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{\MT THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES



\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
former
treatise have I
made,
O
Theophilus,
of
all
that
Jesus
began
both to
do
and
teach,

\VS{2}Until the
day in
which he was taken
up, after that
he
through
the
Holy
Ghost had given
commandments unto the
apostles
whom he had
chosen:

\VS{3}To
whom
also he
shewed
himself
alive
after
his
passion
by
many infallible
proofs, being
seen
of
them
forty
days,
and
speaking of the things pertaining
to the
kingdom of
God:

\VS{4}And, being assembled
together
with
{\ADD{them}},
commanded
them that they
should
not
depart
from
Jerusalem,
{\WJ{but
wait for
the promise
of the Father,
which,}}
{\ADD{saith he}},
{\WJ{ye have heard
of me.}}

\VS{5}{\WJ{For
John
truly
baptized
with water;
but
ye
shall be baptized
with
the
Holy
Ghost
not
many
days
hence.}}

\VS{6}When
they
therefore were come
together, they
asked of
him,
saying,
Lord,
wilt
thou
at
this
time restore
again the
kingdom to
Israel?

\VS{7}And he
said
unto
them,
{\WJ{It
is
not
for you
to know
the times
or
the seasons,
which
the Father
hath put
in
his own
power.}}

\VS{8}{\WJ{But
ye shall receive
power,
after that
the
Holy
Ghost
is come
upon
you:
and
ye shall be
witnesses
unto me
both
in
Jerusalem,
and
in
all
Judæa,
and
in Samaria,
and
unto
the uttermost
part of the earth.}}

\VS{9}And when he had
spoken these
things, while they
beheld,
he was taken
up;
and a
cloud
received
him out
of
their
sight.

\VS{10}And
while they looked
stedfastly
toward
heaven
as
he went
up,
behold,
two
men stood
by
them
in
white
apparel;

\VS{11}Which
also
said, Ye
men of
Galilee,
why stand
ye gazing
up
into
heaven? this
same
Jesus, which is taken
up
from
you
into
heaven,
shall
so
come in like
manner
as ye have
seen
him
go
into
heaven.

\VS{12}Then returned
they
unto
Jerusalem
from the
mount
called
Olivet,
which
is
from
Jerusalem a sabbath
day’s
journey.

\VS{13}And
when they
were come
in, they went
up
into an upper
room,
where
abode
both
Peter,
and
James,
and
John,
and
Andrew,
Philip,
and
Thomas,
Bartholomew,
and
Matthew,
James
{\ADD{the son}} of
Alphaeus,
and
Simon
Zelotes,
and
Judas
{\ADD{the brother}} of
James.

\VS{14}These
all
continued with one
accord in
prayer
and
supplication,
with the
women,
and
Mary the
mother of
Jesus,
and
with
his
brethren.


\par }{\PP \VS{15}¶
And
in
those
days
Peter stood
up
in the
midst of the
disciples,
and
said, (the
number of
names
together
were
about an
hundred and
twenty,)

\VS{16}Men
{\ADD{and}}
brethren,
this
scripture must
needs have been
fulfilled,
which
the
Holy
Ghost
by the
mouth of
David spake
before
concerning
Judas, which
was
guide to them that
took
Jesus.

\VS{17}For
he
was
numbered
with
us,
and had
obtained
part of
this
ministry.

\VS{18}Now this
man
purchased a
field
with the
reward of
iniquity;
and
falling
headlong, he burst
asunder in the
midst,
and
all
his
bowels gushed
out.

\VS{19}And it
was
known unto
all the
dwellers at
Jerusalem; insomuch
as
that
field is
called in
their
proper
tongue,
Aceldama,
that is to
say, The
field of
blood.

\VS{20}For it is
written
in the
book of
Psalms,
Let
his
habitation
be
desolate,
and
let
no man
dwell
therein:
and
his
bishoprick
let
another
take.

\VS{21}Wherefore of these
men
which have
companied with
us
all the
time
that the
Lord
Jesus went
in
and
out
among
us,

\VS{22}Beginning
from the
baptism of
John,
unto that
same
day
that he was taken
up
from
us,
must
one be ordained to
be a
witness
with
us of
his
resurrection.

\VS{23}And they
appointed
two,
Joseph
called
Barsabas,
who was
surnamed
Justus,
and
Matthias.

\VS{24}And they
prayed,
and
said,
Thou,
Lord, which knowest the
hearts of
all
{\ADD{men}},
shew
whether
of
these
two thou hast
chosen,

\VS{25}That he may
take
part of
this
ministry
and
apostleship,
from
which
Judas by
transgression fell, that he might
go
to his
own
place.

\VS{26}And they gave
forth
their
lots;
and the
lot
fell
upon
Matthias;
and he was
numbered
with the
eleven
apostles.




\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
when the
day of
Pentecost was fully
come,
they
were
all with one
accord
in one
place.

\VS{2}And
suddenly there
came a
sound
from
heaven
as of a
rushing
mighty
wind,
and it
filled
all the
house
where they
were
sitting.

\VS{3}And there
appeared unto
them
cloven
tongues like
as of
fire,
and it
sat
upon
each of
them.

\VS{4}And they
were
all
filled with
the
Holy
Ghost,
and
began to speak
with
other
tongues,
as the
Spirit
gave
them
utterance.

\VS{5}And there
were
dwelling
at
Jerusalem
Jews,
devout
men, out
of
every
nation
under
heaven.

\VS{6}Now
when
this
was noised
abroad, the
multitude came
together,
and were
confounded, because
that every
man
heard
them
speak in his
own
language.

\VS{7}And they
were
all
amazed
and
marvelled,
saying
one
to
another,
Behold,
are
not
all
these which
speak
Galilæans?

\VS{8}And
how
hear
we every
man
in
our
own
tongue,
wherein we were
born?

\VS{9}Parthians,
and
Medes,
and
Elamites,
and the
dwellers in
Mesopotamia,
and in
Judæa,
and
Cappadocia, in
Pontus,
and
Asia,

\VS{10}Phrygia,
and
Pamphylia, in
Egypt,
and in the
parts of
Libya
about
Cyrene,
and
strangers of
Rome,
Jews
and
proselytes,

\VS{11}Cretes
and
Arabians, we do
hear
them
speak in
our
tongues the wonderful
works of
God.

\VS{12}And they
were
all
amazed,
and were in
doubt,
saying
one
to
another,
What
meaneth
this?

\VS{13}Others
mocking
said, These
men
are
full of new
wine.


\par }{\PP \VS{14}¶
But
Peter, standing
up
with the
eleven, lifted
up
his
voice,
and
said unto
them, Ye
men of
Judæa,
and
all
{\ADD{ye}} that
dwell at
Jerusalem,
be
this
known unto
you,
and hearken
to
my
words:

\VS{15}For
these
are
not
drunken,
as
ye
suppose, seeing it
is
{\ADD{but}}
the
third
hour of the
day.

\VS{16}But
this
is
that which was
spoken
by the
prophet
Joel;

\VS{17}And it shall come to
pass
in the
last
days,
saith
God, I will pour
out
of
my
Spirit
upon
all
flesh:
and
your
sons
and
your
daughters shall
prophesy,
and
your young
men shall
see
visions,
and
your old
men shall
dream
dreams:

\VS{18}And
on
my
servants
and
on
my
handmaidens I will pour
out
in
those
days
of
my
Spirit;
and they shall
prophesy:

\VS{19}And I will
shew
wonders
in
heaven
above,
and
signs
in the
earth
beneath;
blood,
and
fire,
and
vapour of
smoke:

\VS{20}The
sun shall be
turned
into
darkness,
and the
moon
into
blood, before
that
great
and
notable
day of the
Lord
come:

\VS{21}And it shall come to
pass,
{\ADD{that}}
whosoever shall call
on the
name of the
Lord shall be
saved.

\VS{22}Ye
men of
Israel,
hear
these
words;
Jesus of
Nazareth, a
man
approved
of
God
among
you
by
miracles
and
wonders
and
signs,
which
God
did
by
him
in the
midst of
you,
as ye
yourselves
also
know:

\VS{23}Him, being
delivered by
the
determinate
counsel
and
foreknowledge of
God, ye have
taken, and
by
wicked
hands have
crucified and
slain:

\VS{24}Whom
God hath raised
up, having
loosed the
pains of
death:
because it
was
not
possible
that
he should be
holden
of
it.

\VS{25}For
David
speaketh
concerning
him, I
foresaw the
Lord
always
before my
face,
for he
is
on
my right
hand,
that I
should
not be
moved:

\VS{26}Therefore
did
my
heart
rejoice,
and
my
tongue was
glad;
moreover
also
my
flesh shall
rest
in
hope:

\VS{27}Because thou
wilt
not
leave
my
soul
in
hell,
neither wilt thou
suffer
thine Holy
One to
see
corruption.

\VS{28}Thou hast made
known to
me the
ways of
life; thou shalt
make
me
full of
joy
with
thy
countenance.

\VS{29}Men
{\ADD{and}}
brethren,
let
me
freely
speak
unto
you
of the
patriarch
David,
that he
is
both
dead
and
buried,
and
his
sepulchre
is
with
us
unto
this
day.

\VS{30}Therefore
being a
prophet,
and
knowing
that
God had
sworn with an
oath to
him,
that
of the
fruit of
his
loins, according
to the
flesh, he would raise
up
Christ to
sit
on
his
throne;

\VS{31}He seeing
this before
spake
of the
resurrection of
Christ,
that
his
soul
was
not
left
in
hell,
neither
his
flesh did
see
corruption.

\VS{32}This
Jesus
hath
God raised
up,
whereof
we
all
are
witnesses.

\VS{33}Therefore
being by the right
hand of
God
exalted,
and having
received
of the
Father the
promise of
the
Holy
Ghost, he hath shed
forth
this,
which
ye
now
see
and
hear.

\VS{34}For
David
is
not
ascended
into the
heavens:
but he
saith
himself, The
{\ND{LORD}}
said
unto
my
Lord, Sit
thou
on
my right
hand,

\VS{35}Until I
make
thy
foes
thy
footstool.

\VS{36}Therefore
let
all the
house of
Israel
know
assuredly,
that
God hath
made
that
same
Jesus,
whom
ye have
crucified,
both
Lord
and
Christ.


\par }{\PP \VS{37}¶ Now
when they
heard
{\ADD{this}}, they were
pricked in their
heart,
and
said
unto
Peter
and to the
rest of the
apostles,
Men
{\ADD{and}}
brethren,
what shall we
do?

\VS{38}Then
Peter
said
unto
them,
Repent,
and be
baptized every
one of
you
in the
name of
Jesus
Christ
for the
remission of
sins,
and ye shall
receive the
gift of
the
Holy
Ghost.

\VS{39}For the
promise
is unto
you,
and
to
your
children,
and to
all
that
are afar
off,
{\ADD{even}} as many
as the
Lord
our
God shall
call.

\VS{40}And
with
many
other
words did he
testify
and
exhort,
saying, Save
yourselves
from
this
untoward
generation.


\par }{\PP \VS{41}¶
Then
they
that
gladly
received
his
word were
baptized:
and the
same
day there were
added
{\ADD{unto them}}
about three
thousand
souls.

\VS{42}And they continued
stedfastly
in the
apostles’
doctrine
and
fellowship,
and in
breaking of
bread,
and in
prayers.

\VS{43}And
fear came
upon
every
soul:
and
many
wonders
and
signs were
done
by the
apostles.

\VS{44}And
all that
believed
were
together,
and
had all
things
common;

\VS{45}And sold
their
possessions
and
goods,
and
parted
them to
all
{\ADD{men}},
as
every
man
had
need.

\VS{46}And they,
continuing
daily with one
accord
in the
temple,
and
breaking
bread from
house to
house, did eat
their
meat
with
gladness
and
singleness of
heart,

\VS{47}Praising
God,
and
having
favour
with
all the
people.
And the
Lord
added to the
church
daily
such
as should be
saved.




\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
Peter
and
John went
up
together
into the
temple
at the
hour of
prayer,
{\ADD{being}} the
ninth
{\ADD{hour}}.

\VS{2}And a
certain
man
lame
from
his
mother’s
womb was
carried,
whom they
laid
daily
at the
gate of the
temple
which is
called
Beautiful, to
ask
alms
of
them that
entered
into the
temple;

\VS{3}Who
seeing
Peter
and
John about
to
go
into the
temple
asked an
alms.

\VS{4}And
Peter, fastening his
eyes
upon
him
with
John,
said,
Look
on
us.

\VS{5}And
he gave heed
unto
them,
expecting to
receive
something
of
them.

\VS{6}Then
Peter
said,
Silver
and
gold
have
I
none;
but such
as I
have give
I
thee:
In the
name of
Jesus
Christ of
Nazareth rise
up
and
walk.

\VS{7}And he
took
him
by the
right
hand,
and
lifted
{\ADD{him}}
up:
and
immediately
his
feet
and ankle
bones received
strength.

\VS{8}And
he leaping
up
stood,
and
walked,
and
entered
with
them
into the
temple,
walking,
and
leaping,
and
praising
God.

\VS{9}And
all the
people
saw
him
walking
and
praising
God:

\VS{10}And they
knew
that
it
was
he
which
sat
for
alms
at the
Beautiful
gate of the
temple:
and they were
filled with
wonder
and
amazement
at that
which had
happened unto
him.

\VS{11}And as the
lame
man which was
healed
held
Peter
and
John,
all the
people ran
together
unto
them
in the
porch that is
called
Solomon’s, greatly
wondering.


\par }{\PP \VS{12}¶
And
when
Peter
saw
{\ADD{it}}, he
answered
unto the
people, Ye
men of
Israel,
why marvel
ye
at
this?
or
why look ye so
earnestly on
us,
as though by
our
own
power
or
holiness we had
made
this
man to
walk?

\VS{13}The
God of
Abraham,
and of
Isaac,
and of
Jacob, the
God of
our
fathers, hath
glorified
his
Son
Jesus;
whom
ye delivered
up,
and
denied
him
in the
presence of
Pilate,
when
he was
determined to
let
{\ADD{him}}
go.

\VS{14}But
ye
denied the Holy
One
and the
Just,
and
desired a
murderer to be
granted unto
you;

\VS{15}And
killed the
Prince of
life,
whom
God hath
raised
from the
dead;
whereof
we
are
witnesses.

\VS{16}And
his
name
through
faith
in
his
name hath
made this
man
strong,
whom ye
see
and
know:
yea, the
faith
which is
by
him hath
given
him
this perfect
soundness in the
presence of
you
all.

\VS{17}And
now,
brethren, I
wot
that
through
ignorance ye
did
{\ADD{it}},
as
{\ADD{did}}
also
your
rulers.

\VS{18}But those
things,
which
God before had
shewed
by the
mouth of
all
his
prophets,
that
Christ should
suffer, he
hath
so
fulfilled.


\par }{\PP \VS{19}¶ Repent
ye
therefore,
and be
converted,
that
your
sins may be blotted
out,
when the
times of
refreshing shall
come
from the
presence of the
Lord;

\VS{20}And he shall
send
Jesus
Christ, which before was
preached unto
you:

\VS{21}Whom the
heaven
must
receive
until the
times of
restitution of all
things,
which
God hath
spoken
by the
mouth of
all
his
holy
prophets
since the world
began.

\VS{22}For
Moses
truly
said
unto the
fathers, A
prophet
shall the
Lord
your
God raise
up unto
you
of
your
brethren, like
unto
me;
him shall ye
hear
in all
things
whatsoever he shall
say
unto
you.

\VS{23}And it shall come to
pass,
{\ADD{that}}
every
soul,
which
will
not
hear
that
prophet, shall be
destroyed
from among the
people.

\VS{24}Yea,
and
all the
prophets
from
Samuel
and those that follow
after, as many
as have
spoken,
have
likewise
foretold
of
these
days.

\VS{25}Ye
are the
children of the
prophets,
and of the
covenant
which
God
made
with
our
fathers,
saying
unto
Abraham,
And
in
thy
seed
shall
all the
kindreds of the
earth be
blessed.

\VS{26}Unto
you
first
God, having raised
up
his
Son
Jesus,
sent
him to
bless
you,
in turning
away every one of
you
from
his
iniquities.




\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
as
they
spake
unto the
people, the
priests,
and the
captain of the
temple,
and the
Sadducees, came
upon
them,

\VS{2}Being
grieved
that
they
taught the
people,
and
preached
through
Jesus the
resurrection
from the
dead.

\VS{3}And they
laid
hands on
them,
and
put
{\ADD{them}}
in
hold
unto the next
day:
for it
was
now
eventide.

\VS{4}Howbeit
many of them which
heard the
word
believed;
and the
number of the
men
was
about
five
thousand.


\par }{\PP \VS{5}¶
And it came to
pass
on the
morrow,
that
their
rulers,
and
elders,
and
scribes,

\VS{6}And
Annas the high
priest,
and
Caiaphas,
and
John,
and
Alexander,
and as many
as
were
of the
kindred of the high
priest, were gathered together
at
Jerusalem.

\VS{7}And
when
they had
set them
in the
midst, they
asked,
By
what
power,
or
by
what
name,
have
ye
done
this?

\VS{8}Then
Peter,
filled with
the
Holy
Ghost,
said
unto
them, Ye
rulers of the
people,
and
elders of
Israel,

\VS{9}If
we this
day be
examined
of the good deed
done
to the
impotent
man,
by what
means
he is made
whole;

\VS{10}Be
it
known unto
you
all,
and to
all the
people of
Israel,
that
by the
name of
Jesus
Christ of
Nazareth,
whom
ye
crucified,
whom
God
raised
from the
dead,
{\ADD{even}}
by him
doth
this
man stand
here
before
you
whole.

\VS{11}This
is the
stone
which was set at
nought
of
you
builders,
which is
become the
head of the
corner.

\VS{12}Neither is
there
salvation
in any
other:
for there
is
none
other
name
under
heaven
given
among
men,
whereby
we
must be
saved.


\par }{\PP \VS{13}¶
Now when they
saw the
boldness of
Peter
and
John,
and
perceived
that they
were
unlearned
and
ignorant
men, they
marvelled;
and they took
knowledge of
them,
that they had
been
with
Jesus.

\VS{14}And
beholding the
man
which was
healed
standing
with
them, they
could
say
nothing against
it.

\VS{15}But when they had
commanded
them to go
aside out
of the
council, they
conferred
among
themselves,

\VS{16}Saying,
What shall we
do
to
these
men?
for
that
indeed a
notable
miracle hath been
done
by
them
{\ADD{is}}
manifest to
all
them
that
dwell in
Jerusalem;
and we
can
not
deny
{\ADD{it}}.

\VS{17}But
that it
spread
no
further
among the
people, let
us
straitly
threaten
them, that they
speak
henceforth to
no
man
in
this
name.

\VS{18}And they
called
them,
and
commanded
them
not to
speak at
all
nor
teach
in the
name of
Jesus.

\VS{19}But
Peter
and
John
answered and
said
unto
them,
Whether it
be
right in the sight
of
God to
hearken unto
you
more
than unto
God, judge
ye.

\VS{20}For
we
can
not
but
speak the things
which we have
seen
and
heard.

\VS{21}So when they had further
threatened
them, they let them
go,
finding
nothing
how they might
punish
them, because
of the
people:
for
all
{\ADD{men}}
glorified
God
for
that which was
done.

\VS{22}For the
man
was
above
forty years
old,
on
whom
this
miracle of
healing was
shewed.


\par }{\PP \VS{23}¶
And being let
go, they
went
to their own
company,
and
reported all
that the chief
priests
and
elders had
said
unto
them.

\VS{24}And when they
heard
that, they lifted
up their
voice
to
God with one
accord,
and
said,
Lord,
thou
{\ADD{art}}
God,
which hast
made
heaven,
and
earth,
and the
sea,
and
all
that
in
them
is:

\VS{25}Who
by the
mouth of
thy
servant
David hast
said,
Why
did the
heathen
rage,
and the
people
imagine vain
things?

\VS{26}The
kings of the
earth stood
up,
and the
rulers were
gathered
together
against the
Lord,
and
against
his
Christ.

\VS{27}For of a
truth
against
thy
holy
child
Jesus,
whom thou hast
anointed,
both
Herod,
and
Pontius
Pilate,
with the
Gentiles,
and the
people of
Israel, were
gathered
together,

\VS{28}For to
do
whatsoever
thy
hand
and
thy
counsel determined
before to be
done.

\VS{29}And
now,
Lord,
behold
their
threatenings:
and
grant
unto
thy
servants, that
with
all
boldness they may
speak
thy
word,

\VS{30}By stretching
forth
thine
hand
to
heal;
and
that
signs
and
wonders may be
done
by the
name
of
thy
holy
child
Jesus.


\par }{\PP \VS{31}¶
And
when
they had
prayed, the
place was
shaken
where they
were assembled
together;
and they
were
all
filled with
the
Holy
Ghost,
and they
spake the
word of
God
with
boldness.

\VS{32}And the
multitude of
them
that
believed
were
of
one
heart
and
of
one
soul:
neither
said
any
{\ADD{of them}}
that ought of the things which he
possessed
was
his
own;
but
they
had all
things
common.

\VS{33}And
with
great
power
gave the
apostles
witness of the
resurrection of the
Lord
Jesus:
and
great
grace
was
upon
them
all.

\VS{34}Neither was
there
any
among
them
that
lacked:
for as many
as
were
possessors of
lands
or
houses sold
them, and
brought the
prices of the things that were
sold,

\VS{35}And
laid
{\ADD{them}}
down
at the
apostles’
feet:
and distribution was
made unto every
man according
as
he
had
need.

\VS{36}And
Joses,
who
by the
apostles was
surnamed
Barnabas, (which
is, being
interpreted, The
son of
consolation,) a
Levite,
{\ADD{and}} of the country
of
Cyprus,

\VS{37}Having
land,
sold
{\ADD{it}},
and
brought the
money,
and
laid
{\ADD{it}}
at the
apostles’
feet.




\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}But a
certain
man
named
Ananias,
with
Sapphira
his
wife,
sold a
possession,

\VS{2}And kept
back
{\ADD{part}}
of the
price,
his
wife
also being
privy
{\ADD{to it}},
and
brought a
certain
part, and
laid
{\ADD{it}}
at the
apostles’
feet.

\VS{3}But
Peter
said,
Ananias,
why
hath
Satan
filled
thine
heart to
lie to
the
Holy
Ghost,
and to keep
back
{\ADD{part}}
of the
price of the
land?

\VS{4}Whiles it
remained, was
it
not thine
own?
and after it was
sold, was
it
not
in thine
own
power?
why hast thou
conceived
this
thing
in
thine
heart? thou
hast
not
lied unto
men,
but unto
God.

\VS{5}And
Ananias
hearing
these
words fell
down, and gave up the
ghost:
and
great
fear
came
on
all
them
that
heard these
things.

\VS{6}And the young
men
arose,
wound
him
up,
and
carried
{\ADD{him}}
out,
and
buried
{\ADD{him}}.

\VS{7}And it
was
about the
space of
three
hours after, when
his
wife,
not
knowing
what was
done, came
in.

\VS{8}And
Peter
answered unto
her,
Tell
me
whether ye
sold the
land for so
much?
And she
said,
Yea, for so
much.

\VS{9}Then
Peter
said
unto
her, How is
it
that
ye have agreed
together to
tempt the
Spirit of the
Lord?
behold, the
feet of
them which have
buried
thy
husband
{\ADD{are}}
at the
door,
and shall
carry
thee
out.

\VS{10}Then fell she
down
straightway
at
his
feet,
and yielded up the
ghost:
and the young
men came
in,
and
found
her
dead,
and,
carrying
{\ADD{her}}
forth,
buried
{\ADD{her}}
by
her
husband.

\VS{11}And
great
fear
came
upon
all the
church,
and
upon as many
as
heard these
things.


\par }{\PP \VS{12}¶
And
by the
hands of the
apostles
were
many
signs
and
wonders wrought
among the
people; (and they
were
all with one
accord
in
Solomon’s
porch.

\VS{13}And of the
rest
durst no
man join
himself to
them:
but the
people
magnified
them.

\VS{14}And
believers
were the
more
added to the
Lord,
multitudes
both of
men
and
women.)

\VS{15}Insomuch
that they brought
forth the
sick into the
streets,
and
laid
{\ADD{them}}
on
beds
and
couches,
that at the
least the
shadow of
Peter passing
by might
overshadow
some of
them.

\VS{16}There
came
also a
multitude
{\ADD{out}} of the
cities round
about
unto
Jerusalem,
bringing sick
folks,
and
them
which were
vexed
with
unclean
spirits: and they were
healed every
one.


\par }{\PP \VS{17}¶
Then the high
priest rose
up,
and
all they that
were
with
him, (which
is the
sect of the
Sadducees,) and were
filled with
indignation,

\VS{18}And
laid
their
hands
on the
apostles,
and
put
them
in the
common
prison.

\VS{19}But the
angel of the
Lord
by
night
opened the
prison
doors,
and
brought
them
forth, and
said,

\VS{20}Go,
stand
and
speak
in the
temple to the
people
all the
words
of
this
life.

\VS{21}And when they
heard
{\ADD{that}}, they
entered
into the
temple early in the
morning,
and
taught.
But the high
priest
came,
and they that
were
with
him,
and
called the
council
together,
and
all the
senate of the
children of
Israel,
and
sent
to the
prison to
have
them
brought.

\VS{22}But
when the
officers
came,
and
found
them
not
in the
prison, they
returned,
and
told,

\VS{23}Saying, The
prison
truly found
we
shut
with
all
safety,
and the
keepers
standing
without
before the
doors:
but when we had
opened, we
found no
man
within.

\VS{24}Now
when the high
priest
and the
captain of the
temple
and the chief
priests
heard
these
things, they
doubted
of
them
whereunto
this would
grow.

\VS{25}Then
came
one
and
told
them,
saying,
Behold, the
men
whom ye
put
in
prison
are
standing
in the
temple,
and
teaching the
people.

\VS{26}Then
went the
captain
with the
officers,
and
brought
them
without
violence:
for they
feared the
people,
lest they should have been
stoned.

\VS{27}And when they had
brought
them, they
set
{\ADD{them}}
before the
council:
and the high
priest
asked
them,

\VS{28}Saying, Did
not
we
straitly
command
you that ye
should
not
teach
in
this
name?
and,
behold, ye have
filled
Jerusalem
with
your
doctrine,
and
intend to
bring
this
man’s
blood
upon
us.


\par }{\PP \VS{29}¶
Then
Peter
and
the
{\ADD{other}}
apostles
answered
and
said,
We
ought to
obey
God
rather
than
men.

\VS{30}The
God
of
our
fathers raised
up
Jesus,
whom
ye
slew and
hanged
on a
tree.

\VS{31}Him
hath
God
exalted
with
his right
hand
{\ADD{to be}} a
Prince
and a
Saviour, for to
give
repentance to
Israel,
and
forgiveness of
sins.

\VS{32}And
we
are
his
witnesses
of
these
things;
and
{\ADD{so is}}
also
the
Holy
Ghost,
whom
God hath
given to
them
that
obey
him.


\par }{\PP \VS{33}¶
When they
heard
{\ADD{that}}, they were
cut
{\ADD{to the heart}},
and took
counsel to
slay
them.

\VS{34}Then stood there
up
one
in the
council, a
Pharisee,
named
Gamaliel, a doctor of the
law, had in
reputation
among
all the
people, and
commanded to
put the
apostles
forth a little
space;

\VS{35}And
said
unto
them, Ye
men of
Israel, take
heed to
yourselves
what ye
intend to
do as
touching
these
men.

\VS{36}For
before
these
days rose
up
Theudas,
boasting
himself to
be
somebody; to
whom a
number of
men,
about four
hundred, joined
themselves:
who was
slain;
and
all, as many
as
obeyed
him, were
scattered,
and
brought
to
nought.

\VS{37}After
this man rose
up
Judas of
Galilee
in the
days of the
taxing,
and drew
away
much
people
after
him: he
also
perished;
and
all,
{\ADD{even}} as many
as
obeyed
him, were
dispersed.

\VS{38}And
now I
say unto
you,
Refrain
from
these
men,
and
let
them
alone:
for
if
this
counsel
or
this
work
be
of
men, it will come to
nought:

\VS{39}But
if it
be
of
God, ye
can
not
overthrow
it; lest
haply ye be
found
even to fight against
God.

\VS{40}And to
him they
agreed:
and when they had
called the
apostles,
and
beaten
{\ADD{them}}, they
commanded that they
should
not
speak
in the
name of
Jesus,
and
let
them
go.


\par }{\PP \VS{41}¶
And they
departed
from the
presence of the
council,
rejoicing
that they were counted
worthy to suffer
shame
for
his
name.

\VS{42}And
daily
in the
temple,
and
in
every
house, they
ceased
not to
teach
and
preach
Jesus
Christ.




\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
in
those
days, when the
number of the
disciples was
multiplied, there
arose a
murmuring of the
Grecians
against the
Hebrews,
because
their
widows were
neglected
in the
daily
ministration.

\VS{2}Then the
twelve
called the
multitude of the
disciples
{\ADD{unto them}},
and
said, It
is
not
reason
that
we should
leave the
word of
God, and
serve
tables.

\VS{3}Wherefore,
brethren, look ye
out among
you
seven
men
of honest
report,
full of
the
Holy
Ghost
and
wisdom,
whom we may
appoint
over
this
business.

\VS{4}But
we will give ourselves
continually to
prayer,
and to the
ministry of the
word.


\par }{\PP \VS{5}¶
And the
saying
pleased the
whole
multitude:
and they
chose
Stephen, a
man
full of
faith
and of
the
Holy
Ghost,
and
Philip,
and
Prochorus,
and
Nicanor,
and
Timon,
and
Parmenas,
and
Nicolas a
proselyte of
Antioch:

\VS{6}Whom they
set
before the
apostles:
and when they had
prayed, they
laid
{\ADD{their}}
hands on
them.

\VS{7}And the
word of
God
increased;
and the
number of the
disciples
multiplied
in
Jerusalem
greatly;
and
a
great
company of the
priests were
obedient to the
faith.

\VS{8}And
Stephen,
full of
faith
and
power,
did
great
wonders
and
miracles
among the
people.


\par }{\PP \VS{9}¶
Then there
arose
certain
of the
synagogue,
which is
called
{\ADD{the synagogue}} of the
Libertines,
and
Cyrenians,
and
Alexandrians,
and
of
them of
Cilicia
and of
Asia,
disputing with
Stephen.

\VS{10}And they
were
not
able to
resist the
wisdom
and the
spirit by
which he
spake.

\VS{11}Then they
suborned
men, which
said, We have
heard
him
speak
blasphemous
words
against
Moses,
and
{\ADD{against}}
God.

\VS{12}And they stirred
up the
people,
and the
elders,
and the
scribes,
and came
upon
{\ADD{him}},
and
caught
him,
and
brought
{\ADD{him}}
to the
council,

\VS{13}And set
up
false
witnesses, which
said,
This
man
ceaseth
not to
speak
blasphemous
words
against
this
holy
place,
and the
law:

\VS{14}For we have
heard
him
say,
that
this
Jesus of
Nazareth shall
destroy
this
place,
and shall
change the
customs
which
Moses
delivered
us.

\VS{15}And
all that
sat
in the
council, looking
stedfastly
on
him,
saw
his
face as it had
been the
face of an
angel.




\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
said the high
priest,
Are these
things
so?

\VS{2}And he
said,
Men,
brethren,
and
fathers,
hearken; The
God of
glory
appeared
unto
our
father
Abraham, when he
was
in
Mesopotamia,
before
he
dwelt
in
Charran,

\VS{3}And
said
unto
him, Get thee
out
of
thy
country,
and
from
thy
kindred,
and
come
into the
land
which I shall
shew
thee.

\VS{4}Then came he
out
of the
land of the
Chaldæans, and
dwelt
in
Charran: and from
thence,
when
his
father was
dead, he
removed
him
into
this
land,
wherein
ye
now
dwell.

\VS{5}And he
gave
him
none
inheritance
in
it, no,
not
{\ADD{so much as}} to set his foot
on:
yet he
promised that he would give
it to
him for a
possession,
and
to
his
seed
after
him,
when
{\ADD{as yet}}
he
had
no
child.

\VS{6}And
God
spake on this
wise,
That
his
seed
should
sojourn
in a
strange
land;
and that they should
bring
them into
bondage,
and
entreat
{\ADD{them}}
evil four
hundred
years.

\VS{7}And the
nation to
whom they shall be in
bondage
will
I
judge,
said
God:
and
after
that shall they come
forth,
and
serve
me
in
this
place.

\VS{8}And he
gave
him the
covenant of
circumcision:
and
so
{\ADD{Abraham}}
begat
Isaac,
and
circumcised
him the
eighth
day;
and
Isaac
{\ADD{begat}}
Jacob;
and
Jacob
{\ADD{begat}} the
twelve
patriarchs.

\VS{9}And the
patriarchs, moved with
envy,
sold
Joseph
into
Egypt:
but
God
was
with
him,

\VS{10}And
delivered
him out
of
all
his
afflictions,
and
gave
him
favour
and
wisdom in the sight
of
Pharaoh
king of
Egypt;
and he
made
him
governor
over
Egypt
and
all
his
house.

\VS{11}Now there
came a
dearth
over
all the
land of
Egypt
and
Chanaan,
and
great
affliction:
and
our
fathers
found
no
sustenance.

\VS{12}But
when
Jacob
heard that there
was
corn
in
Egypt, he sent
out
our
fathers
first.

\VS{13}And
at the
second
{\ADD{time}}
Joseph was made
known
to
his
brethren;
and
Joseph’s
kindred was
made
known unto
Pharaoh.

\VS{14}Then
sent
Joseph,
and
called
his
father
Jacob
to
{\ADD{him}},
and
all
his
kindred,
threescore and
fifteen
souls.

\VS{15}So
Jacob went
down
into
Egypt,
and
died,
he,
and
our
fathers,

\VS{16}And were carried
over
into
Sychem,
and
laid
in the
sepulchre
that
Abraham
bought for a
sum of
money of the
sons
of
Emmor
{\ADD{the father}}
of
Sychem.

\VS{17}But
when the
time of the
promise drew
nigh,
which
God had
sworn to
Abraham, the
people
grew
and
multiplied
in
Egypt,

\VS{18}Till
another
king
arose,
which
knew
not
Joseph.

\VS{19}The
same dealt
subtilly
with
our
kindred, and evil
entreated
our
fathers, so that
they cast
out
their young
children, to the
end they
might
not
live.

\VS{20}In
which
time
Moses was
born,
and
was
exceeding
fair,
and
nourished up
in
his
father’s
house
three
months:

\VS{21}And
when
he was cast
out,
Pharaoh’s
daughter
took
him up, and
nourished
him
for her
own
son.

\VS{22}And
Moses was
learned in
all the
wisdom of the
Egyptians,
and
was
mighty
in
words
and
in
deeds.

\VS{23}And
when
he was
full forty
years
old, it
came
into
his
heart to
visit
his
brethren the
children of
Israel.

\VS{24}And
seeing
one
{\ADD{of them}} suffer
wrong, he
defended
{\ADD{him}},
and
avenged him that was
oppressed,
and
smote the
Egyptian:

\VS{25}For he
supposed
his
brethren would have
understood how
that
God
by
his
hand would
deliver
them:
but they
understood
not.

\VS{26}And the
next
day he shewed
himself unto
them as they
strove,
and would have
set
them
at
one
again,
saying,
Sirs,
ye
are
brethren;
why do ye
wrong one to
another?

\VS{27}But he that
did his
neighbour
wrong
thrust
him
away,
saying,
Who
made
thee a
ruler
and a
judge
over
us?

\VS{28}Wilt
thou
kill
me,
as
thou
diddest the
Egyptian
yesterday?

\VS{29}Then
fled
Moses
at
this
saying,
and
was a
stranger
in the
land of
Madian,
where he
begat
two
sons.

\VS{30}And
when
forty
years were
expired, there
appeared to
him
in the
wilderness of
mount
Sina an
angel of the
Lord
in a
flame of
fire in a
bush.

\VS{31}When
Moses
saw
{\ADD{it}}, he
wondered at the
sight:
and as he drew
near to
behold
{\ADD{it}}, the
voice of the
Lord
came
unto
him,

\VS{32}{\ADD{Saying}},
I
{\ADD{am}} the
God
of
thy
fathers, the
God of
Abraham,
and the
God of
Isaac,
and the
God of
Jacob.
Then
Moses
trembled, and
durst
not
behold.

\VS{33}Then
said the
Lord to
him, Put
off
thy
shoes
from
thy
feet:
for the
place
where thou
standest
is
holy
ground.

\VS{34}I have
seen, I have
seen the
affliction
of
my
people
which is
in
Egypt,
and I have
heard
their
groaning,
and am come
down to
deliver
them.
And
now
come, I will
send
thee
into
Egypt.

\VS{35}This
Moses
whom they
refused,
saying,
Who
made
thee a
ruler
and a
judge? the
same
did
God
send
{\ADD{to be}} a
ruler
and a
deliverer
by the
hand of the
angel
which
appeared to
him
in the
bush.

\VS{36}He
brought
them
out, after that he had
shewed
wonders
and
signs
in the
land of
Egypt,
and
in
the Red
sea,
and
in the
wilderness
forty
years.


\par }{\PP \VS{37}¶
This
is
that
Moses, which
said unto the
children of
Israel, A
prophet
shall the
Lord
your
God raise
up unto
you
of
your
brethren,
like unto
me;
him shall ye
hear.

\VS{38}This
is he, that
was
in the
church
in the
wilderness
with the
angel
which
spake to
him
in the
mount
Sina,
and
{\ADD{with}}
our
fathers:
who
received the
lively
oracles to
give unto
us:

\VS{39}To
whom
our
fathers
would
not
obey,
but
thrust
{\ADD{him}} from
them,
and
in
their
hearts turned back
again
into
Egypt,

\VS{40}Saying unto
Aaron,
Make
us
gods
to go
before
us:
for
{\ADD{as for}}
this
Moses,
which
brought
us
out
of the
land of
Egypt, we
wot
not
what is
become of
him.

\VS{41}And they made a
calf
in
those
days,
and
offered
sacrifice unto the
idol,
and
rejoiced
in the
works of their
own
hands.

\VS{42}Then
God
turned,
and
gave
them
up to
worship the
host of
heaven;
as it is
written
in the
book of the
prophets, O ye
house of
Israel, have ye
offered to
me slain
beasts
and
sacrifices
{\ADD{by the space of}}
forty
years
in the
wilderness?

\VS{43}Yea, ye took
up the
tabernacle of
Moloch,
and the
star
of
your
god
Remphan,
figures
which ye
made to
worship
them:
and I will
carry
you
away
beyond
Babylon.

\VS{44}Our
fathers
had the
tabernacle of
witness
in the
wilderness,
as he had
appointed,
speaking unto
Moses, that he should
make
it according
to the
fashion
that he had
seen.

\VS{45}Which
also
our
fathers that came
after brought
in
with
Jesus
into the
possession of the
Gentiles,
whom
God drave
out
before the
face
of
our
fathers,
unto the
days of
David;

\VS{46}Who
found
favour
before
God,
and
desired to
find a
tabernacle for the
God of
Jacob.

\VS{47}But
Solomon
built
him an
house.

\VS{48}Howbeit the most
High
dwelleth
not
in
temples made with
hands;
as
saith the
prophet,

\VS{49}Heaven
{\ADD{is}}
my
throne,
and
earth
{\ADD{is}}
my
footstool:
what
house will ye
build
me?
saith the
Lord:
or
what
{\ADD{is}} the
place
of
my
rest?

\VS{50}Hath
not
my
hand
made
all these
things?


\par }{\PP \VS{51}¶
Ye
stiffnecked
and
uncircumcised in
heart
and
ears, ye
do
always
resist
the
Holy
Ghost:
as
your
fathers
{\ADD{did}},
so
{\ADD{do}}
ye.

\VS{52}Which of the
prophets
have
not
your
fathers
persecuted?
and they have
slain them
which shewed
before
of the
coming of the Just
One; of
whom
ye have
been
now the
betrayers
and
murderers:

\VS{53}Who have
received the
law
by the
disposition of
angels,
and
have
not
kept
{\ADD{it.}}


\par }{\PP \VS{54}¶
When they
heard these
things, they were
cut to the
heart,
and they
gnashed
on
him
with
{\ADD{their}}
teeth.

\VS{55}But he,
being
full of
the
Holy
Ghost,
looked
up
stedfastly
into
heaven,
and
saw the
glory of
God,
and
Jesus
standing
on the right
hand of
God,

\VS{56}And
said,
Behold, I
see the
heavens
opened,
and the
Son of
man
standing
on the right
hand of
God.

\VS{57}Then they cried
out with
a
loud
voice, and
stopped
their
ears,
and
ran
upon
him with one
accord,

\VS{58}And
cast
{\ADD{him}}
out of the
city,
and
stoned
{\ADD{him}}:
and the
witnesses laid
down
their
clothes
at a young
man’s
feet, whose name
was
Saul.

\VS{59}And they
stoned
Stephen, calling
upon
{\ADD{God}},
and
saying,
Lord
Jesus,
receive
my
spirit.

\VS{60}And he
kneeled
down,
and
cried with
a
loud
voice,
Lord,
lay
not
this
sin to
their
charge.
And when he had
said
this, he fell
asleep.




\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Saul
was consenting
unto
his
death.
And
at
that
time there
was a
great
persecution
against the
church which
was
at
Jerusalem;
and they
were
all scattered
abroad
throughout the
regions of
Judæa
and
Samaria,
except the
apostles.

\VS{2}And
devout
men
carried
Stephen
{\ADD{to his burial}},
and
made
great
lamentation
over
him.

\VS{3}As for
Saul, he made
havock of the
church, entering
into
every
house,
and
haling
men
and
women
committed
{\ADD{them}}
to
prison.

\VS{4}Therefore
they that were scattered
abroad went every
where
preaching the
word.

\VS{5}Then
Philip went
down
to the
city of
Samaria, and
preached
Christ unto
them.

\VS{6}And the
people
with one
accord gave
heed
unto those
things
which
Philip
spake,
hearing
and
seeing the
miracles
which he
did.

\VS{7}For
unclean
spirits,
crying with
loud
voice, came
out of
many that were
possessed
{\ADD{with them}}:
and
many taken with
palsies,
and that
were
lame, were
healed.

\VS{8}And there
was
great
joy
in
that
city.

\VS{9}But there
was a
certain
man,
called
Simon, which
beforetime
in the same
city used
sorcery,
and
bewitched the
people of
Samaria, giving out
that
himself
was
some great
one:

\VS{10}To
whom they
all gave
heed,
from the
least
to the
greatest,
saying, This
man
is the
great
power of
God.

\VS{11}And to
him they had
regard, because
that of
long
time he had
bewitched
them with
sorceries.

\VS{12}But
when they
believed
Philip
preaching the
things
concerning the
kingdom of
God,
and the
name of
Jesus
Christ, they were
baptized,
both
men
and
women.

\VS{13}Then
Simon
himself
believed
also:
and when he
was
baptized, he
continued with
Philip,
and
wondered,
beholding the
miracles
and
signs which were
done.

\VS{14}Now
when the
apostles which
were
at
Jerusalem
heard
that
Samaria had
received the
word of
God, they
sent
unto
them
Peter
and
John:

\VS{15}Who, when they were come
down,
prayed
for
them,
that they might
receive the
Holy
Ghost:

\VS{16}(For as
yet he
was
fallen
upon
none of
them:
only they
were
baptized
in the
name of the
Lord
Jesus.)

\VS{17}Then laid
they
{\ADD{their}}
hands
on
them,
and they
received the
Holy
Ghost.

\VS{18}And when
Simon
saw
that
through laying
on of the
apostles’
hands the
Holy
Ghost was
given, he
offered
them
money,

\VS{19}Saying, Give
me
also
this
power,
that on
whomsoever I
lay
hands, he may
receive the
Holy
Ghost.

\VS{20}But
Peter
said
unto
him,
Thy
money
perish
with
thee,
because thou hast
thought
that the
gift of
God may be
purchased with
money.

\VS{21}Thou
hast
neither
part
nor
lot
in
this
matter:
for
thy
heart
is
not
right in the sight
of
God.

\VS{22}Repent
therefore
of
this
thy
wickedness,
and
pray
God,
if
perhaps the
thought of
thine
heart may be
forgiven
thee.

\VS{23}For I
perceive that
thou
art
in the
gall of
bitterness,
and
{\ADD{in}} the
bond of
iniquity.

\VS{24}Then
answered
Simon, and
said,
Pray
ye
to the
Lord
for
me,
that none of these
things
which ye have
spoken
come
upon
me.

\VS{25}And
they, when they had
testified
and
preached the
word of the
Lord,
returned
to
Jerusalem,
and preached the
gospel in
many
villages of the
Samaritans.

\VS{26}And the
angel of the
Lord
spake
unto
Philip,
saying,
Arise,
and
go
toward the
south
unto the
way
that goeth
down
from
Jerusalem
unto
Gaza,
which
is
desert.

\VS{27}And he
arose and
went:
and,
behold, a
man of
Ethiopia, an
eunuch of great
authority under
Candace
queen of the
Ethiopians,
who
had the charge
of
all
her
treasure, and had
come
to
Jerusalem for to
worship,

\VS{28}Was
returning,
and
sitting
in
his
chariot
read
Esaias the
prophet.

\VS{29}Then the
Spirit
said unto
Philip, Go
near,
and join
thyself to
this
chariot.

\VS{30}And
Philip ran
thither to
{\ADD{him}}, and
heard
him
read the
prophet
Esaias,
and
said, Understandest
thou
what thou
readest?

\VS{31}And he
said,
How can
I,
except some
man should
guide
me?
And he
desired
Philip that he would come
up and
sit
with
him.

\VS{32}The
place of the
scripture
which he
read
was
this, He was
led
as a
sheep
to the
slaughter;
and
like a
lamb
dumb
before
his
shearer,
so opened
he
not
his
mouth:

\VS{33}In
his
humiliation
his
judgment was taken
away:
and
who shall
declare
his
generation?
for
his
life is
taken
from the
earth.

\VS{34}And the
eunuch
answered
Philip, and
said, I
pray
thee,
of
whom
speaketh the
prophet
this?
of
himself,
or
of
some other
man?

\VS{35}Then
Philip
opened
his
mouth,
and
began
at the
same
scripture, and
preached unto
him
Jesus.

\VS{36}And
as they
went
on
{\ADD{their}}
way, they
came
unto a
certain
water:
and the
eunuch
said,
See,
{\ADD{here is}}
water;
what doth
hinder
me to be
baptized?

\VS{37}And
Philip
said,
If thou
believest
with
all thine
heart, thou
mayest. And he
answered
and
said, I
believe that
Jesus
Christ
is the
Son of
God.

\VS{38}And he
commanded the
chariot to stand
still:
and they went
down
both
into the
water,
both
Philip
and the
eunuch;
and he
baptized
him.

\VS{39}And
when they were come
up out
of the
water, the
Spirit of the
Lord caught
away
Philip,
that the
eunuch
saw
him no
more:
and he
went on
his
way
rejoicing.

\VS{40}But
Philip was
found
at
Azotus:
and passing
through he
preached in
all the
cities,
till
he
came
to
Cæsarea.




\par }\Chap{9}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Saul,
yet breathing
out
threatenings
and
slaughter
against the
disciples of the
Lord, went
unto the high
priest,

\VS{2}And
desired
of
him
letters
to
Damascus
to the
synagogues,
that
if he
found
any of this
way,
whether they
were
men
or
women, he might
bring them
bound
unto
Jerusalem.

\VS{3}And
as he
journeyed,
he
came
near
Damascus:
and
suddenly there shined round
about
him a
light
from
heaven:

\VS{4}And he
fell
to the
earth, and
heard a
voice
saying unto
him,
{\WJ{Saul,
Saul,
why
persecutest thou
me?}}

\VS{5}And he
said,
Who art
thou,
Lord?
And the
Lord
said,
{\WJ{I
am
Jesus
whom
thou
persecutest:
{\ADD{it is}}
hard
for thee
to kick
against
the pricks.}}

\VS{6}And he
trembling
and
astonished
said,
Lord,
what wilt
thou
have
me to
do?
And the
Lord
{\ADD{said}}
unto
him,
{\WJ{Arise,
and
go
into
the city,
and
it shall be told
thee
what
thou
must
do.}}

\VS{7}And the
men
which
journeyed with
him
stood
speechless,
hearing a
voice,
but
seeing no
man.

\VS{8}And
Saul
arose
from the
earth; and
when
his
eyes were
opened, he
saw no
man:
but they
led
him by the
hand, and
brought
{\ADD{him}}
into
Damascus.

\VS{9}And he
was
three
days
without
sight,
and
neither did
eat
nor
drink.


\par }{\PP \VS{10}¶
And there
was a
certain
disciple
at
Damascus,
named
Ananias;
and
to
him
said the
Lord
in a
vision,
{\WJ{Ananias.}}
And he
said,
Behold,
I
{\ADD{am here}},
Lord.

\VS{11}And the
Lord
{\ADD{said}}
unto
him,
{\WJ{Arise,
and go
into
the street
which
is called
Straight,
and
enquire
in
the house
of Judas
for
{\ADD{one}}
called
Saul,
of Tarsus:
for,
behold,
he prayeth,}}

\VS{12}{\WJ{And
hath seen
in
a vision
a man
named
Ananias
coming in,
and
putting
{\ADD{his}}
hand
on him,
that
he might receive his sight.}}

\VS{13}Then
Ananias
answered,
Lord, I have
heard
by
many
of
this
man, how
much
evil he hath
done to
thy
saints
at
Jerusalem:

\VS{14}And
here he
hath
authority
from the chief
priests to
bind
all that call
on
thy
name.

\VS{15}But the
Lord
said
unto
him,
{\WJ{Go thy way:
for
he
is
a chosen
vessel
unto me,
to bear
my
name
before
the Gentiles,
and
kings,
and
the children
of Israel:}}

\VS{16}{\WJ{For
I
will shew
him
how great things
he
must
suffer
for
my
name’s sake.}}

\VS{17}And
Ananias went his
way,
and
entered
into the
house;
and putting
his
hands
on
him
said,
Brother
Saul, the
Lord,
{\ADD{even}}
Jesus,
that
appeared unto
thee
in the
way
as thou
camest, hath
sent
me,
that thou mightest receive thy
sight,
and be
filled with the
Holy
Ghost.

\VS{18}And
immediately there
fell
from
his
eyes as it had
been
scales:
and he received
sight
forthwith,
and
arose, and was
baptized.

\VS{19}And when he had
received
meat, he was
strengthened.
Then
was
Saul
certain
days
with the
disciples which
were
at
Damascus.

\VS{20}And
straightway he
preached
Christ
in the
synagogues,
that
he
is the
Son of
God.

\VS{21}But
all
that
heard
{\ADD{him}} were
amazed,
and
said;
Is
not
this he
that
destroyed them
which called
on
this
name
in
Jerusalem,
and
came
hither
for that
intent,
that he might
bring
them
bound
unto the chief
priests?

\VS{22}But
Saul
increased the
more in
strength,
and
confounded the
Jews
which
dwelt
at
Damascus,
proving
that
this
is
very
Christ.


\par }{\PP \VS{23}¶
And after
that
many
days were
fulfilled, the
Jews took
counsel to
kill
him:

\VS{24}But
their laying
await was
known of
Saul.
And they
watched the
gates
day
and
night
to
kill
him.

\VS{25}Then the
disciples
took
him by
night, and
let
{\ADD{him}}
down
by the
wall
in a
basket.

\VS{26}And when
Saul was
come
to
Jerusalem, he
assayed to join
himself to the
disciples:
but they
were
all
afraid of
him, and
believed
not
that he
was a
disciple.

\VS{27}But
Barnabas
took
him, and
brought
{\ADD{him}}
to the
apostles,
and
declared unto
them
how he had
seen the
Lord
in the
way,
and
that he had spoken
to
him,
and
how he had preached
boldly
at
Damascus
in the
name of
Jesus.

\VS{28}And he
was
with
them coming
in
and going
out
at
Jerusalem.

\VS{29}And he spake
boldly
in the
name of the
Lord
Jesus,
and
disputed
against the
Grecians:
but they went
about to
slay
him.

\VS{30}{\ADD{Which}}
when the
brethren
knew, they
brought
him
down
to
Cæsarea,
and
sent
him
forth
to
Tarsus.

\VS{31}Then
had the
churches
rest
throughout
all
Judæa
and
Galilee
and
Samaria, and were
edified;
and
walking in the
fear of the
Lord,
and in the
comfort of the
Holy
Ghost, were
multiplied.


\par }{\PP \VS{32}¶
And it came to
pass, as
Peter
passed
throughout
all
{\ADD{quarters}}, he came
down
also
to the
saints
which
dwelt at
Lydda.

\VS{33}And
there he
found a
certain
man
named
Æneas,
which had kept
his
bed
eight
years, and
was sick of the
palsy.

\VS{34}And
Peter
said unto
him,
Æneas,
Jesus
Christ
maketh
thee
whole:
arise,
and
make
thy
bed.
And he
arose
immediately.

\VS{35}And
all
that
dwelt at
Lydda
and
Saron
saw
him, and
turned
to the
Lord.


\par }{\PP \VS{36}¶
Now there
was
at
Joppa a
certain
disciple
named
Tabitha,
which by
interpretation is
called
Dorcas:
this
woman
was
full of
good
works
and
almsdeeds
which she
did.

\VS{37}And it came to
pass
in
those
days, that
she was
sick, and
died:
whom when they had
washed, they
laid
{\ADD{
her}}
in an upper
chamber.

\VS{38}And forasmuch
as
Lydda was
nigh to
Joppa,
and the
disciples had
heard
that
Peter
was
there, they
sent
unto
him
two
men,
desiring
{\ADD{him}}
that he
would
not
delay to
come
to
them.

\VS{39}Then
Peter
arose and
went with
them.
When he was
come, they brought
him
into the upper
chamber:
and
all the
widows stood
by
him
weeping,
and
shewing the
coats
and
garments
which
Dorcas
made, while she
was
with
them.

\VS{40}But
Peter put
them
all
forth, and kneeled
down, and
prayed;
and
turning
{\ADD{him}}
to the
body
said,
Tabitha,
arise.
And she
opened
her
eyes:
and when she
saw
Peter, she sat
up.

\VS{41}And he
gave
her
{\ADD{his}}
hand, and
lifted
her
up,
and when he had
called the
saints
and
widows,
presented
her
alive.

\VS{42}And it
was
known
throughout
all
Joppa;
and
many
believed
in the
Lord.

\VS{43}And it came to
pass, that
he
tarried
many
days
in
Joppa
with
one
Simon a
tanner.




\par }\Chap{10}{\PP \VerseOne{1}There
was a
certain
man
in
Cæsarea
called
Cornelius, a
centurion
of the
band
called the
Italian
{\ADD{band}},

\VS{2}{\ADD{A}}
devout
{\ADD{man}},
and one that
feared
God
with
all
his
house,
which
gave
much
alms to the
people,
and
prayed to
God
alway.

\VS{3}He
saw
in a
vision
evidently
about the
ninth
hour of the
day an
angel of
God coming
in
to
him,
and
saying unto
him,
Cornelius.

\VS{4}And when he
looked on
him, he
was
afraid, and
said,
What is
it,
Lord?
And he
said unto
him,
Thy
prayers
and
thine
alms are come
up
for a
memorial
before
God.

\VS{5}And
now
send
men
to
Joppa,
and call
for
{\ADD{one}}
Simon,
whose surname
is
Peter:

\VS{6}He
lodgeth
with
one
Simon a
tanner,
whose
house
is
by the sea
side:
he shall
tell
thee
what
thou
oughtest to
do.

\VS{7}And
when the
angel
which
spake unto
Cornelius was
departed, he
called
two of
his household
servants,
and a
devout
soldier of
them that
waited on
him
continually;

\VS{8}And when he had
declared
all
{\ADD{these}}
things unto
them, he
sent
them
to
Joppa.


\par }{\PP \VS{9}¶
On the
morrow,
as they went on their
journey,
and drew
nigh unto the
city,
Peter went
up
upon the
housetop to
pray
about the
sixth
hour:

\VS{10}And he
became very
hungry,
and
would have
eaten:
but while
they made
ready,
he
fell
into a
trance,

\VS{11}And
saw
heaven
opened,
and a
certain
vessel
descending
unto
him,
as it had been a
great
sheet
knit at the
four
corners,
and let
down
to the
earth:

\VS{12}Wherein
were all manner
of fourfooted
beasts of the
earth,
and wild
beasts,
and creeping
things,
and
fowls of the
air.

\VS{13}And there
came a
voice
to
him,
Rise,
Peter;
kill,
and
eat.

\VS{14}But
Peter
said, Not
so,
Lord;
for I
have
never
eaten any
thing that is
common
or
unclean.

\VS{15}And the
voice
{\ADD{spake}}
unto
him
again the second
time,
What
God hath
cleansed,
{\ADD{that}}
call
not
thou
common.

\VS{16}This was
done
thrice:
and the
vessel was received
up
again
into
heaven.

\VS{17}Now
while
Peter
doubted
in
himself
what this
vision
which he had
seen should
mean,
behold, the
men
which were
sent
from
Cornelius had made
enquiry for
Simon’s
house,
and
stood
before the
gate,

\VS{18}And
called, and
asked
whether
Simon,
which was
surnamed
Peter, were
lodged
there.


\par }{\PP \VS{19}¶
While
Peter
thought
on the
vision, the
Spirit said
unto
him,
Behold,
three
men
seek
thee.

\VS{20}Arise
therefore, and get thee
down,
and
go
with
them,
doubting
nothing:
for
I have
sent
them.

\VS{21}Then
Peter went
down
to the
men
which were
sent
unto
him
from
Cornelius; and
said,
Behold,
I
am he
whom ye
seek:
what
{\ADD{is}} the
cause
wherefore
ye are
come?

\VS{22}And they
said,
Cornelius the
centurion, a
just
man,
and one that
feareth
God,
and of good
report
among
all the
nation of the
Jews, was warned from
God
by an
holy
angel to send
for
thee
into
his
house,
and to
hear
words
of
thee.

\VS{23}Then called
he
them
in, and
lodged
{\ADD{them}}.
And on the
morrow
Peter went
away
with
them,
and
certain
brethren
from
Joppa
accompanied
him.

\VS{24}And the morrow
after they
entered
into
Cæsarea.
And
Cornelius waited
for
them, and
had called
together
his
kinsmen
and
near
friends.

\VS{25}And
as
Peter
was coming
in,
Cornelius
met
him, and fell
down
at his
feet, and
worshipped
{\ADD{him}}.

\VS{26}But
Peter
took
him
up,
saying, Stand
up;
I
myself
also
am a
man.

\VS{27}And as he talked
with
him, he went
in,
and
found
many that were come
together.

\VS{28}And he
said
unto
them,
Ye
know how
that it is an unlawful
thing for a
man that
is a
Jew to keep
company,
or come
unto one of another
nation;
but
God hath
shewed
me
that I
should
not
call any
man
common
or
unclean.

\VS{29}Therefore came
I
{\ADD{unto you}} without
gainsaying, as soon as I was sent
for: I
ask
therefore for
what
intent ye have sent
for
me?

\VS{30}And
Cornelius
said,
Four
days
ago I
was
fasting
until
this
hour;
and at the
ninth
hour I
prayed
in
my
house,
and,
behold, a
man
stood
before
me
in
bright
clothing,

\VS{31}And
said,
Cornelius,
thy
prayer is
heard,
and
thine
alms are had in
remembrance in the sight
of
God.

\VS{32}Send
therefore
to
Joppa,
and call
hither
Simon,
whose surname
is
Peter;
he is
lodged
in the
house
of
{\ADD{one}}
Simon a
tanner
by the sea
side:
who, when he
cometh, shall
speak unto
thee.

\VS{33}Immediately
therefore I
sent
to
thee;
and
thou
hast
well
done that thou art
come.
Now
therefore are
we
all here
present
before
God, to
hear all
things
that are
commanded
thee
of
God.


\par }{\PP \VS{34}¶
Then
Peter
opened
{\ADD{his}}
mouth, and
said,
Of a
truth I
perceive
that
God
is
no respecter of
persons:

\VS{35}But
in
every
nation
he that
feareth
him,
and
worketh
righteousness,
is
accepted with
him.

\VS{36}The
word
which
{\ADD{God}}
sent unto the
children of
Israel,
preaching
peace
by
Jesus
Christ: (he
is
Lord of
all:)

\VS{37}That
word,
{\ADD{I say}},
ye
know, which was
published
throughout
all
Judæa, and
began
from
Galilee,
after the
baptism
which
John
preached;

\VS{38}How
God
anointed
Jesus
of
Nazareth with the
Holy
Ghost
and with
power:
who went
about doing
good,
and
healing
all
that were
oppressed
of the
devil;
for
God
was
with
him.

\VS{39}And
we
are
witnesses of all
things
which he
did
both
in the
land of the
Jews,
and
in
Jerusalem;
whom they
slew and
hanged
on a
tree:

\VS{40}Him
God raised
up the
third
day,
and
shewed
him
openly;

\VS{41}Not to
all the
people,
but unto
witnesses chosen
before
of
God,
{\ADD{even}} to
us,
who did
eat
and drink
with
him
after
he
rose
from the
dead.

\VS{42}And he
commanded
us to
preach unto the
people,
and to
testify
that
it
is he
which was
ordained
of
God
{\ADD{to be}} the
Judge of
quick
and
dead.

\VS{43}To
him
give
all the
prophets
witness, that
through
his
name
whosoever
believeth
in
him shall
receive
remission of
sins.


\par }{\PP \VS{44}¶ While
Peter
yet
spake
these
words, the
Holy
Ghost
fell
on
all
them which
heard the
word.

\VS{45}And
they
of the
circumcision which
believed were
astonished, as many
as
came with
Peter, because
that
on the
Gentiles
also was poured
out the
gift of the
Holy
Ghost.

\VS{46}For they
heard
them
speak with
tongues,
and
magnify
God.
Then
answered
Peter,

\VS{47}Can any
man
forbid
water,
that
these
should
not be
baptized,
which have
received the
Holy
Ghost as
well
as
we?

\VS{48}And he
commanded
them to be
baptized
in the
name of the
Lord.
Then prayed
they
him to
tarry
certain
days.




\par }\Chap{11}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And the
apostles
and
brethren
that
were
in
Judæa
heard
that the
Gentiles
had
also
received the
word of
God.

\VS{2}And
when
Peter was come
up
to
Jerusalem, they that
were
of the
circumcision
contended
with
him,

\VS{3}Saying, Thou wentest
in
to
men
uncircumcised,
and didst eat
with
them.

\VS{4}But
Peter
rehearsed
{\ADD{the matter}} from the
beginning, and
expounded
{\ADD{it}} by
order unto
them,
saying,

\VS{5}I
was
in the
city of
Joppa
praying:
and
in a
trance I
saw a
vision, A
certain
vessel
descend, as it had
been a
great
sheet, let
down
from
heaven by
four
corners;
and it
came even
to
me:

\VS{6}Upon the
which when I had fastened mine
eyes, I
considered,
and
saw fourfooted
beasts of the
earth,
and wild
beasts,
and creeping
things,
and
fowls of the
air.

\VS{7}And I
heard a
voice
saying unto
me,
Arise,
Peter;
slay
and
eat.

\VS{8}But I
said, Not
so,
Lord:
for
nothing
common
or
unclean hath at any
time
entered
into
my
mouth.

\VS{9}But the
voice
answered
me
again
from
heaven,
What
God hath
cleansed,
{\ADD{that}}
call
not
thou
common.

\VS{10}And
this was
done three
times:
and
all were drawn
up
again
into
heaven.

\VS{11}And,
behold,
immediately there were
three
men already
come
unto the
house
where I
was,
sent
from
Cæsarea
unto
me.

\VS{12}And the
Spirit
bade
me go
with
them,
nothing
doubting.
Moreover
these
six
brethren
accompanied
me,
and we
entered
into the
man’s
house:

\VS{13}And he
shewed
us
how he had
seen an
angel
in
his
house, which
stood
and
said unto
him,
Send
men
to
Joppa,
and call
for
Simon, whose surname
is
Peter;

\VS{14}Who shall
tell
thee
words,
whereby
thou
and
all
thy
house shall be
saved.

\VS{15}And
as
I
began to
speak, the
Holy
Ghost
fell
on
them,
as
on
us
at the
beginning.

\VS{16}Then remembered
I the
word of the
Lord, how
that he
said,
{\WJ{John
indeed
baptized
with water;
but
ye
shall be baptized
with
the Holy
Ghost.}}

\VS{17}Forasmuch
then
as
God
gave
them the
like
gift
as
{\ADD{he did}} unto
us, who
believed
on the
Lord
Jesus
Christ;
what
was
I, that I
could
withstand
God?

\VS{18}When they
heard these
things, they held their
peace,
and
glorified
God,
saying,
Then
hath
God
also to the
Gentiles
granted
repentance
unto
life.


\par }{\PP \VS{19}¶
Now
they which were scattered
abroad
upon the
persecution that
arose
about
Stephen
travelled as far
as
Phenice,
and
Cyprus,
and
Antioch,
preaching the
word to
none
but unto the
Jews
only.

\VS{20}And
some
of
them
were
men of
Cyprus
and
Cyrene,
which, when they were
come
to
Antioch,
spake
unto the
Grecians,
preaching the
Lord
Jesus.

\VS{21}And the
hand of the
Lord
was
with
them:
and a
great
number
believed, and
turned
unto the
Lord.


\par }{\PP \VS{22}¶
Then
tidings
of these
things
came
unto the
ears of the
church which
was
in
Jerusalem:
and they sent
forth
Barnabas, that he should
go as far
as
Antioch.

\VS{23}Who, when he
came,
and had
seen the
grace of
God, was
glad,
and
exhorted them
all, that with
purpose of
heart they would
cleave unto the
Lord.

\VS{24}For he
was a
good
man,
and
full of the
Holy
Ghost
and of
faith:
and
much
people was
added unto the
Lord.

\VS{25}Then
departed
Barnabas
to
Tarsus, for to
seek
Saul:

\VS{26}And when he had
found
him, he
brought
him
unto
Antioch.
And it came to pass,
that a
whole
year they
assembled
themselves
with the
church,
and
taught
much
people.
And the
disciples were
called
Christians
first
in
Antioch.


\par }{\PP \VS{27}¶
And
in
these
days
came
prophets
from
Jerusalem
unto
Antioch.

\VS{28}And there stood
up
one
of
them
named
Agabus, and
signified
by the
Spirit that there
should
be
great
dearth
throughout
all the
world:
which came to
pass
in the days of
Claudius
Cæsar.

\VS{29}Then the
disciples,
every
man according
to
his
ability,
determined to
send
relief
unto the
brethren
which
dwelt
in
Judæa:

\VS{30}Which
also they
did, and sent
it
to the
elders
by the
hands of
Barnabas
and
Saul.




\par }\Chap{12}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
about
that
time
Herod the
king stretched
forth
{\ADD{his}}
hands to
vex
certain
of the
church.

\VS{2}And he
killed
James the
brother of
John with the
sword.

\VS{3}And
because he
saw it
pleased the
Jews, he proceeded
further to
take
Peter
also. (Then
were the
days of unleavened
bread.)

\VS{4}And
when he had apprehended
him, he
put
{\ADD{him}}
in
prison, and
delivered
{\ADD{him}} to
four
quaternions of
soldiers to
keep
him;
intending
after
Easter to
bring
him
forth to the
people.

\VS{5}Peter
therefore was
kept
in
prison:
but
prayer
was
made without
ceasing
of the
church
unto
God
for
him.

\VS{6}And
when
Herod
would have
brought
him
forth, the
same
night
Peter
was
sleeping
between
two
soldiers,
bound with
two
chains:
and the
keepers
before the
door
kept the
prison.

\VS{7}And,
behold, the
angel of the
Lord came
upon
{\ADD{him}},
and a
light
shined
in the
prison:
and he
smote
Peter on the
side, and
raised
him
up,
saying,
Arise
up
quickly.
And
his
chains fell
off
from
{\ADD{his}}
hands.

\VS{8}And the
angel
said
unto
him, Gird
thyself,
and bind
on
thy
sandals.
And
so he
did.
And he
saith unto
him,
Cast
thy
garment about
thee,
and
follow
me.

\VS{9}And he went
out, and
followed
him;
and
wist
not
that it
was
true which was
done
by the
angel;
but
thought he
saw a
vision.

\VS{10}When they were
past the
first
and the
second
ward, they
came
unto the
iron
gate that
leadeth
unto the
city;
which
opened to
them of his own
accord:
and they went
out, and passed on
through
one
street;
and
forthwith the
angel
departed
from
him.

\VS{11}And
when
Peter was
come
to
himself, he
said,
Now I
know of a
surety,
that the
Lord hath
sent
his
angel,
and hath
delivered
me out
of the
hand of
Herod,
and
{\ADD{from}}
all the
expectation of the
people of the
Jews.

\VS{12}And when he had
considered
{\ADD{the thing}}, he
came
to the
house of
Mary the
mother of
John, whose surname
was
Mark;
where
many
were gathered
together
praying.

\VS{13}And
as
Peter
knocked at the
door of the
gate, a
damsel
came to
hearken,
named
Rhoda.

\VS{14}And when she
knew
Peter’s
voice, she
opened
not the
gate
for
gladness,
but ran
in, and
told
how
Peter
stood
before the
gate.

\VS{15}And they
said
unto
her, Thou art
mad.
But she constantly
affirmed that it
was even
so.
Then said
they, It
is
his
angel.

\VS{16}But
Peter
continued
knocking:
and when they had
opened
{\ADD{the door}}, and
saw
him, they were
astonished.

\VS{17}But he,
beckoning unto
them with the
hand to hold their
peace,
declared unto
them
how the
Lord had
brought
him out
of the
prison.
And he
said, Go
shew these
things unto
James,
and to the
brethren.
And he
departed, and
went
into
another
place.

\VS{18}Now as soon as it
was
day, there
was
no
small
stir
among the
soldiers,
what was
become of
Peter.

\VS{19}And when
Herod had
sought for
him,
and found
him
not, he
examined the
keepers, and commanded
that
{\ADD{they}} should be put to
death.
And he went
down
from
Judæa
to
Cæsarea,
and
{\ADD{there}}
abode.


\par }{\PP \VS{20}¶
And
Herod
was highly
displeased with them of
Tyre
and
Sidon:
but they
came with one
accord
to
him,
and, having
made
Blastus the
king’s
chamberlain their
friend,
desired
peace;
because
their
country was
nourished
by the
king’s
{\ADD{country}}.

\VS{21}And upon a
set
day
Herod, arrayed
in
royal
apparel,
sat
upon his
throne, and made an
oration
unto
them.

\VS{22}And the
people gave a
shout,
{\ADD{saying, It is}} the
voice of a
god,
and
not of a
man.

\VS{23}And
immediately the
angel of the
Lord
smote
him,
because he
gave
not
God the
glory:
and he
was eaten of
worms, and gave up the
ghost.


\par }{\PP \VS{24}¶
But the
word of
God
grew
and
multiplied.

\VS{25}And
Barnabas
and
Saul
returned
from
Jerusalem, when they had
fulfilled
{\ADD{their}}
ministry,
and took with
them
John, whose surname
was
Mark.




\par }\Chap{13}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now there
were
in the
church that
was
at
Antioch
certain
prophets
and
teachers;
as
Barnabas,
and
Simeon that was
called
Niger,
and
Lucius of
Cyrene,
and
Manaen, which had been brought up
with
Herod the
tetrarch,
and
Saul.

\VS{2}As
they
ministered to the
Lord,
and
fasted, the
Holy
Ghost
said,
Separate
me
Barnabas
and
Saul
for the
work
whereunto I have
called
them.

\VS{3}And
when they had
fasted
and
prayed,
and
laid
{\ADD{their}}
hands on
them, they
sent
{\ADD{them}}
away.


\par }{\PP \VS{4}¶
So
they, being sent
forth
by the
Holy
Ghost,
departed
unto
Seleucia;
and from
thence they
sailed
to
Cyprus.

\VS{5}And when they
were
at
Salamis, they
preached the
word of
God
in the
synagogues of the
Jews:
and they
had
also John
to
{\ADD{their}}
minister.

\VS{6}And when they had gone
through the
isle
unto
Paphos, they
found a
certain
sorcerer, a false
prophet, a
Jew,
whose
name
{\ADD{was}}
Bar-jesus:

\VS{7}Which
was
with the deputy of the
country,
Sergius
Paulus, a
prudent
man;
who called
for
Barnabas
and
Saul, and
desired to
hear the
word of
God.

\VS{8}But
Elymas the
sorcerer (for
so
is
his
name by
interpretation)
withstood
them,
seeking to turn
away the
deputy
from the
faith.

\VS{9}Then
Saul, (who
also
{\ADD{is called}}
Paul,) filled
with the
Holy
Ghost, set his
eyes
on
him,

\VS{10}And
said,
O
full of
all
subtilty
and
all
mischief,
{\ADD{thou}}
child of the
devil,
{\ADD{thou}}
enemy of
all
righteousness, wilt
thou
not
cease to
pervert the
right
ways of the
Lord?

\VS{11}And
now,
behold, the
hand of the
Lord
{\ADD{is}}
upon
thee,
and thou shalt
be
blind,
not
seeing the
sun
for a
season.
And
immediately there
fell
on
him a
mist
and a
darkness;
and he went
about
seeking some to lead him by the
hand.

\VS{12}Then the
deputy, when he
saw what was
done,
believed, being
astonished
at the
doctrine of the
Lord.

\VS{13}Now
when
Paul and his
company
loosed
from
Paphos, they
came
to
Perga in
Pamphylia:
and
John
departing
from
them
returned
to
Jerusalem.


\par }{\PP \VS{14}¶ But
when
they
departed
from
Perga, they
came
to
Antioch in
Pisidia,
and
went
into the
synagogue on the
sabbath
day, and sat
down.

\VS{15}And
after the
reading of the
law
and the
prophets the rulers of the
synagogue
sent
unto
them,
saying,
{\ADD{Ye}}
men
{\ADD{and}}
brethren,
if ye
have any
word of
exhortation
for the
people, say
on.

\VS{16}Then
Paul stood
up,
and beckoning
with
{\ADD{his}}
hand
said,
Men of
Israel,
and ye that
fear
God, give
audience.

\VS{17}The
God of
this
people of
Israel
chose
our
fathers,
and
exalted the
people
when they dwelt as
strangers
in the
land of
Egypt,
and
with an
high
arm brought
he
them
out of
it.

\VS{18}And
about the
time of forty
years suffered
he their
manners
in the
wilderness.

\VS{19}And when he had
destroyed
seven
nations
in the
land of
Chanaan, he
divided
their
land to
them by
lot.

\VS{20}And
after
that he
gave
{\ADD{unto them}}
judges about the space
of four
hundred
and
fifty
years,
until
Samuel the
prophet.

\VS{21}And
afterward they
desired a
king:
and
God
gave unto
them
Saul the
son of
Cis, a
man
of the
tribe of
Benjamin, by the space of
forty
years.

\VS{22}And when he had
removed
him, he raised
up unto
them
David to
be their
king; to
whom
also he gave
testimony, and
said, I have
found
David
the
{\ADD{son}} of
Jesse, a
man
after mine
own
heart,
which shall
fulfil
all
my
will.

\VS{23}Of this
man’s
seed
hath
God according
to
{\ADD{his}}
promise
raised unto
Israel a
Saviour,
Jesus:

\VS{24}When
John had first
preached
before
his
coming the
baptism of
repentance to
all the
people of
Israel.

\VS{25}And
as
John
fulfilled his
course, he
said,
Whom think ye
that
I
am?
I
am
not
{\ADD{he}}.
But,
behold, there cometh
one
after
me,
whose
shoes
of
{\ADD{his}}
feet I
am
not
worthy to
loose.

\VS{26}Men
{\ADD{and}}
brethren,
children of the
stock of
Abraham,
and
whosoever
among
you
feareth
God, to
you
is the
word of
this
salvation
sent.

\VS{27}For they that
dwell
at
Jerusalem,
and
their
rulers, because they
knew
him
not, nor
yet the
voices of the
prophets
which are
read
every sabbath
day, they have
fulfilled
{\ADD{them}} in
condemning
{\ADD{him}}.

\VS{28}And though they
found
no
cause of
death
{\ADD{in him}}, yet desired
they
Pilate that
he should be
slain.

\VS{29}And
when they had
fulfilled
all that was
written
of
him, they
took
{\ADD{him}}
down
from the
tree, and
laid
{\ADD{him}}
in a
sepulchre.

\VS{30}But
God
raised
him
from the
dead:

\VS{31}And he was
seen
many
days of them which came up
with
him
from
Galilee
to
Jerusalem,
who
are
his
witnesses
unto the
people.

\VS{32}And
we
declare unto
you glad
tidings, how that the
promise which was
made
unto the
fathers,

\VS{33}God hath
fulfilled the
same unto
us
their
children, in that he hath raised
up
Jesus
again;
as it
is
also
written
in the
second
psalm,
Thou
art
my
Son, this
day
have
I
begotten
thee.

\VS{34}And as concerning
that he
raised
him
up
from the
dead,
{\ADD{now}} no
more
to
return
to
corruption, he
said on this
wise, I will
give
you the
sure
mercies of
David.

\VS{35}Wherefore he
saith
also
in
another
{\ADD{psalm}}, Thou
shalt
not
suffer
thine Holy
One to
see
corruption.

\VS{36}For
David, after he had
served his
own
generation by the
will of
God, fell on
sleep,
and was
laid
unto
his
fathers,
and
saw
corruption:

\VS{37}But he,
whom
God raised
again,
saw
no
corruption.


\par }{\PP \VS{38}¶ Be
it
known unto
you
therefore,
men
{\ADD{and}}
brethren,
that
through this
man is
preached unto
you the
forgiveness of
sins:

\VS{39}And
by
him
all that
believe are
justified
from all
things, from
which ye
could
not be
justified
by the
law of
Moses.

\VS{40}Beware
therefore,
lest that
come
upon
you, which is spoken
of
in the
prophets;

\VS{41}Behold, ye
despisers,
and
wonder,
and
perish:
for
I
work a
work
in
your
days, a
work
which ye
shall in no
wise
believe,
though a
man declare
it unto
you.

\VS{42}And
when the
Jews were
gone out
of the
synagogue, the
Gentiles
besought that
these
words might be
preached to
them the
next
sabbath.

\VS{43}Now
when the
congregation was broken
up,
many of the
Jews
and
religious
proselytes
followed
Paul
and
Barnabas:
who,
speaking to
them,
persuaded
them to continue
in the
grace of
God.


\par }{\PP \VS{44}¶
And the
next sabbath
day
came
almost the
whole
city
together to
hear the
word of
God.

\VS{45}But
when the
Jews
saw the
multitudes, they were
filled with
envy,
and spake
against those things which were
spoken
by
Paul,
contradicting
and
blaspheming.

\VS{46}Then
Paul
and
Barnabas waxed
bold, and
said, It
was
necessary that the
word of
God
should
first have been
spoken to
you:
but
seeing ye
put
it from
you,
and
judge
yourselves
unworthy of
everlasting
life,
lo, we
turn
to the
Gentiles.

\VS{47}For
so
hath the
Lord
commanded
us,
{\ADD{saying}}, I have
set
thee to
be a
light of the
Gentiles, that
thou shouldest
be
for
salvation
unto the
ends of the
earth.

\VS{48}And
when the
Gentiles heard
this, they were
glad,
and
glorified the
word of the
Lord:
and as many
as
were
ordained
to
eternal
life
believed.

\VS{49}And the
word of the
Lord was
published
throughout
all the
region.

\VS{50}But the
Jews stirred
up the
devout
and
honourable
women,
and the chief
men of the
city,
and
raised
persecution
against
Paul
and
Barnabas,
and
expelled
them out
of
their
coasts.

\VS{51}But they shook
off the
dust of
their
feet
against
them, and
came
unto
Iconium.

\VS{52}And the
disciples were
filled with
joy,
and with the
Holy
Ghost.




\par }\Chap{14}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And it came to
pass
in
Iconium, that
they
went
both
together
into the
synagogue of the
Jews,
and
so
spake,
that a
great
multitude
both of the
Jews and
also of the
Greeks
believed.

\VS{2}But the
unbelieving
Jews stirred
up the
Gentiles,
and
made their
minds evil
affected
against the
brethren.

\VS{3}Long
time
therefore abode
they speaking
boldly
in the
Lord, which gave
testimony unto the
word of
his
grace,
and
granted
signs
and
wonders to be
done
by
their
hands.

\VS{4}But the
multitude of the
city was
divided:
and part
held
with the
Jews,
and part
with the
apostles.

\VS{5}And
when there
was an
assault
made
both of the
Gentiles, and
also of the
Jews
with
their
rulers, to
use
{\ADD{them}}
despitefully,
and to
stone
them,

\VS{6}They were ware
of
{\ADD{it}}, and
fled
unto
Lystra
and
Derbe,
cities of
Lycaonia,
and unto the region that lieth round
about:

\VS{7}And
there they preached the
gospel.


\par }{\PP \VS{8}¶
And there
sat a
certain
man
at
Lystra,
impotent in his
feet,
being a
cripple
from
his
mother’s
womb,
who
never had
walked:

\VS{9}The
same
heard
Paul
speak:
who stedfastly
beholding
him,
and
perceiving
that he
had
faith to be
healed,

\VS{10}Said with a
loud
voice,
Stand
upright
on
thy
feet.
And he
leaped
and
walked.

\VS{11}And
when the
people
saw
what
Paul had
done, they lifted
up
their
voices,
saying in the speech of
Lycaonia, The
gods are come
down
to
us in the
likeness of
men.

\VS{12}And they
called
Barnabas,
Jupiter;
and
Paul,
Mercurius,
because
he
was the
chief
speaker.

\VS{13}Then the
priest of
Jupiter, which
was
before
their
city,
brought
oxen
and
garlands
unto the
gates, and would
have done
sacrifice
with the
people.

\VS{14}{\ADD{Which}}
when the
apostles,
Barnabas
and
Paul,
heard
{\ADD{of}}, they
rent
their
clothes, and ran
in
among the
people, crying
out,

\VS{15}And
saying,
Sirs,
why do
ye these
things?
We
also
are
men of like
passions with
you, and
preach unto
you that ye should
turn
from
these
vanities
unto the
living
God,
which
made
heaven,
and
earth,
and the
sea,
and all
things that are
therein:

\VS{16}Who
in
times
past
suffered
all
nations to walk
in their
own
ways.

\VS{17}Nevertheless he
left
not
himself without
witness, in that he did
good, and
gave
us
rain from
heaven,
and
fruitful seasons,
filling
our
hearts with
food
and
gladness.

\VS{18}And with
these
sayings
scarce restrained
they the
people, that they
had
not done
sacrifice unto
them.


\par }{\PP \VS{19}¶
And there came
thither
{\ADD{certain}}
Jews
from
Antioch
and
Iconium,
who
persuaded the
people,
and, having
stoned
Paul,
drew
{\ADD{him}} out
of the
city,
supposing
he had been
dead.

\VS{20}Howbeit, as the
disciples stood round
about
him, he rose
up, and
came
into the
city:
and the next
day he
departed
with
Barnabas
to
Derbe.

\VS{21}And when they had preached the
gospel to
that
city,
and had
taught
many, they returned
again
to
Lystra,
and
{\ADD{to}}
Iconium,
and
Antioch,

\VS{22}Confirming the
souls of the
disciples,
{\ADD{and}} exhorting
them to
continue in the
faith,
and
that
we
must
through
much
tribulation
enter
into the
kingdom of
God.

\VS{23}And when they had
ordained
them
elders in
every
church, and had
prayed
with
fasting, they
commended
them to the
Lord,
on
whom they
believed.

\VS{24}And after they had passed
throughout
Pisidia, they
came
to
Pamphylia.

\VS{25}And when they had
preached the
word
in
Perga, they went
down
into
Attalia:

\VS{26}And
thence
sailed
to
Antioch, from
whence they had
been
recommended to the
grace of
God
for the
work
which they
fulfilled.

\VS{27}And when they were
come,
and had
gathered the
church
together, they
rehearsed all
that
God had
done
with
them,
and
how he had
opened the
door of
faith unto the
Gentiles.

\VS{28}And
there they
abode
long
time
with the
disciples.




\par }\Chap{15}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And certain
men which came
down
from
Judæa
taught the
brethren,
{\ADD{and said}},
Except ye be
circumcised after the
manner of
Moses,
ye
cannot
be
saved.

\VS{2}When
therefore
Paul
and
Barnabas
had
no
small
dissension
and
disputation
with
them, they determined
that
Paul
and
Barnabas,
and
certain
other
of
them, should go
up
to
Jerusalem
unto the
apostles
and
elders
about
this
question.

\VS{3}And being brought on their
way
by the
church, they passed
through
Phenice
and
Samaria,
declaring the
conversion of the
Gentiles:
and they
caused
great
joy unto
all the
brethren.

\VS{4}And when they were
come
to
Jerusalem, they were
received
of the
church,
and
{\ADD{of}} the
apostles
and
elders,
and they
declared all things
that
God had
done
with
them.

\VS{5}But there rose
up
certain
of the
sect of the
Pharisees which
believed,
saying,
That it was needful
to
circumcise
them,
and to
command
{\ADD{them}} to
keep the
law of
Moses.


\par }{\PP \VS{6}¶
And the
apostles
and
elders came
together for to
consider
of
this
matter.

\VS{7}And when there had
been
much
disputing,
Peter rose
up, and
said
unto
them,
Men
{\ADD{and}}
brethren,
ye
know how
that a
good
while
ago
God made
choice
among
us, that the
Gentiles
by
my
mouth should
hear the
word of the
gospel,
and
believe.

\VS{8}And
God, which knoweth the
hearts,
bare
them
witness,
giving
them the
Holy
Ghost,
even
as
{\ADD{he did}} unto
us;

\VS{9}And
put
no
difference
between
us
and
them,
purifying
their
hearts by
faith.

\VS{10}Now
therefore
why tempt
ye
God, to
put a
yoke
upon the
neck of the
disciples,
which
neither
our
fathers
nor
we were
able to
bear?

\VS{11}But we
believe
that
through the
grace of the
Lord
Jesus
Christ we shall be
saved,
even
as
they.


\par }{\PP \VS{12}¶
Then
all the
multitude kept
silence,
and gave
audience to
Barnabas
and
Paul,
declaring
what
miracles
and
wonders
God had
wrought
among the
Gentiles
by
them.


\par }{\PP \VS{13}¶
And
after they had
held
their
peace,
James
answered,
saying,
Men
{\ADD{and}}
brethren,
hearken unto
me:

\VS{14}Simeon hath
declared
how
God at the
first did
visit the
Gentiles, to
take out of
them a
people
for
his
name.

\VS{15}And to
this
agree the
words of the
prophets;
as it is
written,

\VS{16}After
this I will
return,
and will build
again the
tabernacle of
David,
which is fallen
down;
and I will build
again the
ruins
thereof,
and I will
set
it
up:

\VS{17}That the
residue of
men might
seek after the
Lord,
and
all the
Gentiles,
upon
whom
my
name is
called,
saith the
Lord, who
doeth
all these
things.

\VS{18}Known unto
God
are
all
his
works
from the beginning of the
world.

\VS{19}Wherefore
my sentence
is, that we
trouble
not them,
which from
among the
Gentiles are
turned
to
God:

\VS{20}But that we
write unto
them, that they
abstain
from
pollutions of
idols,
and
{\ADD{from}}
fornication,
and
{\ADD{from}} things
strangled,
and
{\ADD{from}}
blood.

\VS{21}For
Moses
of
old
time
hath in
every
city
them that
preach
him, being
read
in the
synagogues
every sabbath
day.

\VS{22}Then pleased
it the
apostles
and
elders,
with the
whole
church, to
send
chosen
men
of their own
company
to
Antioch
with
Paul
and
Barnabas;
{\ADD{namely}},
Judas
surnamed
Barsabas,
and
Silas,
chief
men
among the
brethren:

\VS{23}And they
wrote
{\ADD{letters}}
by
them after this
manner; The
apostles
and
elders
and
brethren
{\ADD{send}}
greeting unto the
brethren
which are
of the
Gentiles
in
Antioch
and
Syria
and
Cilicia:

\VS{24}Forasmuch
as we have
heard,
that
certain which went
out
from
us have
troubled
you with
words,
subverting
your
souls,
saying,
{\ADD{Ye must}} be
circumcised,
and
keep the
law: to
whom we
gave
no
{\ADD{such}}
commandment:

\VS{25}It seemed
good unto
us, being
assembled with one
accord, to
send
chosen
men
unto
you
with
our
beloved
Barnabas
and
Paul,

\VS{26}Men that have
hazarded
their
lives
for the
name of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ.

\VS{27}We have
sent
therefore
Judas
and
Silas,
who
shall
also
tell
{\ADD{you}} the same
things
by
mouth.

\VS{28}For it seemed
good to the
Holy
Ghost,
and to
us, to lay
upon
you
no
greater
burden
than
these
necessary
things;

\VS{29}That ye
abstain from meats offered to
idols,
and from
blood,
and from things
strangled,
and from
fornication:
from
which if ye
keep
yourselves, ye shall
do
well. Fare ye
well.

\VS{30}So
when they were
dismissed, they
came
to
Antioch:
and when they had
gathered the
multitude
together, they
delivered the
epistle:

\VS{31}{\ADD{Which}}
when they had
read, they
rejoiced
for the
consolation.

\VS{32}And
Judas
and
Silas,
being
prophets
also
themselves,
exhorted the
brethren
with
many
words,
and
confirmed
{\ADD{them}}.

\VS{33}And after they had
tarried
{\ADD{there}} a
space, they were let
go
in
peace
from the
brethren
unto the
apostles.

\VS{34}Notwithstanding it
pleased
Silas to
abide
there
still.

\VS{35}Paul
also
and
Barnabas
continued
in
Antioch,
teaching
and
preaching the
word of the
Lord,
with
many
others
also.


\par }{\PP \VS{36}¶
And
some
days
after
Paul
said
unto
Barnabas, Let us go
again
and
visit
our
brethren
in
every
city
where we have
preached the
word of the
Lord,
{\ADD{and see}}
how they
do.

\VS{37}And
Barnabas
determined to take with
them
John, whose surname
was
Mark.

\VS{38}But
Paul
thought
not
good to take
him with
them,
who
departed
from
them
from
Pamphylia,
and
went
not with
them
to the
work.

\VS{39}And the
contention
was so sharp between
them,
that they departed
asunder
one
from the
other: and
so
Barnabas
took
Mark, and
sailed
unto
Cyprus;

\VS{40}And
Paul
chose
Silas, and
departed, being
recommended
by the
brethren unto the
grace of
God.

\VS{41}And he went
through
Syria
and
Cilicia,
confirming the
churches.




\par }\Chap{16}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then came
he
to
Derbe
and
Lystra:
and,
behold, a
certain
disciple
was
there,
named
Timotheus, the
son of a
certain
woman, which was a
Jewess, and
believed;
but his
father
{\ADD{was}} a
Greek:

\VS{2}Which was well
reported
of by the
brethren that
were
at
Lystra
and
Iconium.

\VS{3}Him
would
Paul have to go
forth
with
him;
and
took and
circumcised
him
because of the
Jews which
were
in
those
quarters:
for they
knew
all
that
his
father
was a
Greek.

\VS{4}And
as they went
through the
cities, they
delivered
them the
decrees for to
keep, that were
ordained
of the
apostles
and
elders which
were
at
Jerusalem.

\VS{5}And
so
were the
churches
established
in the
faith,
and
increased in
number
daily.

\VS{6}Now when they had gone
throughout
Phrygia
and the
region of
Galatia, and were
forbidden
of the
Holy
Ghost to
preach the
word
in
Asia,

\VS{7}After they were
come to
Mysia, they
assayed to
go
into
Bithynia:
but the
Spirit
suffered
them
not.

\VS{8}And they
passing by
Mysia came
down
to
Troas.

\VS{9}And a
vision
appeared to
Paul
in the
night; There
stood a
man of
Macedonia,
and
prayed
him,
saying, Come
over
into
Macedonia, and
help
us.

\VS{10}And
after he had
seen the
vision,
immediately we
endeavoured to
go
into
Macedonia, assuredly
gathering
that the
Lord had
called
us for to preach the
gospel unto
them.

\VS{11}Therefore
loosing
from
Troas, we came with a straight
course
to
Samothracia,
and the
next
{\ADD{day}}
to
Neapolis;

\VS{12}And from
thence
to
Philippi,
which
is the
chief
city of that
part of
Macedonia,
{\ADD{and}} a
colony:
and we
were
in
that
city
abiding
certain
days.

\VS{13}And on the
sabbath we
went out
of the
city
by a river
side,
where
prayer was
wont to be
made;
and we sat
down, and
spake unto the
women
which
resorted
{\ADD{thither.}}


\par }{\PP \VS{14}¶
And a
certain
woman
named
Lydia, a seller of
purple, of the
city of
Thyatira,
which
worshipped
God,
heard
{\ADD{us}}: whose
heart the
Lord
opened, that she attended
unto the things
which were
spoken
of
Paul.

\VS{15}And
when she was
baptized,
and
her
household, she
besought
{\ADD{us}},
saying,
If ye have
judged
me to
be
faithful to the
Lord,
come
into
my
house, and
abide
{\ADD{there}}.
And she
constrained
us.


\par }{\PP \VS{16}¶
And it came to
pass, as
we
went
to
prayer, a
certain
damsel
possessed with a
spirit of
divination
met
us,
which
brought
her
masters
much
gain by
soothsaying:

\VS{17}The
same
followed
Paul
and
us, and
cried,
saying,
These
men
are the
servants of the most
high
God,
which shew
unto
us the
way of
salvation.

\VS{18}And
this did
she
many
days.
But
Paul, being
grieved,
turned
and
said to the
spirit, I
command
thee
in the
name of
Jesus
Christ to come
out
of
her.
And he came
out the
same
hour.


\par }{\PP \VS{19}¶
And when
her
masters
saw
that the
hope of
their
gains was
gone, they
caught
Paul
and
Silas, and
drew
{\ADD{them}}
into the
marketplace
unto the
rulers,

\VS{20}And
brought
them to the
magistrates,
saying,
These
men,
being
Jews, do exceedingly
trouble
our
city,

\VS{21}And
teach
customs,
which
are
not
lawful for
us to
receive,
neither to
observe,
being
Romans.

\VS{22}And the
multitude rose up
together
against
them:
and the
magistrates rent
off
their
clothes, and
commanded to
beat
{\ADD{them}}.

\VS{23}And when they had
laid
many
stripes upon
them, they
cast
{\ADD{them}}
into
prison,
charging the
jailor to
keep
them
safely:

\VS{24}Who, having
received
such a
charge,
thrust
them
into the
inner
prison,
and
made
their
feet
fast
in the
stocks.


\par }{\PP \VS{25}¶
And
at
midnight
Paul
and
Silas
prayed, and sang
praises unto
God:
and the
prisoners
heard
them.

\VS{26}And
suddenly there
was a
great
earthquake, so
that the
foundations of the
prison were
shaken:
and
immediately
all the
doors were
opened,
and every
one’s
bands were
loosed.

\VS{27}And the keeper of the
prison awaking
out of his
sleep,
and
seeing the
prison
doors
open, he drew
out his
sword, and
would have
killed
himself, supposing
that the
prisoners had been
fled.

\VS{28}But
Paul
cried with a
loud
voice,
saying,
Do
thyself
no
harm:
for we
are
all
here.

\VS{29}Then he
called for a
light, and sprang
in,
and
came
trembling, and fell
down before
Paul
and
Silas,

\VS{30}And
brought
them
out, and
said,
Sirs,
what
must
I
do to
be
saved?

\VS{31}And they
said,
Believe
on the
Lord
Jesus
Christ,
and
thou shalt be
saved,
and
thy
house.

\VS{32}And they
spake unto
him the
word of the
Lord,
and to
all that
were
in
his
house.

\VS{33}And he
took
them the
same
hour of the
night, and
washed
{\ADD{their}}
stripes;
and was
baptized,
he
and
all
his,
straightway.

\VS{34}And when he had
brought
them
into
his
house, he
set
meat before
them,
and
rejoiced,
believing in
God with all his
house.

\VS{35}And
when it was
day, the
magistrates
sent the
serjeants,
saying,
Let
those
men
go.

\VS{36}And the keeper of the
prison
told
this
saying
to
Paul, The
magistrates have
sent
to let you
go:
now
therefore
depart, and
go
in
peace.

\VS{37}But
Paul
said
unto
them, They have
beaten
us
openly
uncondemned,
being
Romans, and have
cast
{\ADD{us}}
into
prison;
and
now do they
thrust
us
out
privily?
nay
verily;
but let them
come
themselves and
fetch
us
out.

\VS{38}And the
serjeants
told
these
words unto the
magistrates:
and they
feared, when they
heard
that they
were
Romans.

\VS{39}And they
came and
besought
them,
and
brought
{\ADD{them}}
out, and
desired
{\ADD{them}} to
depart out of the
city.

\VS{40}And they
went out
of the
prison, and
entered
into
{\ADD{the house of}}
Lydia:
and when they had
seen the
brethren, they
comforted
them,
and
departed.




\par }\Chap{17}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now when they had passed
through
Amphipolis
and
Apollonia, they
came
to
Thessalonica,
where
was a
synagogue of the
Jews:

\VS{2}And
Paul,
as his manner
was, went
in
unto
them,
and
three sabbath
days
reasoned with
them out
of the
scriptures,

\VS{3}Opening
and
alleging,
that
Christ must
needs have
suffered,
and risen
again
from the
dead;
and
that
this
Jesus,
whom
I
preach unto
you,
is
Christ.

\VS{4}And
some
of
them
believed,
and
consorted with
Paul
and
Silas;
and of the
devout
Greeks a
great
multitude,
and of the
chief
women
not a
few.


\par }{\PP \VS{5}¶
But the
Jews
which believed
not, moved with
envy, took unto
them
certain
lewd
fellows of the baser
sort,
and gathered a
company, and set
all the
city on an
uproar,
and
assaulted the
house of
Jason, and
sought to
bring
them
out
to the
people.

\VS{6}And when they
found
them
not, they
drew
Jason
and
certain
brethren
unto the rulers of the
city,
crying,
These
that have
turned the
world upside
down are
come
hither
also;

\VS{7}Whom
Jason hath
received:
and
these
all
do
contrary to the
decrees of
Cæsar,
saying that there
is
another
king,
{\ADD{one}}
Jesus.

\VS{8}And they
troubled the
people
and the rulers of the
city, when they
heard these
things.

\VS{9}And when they had
taken
security
of
Jason,
and of the
other, they
let
them
go.


\par }{\PP \VS{10}¶
And the
brethren
immediately sent
away
Paul
and
Silas
by
night
unto
Berea:
who
coming
{\ADD{thither}}
went
into the
synagogue of the
Jews.

\VS{11}These
were more
noble than
those
in
Thessalonica, in
that they
received the
word
with
all readiness of
mind, and
searched the
scriptures
daily,
whether those
things
were
so.

\VS{12}Therefore
many
of
them
believed;
also of
honourable
women which
were
Greeks,
and of
men,
not a
few.

\VS{13}But
when the
Jews
of
Thessalonica had
knowledge
that the
word of
God was
preached
of
Paul
at
Berea, they
came thither
also,
and stirred
up the
people.

\VS{14}And
then
immediately the
brethren sent
away
Paul to
go as it
were
to the
sea:
but
Silas
and
Timotheus
abode
there
still.

\VS{15}And
they that
conducted
Paul
brought
him
unto
Athens:
and
receiving a
commandment
unto
Silas
and
Timotheus
for to
come
to
him
with all
speed, they
departed.


\par }{\PP \VS{16}¶
Now while
Paul
waited for
them
at
Athens,
his
spirit was
stirred
in
him,
when he
saw the
city wholly given to
idolatry.

\VS{17}Therefore disputed
he
in the
synagogue with the
Jews,
and with the devout
persons,
and
in the
market
daily
with them
that met with
him.

\VS{18}Then
certain
philosophers of the
Epicureans,
and of the
Stoicks,
encountered
him.
And
some
said,
What
will
this
babbler
say? other
some, He
seemeth to
be a setter
forth of
strange
gods:
because he
preached unto
them
Jesus,
and the
resurrection.

\VS{19}And they
took
him, and brought
him
unto
Areopagus,
saying,
May we
know
what
this
new
doctrine,
whereof
thou
speakest,
{\ADD{is}}?

\VS{20}For thou
bringest
certain
strange things
to
our
ears: we
would
know
therefore
what these
things
mean.

\VS{21}(For
all the
Athenians
and
strangers
which were
there spent their
time
in
nothing
else, but
either to
tell,
or to
hear
some new
thing.)


\par }{\PP \VS{22}¶
Then
Paul
stood
in the
midst of
Mars’
hill, and
said,
{\ADD{Ye}}
men of
Athens, I
perceive that
in all
things
ye
are too
superstitious.

\VS{23}For as I passed
by,
and
beheld
your
devotions, I
found an
altar
with
this
inscription, TO THE
UNKNOWN
GOD.
Whom
therefore ye
ignorantly
worship,
him
declare
I unto
you.

\VS{24}God that
made the
world
and all
things
therein, seeing that
he
is
Lord of
heaven
and
earth,
dwelleth
not
in
temples made with
hands;

\VS{25}Neither is
worshipped
with
men’s
hands, as though he
needed any
thing, seeing
he
giveth to
all
life,
and
breath,
and all
things;

\VS{26}And hath
made
of
one
blood
all
nations of
men for to
dwell
on
all the
face of the
earth, and hath
determined the
times before
appointed,
and the
bounds of
their
habitation;

\VS{27}That they should
seek the
Lord,
if
haply they might feel
after
him,
and
find
him,
though he
be
not
far
from
every
one of
us:

\VS{28}For
in
him we
live,
and
move,
and have our
being;
as
certain
also
of your
own
poets have
said,
For we
are
also his
offspring.

\VS{29}Forasmuch
then as we
are the
offspring of
God, we
ought
not to think
that the
Godhead
is like
unto
gold,
or
silver,
or
stone,
graven by
art
and
man’s
device.

\VS{30}And the
times of this
ignorance
God winked
at;
but
now
commandeth
all
men every
where to
repent:

\VS{31}Because he hath
appointed a
day,
in the
which he
will
judge the
world
in
righteousness
by
{\ADD{that}}
man
whom he hath
ordained;
{\ADD{whereof}} he hath
given
assurance unto
all
{\ADD{men}}, in that he hath
raised
him
from the
dead.


\par }{\PP \VS{32}¶
And when they
heard of the
resurrection of the
dead,
some
mocked:
and
others
said, We will
hear
thee
again
of
this
{\ADD{matter}}.

\VS{33}So
Paul
departed
from
among
them.

\VS{34}Howbeit
certain
men
clave unto
him, and
believed:
among the
which
{\ADD{was}}
Dionysius the
Areopagite,
and a
woman
named
Damaris,
and
others
with
them.




\par }\Chap{18}{\PP \VerseOne{1}After these
things
Paul
departed
from
Athens, and
came
to
Corinth;

\VS{2}And
found a
certain
Jew
named
Aquila,
born in
Pontus,
lately
come
from
Italy,
with
his
wife
Priscilla; (because
that
Claudius had
commanded
all
Jews to
depart
from
Rome:) and
came unto
them.

\VS{3}And
because he
was of the same
craft, he
abode
with
them,
and
wrought:
for by their
occupation they were
tentmakers.

\VS{4}And he
reasoned
in the
synagogue
every
sabbath,
and
persuaded the
Jews
and the
Greeks.

\VS{5}And
when
Silas
and
Timotheus were
come
from
Macedonia,
Paul was
pressed in the
spirit, and
testified to the
Jews
{\ADD{that}}
Jesus
{\ADD{was}}
Christ.

\VS{6}And when they
opposed
themselves,
and
blasphemed, he
shook
{\ADD{his}}
raiment, and
said
unto
them,
Your
blood
{\ADD{be}}
upon your
own
heads;
I
{\ADD{am}}
clean:
from
henceforth I will
go
unto the
Gentiles.


\par }{\PP \VS{7}¶
And he
departed
thence, and
entered
into a
certain
{\ADD{man’s}}
house,
named
Justus,
{\ADD{one}}
that
worshipped
God,
whose
house joined hard
to the
synagogue.

\VS{8}And
Crispus, the chief ruler of the
synagogue,
believed on the
Lord
with
all
his
house;
and
many of the
Corinthians
hearing
believed,
and were
baptized.

\VS{9}Then
spake the
Lord to
Paul
in the
night
by a
vision,
{\WJ{Be
not
afraid,
but
speak,
and
hold
not
thy peace:}}

\VS{10}{\WJ{For
I
am
with
thee,
and
no man
shall set
on thee
to hurt
thee:
for
I
have
much
people
in
this
city.}}

\VS{11}And he
continued
{\ADD{there}} a
year
and
six
months,
teaching the
word of
God
among
them.


\par }{\PP \VS{12}¶
And when
Gallio was the
deputy of
Achaia, the
Jews made
insurrection with one
accord against
Paul,
and
brought
him
to the judgment
seat,

\VS{13}Saying,
This
{\ADD{fellow}}
persuadeth
men to
worship
God contrary
to the
law.

\VS{14}And when
Paul was now
about to
open
{\ADD{his}}
mouth,
Gallio
said
unto the
Jews,
If it
were a
matter of
wrong
or
wicked
lewdness,
O
{\ADD{ye}}
Jews,
reason would
that I should
bear with
you:

\VS{15}But
if it
be a
question
of
words
and
names,
and
{\ADD{of}}
your
law, look
ye
{\ADD{to it}};
for
I
will
be
no
judge of
such
{\ADD{matters}}.

\VS{16}And he
drave
them
from the judgment
seat.

\VS{17}Then
all the
Greeks
took
Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the
synagogue, and
beat
{\ADD{him}}
before the judgment
seat.
And
Gallio cared
for
none of those
things.


\par }{\PP \VS{18}¶
And
Paul
{\ADD{after this}}
tarried
{\ADD{there}}
yet a
good
while, and then took his
leave of the
brethren, and sailed
thence
into
Syria,
and
with
him
Priscilla
and
Aquila; having
shorn
{\ADD{his}}
head
in
Cenchrea:
for he
had a
vow.

\VS{19}And he
came
to
Ephesus,
and left
them
there:
but
he
himself
entered
into the
synagogue, and
reasoned with the
Jews.

\VS{20}When
they
desired
{\ADD{him}}
to
tarry
longer
time
with
them, he
consented
not;

\VS{21}But
bade
them
farewell,
saying,
I
must by all
means
keep this
feast that
cometh
in
Jerusalem:
but I will
return
again
unto
you,
if
God
will.
And he
sailed
from
Ephesus.

\VS{22}And when he had
landed
at
Cæsarea, and gone
up,
and
saluted the
church, he went
down
to
Antioch.

\VS{23}And after he had
spent
some
time
{\ADD{there}}, he
departed, and went
over
{\ADD{all}} the
country of
Galatia
and
Phrygia in
order,
strengthening
all the
disciples.


\par }{\PP \VS{24}¶
And a
certain
Jew
named
Apollos,
born at
Alexandria, an
eloquent
man,
{\ADD{and}}
mighty
in the
scriptures,
came
to
Ephesus.

\VS{25}This
man
was
instructed in the
way of the
Lord;
and being
fervent in the
spirit, he
spake
and
taught
diligently the
things
of the
Lord,
knowing
only the
baptism of
John.

\VS{26}And
he
began to speak
boldly
in the
synagogue:
whom
when
Aquila
and
Priscilla had
heard, they
took
him
unto
{\ADD{them}},
and
expounded unto
him the
way of
God more
perfectly.

\VS{27}And when
he was
disposed to
pass
into
Achaia, the
brethren
wrote,
exhorting the
disciples to
receive
him:
who, when he was
come, helped
them
much
which had
believed
through
grace:

\VS{28}For he
mightily
convinced the
Jews,
{\ADD{and that}}
publickly,
shewing
by the
scriptures
that
Jesus
was
Christ.




\par }\Chap{19}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And it came to
pass,
that, while
Apollos
was
at
Corinth,
Paul having passed
through the
upper
coasts
came
to
Ephesus:
and
finding
certain
disciples,

\VS{2}He
said
unto
them,
Have ye
received the
Holy
Ghost since ye
believed?
And they
said
unto
him, We
have not so much
as
heard
whether there
be any
Holy
Ghost.

\VS{3}And he
said
unto
them,
Unto
what
then were ye
baptized?
And they
said,
Unto
John’s
baptism.

\VS{4}Then
said
Paul,
John
verily
baptized with the
baptism of
repentance,
saying unto the
people,
that they should
believe
on him
which should
come
after
him,
that
is,
on
Christ
Jesus.

\VS{5}When they
heard
{\ADD{this}}, they were
baptized
in the
name of the
Lord
Jesus.

\VS{6}And when
Paul had
laid
{\ADD{his}}
hands upon
them, the
Holy
Ghost
came
on
them;
and they
spake with
tongues,
and
prophesied.

\VS{7}And
all the
men
were
about
twelve.

\VS{8}And he
went
into the
synagogue, and spake
boldly for the space
of
three
months,
disputing
and
persuading the
things
concerning the
kingdom of
God.

\VS{9}But
when
divers were
hardened,
and believed
not, but spake
evil of that
way
before the
multitude, he
departed
from
them, and
separated the
disciples,
disputing
daily
in the
school of
one
Tyrannus.

\VS{10}And
this
continued by the space
of
two
years; so
that
all
they which
dwelt in
Asia
heard the
word of the
Lord
Jesus,
both
Jews
and
Greeks.

\VS{11}And
God
wrought
special
miracles
by the
hands of
Paul:

\VS{12}So
that
from
his
body were
brought
unto the
sick
handkerchiefs
or
aprons,
and the
diseases
departed
from
them,
and the
evil
spirits went
out
of
them.


\par }{\PP \VS{13}¶
Then
certain
of the
vagabond
Jews,
exorcists, took upon
them to
call
over
them which
had
evil
spirits the
name of the
Lord
Jesus,
saying, We
adjure
you by
Jesus
whom
Paul
preacheth.

\VS{14}And there
were
seven
sons
of
{\ADD{one}}
Sceva, a
Jew,
{\ADD{and}} chief of the
priests, which
did
so.

\VS{15}And the
evil
spirit
answered and
said,
Jesus I
know,
and
Paul I
know;
but
who
are
ye?

\VS{16}And the
man
in
whom the
evil
spirit
was
leaped
on
them,
and
overcame
them, and
prevailed
against
them, so
that they
fled out
of
that
house
naked
and
wounded.

\VS{17}And
this
was
known to
all the
Jews
and
Greeks
also
dwelling at
Ephesus;
and
fear
fell
on
them
all,
and the
name of the
Lord
Jesus was
magnified.

\VS{18}And
many
that
believed
came,
and
confessed, and
shewed
their
deeds.

\VS{19}Many of
them also which
used curious
arts brought
their
books
together, and burned
them
before
all
{\ADD{men}}:
and they
counted the
price of
them,
and
found
{\ADD{it}}
fifty
thousand
{\ADD{pieces}} of
silver.

\VS{20}So
mightily
grew the
word of
God
and
prevailed.


\par }{\PP \VS{21}¶
After these
things were
ended,
Paul
purposed
in the
spirit, when he had passed
through
Macedonia
and
Achaia, to
go
to
Jerusalem,
saying,
After
I have
been
there,
I
must
also
see
Rome.

\VS{22}So he
sent
into
Macedonia
two of
them that
ministered unto
him,
Timotheus
and
Erastus; but
he
himself
stayed
in
Asia for a
season.

\VS{23}And the
same
time there
arose
no
small
stir
about that
way.

\VS{24}For a
certain
{\ADD{man}}
named
Demetrius, a
silversmith, which
made
silver
shrines for
Diana,
brought
no
small
gain unto the
craftsmen;

\VS{25}Whom he called
together
with the
workmen
of like
occupation, and
said,
Sirs, ye
know
that
by
this
craft we
have
our
wealth.

\VS{26}Moreover ye
see
and
hear,
that
not
alone at
Ephesus,
but
almost
throughout
all
Asia,
this
Paul hath
persuaded and turned
away
much
people,
saying
that they
be
no
gods,
which are
made with
hands:

\VS{27}So
that
not
only
this
our
craft is in
danger
to be
set at
nought;
but
also that
the
temple of the
great
goddess
Diana should
be
despised,
and
her
magnificence should be
destroyed,
whom
all
Asia
and the
world
worshippeth.

\VS{28}And when they
heard
{\ADD{these sayings}}, they
were
full of
wrath,
and cried
out,
saying,
Great
{\ADD{is}}
Diana of the
Ephesians.

\VS{29}And the
whole
city was
filled with
confusion:
and having
caught
Gaius
and
Aristarchus, men of
Macedonia,
Paul’s companions in
travel, they
rushed with one
accord
into the
theatre.

\VS{30}And when
Paul
would have entered
in
unto the
people, the
disciples
suffered
him
not.

\VS{31}And
certain of the chief of
Asia, which
were
his
friends,
sent
unto
him,
desiring
{\ADD{him}} that he
would
not adventure
himself
into the
theatre.

\VS{32}Some
therefore cried one
thing,
and
some
another:
for the
assembly
was
confused;
and the more
part
knew
not
wherefore they were come
together.

\VS{33}And they
drew
Alexander out
of the
multitude, the
Jews
putting
him
forward.
And
Alexander
beckoned with the
hand, and would
have made his
defence unto the
people.

\VS{34}But when they
knew
that he
was a
Jew,
all
with
one
voice about the
space
of
two
hours cried
out,
Great
{\ADD{is}}
Diana of the
Ephesians.

\VS{35}And when the
townclerk had
appeased the
people, he
said,
{\ADD{Ye}}
men of
Ephesus,
what
man is
there
that
knoweth
not how that the
city of the
Ephesians
is a
worshipper of the
great
goddess
Diana,
and of
the
{\ADD{image}} which fell down from
Jupiter?

\VS{36}Seeing then
that these
things cannot be spoken
against,
ye
ought to
be
quiet,
and to
do
nothing
rashly.

\VS{37}For ye have brought
hither
these
men, which
are
neither robbers of
churches, nor
yet
blasphemers of
your
goddess.

\VS{38}Wherefore
if
Demetrius,
and the
craftsmen which
are
with
him,
have a
matter
against any
man, the
law is
open,
and there
are
deputies: let them
implead one
another.

\VS{39}But
if ye
enquire any
thing
concerning other
matters, it shall be
determined
in a
lawful
assembly.

\VS{40}For we are in
danger to be called in
question
for this
day’s
uproar, there
being
no cause
whereby we
may
give an
account
of
this
concourse.

\VS{41}And when he
had
thus
spoken, he
dismissed the
assembly.




\par }\Chap{20}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
after the
uproar was
ceased,
Paul called
unto
{\ADD{him}} the
disciples,
and
embraced
{\ADD{them}}, and
departed for to
go
into
Macedonia.

\VS{2}And when he had gone
over
those
parts,
and had
given
them
much
exhortation, he
came
into
Greece,

\VS{3}And
{\ADD{there}}
abode
three
months. And
when the
Jews laid
wait for
him, as he was
about to
sail
into
Syria,
he
purposed to
return
through
Macedonia.

\VS{4}And there
accompanied
him
into
Asia
Sopater of
Berea;
and of the
Thessalonians,
Aristarchus
and
Secundus;
and
Gaius of
Derbe,
and
Timotheus;
and of
Asia,
Tychicus
and
Trophimus.

\VS{5}These going
before
tarried for
us
at
Troas.

\VS{6}And
we sailed
away
from
Philippi
after the
days of unleavened
bread,
and
came
unto
them
to
Troas
in
five
days;
where we
abode
seven
days.

\VS{7}And
upon the
first
{\ADD{day}} of the
week,
when the
disciples came
together to
break
bread,
Paul
preached unto
them,
ready to
depart on the
morrow;
and
continued his
speech
until
midnight.

\VS{8}And there
were
many
lights
in the upper
chamber,
where they
were gathered
together.

\VS{9}And there
sat
in a
window a
certain young
man
named
Eutychus, being
fallen into a
deep
sleep: and
as
Paul
was
long
preaching, he sunk
down
with
sleep, and fell
down
from the third
loft,
and was
taken
up
dead.

\VS{10}And
Paul went
down, and
fell on
him,
and
embracing
{\ADD{him}}
said,
Trouble
not
yourselves;
for
his
life
is
in
him.

\VS{11}When he therefore was come up
again,
and had
broken
bread,
and
eaten,
and
talked
a long
while, even
till break of
day,
so he
departed.

\VS{12}And they
brought the young
man
alive,
and
were
not a
little
comforted.


\par }{\PP \VS{13}¶
And
we went
before
to
ship, and
sailed
unto
Assos,
there
intending to
take in
Paul:
for
so
had he
appointed,
minding
himself to go
afoot.

\VS{14}And
when he
met with
us
at
Assos, we
took
him
in, and
came
to
Mitylene.

\VS{15}And we
sailed
thence, and
came the
next
{\ADD{day}} over
against
Chios;
and the
next
{\ADD{day}} we
arrived
at
Samos,
and
tarried
at
Trogyllium; and the
next
{\ADD{day}} we
came
to
Miletus.

\VS{16}For
Paul had
determined to sail
by
Ephesus,
because
he
would
not spend the
time
in
Asia:
for he
hasted,
if it
were
possible for
him, to
be
at
Jerusalem the
day of
Pentecost.


\par }{\PP \VS{17}¶
And
from
Miletus he
sent
to
Ephesus, and
called the
elders of the
church.

\VS{18}And
when they were
come
to
him, he
said unto
them,
Ye
know,
from the
first
day
that I
came
into
Asia, after what
manner I have
been
with
you at
all
seasons,

\VS{19}Serving the
Lord
with
all humility of
mind,
and with
many
tears,
and
temptations, which
befell
me
by the lying in
wait of the
Jews:

\VS{20}{\ADD{And}}
how I kept
back
nothing that was
profitable
{\ADD{unto you}},
but have
shewed
you,
and have
taught
you
publickly,
and
from house to
house,

\VS{21}Testifying
both to the
Jews, and
also to the
Greeks,
repentance
toward
God,
and
faith
toward
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ.

\VS{22}And
now,
behold,
I
go
bound in the
spirit
unto
Jerusalem,
not
knowing the
things
that shall
befall
me
there:

\VS{23}Save
that the
Holy
Ghost
witnesseth
in every
city,
saying
that
bonds
and
afflictions
abide
me.

\VS{24}But
none of these
things move
me,
neither count
I
my
life
dear unto
myself,
so that I might
finish
my
course
with
joy,
and the
ministry,
which I have
received
of the
Lord
Jesus, to
testify the
gospel of the
grace of
God.

\VS{25}And
now,
behold,
I
know
that
ye
all,
among
whom I have
gone
preaching the
kingdom of
God, shall
see
my
face no
more.

\VS{26}Wherefore I
take
you to
record
this
day,
that
I
{\ADD{am}}
pure
from the
blood of
all
{\ADD{men}}.

\VS{27}For I
have
not
shunned
to
declare unto
you
all the
counsel of
God.


\par }{\PP \VS{28}¶ Take
heed
therefore unto
yourselves,
and to
all the
flock,
over the
which the
Holy
Ghost hath
made
you
overseers, to
feed the
church of
God,
which he hath
purchased
with his
own
blood.

\VS{29}For
I
know
this,
that
after
my
departing shall
grievous
wolves
enter in
among
you,
not
sparing the
flock.

\VS{30}Also
of
your own
selves
shall
men
arise,
speaking perverse
things, to draw
away
disciples
after
them.

\VS{31}Therefore
watch, and
remember,
that by the space of three
years I
ceased
not to
warn
every
one
night
and
day
with
tears.

\VS{32}And
now,
brethren, I
commend
you to
God,
and to the
word of
his
grace, which is
able to build you
up,
and to
give
you an
inheritance
among
all them
which are
sanctified.

\VS{33}I have
coveted no
man’s
silver,
or
gold,
or
apparel.

\VS{34}Yea,
ye
yourselves
know,
that
these
hands have
ministered unto
my
necessities,
and to
them that
were
with
me.

\VS{35}I have
shewed
you all
things, how
that
so
labouring ye
ought to
support the
weak,
and to
remember the
words of the
Lord
Jesus,
how
he
said,
{\WJ{It is
more
blessed
to give
than
to receive.}}


\par }{\PP \VS{36}¶
And when he
had
thus
spoken, he kneeled
down, and
prayed
with
them
all.

\VS{37}And
they
all
wept
sore,
and
fell
on
Paul’s
neck, and
kissed
him,

\VS{38}Sorrowing most of
all
for the
words
which he
spake,
that they
should
see
his
face no
more.
And they
accompanied
him
unto the
ship.




\par }\Chap{21}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And it came to
pass, that
after
we were
gotten
from
them, and had
launched, we
came with a straight
course
unto
Coos,
and
the
{\ADD{day}}
following
unto
Rhodes, and from
thence
unto
Patara:

\VS{2}And
finding a
ship sailing
over
unto
Phenicia, we went
aboard, and set
forth.

\VS{3}Now when we had
discovered
Cyprus,
we
left
it on the left
hand, and
sailed
into
Syria,
and
landed
at
Tyre:
for
there the
ship
was to
unlade her
burden.

\VS{4}And
finding
disciples, we
tarried
there
seven
days:
who
said to
Paul
through the
Spirit, that he
should
not go
up
to
Jerusalem.

\VS{5}And
when
we
had
accomplished those
days, we
departed and went our
way; and they
all
brought
us on our
way,
with
wives
and
children,
till
{\ADD{we were}} out
of the
city:
and we
kneeled
down
on the
shore, and
prayed.

\VS{6}And when we had taken our
leave one of
another, we
took
ship;
and
they
returned home
again.

\VS{7}And when
we had
finished
{\ADD{our}}
course
from
Tyre, we
came
to
Ptolemais,
and
saluted the
brethren, and
abode
with
them
one
day.

\VS{8}And the
next
{\ADD{day}} we that
were
of
Paul’s company
departed, and
came
unto
Cæsarea:
and we
entered
into the
house of
Philip the
evangelist, which
was
{\ADD{one}}
of the
seven; and
abode
with
him.

\VS{9}And the same
man
had
four
daughters,
virgins, which did
prophesy.

\VS{10}And as
we
tarried
{\ADD{there}}
many
days, there came
down
from
Judæa a
certain
prophet,
named
Agabus.

\VS{11}And when he was
come
unto
us, he
took
Paul’s
girdle,
and
bound his
own
hands
and
feet, and
said,
Thus
saith the
Holy
Ghost,
So
shall the
Jews
at
Jerusalem
bind the
man
that
owneth
this
girdle,
and shall
deliver
{\ADD{him}}
into the
hands of the
Gentiles.

\VS{12}And
when we
heard these
things,
both
we,
and
they of that
place,
besought
him
not
to go
up to
Jerusalem.

\VS{13}Then
Paul
answered,
What mean
ye to
weep
and to
break
mine
heart?
for
I
am
ready
not to be
bound
only,
but
also to
die
at
Jerusalem
for the
name of the
Lord
Jesus.

\VS{14}And
when
he
would
not be
persuaded, we
ceased,
saying, The
will of the
Lord be
done.


\par }{\PP \VS{15}And
after
those
days we took up our
carriages, and went
up
to
Jerusalem.

\VS{16}There
went
with
us
also
{\ADD{certain}} of the
disciples
of
Cæsarea, and brought with
them
one
Mnason of
Cyprus, an
old
disciple,
with
whom we should
lodge.

\VS{17}And when
we were
come
to
Jerusalem, the
brethren
received
us
gladly.

\VS{18}And
the
{\ADD{day}}
following
Paul went
in
with
us
unto
James;
and
all the
elders were
present.

\VS{19}And when he had
saluted
them, he
declared
particularly what
things
God had
wrought
among the
Gentiles
by
his
ministry.

\VS{20}And when they
heard
{\ADD{it}}, they
glorified the
Lord,
and
said unto
him, Thou
seest,
brother, how
many
thousands of
Jews there
are
which
believe;
and they
are
all
zealous of the
law:

\VS{21}And they are
informed
of
thee,
that thou
teachest
all the
Jews
which are
among the
Gentiles to
forsake
Moses, saying
that
they
ought
not to
circumcise
{\ADD{their}}
children,
neither to walk
after the
customs.

\VS{22}What is
it
therefore? the
multitude
must
needs come
together:
for they will
hear
that thou art
come.

\VS{23}Do
therefore
this that we
say to
thee:
We
have
four
men
which
have a
vow
on
them;

\VS{24}Them
take, and purify
thyself
with
them,
and be at
charges
with
them,
that they may
shave
{\ADD{their}}
heads:
and
all may
know
that those
things, whereof they were
informed
concerning
thee,
are
nothing;
but
{\ADD{that}} thou
thyself
also walkest
orderly, and
keepest the
law.

\VS{25}As
touching the
Gentiles
which
believe,
we have
written
{\ADD{and}} concluded
that
they
observe
no such
thing,
save only
that they
keep
themselves
from
{\ADD{things}} offered to
idols,
and from
blood,
and from
strangled,
and from
fornication.

\VS{26}Then
Paul
took the
men, and the
next
day purifying
himself
with
them
entered
into the
temple, to
signify the
accomplishment of the
days of
purification,
until
that an offering should
be
offered
for
every
one of
them.


\par }{\PP \VS{27}And
when the
seven
days were
almost
ended, the
Jews which
were
of
Asia, when they
saw
him
in the
temple, stirred
up
all the
people,
and
laid
hands
on
him,

\VS{28}Crying
out,
Men of
Israel,
help:
This
is the
man, that
teacheth
all
{\ADD{men}} every
where
against the
people,
and the
law,
and
this
place:
and
further
brought
Greeks
also
into the
temple,
and hath
polluted
this
holy
place.

\VS{29}(For they
had seen
before
with
him
in the
city
Trophimus an
Ephesian,
whom they
supposed
that
Paul had
brought
into the
temple.)

\VS{30}And
all the
city
was
moved,
and the
people ran
together:
and they
took
Paul, and
drew
him out
of the
temple:
and
forthwith the
doors were
shut.

\VS{31}And as they went
about to
kill
him,
tidings came
unto the chief
captain of the
band,
that
all
Jerusalem was in an
uproar.

\VS{32}Who
immediately
took
soldiers
and
centurions, and ran
down
unto
them:
and when they
saw the chief
captain
and the
soldiers, they
left
beating of
Paul.

\VS{33}Then the chief
captain came
near, and
took
him,
and
commanded
{\ADD{him}} to be
bound with
two
chains;
and
demanded
who he
was,
and
what he
had
done.

\VS{34}And
some
cried one
thing, some
another,
among the
multitude:
and when he
could
not
know the
certainty
for the
tumult, he
commanded
him to be
carried
into the
castle.

\VS{35}And
when
he
came
upon the
stairs, so it
was, that he was
borne
of the
soldiers
for the
violence of the
people.

\VS{36}For the
multitude of the
people followed
after,
crying, Away
with
him.

\VS{37}And as
Paul
was to be
led
into the
castle, he
said unto the chief
captain,
May
I
speak
unto
thee?
Who
said, Canst thou
speak
Greek?

\VS{38}Art
not
thou
that
Egyptian,
which
before
these
days madest an
uproar,
and leddest
out
into the
wilderness four
thousand
men that were
murderers?

\VS{39}But
Paul
said,
I
am a
man
{\ADD{which am}} a
Jew of
Tarsus,
{\ADD{a city}} in
Cilicia, a
citizen
of
no
mean
city:
and, I
beseech
thee,
suffer
me to
speak
unto the
people.

\VS{40}And when he had
given
him
licence,
Paul
stood
on the
stairs, and
beckoned with the
hand unto the
people.
And when there was
made a
great
silence, he spake
unto
{\ADD{them}} in the
Hebrew
tongue,
saying,




\par }\Chap{22}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Men,
brethren,
and
fathers, hear
ye
my
defence
{\ADD{which I make}}
now
unto
you.

\VS{2}(And when they
heard
that he
spake in the
Hebrew
tongue to
them, they
kept the
more
silence:
and he
saith,)

\VS{3}I
am
verily a
man
{\ADD{which am}} a
Jew,
born
in
Tarsus,
{\ADD{a city}} in
Cilicia,
yet brought
up
in
this
city
at the
feet of
Gamaliel,
{\ADD{and}}
taught according
to the perfect
manner of the
law of the
fathers, and
was
zealous toward
God,
as
ye
all
are this
day.

\VS{4}And I
persecuted
this
way
unto the
death,
binding
and
delivering
into
prisons
both
men
and
women.

\VS{5}As
also the high
priest doth
bear
me
witness,
and
all the estate of the
elders:
from
whom
also I
received
letters
unto the
brethren, and
went
to
Damascus, to
bring
them which
were
there
bound
unto
Jerusalem,
for to be
punished.

\VS{6}And it came to pass,
that, as
I made my
journey,
and was come
nigh unto
Damascus
about
noon,
suddenly there
shone
from
heaven a
great
light round
about
me.

\VS{7}And I
fell
unto the
ground,
and
heard a
voice
saying unto
me,
{\WJ{Saul,
Saul,
why
persecutest thou
me?}}

\VS{8}And
I
answered,
Who art
thou,
Lord?
And he
said
unto
me,
{\WJ{I
am
Jesus
of Nazareth,
whom
thou
persecutest.}}

\VS{9}And
they that
were
with
me
saw
indeed the
light,
and
were
afraid;
but they
heard
not the
voice of
him that
spake to
me.

\VS{10}And I
said,
What shall I
do,
Lord?
And the
Lord
said
unto
me,
{\WJ{Arise,
and go
into
Damascus;
and there
it shall be told
thee
of
all things
which
are appointed
for thee
to do.}}

\VS{11}And
when I
could
not
see
for the
glory of
that
light, being led by the
hand
of
them that were
with
me, I
came
into
Damascus.

\VS{12}And
one
Ananias, a
devout
man according
to the
law, having a good
report
of
all the
Jews which
dwelt
{\ADD{there}},

\VS{13}Came
unto
me,
and
stood, and
said unto
me,
Brother
Saul, receive thy
sight.
And the
same
hour
I looked
up
upon
him.

\VS{14}And he
said, The
God of
our
fathers hath
chosen
thee, that thou shouldest
know
his
will,
and
see
that Just
One,
and shouldest
hear the
voice
of
his
mouth.

\VS{15}For thou shalt
be
his
witness
unto
all
men of
what thou hast
seen
and
heard.

\VS{16}And
now
why tarriest
thou?
arise, and be
baptized,
and wash
away
thy
sins, calling
on the
name of the
Lord.

\VS{17}And it came to pass,
that, when
I was come
again
to
Jerusalem,
even while
I
prayed
in the
temple,
I
was
in a
trance;

\VS{18}And
saw
him
saying unto
me,
{\WJ{Make haste,
and
get thee
quickly
out of
Jerusalem:
for
they will
not
receive
thy
testimony
concerning
me.}}

\VS{19}And
I
said,
Lord,
they
know
that
I
imprisoned
and
beat in
every
synagogue them
that
believed
on
thee:

\VS{20}And
when the
blood of
thy
martyr
Stephen was
shed,
I
also
was standing
by,
and consenting
unto
his
death,
and
kept the
raiment of
them that
slew
him.

\VS{21}And he
said
unto
me,
{\WJ{Depart:
for
I
will send
thee
far hence
unto
the Gentiles.}}

\VS{22}And they
gave
him
audience
unto
this
word,
and
{\ADD{then}} lifted
up
their
voices, and
said, Away
with such
a
{\ADD{fellow}}
from the
earth:
for it
is
not
fit that
he should
live.

\VS{23}And as
they cried
out,
and cast
off
{\ADD{their}}
clothes,
and
threw
dust
into the
air,

\VS{24}The chief
captain
commanded
him to be
brought
into the
castle, and bade
that
he should be
examined by
scourging;
that he might
know
wherefore they
cried
so against
him.

\VS{25}And
as they
bound
him with
thongs,
Paul
said
unto the
centurion
that stood
by, Is it
lawful for
you to
scourge a
man that is a
Roman,
and
uncondemned?

\VS{26}When the
centurion
heard
{\ADD{that}}, he
went and
told the chief
captain,
saying, Take
heed
what thou
doest:
for
this
man
is a
Roman.

\VS{27}Then the chief
captain
came, and
said unto
him,
Tell
me,
art
thou a
Roman? He
said,
Yea.

\VS{28}And the chief
captain
answered, With a
great
sum
obtained
I
this
freedom.
And
Paul
said,
But
I
was
{\ADD{free}}
born.

\VS{29}Then
straightway they
departed
from
him
which
should have
examined
him:
and the chief
captain
also was
afraid, after he
knew
that he
was a
Roman,
and
because he
had
bound
him.

\VS{30}On the
morrow,
because he
would have
known the
certainty
wherefore he was
accused
of the
Jews, he
loosed
him
from
{\ADD{his}}
bands,
and
commanded the chief
priests
and
all
their
council to
appear,
and
brought
Paul
down, and set
him
before
them.




\par }\Chap{23}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Paul, earnestly
beholding the
council,
said,
Men
{\ADD{and}}
brethren,
I have
lived in
all
good
conscience before
God
until
this
day.

\VS{2}And the high
priest
Ananias
commanded them
that stood
by
him to
smite
him on the
mouth.

\VS{3}Then
said
Paul
unto
him,
God
shall
smite
thee,
{\ADD{thou}}
whited
wall:
for
sittest
thou to
judge
me
after the
law,
and
commandest
me to be
smitten contrary to the
law?

\VS{4}And they
that stood
by
said, Revilest
thou
God’s high
priest?

\VS{5}Then
said
Paul, I
wist
not,
brethren,
that he
was the high
priest:
for it is
written, Thou
shalt
not
speak
evil of the
ruler of
thy
people.

\VS{6}But when
Paul
perceived
that the
one
part
were
Sadducees,
and the
other
Pharisees, he cried
out
in the
council,
Men
{\ADD{and}}
brethren,
I
am a
Pharisee, the
son of a
Pharisee:
of the
hope
and
resurrection of the
dead
I am called in
question.

\VS{7}And
when
he had so
said, there
arose a
dissension between the
Pharisees
and the
Sadducees:
and the
multitude was
divided.

\VS{8}For the
Sadducees say
that there
is
no
resurrection,
neither
angel,
nor
spirit:
but the
Pharisees
confess
both.

\VS{9}And there
arose a
great
cry:
and the
scribes
{\ADD{that were}} of the
Pharisees’
part
arose, and
strove,
saying, We
find
no
evil
in
this
man:
but
if a
spirit
or an
angel hath
spoken to
him, let
us
not fight against
God.

\VS{10}And when there
arose a
great
dissension, the chief
captain,
fearing
lest
Paul should have been pulled in
pieces
of
them,
commanded the
soldiers to go
down, and to
take
him by
force
from
among
them,
and to
bring
{\ADD{him}}
into the
castle.

\VS{11}And the
night
following the
Lord
stood by
him, and
said,
{\WJ{Be of good cheer,
Paul:
for
as thou
hast testified
of
me
in
Jerusalem,
so
must
thou
bear witness
also
at
Rome.}}

\VS{12}And when it
was
day,
certain of the
Jews
banded
together, and
bound
themselves under a
curse, saying
that they
would
neither
eat
nor
drink
till they had
killed
Paul.

\VS{13}And they
were
more than
forty
which had
made
this
conspiracy.

\VS{14}And
they
came to the chief
priests
and
elders, and
said, We have
bound
ourselves under a great
curse, that we will
eat
nothing
until we have
slain
Paul.

\VS{15}Now
therefore
ye
with the
council
signify to the chief
captain
that he
bring
him
down
unto
you to
morrow, as
though ye
would
enquire something more
perfectly
concerning
him:
and
we, or
ever
he come
near,
are
ready to
kill
him.

\VS{16}And
when
Paul’s
sister’s
son
heard of their lying in
wait, he
went
and
entered
into the
castle, and
told
Paul.

\VS{17}Then
Paul
called
one of the
centurions unto
{\ADD{him}}, and
said,
Bring
this young
man
unto the chief
captain:
for he
hath a certain
thing to
tell
him.

\VS{18}So he
took
him, and
brought
{\ADD{him}}
to the chief
captain,
and
said,
Paul the
prisoner
called
me
unto
{\ADD{him}}, and prayed
me to
bring
this young
man
unto
thee, who
hath
something to
say unto
thee.

\VS{19}Then the chief
captain
took
him by the
hand,
and
went
{\ADD{with him}}
aside
privately, and
asked
{\ADD{him}},
What
is
that thou
hast to
tell
me?

\VS{20}And he
said, The
Jews have
agreed to
desire
thee
that thou wouldest bring
down
Paul to
morrow
into the
council, as
though they would
enquire
somewhat
of
him
more
perfectly.

\VS{21}But
do
not
thou
yield unto
them:
for there lie in
wait for
him
of
them
more than
forty
men,
which have
bound
themselves with an
oath,
that they
will
neither
eat
nor
drink
till they have
killed
him:
and
now are
they
ready, looking
for a
promise
from
thee.

\VS{22}So the chief
captain
{\ADD{then}}
let the young
man
depart, and
charged
{\ADD{him, See thou}}
tell no
man
that thou hast
shewed these
things
to
me.

\VS{23}And
he
called unto
{\ADD{him}}
two
centurions,
saying, Make
ready two
hundred
soldiers
to
go
to
Cæsarea,
and
horsemen threescore and
ten,
and
spearmen two
hundred,
at the
third
hour of the
night;

\VS{24}And
provide
{\ADD{them}}
beasts,
that they may
set
Paul
on, and
bring
{\ADD{him}}
safe
unto
Felix the
governor.

\VS{25}And he
wrote a
letter
after
this
manner:

\VS{26}Claudius
Lysias unto the most
excellent
governor
Felix
{\ADD{sendeth}}
greeting.

\VS{27}This
man was
taken
of the
Jews,
and
should have been
killed
of
them: then came
I
with an
army, and
rescued
him, having
understood
that he
was a
Roman.

\VS{28}And when I
would have
known the
cause
wherefore they
accused
him, I
brought
him
forth
into
their
council:

\VS{29}Whom I
perceived to be
accused
of
questions of
their
law,
but to
have
nothing laid to his
charge
worthy of
death
or of
bonds.

\VS{30}And when it was
told
me
how
that the
Jews laid
wait
for the
man, I
sent
straightway
to
thee, and gave
commandment to his
accusers
also to
say
before
thee
what
{\ADD{they had}}
against
him.
Farewell.

\VS{31}Then the
soldiers,
as it was
commanded
them,
took
Paul, and
brought
{\ADD{him}}
by
night
to
Antipatris.

\VS{32}On the
morrow they
left the
horsemen to
go
with
him, and
returned
to the
castle:

\VS{33}Who, when they
came
to
Cæsarea,
and
delivered the
epistle to the
governor,
presented
Paul
also before
him.

\VS{34}And
when the
governor had
read
{\ADD{the letter}}, he
asked
of
what
province he
was.
And when he
understood
that
{\ADD{he was}}
of
Cilicia;

\VS{35}I will
hear
thee, said
he,
when
thine
accusers are
also
come.
And he
commanded
him to be
kept
in
Herod’s judgment
hall.




\par }\Chap{24}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
after
five
days
Ananias the high
priest
descended
with the
elders,
and
{\ADD{with}} a
certain
orator
{\ADD{named}}
Tertullus,
who
informed the
governor
against
Paul.

\VS{2}And when
he was called
forth,
Tertullus
began to
accuse
{\ADD{him}},
saying, Seeing that
by
thee we
enjoy
great
quietness, and
that very worthy
deeds are
done unto
this
nation
by
thy
providence,

\VS{3}We
accept
{\ADD{it}}
always,
and in all
places, most
noble
Felix,
with
all
thankfulness.

\VS{4}Notwithstanding,
that I
be
not
further
tedious
unto
thee, I
pray
thee that thou wouldest
hear
us of
thy
clemency a few
words.

\VS{5}For we have
found
this
man
{\ADD{a}}
pestilent
{\ADD{fellow}},
and a
mover of
sedition
among all the
Jews
throughout the
world,
and a
ringleader of the
sect of the
Nazarenes:

\VS{6}Who
also hath gone
about to
profane the
temple:
whom we
took,
and would
have
judged according
to
our
law.

\VS{7}But the chief
captain
Lysias
came
{\ADD{upon us}}, and
with
great
violence
took
{\ADD{him}}
away out
of
our
hands,

\VS{8}Commanding
his
accusers to
come
unto
thee: by
examining
of
whom
thyself
mayest take
knowledge
of
all these
things,
whereof
we
accuse
him.

\VS{9}And the
Jews
also
assented, saying
that these
things
were
so.

\VS{10}Then
Paul, after
that the
governor had
beckoned unto
him to
speak,
answered,
Forasmuch as I know
that
thou hast
been
of
many
years a
judge unto
this
nation, I do the more
cheerfully answer
for
myself:

\VS{11}Because
that
thou
mayest
understand, that there
are
yet
but
twelve
days
since I went
up
to
Jerusalem for to
worship.

\VS{12}And
they
neither
found
me
in the
temple
disputing
with any
man,
neither raising
up the
people,
neither
in the
synagogues,
nor
in the
city:

\VS{13}Neither can
they prove the
things
whereof
they
now
accuse
me.

\VS{14}But
this I
confess unto
thee,
that
after the
way
which they
call
heresy,
so worship
I the
God of my
fathers,
believing all
things
which are
written
in the
law
and in the
prophets:

\VS{15}And
have
hope
toward
God,
which
they
themselves
also
allow, that there
shall
be a
resurrection of the
dead,
both of the
just
and
unjust.

\VS{16}And
herein do I
exercise
myself, to
have
always a
conscience void of
offence
toward
God,
and
{\ADD{toward}}
men.

\VS{17}Now
after
many
years I
came to
bring
alms
to
my
nation,
and
offerings.

\VS{18}Whereupon
certain
Jews
from
Asia
found
me
purified
in the
temple,
neither
with
multitude,
nor
with
tumult.

\VS{19}Who
ought to have been
here
before
thee,
and
object,
if they
had
ought
against
me.

\VS{20}Or
else
let
these
same
{\ADD{here}}
say,
if they have
found
any evil
doing
in
me, while
I
stood
before the
council,

\VS{21}Except it be
for
this
one
voice,
that I
cried
standing
among
them,
Touching the
resurrection of the
dead
I am called in
question
by
you this
day.


\par }{\PP \VS{22}And when
Felix
heard these
things,
having more
perfect
knowledge
of
{\ADD{that}}
way, he
deferred
them, and
said,
When
Lysias the chief
captain shall come
down, I will know the
uttermost of
your
matter.

\VS{23}And he
commanded a
centurion to
keep
Paul,
and to
let
{\ADD{him}}
have
liberty,
and that he should
forbid
none of
his
acquaintance to
minister
or come
unto
him.


\par }{\PP \VS{24}And
after
certain
days,
when
Felix
came
with
his
wife
Drusilla,
which was a
Jewess, he sent
for
Paul,
and
heard
him
concerning the
faith
in
Christ.

\VS{25}And
as
he
reasoned
of
righteousness,
temperance,
and
judgment
to
come,
Felix
trembled, and
answered, Go thy
way for this
time;
when I
have a convenient
season, I will
call for
thee.

\VS{26}He
hoped
also
that
money should have been
given
him
of
Paul,
that he might
loose
him:
wherefore he sent
for
him the
oftener, and
communed
with
him.

\VS{27}But
after two
years
Porcius
Festus
came
into
Felix’ room:
and
Felix,
willing to
shew the
Jews a
pleasure,
left
Paul
bound.




\par }\Chap{25}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now when
Festus was
come into the
province,
after
three
days he
ascended
from
Cæsarea
to
Jerusalem.

\VS{2}Then the high
priest
and the
chief of the
Jews
informed
him
against
Paul,
and
besought
him,

\VS{3}And
desired
favour
against
him,
that he would send
for
him
to
Jerusalem,
laying
wait
in the
way to
kill
him.

\VS{4}But
Festus
answered, that
Paul
should be
kept
at
Cæsarea,
and that he
himself would
depart
shortly
{\ADD{thither}}.

\VS{5}Let
them
therefore, said
he,
which
among
you are
able, go down
with
{\ADD{me}}, and
accuse
this
man,
if there
be
any
wickedness
in
him.

\VS{6}And when he had
tarried
among
them
more
than
ten
days, he went
down
unto
Cæsarea; and the next
day
sitting
on the judgment
seat
commanded
Paul to be
brought.

\VS{7}And
when
he was
come, the
Jews
which came
down
from
Jerusalem stood round
about, and
laid
many
and
grievous
complaints
against
Paul,
which they
could
not
prove.

\VS{8}While he
answered for
himself,
Neither
against the
law of the
Jews,
neither
against the
temple, nor
yet
against
Cæsar, have I
offended any thing at
all.

\VS{9}But
Festus,
willing to
do the
Jews a
pleasure,
answered
Paul, and
said, Wilt
thou go
up
to
Jerusalem, and
there be
judged
of these
things
before
me?

\VS{10}Then
said
Paul,
I
stand
at
Cæsar’s judgment
seat,
where
I
ought to be
judged: to the
Jews have I
done
no
wrong,
as
thou very
well
knowest.

\VS{11}For
if I be an
offender,
or have
committed any
thing
worthy of
death, I
refuse
not to
die:
but
if there
be
none of these things
whereof
these
accuse
me, no
man
may
deliver
me unto
them. I appeal
unto
Cæsar.

\VS{12}Then
Festus, when he had
conferred
with the
council,
answered, Hast thou
appealed unto
Cæsar?
unto
Cæsar shalt thou
go.


\par }{\PP \VS{13}And
after
certain
days
king
Agrippa
and
Bernice
came
unto
Cæsarea to
salute
Festus.

\VS{14}And
when they had
been
there
many
days,
Festus
declared
Paul’s
cause unto the
king,
saying, There
is a
certain
man
left in
bonds
by
Felix:

\VS{15}About
whom, when
I
was
at
Jerusalem, the chief
priests
and the
elders of the
Jews
informed
{\ADD{me}},
desiring
{\ADD{to have}}
judgment
against
him.

\VS{16}To
whom I
answered, It
is
not the
manner of the
Romans to
deliver
any
man
to
die,
before
that he
which is
accused
have the
accusers
face
to
face,
and
have
licence to answer for
himself
concerning the crime laid against
him.

\VS{17}Therefore, when
they were
come
hither,
without any
delay on the
morrow I
sat
on the judgment
seat, and
commanded the
man to be brought
forth.

\VS{18}Against
whom when the
accusers stood
up, they
brought
none
accusation of such
things as
I
supposed:

\VS{19}But
had
certain
questions
against
him
of their
own
superstition,
and
of
one
Jesus, which was
dead,
whom
Paul
affirmed to be
alive.

\VS{20}And
because
I
doubted
of
such
manner of
questions, I
asked
{\ADD{him}}
whether he
would
go
to
Jerusalem, and
there be
judged
of these
matters.

\VS{21}But when
Paul had
appealed to be
reserved
unto the
hearing of
Augustus, I
commanded
him to be
kept
till I might
send
him
to
Cæsar.

\VS{22}Then
Agrippa
said
unto
Festus, I
would
also
hear the
man
myself. To
morrow, said
he, thou shalt
hear
him.


\par }{\PP \VS{23}And on the
morrow, when
Agrippa was
come,
and
Bernice,
with
great
pomp,
and was
entered
into the place of
hearing,
with the chief
captains,
and
principal
men of the
city,
at
Festus’
commandment
Paul was brought
forth.

\VS{24}And
Festus
said,
King
Agrippa,
and all
men
which are here
present with
us, ye
see
this
man,
about
whom
all the
multitude of the
Jews have
dealt with
me,
both
at
Jerusalem,
and
{\ADD{also}}
here, crying
that
he
ought
not to
live any
longer.

\VS{25}But when
I
found that
he had
committed
nothing
worthy of
death,
and that
he
himself hath appealed
to
Augustus, I have
determined to
send
him.

\VS{26}Of
whom I
have
no
certain
thing to
write unto my
lord.
Wherefore I have
brought
him
forth
before
you,
and
specially
before
thee, O
king
Agrippa,
that, after
examination
had, I might
have
somewhat to
write.

\VS{27}For it
seemeth to
me
unreasonable to
send a
prisoner,
and
not withal to
signify the
crimes
{\ADD{laid}}
against
him.




\par }\Chap{26}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
Agrippa
said
unto
Paul,
Thou art
permitted to
speak
for
thyself.
Then
Paul stretched
forth the
hand, and answered for
himself:

\VS{2}I
think
myself
happy,
king
Agrippa, because I
shall answer for
myself this
day
before
thee
touching all the
things
whereof I am
accused
of the
Jews:

\VS{3}Especially
{\ADD{because I know}}
thee to
be
expert in
all
customs
and
questions which
are
among the
Jews:
wherefore I
beseech
thee to
hear
me patiently.

\VS{4}My manner of
life
from my
youth,
which
was
at the
first
among mine
own
nation
at
Jerusalem,
know
all the
Jews;

\VS{5}Which
knew
me from the
beginning,
if they
would
testify,
that
after the most
straitest
sect of
our
religion I
lived a
Pharisee.

\VS{6}And
now I
stand and am
judged
for the
hope of the
promise
made
of
God
unto our
fathers:

\VS{7}Unto
which
{\ADD{promise}}
our twelve
tribes,
instantly
serving
{\ADD{God}}
day
and
night,
hope to
come.
For
which
hope’s sake,
king
Agrippa, I am
accused
of the
Jews.

\VS{8}Why should it be
thought a thing
incredible
with
you,
that
God should
raise the
dead?

\VS{9}I
verily
thought with
myself, that I
ought to
do many
things
contrary
to the
name of
Jesus of
Nazareth.

\VS{10}Which
thing
I
also
did
in
Jerusalem:
and
many of the
saints
did
I shut
up in
prison, having
received
authority
from the chief
priests;
and when
they were put to
death, I
gave my
voice
against
{\ADD{them}}.

\VS{11}And I
punished
them
oft
in
every
synagogue, and
compelled
{\ADD{them}} to
blaspheme;
and
being
exceedingly
mad against
them, I
persecuted
{\ADD{them}}
even
unto
strange
cities.

\VS{12}Whereupon
as I
went
to
Damascus
with
authority
and
commission
from the chief
priests,

\VS{13}At
midday, O
king, I
saw
in the
way a
light from
heaven,
above the
brightness of the
sun, shining round
about
me
and
them which
journeyed
with
me.

\VS{14}And when
we were
all
fallen
to the
earth, I
heard a
voice
speaking
unto
me,
and
saying in the
Hebrew
tongue,
{\WJ{Saul,
Saul,
why
persecutest
thou me?
{\ADD{it is}}
hard
for thee
to kick
against
the pricks.}}

\VS{15}And
I
said,
Who art
thou,
Lord?
And he
said,
{\WJ{I
am
Jesus
whom
thou
persecutest.}}

\VS{16}{\WJ{But
rise,
and
stand
upon
thy
feet:
for
I have appeared
unto thee
for
this purpose,
to make
thee
a minister
and
a witness
both
of these things which
thou hast seen,
and
of those things in the which
I will appear
unto thee;}}

\VS{17}{\WJ{Delivering
thee
from
the people,
and
{\ADD{from}}
the Gentiles,
unto
whom
now
I send
thee,}}

\VS{18}{\WJ{To open
their
eyes,
{\ADD{
and}}
to turn
{\ADD{them}}
from
darkness
to
light,
and
{\ADD{from}}
the power
of Satan
unto
God, that
they
may receive
forgiveness
of sins,
and
inheritance
among
them which
are sanctified
by faith
that is in
me.}}

\VS{19}Whereupon, O
king
Agrippa, I
was
not
disobedient unto the
heavenly
vision:

\VS{20}But
shewed
first unto
them
of
Damascus,
and at
Jerusalem,
and
throughout
all the
coasts of
Judæa,
and
{\ADD{then}} to the
Gentiles, that they should
repent
and
turn
to
God, and
do
works
meet for
repentance.

\VS{21}For these
causes the
Jews
caught
me
in the
temple, and went
about to
kill
{\ADD{me}}.

\VS{22}Having
therefore
obtained
help
of
God, I
continue
unto
this
day,
witnessing
both to
small
and
great,
saying
none other
things
than those
which the
prophets
and
Moses did
say
should
come:

\VS{23}That
Christ
should
suffer,
{\ADD{and}}
that he should be the
first that should
rise
from the
dead, and should
shew
light unto the
people,
and to the
Gentiles.


\par }{\PP \VS{24}And as
he
thus spake for
himself,
Festus
said with a
loud
voice,
Paul, thou art beside
thyself;
much
learning doth
make
thee
mad.

\VS{25}But he
said, I
am
not
mad, most
noble
Festus;
but speak
forth the
words of
truth
and
soberness.

\VS{26}For the
king
knoweth
of these
things,
before
whom
also I
speak
freely:
for I am
persuaded that
none of these
things are hidden
from
him;
for this
thing
was
not
done
in a
corner.

\VS{27}King
Agrippa, believest
thou the
prophets? I
know
that thou
believest.

\VS{28}Then
Agrippa
said
unto
Paul,
Almost thou
persuadest
me to
be a
Christian.

\VS{29}And
Paul
said, I
would to
God,
that
not
only
thou,
but
also
all that
hear
me this
day,
were
both
almost,
and
altogether
such
as
I
am,
except
these
bonds.

\VS{30}And when
he
had
thus
spoken, the
king rose
up,
and the
governor,
and
Bernice,
and
they that
sat with
them:

\VS{31}And when they were gone
aside, they
talked
between
themselves,
saying,
This
man
doeth
nothing
worthy of
death
or of
bonds.

\VS{32}Then
said
Agrippa unto
Festus,
This
man might have
been set at
liberty,
if he
had
not
appealed unto
Cæsar.




\par }\Chap{27}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
when it was determined
that
we should
sail
into
Italy, they
delivered
Paul
and
certain
other
prisoners
unto
{\ADD{one}}
named
Julius, a
centurion of
Augustus’
band.

\VS{2}And entering
into a
ship of
Adramyttium, we
launched,
meaning to
sail
by the
coasts of
Asia;
{\ADD{one}}
Aristarchus, a
Macedonian of
Thessalonica,
being
with
us.

\VS{3}And the
next
{\ADD{day}} we
touched
at
Sidon.
And
Julius
courteously
entreated
Paul, and
gave
{\ADD{him}}
liberty to
go
unto his
friends to refresh
himself.

\VS{4}And
when we had
launched from
thence, we sailed
under
Cyprus,
because the
winds
were
contrary.

\VS{5}And when we had sailed
over the
sea
of
Cilicia
and
Pamphylia, we
came
to
Myra,
{\ADD{a city}} of
Lycia.

\VS{6}And
there the
centurion
found a
ship of
Alexandria
sailing
into
Italy; and he
put
us
therein.

\VS{7}And
when we had sailed
slowly
many
days,
and
scarce were
come over
against
Cnidus, the
wind
not
suffering
us, we sailed
under
Crete, over
against
Salmone;

\VS{8}And,
hardly
passing
it,
came
unto a
place
which is
called The
fair
havens;
nigh
whereunto
was the
city
{\ADD{of}}
Lasea.


\par }{\PP \VS{9}Now when
much
time was
spent,
and when
sailing
was
now
dangerous,
because the
fast
was
now
already
past,
Paul
admonished
{\ADD{them}},

\VS{10}And
said unto
them,
Sirs, I
perceive
that this
voyage
will
be
with
hurt and
much
damage,
not
only of the
lading
and
ship,
but
also of
our
lives.

\VS{11}Nevertheless the
centurion
believed the
master
and the owner of the
ship,
more
than those
things which were
spoken
by
Paul.

\VS{12}And because the
haven
was not
commodious
to winter
in, the more
part
advised to
depart thence
also, if by any
means they
might
attain
to
Phenice,
{\ADD{and there}} to
winter;
{\ADD{which is}} an
haven of
Crete, and
lieth
toward the south
west
and north
west.

\VS{13}And when the south
wind blew
softly, supposing
that they had
obtained
{\ADD{their}}
purpose,
loosing
{\ADD{thence}}, they
sailed
close by
Crete.

\VS{14}But
not
long
after there
arose
against
it a
tempestuous
wind,
called
Euroclydon.

\VS{15}And when the
ship was
caught,
and
could
not bear up
into the
wind, we
let
{\ADD{her}}
drive.

\VS{16}And running
under a
certain
island which is
called
Clauda, we had
much
work to
come
by the
boat:

\VS{17}Which when they had taken
up, they
used
helps,
undergirding the
ship;
and,
fearing
lest they should
fall
into the
quicksands,
strake
sail, and
so were
driven.

\VS{18}And
we being
exceedingly tossed with a
tempest, the
next
{\ADD{day}} they
lightened the
ship;

\VS{19}And the
third
{\ADD{day}} we cast
out with our own
hands the
tackling of the
ship.

\VS{20}And when
neither
sun
nor
stars
in
many
days
appeared,
and
no
small
tempest lay
on
{\ADD{us}},
all
hope that
we should be
saved
was
then taken
away.

\VS{21}But
after
long
abstinence
Paul stood
forth
in the
midst of
them, and
said,
Sirs, ye
should have
hearkened unto
me,
and
not have
loosed
from
Crete,
and to have
gained
this
harm
and
loss.

\VS{22}And
now I
exhort
you to be of good
cheer:
for there shall
be
no loss
of
{\ADD{any man’s}}
life
among
you,
but of the
ship.

\VS{23}For there
stood by
me
this
night the
angel of
God,
whose I
am,
and
whom I
serve,

\VS{24}Saying,
Fear
not,
Paul;
thou must
be brought
before
Cæsar:
and,
lo,
God hath
given
thee
all
them that
sail
with
thee.

\VS{25}Wherefore,
sirs, be of good
cheer:
for I
believe
God,
that
it shall
be
even
as it was
told
me.

\VS{26}Howbeit
we
must be
cast
upon a
certain
island.

\VS{27}But
when the
fourteenth
night was
come, as
we were driven up and
down
in
Adria,
about
midnight the
shipmen deemed
that
they drew near
to
some
country;

\VS{28}And
sounded, and
found
{\ADD{it}}
twenty
fathoms:
and when they had
gone a little
further, they
sounded
again,
and
found
{\ADD{it}}
fifteen
fathoms.

\VS{29}Then
fearing
lest we should have
fallen
upon
rocks, they
cast
four
anchors out
of the
stern, and
wished
for the
day.

\VS{30}And as the
shipmen were
about to
flee out
of the
ship,
when they had let
down the
boat
into the
sea, under
colour as
though they
would have
cast
anchors out
of the
foreship,

\VS{31}Paul
said to the
centurion
and to the
soldiers,
Except
these
abide
in the
ship,
ye
cannot be
saved.

\VS{32}Then the
soldiers cut
off the
ropes of the
boat,
and
let
her fall
off.

\VS{33}And
while the
day
was coming
on,
Paul
besought
{\ADD{them}}
all to
take
meat,
saying, This
day is the
fourteenth
day
that ye have
tarried and
continued
fasting, having
taken
nothing.

\VS{34}Wherefore I
pray
you to
take
{\ADD{some}}
meat:
for this
is
for
your
health:
for there
shall
not an
hair
fall
from the
head of any of
you.

\VS{35}And
when he
had
thus
spoken, he
took
bread,
and gave
thanks to
God in
presence of them
all:
and when he had
broken
{\ADD{it}}, he
began to
eat.

\VS{36}Then
were they
all of good
cheer,
and
they also
took
{\ADD{some}}
meat.

\VS{37}And we
were in
all
in the
ship two
hundred threescore
and
sixteen
souls.

\VS{38}And
when they had
eaten
enough, they
lightened the
ship, and cast
out the
wheat
into the
sea.

\VS{39}And
when it
was
day, they
knew
not the
land:
but they
discovered a
certain
creek
with a
shore,
into the
which they were
minded,
if it were
possible, to
thrust in the
ship.

\VS{40}And when they had taken
up the
anchors, they
committed
{\ADD{themselves}}
unto the
sea,
and
loosed the
rudder
bands,
and hoised
up the
mainsail to the
wind, and
made
toward
shore.

\VS{41}And
falling
into a
place where two seas
met, they
ran the
ship
aground;
and the
forepart stuck
fast, and
remained
unmoveable,
but the hinder
part was
broken
with the
violence of the
waves.

\VS{42}And the
soldiers’
counsel
was
to
kill the
prisoners,
lest
any of them should swim
out, and
escape.

\VS{43}But the
centurion,
willing to
save
Paul,
kept
them
from
{\ADD{their}}
purpose;
and commanded
that
they which
could
swim should
cast
{\ADD{themselves}}
first
{\ADD{into the sea}}, and
get
to
land:

\VS{44}And the
rest,
some
on
boards,
and
some
on
{\ADD{broken pieces}}
of the
ship.
And
so it came to
pass, that they
escaped
all
safe
to
land.




\par }\Chap{28}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And when they were
escaped,
then they
knew
that the
island was
called
Melita.

\VS{2}And the barbarous
people
shewed
us
no
little
kindness:
for they
kindled a
fire, and
received
us every
one,
because of the
present
rain,
and
because of the
cold.

\VS{3}And when
Paul had
gathered a
bundle of
sticks,
and
laid
{\ADD{them}}
on the
fire, there
came a
viper out
of the
heat, and fastened
on
his
hand.

\VS{4}And
when the
barbarians
saw
the
{\ADD{venomous}}
beast
hang
on
his
hand, they
said
among
themselves, No
doubt
this
man
is a
murderer,
whom, though he hath
escaped
the
sea, yet
vengeance
suffereth
not to
live.

\VS{5}And he shook
off the
beast
into the
fire, and
felt
no
harm.

\VS{6}Howbeit they
looked when
he
should have
swollen,
or fallen
down
dead
suddenly:
but after
they had
looked a great
while,
and
saw
no
harm
come
to
him, they changed their
minds, and said
that
he
was a
god.


\par }{\PP \VS{7}In the
same
quarters
were
possessions
of the chief
man of the
island, whose
name was
Publius;
who
received
us, and lodged
us
three
days
courteously.

\VS{8}And it came to
pass, that the
father of
Publius
lay
sick of a
fever
and of a bloody
flux:
to
whom
Paul entered
in,
and
prayed, and
laid his
hands on
him, and
healed
him.

\VS{9}So when
this was
done,
others
also,
which
had
diseases
in the
island,
came,
and were
healed:

\VS{10}Who
also
honoured
us with
many
honours;
and when we
departed, they
laded
{\ADD{us}} with such
things as
were
necessary.


\par }{\PP \VS{11}And
after
three
months we
departed
in a
ship of
Alexandria, which had
wintered
in the
isle, whose
sign was Castor and
Pollux.

\VS{12}And
landing
at
Syracuse, we
tarried
{\ADD{there}}
three
days.

\VS{13}And from
thence we fetched a
compass, and
came
to
Rhegium:
and
after
one
day the south
wind
blew, and we
came the next
day
to
Puteoli:

\VS{14}Where we
found
brethren, and were
desired to
tarry
with
them
seven
days:
and
so we
went
toward
Rome.

\VS{15}And from
thence, when the
brethren
heard
of
us, they
came
to
meet
us as far
as
Appii
forum,
and The
three
taverns:
whom when
Paul
saw, he
thanked
God, and
took
courage.

\VS{16}And
when we
came
to
Rome, the
centurion
delivered the
prisoners to the captain of the
guard:
but
Paul was
suffered to
dwell
by
himself
with a
soldier that
kept
him.


\par }{\PP \VS{17}And it came to
pass, that
after
three
days
Paul
called the
chief of the
Jews
together:
and
when they
were come
together, he
said
unto
them,
Men
{\ADD{and}}
brethren, though
I have
committed
nothing
against the
people,
or
customs of our
fathers, yet was I
delivered
prisoner
from
Jerusalem
into the
hands of the
Romans.

\VS{18}Who, when they had
examined
me, would
have
let
{\ADD{me}}
go,
because there
was
no
cause of
death
in
me.

\VS{19}But when the
Jews spake
against
{\ADD{it}}, I was
constrained to
appeal unto
Cæsar;
not
that I
had
ought to
accuse
my
nation
of.

\VS{20}For
this
cause
therefore have I
called for
you, to
see
{\ADD{you}},
and to speak
with
{\ADD{you}}: because
that
for the
hope of
Israel I am bound
with
this
chain.

\VS{21}And they
said
unto
him,
We
neither
received
letters
out of
Judæa
concerning
thee,
neither
any of the
brethren that
came
shewed
or
spake
any
harm
of
thee.

\VS{22}But we
desire to
hear
of
thee
what thou
thinkest:
for
as
concerning
this
sect,
we
know
that every
where it
is spoken
against.

\VS{23}And when they had
appointed
him a
day, there
came
many
to
him
into
{\ADD{his}}
lodging; to
whom he
expounded
and
testified the
kingdom of
God,
persuading
them
concerning
Jesus,
both
out of the
law of
Moses,
and
{\ADD{out of}} the
prophets,
from
morning
till
evening.

\VS{24}And
some
believed the
things which were
spoken,
and
some believed
not.

\VS{25}And
when they agreed
not
among
themselves, they
departed, after that
Paul had
spoken
one
word,
Well
spake the
Holy
Ghost
by
Esaias the
prophet
unto
our
fathers,

\VS{26}Saying,
Go
unto
this
people,
and
say,
Hearing ye shall
hear,
and
shall
not
understand;
and
seeing ye shall
see,
and
not
perceive:

\VS{27}For the
heart of
this
people is waxed
gross,
and their
ears
are dull
of
hearing,
and
their
eyes have they
closed;
lest they should
see
with
{\ADD{their}}
eyes,
and
hear
with
{\ADD{their}}
ears,
and
understand
with
{\ADD{their}}
heart,
and should be
converted,
and I should
heal
them.

\VS{28}Be
it
known
therefore unto
you,
that the
salvation of
God is
sent unto the
Gentiles,
and
{\ADD{that}}
they will hear
it.

\VS{29}And when
he had
said these
words, the
Jews
departed, and
had
great
reasoning
among
themselves.


\par }{\PP \VS{30}And
Paul
dwelt
two
whole
years
in his
own hired
house,
and
received
all that came
in
unto
him,

\VS{31}Preaching the
kingdom of
God,
and
teaching those
things which
concern the
Lord
Jesus
Christ,
with
all
confidence, no man forbidding
him.


\par }