things of David.
35
Wherefore he says also in another Psalm: Thou wilt not suffer thy Holy One to
see corruption.
36
For David indeed, having served his own generation by the counsel of God, fell
asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption;
37
but he whom God raised up saw no corruption.
38
Be it known to you, therefore, men, brethren, that through this man is preached
to you remission of sins:
39
in this one, every one that believes is justified from all things, from which
you could not be justified in the law of Moses.
40
Take heed, therefore, lest there come upon you that which is said in the
prophets:
41
Behold, you despisers, and wonder, and perish, for I work a work in your days,
a work which you would not believe, though any one plainly declare it to you.
42
But when they had gone out they besought that these words might be spoken to
them on the next sabbath.
43
And when the synagogue was dismissed, many of the Jews and devout proselytes
followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue
in the grace of God.
44
And on the next sabbath almost all the city came together to hear the word of
the Lord.
45
But the Jews. seeing the multitudes, were filled with envy, and spoke against
the things spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
46
And Paul and Barnabas, speaking boldly, said: To you was it needful that the
word of God should first be spoken; but since you thrust it from you and judge
yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
47
For so has the Lord commanded us: I have set thee as a light for the Gentiles,
that thou shouldst be for salvation to the end of the earth.
48
And hearing it, the Gentiles rejoiced, and glorified the word of the Lord, and
as many as had been ordered for eternal life believed;
49
and the word of the Lord was carried throughout the whole country.
50
But the Jews excited the devout women that were honorable, and the chief men of
the city, and raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them
out from their borders.
51
But having shaken off the dust from their feet against them, they came to
Iconium;
52
and the disciples were filled with joy and the Holy Spirit.
Acts 14
1
And it came to pass in Iconium that they went together into the synagogue of
the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude of Jews and also of Greeks
believed.
2
But the Jews that believed not excited and imbittered the souls of the Gentiles
against the brethren.
3
A long time therefore spent they speaking, boldly in the Lord, who gave
testimony to the word of his grace by giving signs and wonders to be done
through their hands.
4
But the multitude of the city was divided, and some were with the Jews and some
with the apostles.
5
But when there was a violent intent of the Gentiles and also of the Jews with
their rulers, to outrage and to stone them,
6
being aware of it, they fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and
the neighboring regions;
7
and there they preached the gospel.
8
And a man in Lystra, without strength in his feet, sat, lame from his mother’s
womb: who had never walked.
9
This man heard Paul speak, who, looking earnestly on him, and seeing that he
had faith to be saved,
10
said with a loud voice: Stand erect on thy feet. And he leaped up and walked.
11
And the multitudes, seeing what Paul had done, lifted up their voice, saying in
the Lycaonian language: The gods in the likeness of men have come down to us;
12
and they called Barnabas, Zeus; and Paul, Hermes; because he was the chief
speaker.
13
And the priest of Zeus, who was before the city, having brought bulls and
garlands to the gates, intended to offer sacrifice with the multitudes.
14
But the apostles Barnabas and Paul, hearing of it, rent their garments and ran
forth among the multitude, crying out
15
and saying: Men, why do these things? We also of like passions with yourselves
are men, preaching the gospel that you turn from these vanities to the living
God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things that are in
them;
16
who, in the past generations, permitted all the nations to walk in their own
ways:
17
though, indeed, he left himself not without testimony in doing good, giving you
rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and
gladness.
18
And saying these things, they scarcely restrained the multitudes from offering
sacrifice to them.
19
But there came thither from
20
However, as the disciples stood about him, he rose up and came into the city.
And on the next day he went forth with Barnabas to Derbe.
21
Having preached the gospel to that city also, and having made many disciples,
they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to
22
strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to abide in the faith,
and saying that through many afflictions we must enter into the
23
But having ordained elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting
they commended them to the Lord on whom they had believed.
24
And after passing through Pisidia they came to Pamphylia;
25
and having spoken the word in Perga, they came down to Attalia;
26
and thence sailed to
27
But after they had arrived and brought the church together, they related what
things God had done with them, and that he had opened to the Gentiles the door
of faith.
28
And they spent not a little time with the disciples.
Acts 15
1
And some went down from
2
But after Paul and Barnabas had had no little dissension and discussion with
them, they arranged that Paul and Barnabas and some others of them should go up
to the apostles and elders at
3
They therefore, having been conducted on their journey by the church, passed
through Phenice and
4
But when they had arrived at
5
And there arose some of the sect of the Pharisees, who had believed, saying
that it was necessary to circumcise them: also, to command that they keep the
law;
6
And the apostles and elders came together to consider this matter.
7
But after there had been much discussion, Peter arose and said to them: Men,
brethren, you know that at the first days God made choice among you, that by my
mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.
8
And God, who knows the heart, bore them testimony by giving them the Holy
Spirit even as to us,
9
and made no distinction between us and them, having purified their hearts by
faith.
10
Now, therefore, why tempt God by putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples
which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
11
But, through the grace of the Lord Jesus, we believe that we shall be saved in
the same manner as they.
12
And the whole multitude kept silence and heard Barnabas and Paul relate what
signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them.
13
But after they were silent, James answered, saying: Men, brethren, hear
me.
14
Simeon has related how God at the first looked down to take from the Gentiles a
people for his name.
15
And with this agree the words of the prophets, as it is written:
16
After this I will return and build again the tabernacle of David, which has
fallen down, and its ruins I will build again, and I will set it up,
17
that the men that are left over may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles on whom
my name has been called,
18
says the Lord who does these things known from eternity.
19
Wherefore I judge that we trouble not them that from among the Gentiles are
turning to God,
20
but that we write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from
lewdness, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
21
For Moses has, from ancient generations, in every city, them that preach him,
being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
22
Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders with the whole church, to
choose men from among themselves and send them to Antioch, with Paul and
Barnabas; Judas who is called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the
brethren,
23
having written by their hand: The apostles and the elder brethren, to the
brethren who are of the Gentiles in
24
Since we have heard that some have gone out from among ns and troubled you with
words, subverting your souls, to whom we gave no commandment;
25
it seemed good to us, having been of one mind, to choose men and send them to
you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul;
26
who are men that have delivered up their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ.
27
We have sent, therefore, Judas and Silas, who will tell the same things by
word.
28
For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and us, to lay on you no greater burden
than these necessary things,
29
that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and blood, and things
strangled, and lewdness; from which if you keep yourselves you will do well.
Farewell.
30
They therefore having been dismissed came to
31
And having read it, the; rejoiced at the consolation.
32
Judas also and Silas, who were prophets themselves, with much discourse
exhorted the brethren, and strengthened them;
33
but having remained for a time, they were dismissed with peace from the
brethren to those that had sent them.
34
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35
But Paul and Barnabas continued in
36
And after some days Paul said to Barnabas: Let us return now and look after the
brethren in every city in which we preached the word of the Lord how they do.
37
And Barnabas wished to take with them John who is called Mark;
38
but Paul thought it right not to take with them this one, who had turned away
from them from Pamphylia, and had not gone with them to the work.
39
And there arose a sharp contention, so that they separated one from the other;
and Barnabas took with him Mark and sailed to
40
But Paul chose Silas and went forth, after having been delivered to the grace
of God by the brethren;
41
and he passed through
Acts 16
1
And he came down to Derbe and Lystra. And behold, a disciple was there named
Timothy, son of a believing Jewess, but of a Grecian father:
2
who was well reported of by the brethren in Lystra and Iconium.
3
Paul desired that this man should go forth with him; and he took him and
circumcised him, on account of the Jews that were in those places; for all knew
his father that he was a Greek.
4
And as they journeyed through the cities they delivered to them, for their
observance, the decrees that had been made by the apostles and elders that were
in
5
The churches therefore were strengthened in faith and increased in number
daily.
6
But they passed through Phrygia and the region of
7
but having come towards Mysia, they attempted to go into
8
and having passed by Mysia they came down to
9
And a vision appeared to Paul by night; a man of
10
And when he had seen the vision we immediately sought to go forth into
11
But sailing from Troas, we came by a straight course to
12
and thence to Philippi, which is the first city of the region of
13
And on the sabbath day we went forth out of the gate by the river, where we
supposed there was a house of prayer; and sitting down, we spoke to the women
that had come together.
14
And a woman named
15
But when she was baptized, and her house, she besought, saying: If you have
judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and abide; and she
constrained us.
16
But it came to pass as we went to the house of prayer that a maidservant,
possessed of a soothsaying spirit, met us: who brought her owners much gain by
soothsaying.
17
She, following Paul and us, cried out, saying: These men are servants of God
Most High, who announce to us the way of salvation.
18
And this she did for many days. But Paul was grieved, and, turning, said to the
spirit: I charge thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her; and it
came out the same hour.
19
But her owners, seeing that the hope of their gain had gone, seized Paul and
Silas and dragged them into the market before the rulers;
20
and bringing; them to the commanders, said: These men do greatly disturb our
city, being Jews,
21
and announce customs which it is not allowed us to receive nor do, being
Romans.
22
And the multitude rose up together against them; and the commanders, having
torn off their garments, gave orders to beat them with rods;
23
and having laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging
the keeper of the prison to guard them securely:
24
who, as he had received such charge, cast them into the inner prison, and made
their feet fast in the stocks.
25
But about midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sung a hymn to God; and the
prisoners listened to them.
26
And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the
prison were shaken: immediately, also, were all the doors opened, and the bonds
of all were loosed.
27
But the keeper of the prison, having been roused from sleep, and seeing the
doors of the prison open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself,
supposing that the prisoners had fled.
28
But Paul called with a loud voice, saying: Do thyself no harm; for we are all
here.
29
And having called for a light, he sprang in, and trembling, fell before Paul
and Silas.
30
and, bringing them out, said: Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
31
And they said: Believe on the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved and thy
house.
32
And they spoke to him the word of the Lord, with all that were in his house.
33
And he took them at that hour of the night and washed the blood from their
stripes, and was baptized, himself and all his, straightway:
34
and having brought them into the house, he set a table before them, and
rejoiced with all his house in having believed in God.
35
But when it was day, the commanders sent the lectors*, saying: Release those
men.
* lictors or rod-bearers
36
And the keeper of the prison told these words to Paul: The commanders have sent
that you shall be released: now, therefore, come out and go in peace.
37
But Paul said to them: Having beaten us publicly, uncondemned, men that are
Romans, they cast us into prison; and now do they put us out secretly? Not so:
but let them come and bring us out themselves.
38
And the lictors told these words to the commanders; and they were afraid when
they heard that they were Romans;
39
and they came and entreated them, and leading them out, asked them to depart
from the city.
40
But after going out from the prison they went to
Acts 17
1
But having passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica,
where was a synagogue of the Jews.
2
And, according to his custom, Paul went in to them, and for three sabbath days
he discoursed to them from the Scriptures;
3
opening and laying before them that the Christ must needs have suffered, and
risen from the dead; and that this is Christ Jesus whom I preach to you.
4
And some of them were convinced and were allotted to Paul and Silas, of the
devout Greeks also a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.
5
But the Jews, filled with envy, and taking with them some evil men that were
about the markets, and collecting a mob, excited a tumult in the city, and
coming upon the house of Jason, sought to bring them before the people;
6
but not finding them, they dragged Jason and some brethren before the rulers of
the city, crying out: These that have thrown the world into confusion have come
hither also;
7
whom Jason has received; and these all act in opposition to the decrees of
Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.
8
And they disquieted the multitude and the rulers of the city when they heard
these things;
9
and having taken security of Jason and the rest, they dismissed them.
10
But the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night to Beroea: who,
on coming thither, went into the synagogue of the Jews.
11
These were more nobleminded than those in Thessalonica; and they received the
word with all readiness, searching the Scriptures day by day, whether these
things were so.
12
Many of them therefore believed, also of honorable Grecian women, and of men
not a few.
13
But when the Jews of Thessalonica knew that the word of God was preached by
Paul in Beroea, they came thither, exciting and disturbing the multitudes.
14
But immediately then the brethren sent away Paul to go as far as to the sea;
and Silas and Timothy remained there.
15
But they that conducted Paul brought him as far as
16
But while Paul waited for them in
17
He therefore reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews, and the devout persons,
and in the market every day with those that happened to meet him.
18
But some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers disputed with him, and some
said: What can this babbler wish to say? Others said: He seems to be a
proclaimer of strange demons; because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
19
And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying: Can we know what
new teaching this is that is spoken by thee?
20
for thou bringest some strange things to our ears: we desire, therefore, to
know what these things may be.
21
Now, all the Athenians and resident strangers have leisure for nothing else
than to tell or hear something new.
22
But Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: Men of Athens, I look
upon you as, in all respects, more religious than others.
23
For in passing through, and observing the objects of your worship. I found also
an altar on which had been inscribed: To AN UNKNOWN GOD. What, therefore, you
ignorantly worship, this I announce to you.
24
God, who made the world and all things that are in it, he being Lord of heaven
and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands,
25
nor is he served by human hands as if he needed anything, since he gives to all
life and breath and all things;
26
he also made of one every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth,
having fixed the times before appointed, and the limits of their habitations,
27
to seek God, if perhaps they would feel and find him not far from each one of
us.
28
For in him we live and move and are, as also some of your own poets have said:
For we also his offspring are.
29
Therefore, being the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the godhood
is like gold, or silver, or stone, the sculptured work of art and of a man’s
device.
30
The times, therefore, of ignorance God having overlooked, now announces to all
men everywhere that they repent,
31
inasmuch as he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in
righteousness in a man whom he has ordained, giving faith to all by having
raised him from the dead.
32
But hearing of a resurrection of the dead, some mocked; others said: We will
hear thee even again concerning this matter.
33
Thus Paul went out from the midst of them:
34
some men, however, having attached themselves to him, believed: among whom was
Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
Acts 18
1
After this he departed from
2
And finding a Jew named Aquilla, born in Pontus, having lately come from Italy,
and Priscilla his wife, because Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from
Rome, he went to them;
3
and because he was of the same trade he abode with them, and worked; for by
trade they were tentmakers.
4
But he discoursed in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded Jews and
Greeks.
5
But when Silas and Timothy had come from
6
But as they set themselves in opposition and blasphemed, he shook his clothing
and said to them: Your blood be upon your head: clean I will henceforth go to
the Gentiles.
7
And departing thence, he came into the house of one named Titus Justus, who
worshipped God, whose house joined the synagogue.
8
But Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his
house; and many of the Corinthians, hearing, believed and were baptized.
9
But the Lord spoke through a vision in the night to Paul: Fear not, but speak
and be not silent,
10
because I am with thee, and , no one shall make an assault upon thee to
maltreat thee, for I have much people in this city.
11
And he continued a year and six months, teaching among them the word of God.
12
But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews, with one consent, rose up
against Paul, and brought him to the tribunal,
13
saying: This person induces men to worship God contrary to the law.
14
But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews: If, indeed,
there were any wrong or wicked mischief, O Jews, I would with reason bear with
you;
15
but if there are questions about a word, and names, and your law, see to it
yourselves: I will not be a judge of these things.
16
And he drove them from the tribunal.
17
But all took Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the
tribunal; and none of these things were a care to Gallio.
18
But Paul, after remaining yet many days, took leave of the brethren and sailed
to
19
And they arrived at
20
And though they requested him to remain a longer time, he did not consent;
21
but taking leave and saying: I will return to you again, if God will, he sailed
from
22
and arriving at Caesarea, he went up and saluted the church, and went down to
23
and having spent some time he went forth, passing in order through the country
of
24
But a Jew named Apollos, born in
25
He was instructed in the way of the Lord, and, being fervent in spirit, he
spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, knowing only the
baptism of John:
26
he also began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But after hearing him,
Priscilla and
27
And as he wished to go over to Achaia, the brethren encouraged him, and wrote
to the disciples to receive him cordially. Who, on coming, gave much
strength to the believers through his grace;
28
for he with power utterly confuted the Jews publicly, showing through the
Scriptures that the Christ is Jesus.
Acts 19
1
But it came to pass while Apollos was in
2
he also said to them: Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed? And
they said to him: No: but we did not even hear whether there is a Holy Spirit.
3
And he said: Into what, then, were you baptized? And they replied: Into John’s
baptism.
4
And Paul said: John baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the
people that they should believe on Him that was coming after him, that is, on
Jesus.
5
And when they had heard, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus;
6
and when Paul had laid hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they
spoke with tongues and prophesied.
7
And all the men were about twelve.
8
But he entered the synagogue and spoke boldly for three months, discoursing,
and persuading the things concerning the
9
But when some were hardened and believed not, and spoke evil of the way before
the multitude, he withdrew from them and separated the disciples, discoursing
daily in the
10
And this continued for two years, so that all that dwelt in
11
Mighty deeds, also, that were unusual did God through the hands of Paul;
12
so that even to the sick there were carried from his body handkerchiefs or
aprons, and diseases departed from them: the evil spirits also went out.
13
But some also of the wandering Jewish exorcists undertook to name over those
that had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying: I adjure you by the
Jesus whom Paul preaches.
14
And there were some, seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this.
15
But the evil spirit, answering, said to them: Jesus I acknowledge and Paul I
know; but who are you?
16
And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped upon them, gained the mastery
over them both, and prevailed against them, so that they fled from that house
naked and wounded.
17
And this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, that dwelt in
18
many also of those that had believed came confessing and declaring their deeds.
19
And many of them that practiced magic arts brought their books together and
burned them in the presence of all; and they computed the value of them, and
found it fifty thousands of silver.
20
So mightily the word of the Lord grew and prevailed.
21
But when these things had been accomplished. Paul purposed in spirit, after
having passed through
22
And having sent into
23
But there arose at that time no small commotion about the way.
24
For one, Demetrius by name, a silversmith, by making silver shrines of Diana,
brought no little gain to the artists:
25
whom he called together with those that worked in such things, and said: Men,
you know that from this trade arises our wealth;
26
and you see and hear that not only at
27
And not only is this trade of ours in danger of coming into disrepute, but also
the temple of the great goddess Diana will be counted as nothing; and she also,
whom all
28
But having heard and having become filled with wrath, they cried out, saying:
Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
29
And the city was filled with confusion; and they rushed with one accord into
the theater, after seizing Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, Paul’s
fellow-travellers.
30
But when Paul wished to go in to the people, the disciples did not permit him;
31
and some of the rulers of
32
Some therefore cried out one thing and some another; for the assembly was
confused, and the greater part knew not for what cause they had come together.
33
But out of the crowd they brought forward Alexander, the Jews putting him
forward; and Alexander, waving his hand, intended to make a defense to the
people.
34
But, perceiving that he was a Jew, all with one voice cried out for about two
hours: Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
35
But the town-clerk, having quieted the multitude, said: Men of Ephesus, what
man is there, then, that does not know that the city of the Ephesians is the
templekeeper of the great Diana, and of the image that fell down
from Jupiter?
36
Therefore, as these things cannot be contradicted, you ought to be quiet and do
nothing rashly.
37
For you have brought these men who are neither robbers of temples nor
blasphemers of your goddess.
38
If, then, Demetrius and the artists with him have a matter against any one,
court-days are kept, and there are proconsuls; let them bring charges one
against the other.
39
But if you seek for anything further, it shall be determined in a lawful
assembly.
40
For we are in danger of having charges laid against us concerning this day’s
tumult, there being no cause in relation to which we shall be able to give an
account of this concourse.
41
And when he had said this, he dismissed the assembly.
Acts 20
1
But after the tumult had ceased, Paul having sent for the disciples and
exhorted them, took leave, and departed to go into
2
And having passed through those regions and exhorted them with much speech, he
came into
3
and after remaining three months, a plot having been laid for him by the Jews
as he was about to sail to Syria, he resolved to return through Macedonia.
4
But there followed him, Sopater the son of Pyrrhus, a Beroean; and of the
Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and
of the Asiatics, Tychicus and Trophimus: and
5
these went before and waited for us in
6
but we sailed after the days of unleavened bread from Philippi, and came to
them at
7
But on the first of the week, when we came together to break bread, Paul
discoursed to them, about to depart on the morrow, and continued his speech
till midnight.
8
And there were many lamps in the upper room where we had come together.
9
And a young man, named Eutychus, who sat in the window, being oppressed with
deep sleep, as Paul discoursed for a longer time, was borne down by sleep, and
fell down from the third story, and was taken up dead.
10
But Paul went down and fell upon him and embracing him said: Be not troubled;
for his life is in him.
11
And he went up and broke bread and ate; and having talked a long time till
break of day, he thus departed.
12
And they brought the young man alive, and were comforted not a little.
13
But we went in advance to the ship, and sailed to Assos, thence intending to
take Paul in; for so had he arranged, intending himself to go on foot.
14
But when he met us at Assos, we took him in and came to Mitylene;
15
and sailing thence, on the following day we came opposite Chios; and on the
next day we arrived at Samos; and we came on the following day to
16
For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not spend time in
Asia; for he hastened, if it was possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the
day of Pentecost.
17
But from
18
And when they had come to him, he said to them: You know, from the first day on
which I came into
19
serving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, and with tears, and trials
that befell me by the plots of the Jews:
20
how I shunned to declare to you nothing that is profitable, and taught you
publicly and from house to house,
21
testifying to Jews and also to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith that is
toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
22
And now behold, bound in spirit I am going to
23
except that the Holy Spirit in every city testifies to me, saying that bonds
and afflictions await me.
24
But I esteem of no value the life dear to myself, so that I finish my course
and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, fully to testify the
gospel of the grace of God.
25
And now behold, I know that you all, among whom I have gone preaching the
kingdom, will see my face no more.
26
Wherefore I solemnly affirm to you this day that I am clean from the blood of
all;
27
for I shunned not to declare to you all the counsel of God.
28
Take heed therefore to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy
Spirit made you overseers, that you act as shepherds to the church of the Lord,
which he purchased with his own blood.
29
For I know that there shall come in among you, after my departure, grievous
wolves, not sparing the flock;
30
and from among yourselves there shall arise men speaking perverse things to
draw off the disciples after them.
31
Therefore, watch, remembering that night and day for three years I ceased not
with tears to warn each one.
32
And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, who is able to build
you up and give you an inheritance among all the sanctified.
33
I coveted no man’s silver or gold or raiment:
34
yourselves know that to my own wants, and to those that were with me, these
hands did minister.
35
In all things I showed you, that thus laboring you ought to sustain the weak,
and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, for he said: It is more blessed to
give than to receive
36
And having said these things he kneeled down and prayed with them all.
37
And all wept much; and falling on Paul’s neck they kissed him,
38
sorrowing most of all for the word that he had spoken that they should see his
face no more. And they conducted him to the ship.
Acts 21
1
But when it came to a pass that we had set sail after having departed from
them, running by a straight course we came to Cos, and on the next day to
2
And finding a ship that was passing over to
3
but having come in view of
4
But finding the disciples, we remained there seven days; and these said to Paul
through the Spirit that he should not go to
5
But when it came to pass that we had completed the days, we went out and departed,
all conducting us with wives and children, till we were out of the city; and
having knelt on the shore and prayed,
6
we finished taking leave one of the other, and went on board the ship, but they
returned home.
7
But we, having finished the voyage from
8
But on the morrow we departed and came to
9
This man had four virgin daughters that prophesied.
10
But as we remained more days, there came down from
11
And coming to us, and taking Paul’s girdle, he bound his own feet and hands,
and said: These things says the Holy Spirit: The man to whom this girdle
belongs shall the Jews in
12
But when we heard these things, both we and they of that place besought him not
to go up to
13
And Paul answered and said: What do you effect by weeping and breaking my
heart? for I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in
14
And as he was not persuaded, we were silent, saying: The will of the Lord be
done.
15
But after these days we prepared for the journey, and went up to
16
and some of the disciples from
17
And when we came to
18
But on the following day Paul went in with us to James; and all the elders were
present.
19
And having saluted them, he related one by one each of the things that God had
done among the Gentiles through his ministry.
20
And when they had heard, they glorified God, and said to him: Thou seest,
brother, how many myriads of believers there are; and all are zealots for the
law;
21
and they have learned concerning thee that thou teachest apostasy from Moses to
all the Jews that are among the Gentiles, telling them not to circumcise their
children, nor to walk according to the customs.
22
What is it then? a multitude must by all means come together; for they will
hear that thou hast come.
23
Do thou this that we tell thee: We have four men who have a vow upon them;
24
take them with thee and purify thyself with them, and pay expenses for them
that they may shave their heads; and all will know that there is nothing of the
things that they have learned concerning thee; but that thou thyself also
walkest, keeping the law.
25
But with regard to the Gentiles that have believed, we have written, after
deciding that they keep themselves from what is sacrificed to idols, and from
blood, and what is strangled, and from lewdness.
26
Then Paul, taking the men, on the following day purified himself with them, and
entered into the temple, announcing that he would keep the full number of the
days of purification, till an offering should be made for each one of them.
27
But when the seven days were about to be completed, the Jews from
28
crying out: Men of
29
For they had previously seen in the city with him Trophimus the Ephesian, whom
they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.
30
And the whole city was moved, and there was a concourse of the people; and
seizing Paul, they dragged him out of the temple, and immediately the doors
were closed.
31
And while they were seeking to kill him, report was brought to the officer of
the band that the whole of
32
and he immediately took with him soldiers and centurions and ran down to them;
but when they saw the officer and the soldiers, they ceased to beat Paul.
33
Then the officer came near and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two
chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done.
34
But some cried one thing and some another in the multitude; and as he was not
able to ascertain the certainty on account of the tumult, he commanded him to
be brought into the fortress.
35
But when he was on the steps, it happened that he was borne by the soldiers on
account of the violence of the multitude;
36
for the multitude of the people followed, crying out: Away with him.
37
And as he was about to be brought into the fortress. Paul said to the officer:
May I speak to thee? He replied: Hast thou a knowledge of Greek?
38
Art thou then not the Egyptian, that before these days made insurrection and
led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the assassins?
39
But Paul said: I am indeed a Jewish man, a Tarsean, a citizen of no unknown
city of
40
And when he had given permission, Paul, standing upon the steps, waved his hand
to the people; and as there was much silence, he addressed them in the Hebrew
tongue, saying:
Acts 22
1
Men, brethren and fathers, hear my present defense to you.
2
And when they heard that he addressed them in the Hebrew tongue, they the more
kept silence. And he said:
3
I am a Jewish man, having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in
this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel, according to the exactness of the
paternal law; being a zealot for God, as all of you are this day,
4
I persecuted this way even to death, binding and delivering into prisons both
men and women.
5
as the chief priest, also, will testify for me, and all the presbytery; from
whom also having received letters to the brethren. I was journeying to
6
But it came to pass as I was journeying and drawing near to
7
and I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me: Saul, Saul, why
persecutest thou me?
8
But I answered: Who art thou, Lord? And he said to me: I am Jesus the Nazarene,
whom thou persecutest.
9
And those that were with me saw indeed the light, but understood not the voice
of him that spoke to me.
10
But I said: What shall I do. Lord? And the Lord said to me; Arise, and go into
11
But when I did not see on account of the glory of that light, being led by the
hand by those that were with me, I came into
12
And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well reported of by all the
Jews that dwelt there,
13
came to me and stood, by and said to me: Brother Saul, receive sight. And in
the same hour I looked upon him.
14
And he said: The God of our fathers has chosen thee to know his will and to see
the Just One, and to hear a voice from his mouth,
15
because thou shalt be for him a witness to all men of what thou hast seen and
heard.
16
And now why delayest thou? Arise and be baptized and wash away thy sins,
calling on his name.
17
But it came to pass after I had returned to
18
and saw him saying to me: Hasten and go quickly out of
19
And I said: Lord, they know that I imprisoned and scourged throughout the
synagogues those that believed on thee;
20
and when the blood of Stephen thy witness was shed, I also stood by and
approved, and kept the garments of those that killed him.
21
And he said to me: Go, for I will send thee far off to the Gentiles.
22
And they heard him to this word, and lifted up their voice, saying: Away with
such a man from the earth; for it is not fit that he should live.
23
And as they were crying out, and throwing off their garments, and casting dust
into the air,
24
the officer commanded him to be led into the fortress, giving orders that he
should be examined with scourging, that he might know for what cause they cried
so against him.
25
But as they stretched him forward for the scourge, Paul said to the centurion
that stood by: Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and
uncondemned?
26
And the centurion, hearing it, came and reported to the officer, saying: What
art thou about to do? for this man is a Roman.
27
But the officer came and said to him: Tell me, art thou a Roman? And he said:
Yes.
28
The officer answered: I purchased this citizenship at a great price. But Paul
said: I, however, was born so.
29
Therefore they that were about to examine him immediately departed from him;
and the officer also was afraid, having learned that he was a Roman, and
because he had bound him.
30
But on the morrow, wishing to know the certainty of that of which he was
accused by the Jews, he loosed him and commanded the chief priests and all the
Sanhedrim to assemble, and brought Paul down and placed him among them.
Acts 23
1
But Paul, looking earnestly on the Sanhedrim, said: Men, brethren, with all
good conscience have I lived to God till this day.
2
And the chief priest Ananias commanded those that stood by him to smite him or
the mouth.
3
Then Paul said to him: God will smite thee, whited wall; and sittest thou to
judge me: according to the law, and in violation of law commandest thou me; to
be smitten?
4
But those that stood by said: Revilest thou God’s chief priest?
5
And Paul replied: I knew not, brethren, that he was chief priest; for it is
written: Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.
6
But Paul, knowing that the one part belonged to the Sadducees and the other to
the Pharisees, cried out in the Sanhedrim: Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee, a
son of Pharisees: concerning the hope and the resurrection of the dead am I
judged.
7
And when he had said this, there arose a dissension of the Pharisees and the
Sadducees, and the multitude was divided.
8
For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel nor spirit;
but the Pharisees confess both.
9
And there arose a great cry; and some of the scribes of the part of the
Pharisees arose and contended, saying: We find no fault in this man; but what
if a spirit has spoken to him, or an angel?
10
But as there arose much dissension, the officer, fearing lest Paul might be
torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force
from the midst of them and lead him into the fortress
11
But on the following night the Lord stood by him and said: Take courage: for as
thou hast testified concerning me in
12
But when it was day, the Jews collected together and bound themselves by a
curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul,
13
And there were more than forty that made this conspiracy;
14
these came to the chief priests and the elders and said: We have bound
ourselves by a great curse that we will taste nothing till we have killed Paul.
15
Now therefore do you with the Sanhedrim make known to the officer that he may
bring him down to you, as if you would inquire more particularly into his case;
but we are ready to kill him before he shall have come near.
16
But the son of Paul’s sister, having heard of the plot, came and entered the
fortress and told Paul.
17
And Paul called to him one of the centurions and said: Conduct this young man
to the officer, for he has something to tell him.
18
He then took him and brought him to the officer and said: The prisoner Paul
called me to him and requested me to conduct this young man to thee, as he has
something to tell thee.
19
And the officer took him by the hand and withdrew to a private place, and
inquired: What is it that thou hast to tell me?
20
And he said: The Jews have agreed to request thee that thou wouldst, on the
morrow, bring Paul down into the Sanhedrim, as if thou wouldst inquire somewhat
more particularly concerning him.
21
Thou therefore be not persuaded by them; for there lie in wait for him more
than forty men of them, who have bound themselves by a curse neither to eat nor
to drink till they shall have killed him; and now they are ready, awaiting the
promise from thee.
22
Then the officer dismissed the young man, saying: I charge thee to tell no one
that thou hast made these, things known to me,
23
And calling some two of the centurions to him, he said: Make ready two hundred
soldiers that they may go to
24
also, that they should provide beasts, that they might set Paul on them and
carry him in safety to Felix the governor;
25
And he wrote a letter containing this form:
26
Claudius Lysias to the most noble Felix wishes health.
27
This man, taken by the Jews and about to be killed by them, I came with
soldiers and rescued, having learned that he was a Roman;
28
wishing also to know the cause on account of which they accused him, I brought
him down into their Sanhedrim:
29
I found him accused concerning questions of their law, but having nothing
charged against him worthy of death or of bonds.
30
But as I was informed that a plot was about to be laid by them for the man, I
sent him to thee, charging his accusers also to lay their charges before thee.
31
The soldiers therefore, as it had been appointed them, took Paul and brought
him during the night to Antipatris;
32
but on the morrow, leaving the horsemen to go with him, they returned to the
fortress.
33
These, after entering
34
But having read it, and inquired of what province he was, and having learned
that he was from
Acts 24
1
But after five days, the chief priest Ananias came down with some elders and an
orator, Tertullus; and these informed the governor against Paul.
2
And when he had been called Tertullus began to accuse him saying:
3
Since through thee we enjoy much peace, and worthy deeds have been done for this
nation by thy foresight, we accept it always and everywhere, most noble Felix,
with all thankfulness
4
But that I may not detain thee longer, I beseech thee to hear us in thy
clemency for a short time.
5
For we have found this man a pest and a mover of sedition among all the Jews
that are throughout the world, a ringleader also of the sect of the Nazarenes;
6
who also at tempted to defile the temple: him we also seized,
7
[no verse]
8
from whom thou thyself canst by examination learn concerning all things of
which we accuse him.
9
And the Jews also joined in, saying that these things were so.
10
And Paul answered, after the governor had nodded to him to speak: Knowing that
thou hast for many years been a judge over this nation, I do readily make a defense
for myself.
11
as thou canst know that there are not more than twelve days since I went up to
12
And neither in the temple did they find me disputing with any one, or making a
tumult of the people, nor in the synagogues nor through the city:
13
nor are they able to prove the things of which they now accuse me.
14
But I confess this to thee that, according to the way which they call sect, so
worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things that are written
throughout the law, and those in the prophets,
15
having hope toward God, which they also accept, that there shall be a
resurrection of both just and unjust.
16
And on this account do I exercise myself to have always a conscience void of
offense toward God and man.
17
But after many years I had come to bring charities to my nation, and offerings;
18
while engaged in these things they found me purified in the temple, not with
multitude, neither with tumult; but there are some Jews from
19
who ought to be present before thee, and bring accusation, if they have
anything against me.
20
Or let these very men say what they found as wrong, while I stood before the
Sanhedrim,
21
except in this one word that I uttered while standing among them: Concerning
the resurrection of the dead am I judged by you this day.
22
But Felix, as he had a more accurate knowledge concerning the way, put them
off, saying: When Lysias the officer has come, I will thoroughly know your
matters;
23
and he commanded the centurion to keep him, and let him have liberty, and to
forbid no one of his friends to minister to him.
24
But after some days Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was a Jewess, and
sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus.
25
But as he reasoned of righteousness and temperance and the judgment that is to
come, Felix became alarmed and answered: Depart for the present: but I will
take a convenient time and call for thee,
26
hoping also at the same time that money would be given him by Paul: wherefore
he called for him more frequently and conversed with him.
27
But when two years had been completed, Felix received Porcius Festus as a
successor: wishing also to confer a favor on the Jews, Felix left Paul bound.
Acts 25
1
Festus therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up from
Caesarea to
2
and the chief priests and the first men of the Jews informed him against Paul,
and besought him,
3
asking a favor against him, that he would send for him to
4
Festus therefore answered that Paul was under guard in
5
Therefore, said he, let those amongst you that have power go down, and, if
there is any wrong in this man, accuse him.
6
But after spending among them not more than eight or ten days, he went down to
7
But when he had come, the Jews that had come down from
8
Paul answering in defense: Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the
temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned in any way.
9
But Festus, willing to confer favor on the Jews, answered and said to Paul:
Wilt thou go up to
10
But Paul said: Before the tribunal of Caesar am I standing where I ought to be
judged. Jews have I wronged in nothing, as thou very well knowest.
11
If, then, I am a doer of wrong, and have committed any act worthy of death, I
refuse not to die; but if there is nothing of the things of which these accuse
me, no one can deliver me as a favor to them. To Caesar I appeal.
12
Then Festus, having conferred with the council, answered: To Caesar thou hast
appealed, to Caesar thou shalt go.
13
But when some days had passed, Agrippa the king and Bernice came down to
14
And as they were spending more days there, Festus laid Paul’s case before the
king, saying: There is a man left in bonds by Felix,
15
concerning whom, when I was at
16
to whom I answered that it is not the custom of the Romans to deliver any man
up as a favor, before the accused has had the accusers face to face, and has
taken an opportunity for defense concerning the charge.
17
When, therefore, they had come hither together, making no delay, I, on the next
day, sat upon the tribunal and commanded the man to be brought;
18
against whom his accusers, when they stood up, brought no evil accusation in
regard to such things as I supposed,
19
but had some questions against him concerning their own religion, and
concerning a Jesus that had died, who, Paul affirmed, was alive.
20
But being in doubt with regard to the inquiry concerning these things, I asked
if he would go to
21
And as Paul appealed to be kept for the examination of Augustus, I commanded
him to be kept till I could send him to Caesar.
22
And Agrippa said to Festus: I also could wish to hear the man myself. Tomorrow,
said he, thou shalt hear him.
23
On the morrow, therefore, when Agrippa and Bernice had come with great pomp,
and had entered the audience-chamber with the officers and the chief men of the
city, and when Festus had commanded, Paul was brought.
24
And Festus said: King Agrippa, and all men that are present with us, ye see
this man concerning whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both
in Jerusalem and here, crying out that he ought to live no longer.
25
But I perceived that he had done nothing worthy of death, and as this man
himself has appealed to Augustus I determined to send him.
26
Concerning whom I have nothing certain to write to my Lord; wherefore I have
brought him before you and especially before thee, King Agrippa, that after the
examination has been held, I may have what shall write;
27
for it seems to me unreasonable in sending a prisoner not also to make known
the charge against him.
Acts 26
1
But Agrippa said to Paul: Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul
stretched forth his hand and made his defense.
2
I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall make a defense this day
before thee, concerning all things of which I am accused by the Jews;
3
especially as thou art acquainted with all the customs and questions that are
among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
4
My manner of life, then, from youth, which at the first was among my own nation
and in
5
who know me from the beginning, if they would testify, that according to the
strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
6
And now I stand judged for the hope of the promise made by God to the fathers,
7
to which hope our twelve tribes, persistently serving night and day, hope to
come; concerning which hope, O king, I am accused by the Jews.
8
Why is it judged incredible among you that God raises the dead?
9
I then thought with myself that I ought to do many things in opposition to the
name of Jesus the Nazarene;
10
which I also did in Jerusalem, and many also of the saints did I shut up in
prisons, having received the authority from the chief priests; and when they
were put to death I readily gave my vote;
11
and punishing them often throughout all the synagogues, I compelled them to
blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even to
foreign cities.
12
While engaged in these things, and going to
13
at midday, while on the road, I saw, O king, a light from heaven above the
brightness of the sun, shining round about me and those that journeyed with me;
14
and when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the
Hebrew tongue: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick
against the goads.
15
But I said: Who art thou, Lord? and the Lord said: I am Jesus, whom thou
persecutest,
16
But rise and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared to thee for this purpose,
to appoint thee a minister and a witness of the things that thou hast seen, and
of those in which I will appear to thee,
17
delivering thee from the people and from the Gentiles, to whom now I send thee,
18
to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the
authority of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins, and
inheritance among the sanctified by faith that is in me.
19
Wherefore, king Agrippa, I became not disobedient to the heavenly vision;
20
but, to those in
21
Because of these things, the Jews, having seized me while I was in the temple,
attempted to kill me.
22
Having therefore obtained help that is from God, up to this day have I stood
testifying to both small and great, saying nothing else than the things that
the prophets and Moses did say should take place,
23
that Christ should suffer, that he first by a resurrection from the dead should
show light both to the people and the Gentiles.
24
But as he spoke these things in his defense, Festus, with a loud voice, said:
Paul, thou art mad: much learning leads thee to madness.
25
But Paul said: I am not mad, most noble Festus, but I utter words of truth and
soberness.
26
For the king, before whom I also boldly speak, knows concerning these things;
for I am persuaded that none of these things have escaped his notice; for this
was not done in a corner.
27
King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest.
28
But Agrippa said to Paul: With little labor thou persuadest me so as to make me
a Christian.
29
And Paul said: I could pray to God that not only thou, but also all that hear
me this day, would, both with little and with much labor, become such as I am,
except these bonds.
30
And the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and those that sat with
them;
31
and having withdrawn, they conversed one with another, saying: This man does
nothing worthy of death or of bonds.
32
And Agrippa said to Festus: This man could have been set at liberty, if he had
not appealed to Caesar.
Acts 27
1
But when it had been determined that we should sail to
2
And embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, that would sail to the places in
3
and on the following day we landed at
4
And thence, having launched, we sailed under
5
and having sailed through the sea that is opposite to
6
And there, the centurion, finding a ship of
7
But, sailing slowly for many days, and having with difficulty come opposite
Knidus, the wind not permitting us to go further, we sailed under
8
and sailing along by it with difficulty we came to a place called Fair Havens,
near which was a city, Lasea.
9
But as much time had been spent, and as sailing was now unsafe because the fast
was already past, Paul admonished,
10
saying to them: Men, I perceive that the voyage will be with injury and much
loss, not only of the cargo and of the ship, but also of our lives.
11
But the centurion had more confidence in the pilot and the owner of the ship
than in the things spoken by Paul.
12
And the harbor being not well situated to winter in, the greater number
resolved to set sail thence, if by any means they should be able to reach
13
But as the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had gained their purpose,
they loosed and sailed along near to
14
But not long after, a tempestuous wind called Euraquilon struck against it;
15
and the ship having been caught, and not being able to bear up against the
wind, we gave it up and were driven.
16
And running under an island called Clauda, we were scarcely able to become
masters of the boat;
17
having taken it up, they used aids, undergirding the ship; and fearing lest
they should fall into the Syrtis, they lowered the tackling, and so were
driven.
18
But as we were greatly tossed by the tempest, on the following day they threw
out the cargo,
19
and on the third day with their own hands they threw out the furniture of the
ship;
20
but neither sun nor stars appearing for many days, and no small tempest lying
upon us, all hope of our being saved was finally taken away.
21
And after there had been much abstinence from food, then Paul stood in the
midst of them and said: It behooved you, O men, having been persuaded by me,
not to have sailed from
22
Yet, now I exhort you to be cheerful; for there shall be no loss of life among
you, but of the ship.
23
For there stood by me this night an angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,
24
saying: Fear not, Paul; thou must stand before Caesar; and behold. God has
given thee all that sail with thee.
25
Wherefore be cheerful, O men; for I believe God, that it will be so as it has
been told me.
26
But we must be cast upon some island.
27
But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven up and down in the
28
And having sounded, they found twenty fathoms; but having gone a little further
and sounded again, they found fifteen fathoms;
29
and fearing lest we should fall among rocks, they threw four anchors from the
stern and wished that day would come.
30
But as the sailors were seeking to flee from the ship, and were letting down
the boat into the sea, under the pretence that they would let go anchors from
the prow,
31
Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers: Unless these remain in the ship,
you cannot be saved.
32
Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat and let it fall off.
33
But till day should come, Paul exhorted all to partake of food, saying: This
day is the fourteenth day since you have waited and continued fasting, having
taken nothing.
34
Wherefore I exhort you to partake of food; for this is for your safety; for
from the head of no one of you shall a hair perish.
35
And having said these things and taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the
presence of all and after breaking, he began to eat
36
And they all became cheerful am took food.
37
But we that were in the ship were in all two hundred and seventy-six souls.
38
And having been satisfied with food, they lightened the ship by throwing the
grain into the sea.
39
But when day had come, they knew not the land but they perceived an inlet that
had a beach, into which they determined if possible, to thrust the ship.
40
And cutting away the anchors they let them fall into the sea at the same time
loosing the fastenings of the rudders, and, hoisting the front sail to the
wind, they held the ship firm to the beach.
41
But falling into a place where two seas met they ran the ship aground; and the
prow, having stuck fast, remained immovable, but the stern was broken by the
violence.
42
And the advice of the soldiers was that they should kill the prisoners, lest
some should swim out and escape;
43
but the centurion, wishing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose, and
commanded those that could swim to throw themselves off first, and go to land,
44
and the rest, some on planks, and some on pieces of the ship. And so it came to
pass that all got safe to land.
Acts 28
1
And when we were safe, then we learned that the island was called Melita.
2
And the barbarians showed us unusual kindness; for, having kindled a fire, they
received all of us on account of the rain that had come upon us, and on account
of the cold.
3
But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid it on the fire, a viper
came out because of the heat and fastened on his hand.
4
And when the barbarians saw the beast hanging from his hand, they said one to
another: Surely this man is a murderer, whom, though saved from the sea,
justice does not permit to live.
5
He then shook the beast off into the fire, and suffered no evil;
6
and they were expecting that he would become inflamed or suddenly fall down
dead. But after looking for a long time and seeing no harm come to him, they
changed their mind and said that he was a god.
7
But in the neighborhood of that place were the estates of the first man of the
island, named Publius, who received us and for three days entertained us
courteously.
8
And it happened that the father of Publius lay sick of fever and dysentery, to
whom Paul went in; and having prayed and laid his hands on him, he restored him
to health.
9
But when this had been done, the rest also in the island that had diseases came
and were cured;
10
who in also honored us with many honors; and when we put to sea, supplied us
with what was needed.
11
But after three months we put to sea in a ship of
12
And having landed at
13
whence, coasting about, we came to Rhegium. And after one day, the south
wind having risen, we came on the second day to Puteoli,
14
where we found brethren, and were entreated to remain with them seven days and
so we came to
15
And thence the brethren, hearing of our affairs, came to meet us as far as
Appii Forum and The Three Taverns: whom when Paul saw he thanked God and tool
courage.
16
But when we had come to
17
And it came to pass after three days that he called together those that were
first among the Jews; and when they had come together, he said to them: Men,
brethren, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of the
fathers, I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the
Romans;
18
who, having examined me, were willing to release me, because there was no cause
of death in me;
19
but as the Jews spoke against it, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar: not that
I have anything to accuse my nation of.
20
I have then called you for this reason, that I may see you and speak to you;
for on account of the hope of
21
And they said to him; We have neither received letters from
22
But we think worthy to hear from thee what thou thinkest; for concerning this
sect we know that it is everywhere spoken against.
23
And having appointed him a day, many came to him at his lodging; to whom, with
full testimony, he set forth the
24
And some believed the things spoken, and some believed not;
25
but not being agreed among themselves, they departed, after Paul had spoken one
word: Well did the Holy Spirit speak through Isaiah the prophet to your fathers,
26
saying: Go to this people and say: By hearing you shall hear and shall not
understand, and seeing you shall see and shall not perceive;
27
for the heart of this people has become fat, and with their ears they hear
heavily, and their eyes they have closed: lest perhaps they should see with
their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn
and I should restore them to health.
28
Be it known to you, therefore, that to the Gentiles has this salvation of God
been sent; and they will hear.
30
And he dwelt two whole years in his own rented house, and received all that
came to him,
31
preaching the
Acts 29
1
And Paul, full of the blessings of Christ, and abounding in the spirit,
departed out of
2
For he had heard in Phoenicia that certain of the children of Israel, about the
time of the Assyrian captivity, had escaped by sea to ‘the Isles afar off’ as
spoken by the Prophet, and called by the Romans Britain.
3
And the Lord commanded the gospel to be preached far hence to the Gentiles, and
to the lost sheep of the House of Israel.
4
And no man hindered Paul: for he testified boldly of Jesus before the tribunes
and among the people; and he took with him certain of the brethren which abode
with him at
5
And much people were gathered together from the towns and villages, and the
hill country; for they had heard of the conversion of the Apostles, and the
many miracles which he had wrought.
6
And Paul preached mightily in
7
And they departed out of
8
Now when it was voiced abroad that the Apostle had landed on their coast, great
multitudes of the inhabitants met him, and they treated Paul courteously and he
entered in at the east gate of their city, and lodged in the house of an Hebrew
and one of his own nation.
9
And on the morrow he came and stood upon
10
And at even the Holy Ghost fell upon Paul, and he prophesied, saying, Behold,
in the last days the God of Peace shall dwell in the cities, and the
inhabitants thereof shall be numbered: and in the seventh numbering of the
people, their eyes shall be opened, and the glory of their inheritance shine
forth before them. The nations shall come up to worship on the mount that
testifieth of the patience and long suffering of a servant of the Lord.
11
And in the latter-days new tidings of the gospel shall issue forth out of
12
In those days there shall be wars and rumours of war; and a King shall rise up,
and his sword, shall be for the healing of the nations, and His peacemaking
shall abide, and the glory of His Kingdom a wonder among princes.
13
And it came to pass that certain of the Druids came unto Paul privately, and
showed by their rites and ceremonies that they were descended from the
Judahites which escaped from bondage in the land of Egypt, and the Apostle
believed these things, and he gave them the kiss of peace.
14
And Paul abode in his lodgings three months confirming in the faith and
preaching Christ continually.
15
And after these things, Paul and his brethren departed from Raphinius and
sailed unto Atium in
16
And Paul preached in the Roman garrison and among the people, exhorting all men
to repent and confess their sins.
17
And there came to him certain of the Belgae to enquire of him of the new
doctrine, and of the man Jesus; and Paul opened his heart unto them and told
them all things that had befallen him, howbeit that Christ Jesus came into the
world to save sinners; and they departed pondering among themselves the things
which they had heard.
18
And after much preaching and toil, Paul and his fellow labourers passed into
19
And immediately a torrent gushed out of the mountain and washed his body,
broken in pieces, into a lake.
20
And Paul stretched forth his hands upon the water, and prayed unto the Lord
saying, O Lord God, give a sign unto all nations that here Pontius Pilate which
condemned thine only-begotten Son, plunged down headlong into the pit.
21
And while Paul was yet speaking, behold, there came a great earthquake, and the
face of the waters was changed, and the form of the lake like unto the Son of
Man hanging in an agony upon the Cross.
22
And a voice came out of Heaven saying, Even Pilate hath escaped the wrath to
come for he washed his hands before the multitude at the blood shedding of the
Lord Jesus.
23
When, therefore, Paul and those that were with him saw the earthquake, and
heard the voice of the angel, they glorified God, and were mightily strengthened
in the spirit.
24
And they journeyed and came to
25
And Paul, filled with the Holy Ghost, stood up between the two pillars, saying,
Men and brethren these stones which ye see this day shall testify of my journey
hence; and verily I say, they shall remain until the outpouring of the spirit
upon all nations, neither shall the way be hindered throughout all generations.
26
And they went forth and came unto Illtricum, intending to go by