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A part of +the preaching and action of St. Peter are related in the first twelve +chapters; and a particular account of St. Paul's apostolical labours in +the subsequent chapters. It was written by St. Luke the Evangelist, and +the original in Greek. Its history commences from the Ascension of +Christ our Lord and ends in the year sixty-three, being a brief account +of the Church for the space of about thirty years. + + +Acts Chapter 1 + +The ascension of Christ. Matthias is chosen in place of Judas. + +1:1. The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, of all things which Jesus +began to do and to teach, + +1:2. Until the day on which, giving commandments by the Holy Ghost to +the apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up. + +1:3. To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion, by many +proofs, for forty days appearing to them, and speaking of the kingdom of +God. + +1:4. And eating together with them, he commanded them, that they should +not depart from Jerusalem, but should wait for the promise of the +Father, which you have heard (saith he) by my mouth. + +1:5. For John indeed baptized with water: but you shall be baptized with +the Holy Ghost, not many days hence. + +1:6. They therefore who were come together, asked him, saying: Lord, +wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom of Israel? + +1:7. But he said to them: It is not for you to know the time or moments, +which the Father hath put in his own power: + +1:8. But you shall receive the power of the Holy Ghost coming upon you, +and you shall be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and +Samaria, and even to the uttermost part of the earth. + +1:9. And when he had said these things, while they looked on, he was +raised up: and a cloud received him out of their sight. + +1:10. And while they were beholding him going up to heaven, behold two +men stood by them in white garments. + +1:11. Who also said: Ye men of Galilee, why stand you looking up to +heaven? This Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come +as you have seen him going into heaven. + +1:12. Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount that is called +Olivet, which is nigh Jerusalem, within a sabbath day's journey. + +1:13. And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where +abode Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew +and Matthew, James of Alpheus and Simon Zelotes and Jude the brother of +James. + +1:14. All these were persevering with one mind in prayer with the women, +and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren. + +1:15. In those days Peter rising up in the midst of the brethren, said +(now the number of persons together was about an hundred and twenty): + +1:16. Men, brethren, the scripture must needs be fulfilled, which the +Holy Ghost spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was +the leader of them that apprehended Jesus: + +1:17. Who was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry. + +1:18. And he indeed hath possessed a field of the reward of iniquity, +and being hanged, burst asunder in the midst: and all his bowels gushed +out. + +1:19. And it became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem: so that +the same field was called in their tongue, Haceldama, that is to say, +The field of blood. + +1:20. For it is written in the book of Psalms: Let their habitation +become desolate, and let there be none to dwell therein. And his +bishopric let another take. + +1:21. Wherefore of these men who have companied with us, all the time +that the Lord Jesus came in and went out among us, + +1:22. Beginning from the baptism of John, until the day wherein he was +taken up from us, one of these must be made a witness with us of his +resurrection. + +1:23. And they appointed two, Joseph, called Barsabas, who was surnamed +Justus, and Matthias. + +1:24. And praying, they said: Thou, Lord, who knowest the heart of all +men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen, + +1:25. To take the place of this ministry and apostleship, from which +Judas hath by transgression fallen, that he might go to his own place. + +1:26. And they gave them lot, and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was +numbered with the eleven apostles. + +Acts Chapter 2 + +The disciples receive the Holy Ghost. Peter's sermon to the people. The +piety of the first converts. + +2:1. And when the days of the Pentecost were accomplished, they were all +together in one place: + +2:2. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a mighty wind +coming: and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. + +2:3. And there appeared to them parted tongues, as it were of fire: and +it sat upon every one of them. + +2:4. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost: and they began to +speak with divers tongues, according as the Holy Ghost gave them to +speak. + +2:5. Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem, Jews, devout men, out of +every nation under heaven. + +2:6. And when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and +were confounded in mind, because that every man heard them speak in his +own tongue. + +2:7. And they were all amazed, and wondered, saying: Behold, are not all +these that speak Galilean? + +2:8. And how have we heard, every man our own tongue wherein we were +born? + +2:9. Parthians and Medes and Elamites and inhabitants of Mesopotamia, +Judea, and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, + +2:10. Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, +and strangers of Rome, + +2:11. Jews also, and proselytes, Cretes, and Arabians: we have heard +them speak in our own tongues the wonderful works of God. + +2:12. And they were all astonished, and wondered, saying one to another: +What meaneth this? + +2:13. But others mocking, said: These men are full of new wine. + +2:14. But Peter standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and +spoke to them: Ye men of Judea, and all you that dwell in Jerusalem, be +this known to you and with your ears receive my words. + +2:15. For these are not drunk, as you suppose, seeing it is but the +third hour of the day: + +2:16. But this is that which was spoken of by the prophet Joel: + +2:17. And it shall come to pass, in the last days, (saith the Lord), 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. + +2:18. And upon my servants indeed and upon my handmaids will I pour out +in those days of my spirit: and they shall prophesy. + +2:19. And I will shew wonders in the heaven above, and signs on the +earth beneath: blood and fire, and vapour of smoke. + +2:20. The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, +before the great and manifest day of the Lord to come. + +2:21. And it shalt come to pass, that whosoever shall call upon the name +of the Lord shall be saved. + +2:22. 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 you also know: + +2:23. This same being delivered up, by the determinate counsel and +foreknowledge of God, you by the hands of wicked men have crucified and +slain. + +By the determinate, etc... God delivered up his Son; and his Son +delivered up himself, for the love of us, and for the sake of our +salvation; and so Christ's being delivered up was holy, and was God's +own determination. But they who betrayed and crucified him, did +wickedly, following therein their own malice and the instigation of the +devil; not the will and determination of God, who was by no means the +author of their wickedness; though he permitted it; because he could, +and did draw out of it so great a good, viz., the salvation of man. + +2:24. Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the sorrows of hell, as it +was impossible that he should be holden by it. + +Having loosed the sorrow, etc... Having overcome the grievous pains of +death and all the power of hell. + +2:25. For David saith concerning him: I foresaw the Lord before my face: +because he is at my right hand, that I may not be moved. + +2:26. For this my heart hath been glad, and my tongue hath rejoiced: +moreover my flesh also shall rest in hope. + +2:27. Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell: nor suffer thy Holy +One to see corruption. + +2:28. Thou hast made known to me the ways of life: thou shalt make me +full of joy with thy countenance. + +2:29. Ye men, brethren, let me freely speak to you of the patriarch +David: that he died and was buried; and his sepulchre is with us to this +present say. + +2:30. Whereas therefore he was a prophet and knew that God hath sworn to +him with an oath, that of the fruit of his loins one should sit upon his +throne. + +2:31. Foreseeing this, he spoke of the resurrection of Christ. For +neither was he left in hell: neither did his flesh see corruption. + +2:32. This Jesus hath God raised again, whereof all we are witnesses. + +2:33. Being exalted therefore by the right hand of God and having +received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath poured +forth this which you see and hear. + +2:34. For David ascended not into heaven; but he himself said: The Lord +said to my Lord: Sit thou on my right hand, + +2:35. Until I make thy enemies thy footstool. + +2:36. Therefore let all the house of Israel know most certainly that God +hath made both Lord and Christ, this same Jesus, whom you have +crucified. + +2:37. Now when they had heard these things, they had compunction in +their heart and said to Peter and to the rest of the apostles: What +shall we do, men and brethren? + +2:38. But Peter said to them: Do penance: and be baptized every one of +you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins. And you +shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. + +2:39. For the promise is to you and to your children and to all that are +far off, whomsoever the Lord our God shall call. + +2:40. And with very many other words did he testify and exhort them, +saying: Save yourselves from this perverse generation. + +2:41. They therefore that received his word were baptized: and there +were added in that day about three thousand souls. + +2:42. And they were persevering in the doctrine of the apostles and in +the communication of the breaking of bread and in prayers. + +2:43. And fear came upon every soul. Many wonders also and signs were +done by the apostles in Jerusalem: and there was great fervor in all. + +2:44. And all they that believed were together and had all things +common. + +2:45. Their possessions and goods they sold and divided them to all, +according as every one had need. + +2:46. And continuing daily with one accord in the temple and breaking +bread from house to house, they took their meat with gladness and +simplicity of heart: + +2:47. Praising God and having favour with all the people. And the Lord +increased daily together such as should be saved. + +Acts Chapter 3 + +The miracle upon the lame man, followed by the conversion of many. + +3:1. Now Peter and John went up into the temple at the ninth hour of +prayer. + +3:2. And a certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was carried: +whom they laid every day at the gate of the temple, which is called +Beautiful, that he might ask alms of them that went into the temple. + +3:3. He, when he had seen Peter and John, about to go into the temple, +asked to receive an alms. + +3:4. But Peter with John, fastening his eyes upon him, said: Look upon +us. + +3:5. But he looked earnestly upon them, hoping that he should receive +something of them. + +3:6. But Peter said: Silver and gold I have none; but what I have, I +give thee. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, arise and walk. + +3:7. And taking him by the right hand, he lifted him up: and forthwith +his feet and soles received strength. + +3:8. And he leaping up, stood and walked and went in with them into the +temple, walking and leaping and praising God. + +3:9. And all the people saw him walking and praising God. + +3:10. And they knew him, that it was he who sat begging alms at the +Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and +amazement at that which had happened to him. + +3:11. And as he held Peter and John, all the people ran to them, to the +porch which is called Solomon's, greatly wondering. + +3:12. But Peter seeing, made answer to the people: Ye men of Israel, why +wonder you at this? Or why look you upon us, as if by our strength or +power we had made this man to walk? + +3:13. The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the +God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus, whom you indeed +delivered up and denied before the face of Pilate, when he judged he +should be released. + +3:14. But you denied the Holy One and the Just: and desired a murderer +to be granted unto you. + +3:15. But the author of life you killed, whom God hath raised from the +dead: of which we are witnesses. + +3:16. And in the faith of his name, this man, whom you have seen and +known, hath his name strengthened. And the faith which is by him hath +given this perfect soundness in the sight of you all. + +3:17. And now, brethren, I know that you did it through ignorance: as +did also your rulers. + +3:18. But those things which God before had shewed by the mouth of all +the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled. + +3:19. Be penitent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be +blotted out. + +3:20. That when the times of refreshment shall come from the presence of +the Lord, and he shall send him who hath been preached unto you, Jesus +Christ. + + +3:21. Whom heaven indeed must receive, until the times of the +restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of his +holy prophets, from the beginning of the world. + +3:22. For Moses said: A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto +you of your brethren, like unto me: him you shall hear according to all +things whatsoever he shall speak to you. + +3:23. And it shall be, that every soul which will not hear that prophet +shall be destroyed from among the people. + +3:24. And all the prophets, from Samuel and afterwards, who have spoken, +have told of these days. + +3:25. You are the children of the prophets and of the testament which +God made to our fathers, saying to Abraham: And in thy seed shall all +the kindreds of the earth be blessed. + +3:26. To you first, God, raising up his Son, hath sent him to bless you: +that every one may convert himself from his wickedness. + +Acts Chapter 4 + +Peter and John are apprehended. Their constancy. The church is +increased. + +4:1. And as they were speaking to the people the priests and the officer +of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them, + +4:2. Being grieved that they taught the people and preached in Jesus the +resurrection from the dead: + +4:3. And they laid hands upon them and put them in hold till the next +day: for it was now evening. + +4:4. But many of them who had heard the word believed: and the number of +the men was made five thousand. + +4:5. And it came to pass on the morrow, that their princes and ancients +and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem. + +4:6. And Annas the high priest and Caiphas and John and Alexander: and +as many as were of the kindred of the high priest. + +4:7. And setting them in the midst, they asked: By what power or by what +name, have you done this? + +4:8. Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said to them: Ye princes of +the people and ancients, hear. + +4:9. If we this day are examined concerning the good deed done to the +infirm man, by what means he hath been made whole: + +4:10. Be it known to you all and to all the people of Israel, that by +the name of our Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom +God hath raised from the dead, even by him, this man standeth here +before you, whole. + +4:11. This is the stone which was rejected by you the builders, which is +become the head of the corner. + +4:12. Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other +name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved. + +4:13. Now seeing the constancy of Peter and of John, understanding that +they were illiterate and ignorant men, they wondered: and they knew them +that they had been with Jesus. + +4:14. Seeing the man also who had been healed, standing with them, they +could say nothing against it. + +4:15. But they commanded them to go aside out of the council: and they +conferred among themselves, + +4:16. Saying: What shall we do to these men? For indeed a miracle hath +been done by them, known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. It is +manifest: and we cannot deny it. + +4:17. But that it may be no farther spread among the people, let us +threaten them that they speak no more in this name to any man. + +4:18. And calling them, they charged them not to speak at all, nor teach +in the name of Jesus. + +4:19. But Peter and John answering, said to them: If it be just, in the +sight of God, to hear you rather than God, judge ye. + +4:20. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard. + +4:21. But they, threatening, sent them away, not finding how they might +punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified what had been +done, in that which had come to pass. + +4:22. For the man was above forty years old, in whom that miraculous +cure had been wrought. + +4:23. And being let go, they came to their own company and related all +that the chief priests and ancients had said to them. + +4:24. Who having heard it, with one accord lifted up their voice to God +and said: Lord, thou art he that didst make heaven and earth, the sea +and all things that are in them. + +4:25. Who, by the Holy Ghost, by the mouth of our father David, thy +servant, hast said: Why did the Gentiles rage: and the people meditate +vain things? + +4:26. The kings of the earth stood up: and the princes assembled +together against the Lord and his Christ. + +4:27. For of a truth there assembled together in this city against thy +holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, +with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, + +4:28. To do what thy hand and thy counsel decreed to be done. + +4:29. And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy +servants that with all confidence they may speak thy word, + +4:30. By stretching forth thy hand to cures and signs and wonders, to be +done by the name of thy holy Son, Jesus. + +4:31. And when they had prayed, the place was moved wherein they were +assembled: and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost: and they spoke +the word of God with confidence. + +4:32. And the multitude of believers had but one heart and one soul. +Neither did any one say that aught of the things which he possessed was +his own: but all things were common unto them. + +4:33. And with great power did the Apostles give testimony of the +resurrection of Jesus Christ our Lord: and great grace was in them all. + +4:34. For neither was there any one needy among them. For as many as +were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the price of the +things they sold, + +4:35. And laid it down before the feet of the apostles. And distribution +was made to every one, according as he had need. + +4:36. And Joseph, who, by the apostles, was surnamed Barnabas (which is, +by interpretation, The son of consolation), a Levite, a Cyprian born, + +4:37. Having land, sold it and brought the price and laid it at the feet +of the Apostles. + +Acts Chapter 5 + +The judgment of God upon Ananias and Saphira. The apostles are cast into +prison. + +5:1. But a certain man named Ananias, with Saphira his wife, sold a +piece of land, + +5:2. And by fraud kept back part of the price of the land, his wife +being privy thereunto: and bringing a certain part of it, laid it at the +feet of the apostles. + +5:3. But Peter said: Ananias, why hath Satan tempted thy heart, that +thou shouldst lie to the Holy Ghost and by fraud keep part of the price +of the land? + +5:4. Whilst it remained, did it not remain to thee? And after it was +sold, was it not in thy power? Why hast thou conceived this thing in thy +heart? Thou hast not lied to men, but to God. + +5:5. And Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and gave up the ghost. +And there came great fear upon all that heard it. + +5:6. And the young men rising up, removed him, and carrying him out, +buried him. + +5:7. And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not +knowing what had happened, came in. + +5:8. And Peter said to her: Tell me, woman, whether you sold the land +for so much? And she said: Yea, for so much. + +5:9. And Peter said unto her: Why have you agreed together to tempt the +spirit of the Lord? Behold the feet of them who have buried thy husband +are at the door: and they shall carry thee out, + +5:10. Immediately, she fell down before his feet and gave up the ghost. +And the young men coming in found her dead: and carried her out and +buried her by her husband. + +5:11. And there came great fear upon the whole church and upon all that +heard these things. + +5:12. 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. + +5:13. But of the rest no man durst join himself unto them: but the +people magnified them. + +5:14. And the multitude of men and women who believed in the Lord was +more increased: + +5:15. Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets and +laid them on beds and couches, that, when Peter came, his shadow at the +least might overshadow any of them and they might be delivered from +their infirmities. + +5:16. And there came also together to Jerusalem a multitude out of the +neighbouring cities, bringing sick persons and such as were troubled +with unclean spirits: who were all healed. + +5:17. Then the high priest rising up, and all they that were with him +(which is the heresy of the Sadducees) were filled with envy. + +5:18. And they laid hands on the apostles and put them in the common +prison. + +5:19. But an angel of the Lord by night, opening the doors of the prison +and leading them out, said: + +5:20. Go, and standing speak in the temple to the people all the words +of this life. + +5:21. Who having heard this, early in the morning, entered into the +temple and taught. And the high priest coming, and they that were with +him, called together the council and all the ancients of the children of +Israel: and they sent to the prison to have them brought. + +5:22. But when the ministers came and opening the prison found them not +there, they returned and told, + +5:23. Saying: The prison indeed we found shut with all diligence, and +the keepers standing before the door: but opening it, we found no man +within. + +5:24. Now when the officer of the temple and the chief priests heard +these words, they were in doubt concerning them, what would come to +pass. + +5:25. But one came and told them: Behold, the men whom you put in prison +are in the temple, standing and teaching the people. + +5:26. Then went the officer with the ministers and brought them without +violence: for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned. + +5:27. And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. +And the high priest asked them, + +5:28. Saying: Commanding, we commanded you that you should not teach in +this name. And behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine: and +you have a mind to bring the blood of this man upon us. + +5:29. But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God +rather than men. + +5:30. The God of our fathers hath raised up Jesus, whom you put to +death, hanging him upon a tree. + +5:31. Him hath God exalted with his right hand, to be Prince and +Saviour. to give repentance to Israel and remission of sins. + +5:32. And we are witnesses of these things: and the Holy Ghost, whom God +hath given to all that obey him. + +5:33. When they had heard these things, they were cut to the heart: and +they thought to put them to death. + +5:34. But one in the council rising up, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a +doctor of the law, respected by all the people, commanded the men to be +put forth a little while. + +5:35. And he said to them: Ye men of Israel, take heed to yourselves +what you intend to do, as touching these men. + +5:36. For before these days rose up Theodas, affirming himself to be +somebody, to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined +themselves. Who was slain: and all that believed him were scattered and +brought to nothing. + +5:37. After this man, rose up Judas of Galilee, in the days of the +enrolling, and drew away the people after him. He also perished: and +all, even as many as consented to him, were dispersed. + +5:38. And now, therefore, I say to you: Refrain from these men and let +them alone. For if this council or this work be of men, it will come to +nought: + +5:39. But if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it, lest perhaps you be +found even to fight against God. And they consented to him. + +5:40. And calling in the apostles, after they had scourged them, they +charged them that they should not speak at all in the name of Jesus. And +they dismissed them. + +5:41. And they indeed went from the presence of the council, rejoicing +that they were accounted worthy to suffer reproach for the name of +Jesus. + +5:42. And every day they ceased not, in the temple and from house to +house, to teach and preach Christ Jesus. + +Acts Chapter 6 + +The ordination of the seven deacons. The zeal of Stephen. + +6:1. And in those days, the number of the disciples increasing, there +arose a murmuring of the Greeks against the Hebrews, for that their +widows were neglected in the daily ministration. + +Greeks... So they called the Jews that were born and brought up in +Greece. + +6:2. Then the twelve, calling together the multitude of the disciples, +said: It is not reason that we should leave the word of God and serve +tables. + +6:3. Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of good +reputation, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over +this business. + +6:4. But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the +ministry of the word. + +6:5. And the saying was liked by all the 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. + +6:6. These they set before the apostles: and they praying, imposed hands +upon them. + +6:7. And the word of the Lord increased: and the number of the disciples +was multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly. A great multitude also of the +priests obeyed the faith. + +6:8. And Stephen, full of grace and fortitude, did great wonders and +signs among the people. + +6:9. Now there arose some, of that which is called the synagogue of the +Libertines and of the Cyrenians and of the Alexandrians and of them that +were of Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen. + +6:10. And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit that +spoke. + +6:11. Then they suborned men to say they had heard him speak words of +blasphemy against Moses and against God. + +6:12. And they stirred up the people and the ancients and the scribes. +And running together, they took him and brought him to the council. + +6:13. And they set up false witnesses, who said: This man ceaseth not to +speak words against the holy place and the law. + +6:14. For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth shall +destroy this place and shall change the traditions which Moses delivered +unto us. + +6:15. And all that sat in the council, looking on him, saw his face as +if it had been the face of an angel. + +Acts Chapter 7 + +Stephen's speech before the council. His martyrdom. + +7:1. Then the high priest said: Are these things so? + +7:2. Who said: Ye men, brethren and fathers, hear. The God of glory +appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he +dwelt in Charan. + +7:3. And said to him: Go forth out of thy country and from thy kindred: +and come into the land which I shall shew thee. + +7:4. Then he went out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Charan. +And from thence, after his father was dead, he removed him into this +land, wherein you now dwell. + +7:5. And he gave him no inheritance in it: no, not the pace of a foot. +But he promised to give it him in possession, and to his seed after him, +when as yet he had no child. + +7:6. And God said to him: That his seed should sojourn in a strange +country, and that they should bring them under bondage and treat them +evil four hundred years. + +7:7. And the nation which they shall serve will I judge (said the Lord): +and after these things they shall go out and shall serve me in this +place. + +7:8. And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so he begot Isaac +and circumcised him the eighth day: and Isaac begot Jacob: and Jacob, +the twelve patriarchs. + +7:9. And the patriarchs, through envy, sold Joseph into Egypt. And God +was with him, + +7:10. And delivered him out of all his tribulations: and he gave him +favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharao, the king of Egypt. And he +appointed him governor over Egypt and over all his house. + +7:11. Now there came a famine upon all Egypt and Chanaan, and great +tribulation: and our fathers found no food. + +7:12. But when Jacob had heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent our +fathers first. + +7:13. And at the second time, Joseph was known by his brethren: and his +kindred was made known to Pharao. + +7:14. And Joseph sending, called thither Jacob, his father, and all his +kindred, seventy-five souls. + +7:15. So Jacob went down into Egypt. And he died, and our fathers. + +7:16. And they were translated into Sichem and were laid in the +sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Hemor, +the son of Sichem. + +7:17. And when the time of the promise drew near, which God had promised +to Abraham, the people increased and were multiplied in Egypt. + +7:18. Till another king arose in Egypt, who knew not Joseph. + +7:19. This same, dealing craftily with our race, afflicted our fathers, +that they should expose their children, to the end they might not be +kept alive. + +7:20. At the same time was Moses born: and he was acceptable to God. Who +was nourished three months in his father's house. + +7:21. And when he was exposed, Pharao's daughter took him up and +nourished him for her own son. + +7:22. And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians: and +he was mighty in his words and in his deeds. + +7:23. And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to +visit his brethren, the children of Israel. + +7:24. And when he had seen one of them suffer wrong, he defended him: +and striking the Egyptian, he avenged him who suffered the injury. + +7:25. And he thought that his brethren understood that God by his hand +would save them. But they understood it not. + +7:26. And the day following, he shewed himself to them when they were at +strife and would have reconciled them in peace, saying: Men, ye are +brethren. Why hurt you one another? + +7:27. But he that did the injury to his neighbour thrust him away, +saying: Who hath appointed thee prince and judge over us: + +7:28. What! Wilt thou kill me, as thou didst yesterday kill the +Egyptian? + +7:29. And Moses fled upon this word: and was a stranger in the land of +Madian, where he begot two sons. + +7:30. And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him, in the +desert of mount Sina, an angel in a flame of fire in a bush. + +7:31. And Moses seeing it wondered at the sight. And as he drew near to +view it, the voice of the Lord came unto him, saying: + +7:32. I am the God of thy fathers: the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac +and the God of Jacob. And Moses being terrified durst not behold. + +7:33. And the Lord said to him: Loose the shoes from thy feet: for the +place wherein thou standest is holy ground. + +7:34. Seeing, 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: and I will send thee into Egypt. + +7:35. This Moses, whom they refused, saying: Who hath appointed thee +prince and judge? Him God sent to be prince and redeemer, by the hand of +the angel who appeared to him in the burning bush. + +7:36. He brought them out, doing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt +and in the Red Sea and in the desert, forty years. + +7:37. This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel: A prophet +shall God raise up to you of your own brethren, as myself. Him shall you +hear. + +7:38. This is he that was in the church in the wilderness, with the +angel who spoke to him on Mount Sina and with our fathers. Who received +the words of life to give unto us. + +7:39. Whom our fathers would not obey: but thrust him away and in their +hearts turned back into Egypt, + +7:40. Saying to Aaron: Make us gods to go before us. For as for this +Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is +become of him. + +7:41. And they made a calf in those days and offered sacrifices to the +idol and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. + +7:42. And God turned and gave them up to serve the host of heaven, as it +is written in the books of the prophets: Did you offer victims and +sacrifices to me for forty years, in the desert, O house of Israel? + +7:43. And you took unto you the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of +your god Rempham, figures which you made to adore them. And I will carry +you away beyond Babylon. + +7:44. The tabernacle of the testimony was with our fathers in the +desert, as God ordained for them, speaking to Moses, that he should make +it according to the form which he had seen. + +7:45. Which also our fathers receiving, brought in with Jesus, into the +possession of the Gentiles: whom God drove out before the face of our +fathers, unto the days of David, + +Jesus... That is Josue, so called in Greek. + +7:46. Who found grace before God and desired to find a tabernacle for +the God of Jacob. + +7:47. But Solomon built him a house, + +7:48. Yet the most High dwelleth not in houses made by hands, as the +prophet saith: + +Dwelleth not in houses, etc... That is, so as to stand in need of +earthly dwellings, or to be contained, or circumscribed by them. Though, +otherwise by his immense divinity, he is in our houses; and every where +else; and Christ in his humanity dwelt in houses; and is now on our +altars. + +7:49. Heaven is my throne and the earth my footstool. What house will +you build me (saith the Lord)? Or what is the place of my resting? + +7:50. Hath not my hand made all these things? + +7:51. You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always +resist the Holy Ghost. As your fathers did, so do you also. + +7:52. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they +have slain them who foretold of the coming of the Just One: of whom you +have been now the betrayers and murderers. + +7:53. Who have received the law by the disposition of angels and have +not kept it. + +7:54. Now hearing these things, they were cut to the heart: and they +gnashed with their teeth at him. + +7:55. But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looking up steadfastly to +heaven, saw the glory of God and Jesus standing on the right hand of +God. And he said: Behold, I see the heavens opened and the Son of man +standing on the right hand of God. + +7:56. And they, crying out with a loud voice, stopped their ears and +with one accord ran violently upon him. + +7:57. And casting him forth without the city, they stoned him. And the +witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man, whose +name was Saul. + +7:58. And they stoned Stephen, invoking and saying: Lord Jesus, receive +my spirit. + +7:59. And falling on his knees, he cried with a loud voice, saying: +Lord, lay not his sin to their charge: And when he had said this, he +fell asleep in the Lord. And Saul was consenting to his death. + +Acts Chapter 8 + +Philip converts the Samaritans and baptizes the eunuch. + +8:1. And at that time, there was raised a great persecution against the +church which was at Jerusalem. And they were all dispersed through the +countries of Judea, and Samaria, except the apostles. + +8:2. And devout men took order for Stephen's funeral and made great +mourning over him. + +8:3. But Saul made havock of the church, entering in from house to +house: and dragging away men and women, committed them to prison. + +8:4. They therefore that were dispersed went about preaching the word of +God. + +8:5. And Philip, going down to the city of Samaria, preached Christ unto +them. + +8:6. And the people with one accord were attentive to those things which +were said by Philip, hearing, and seeing the miracles which he did. + +8:7. For many of them who had unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice, +went out. + +8:8. And many, taken with the palsy, and that were lame, were healed. + +8:9. There was therefore great joy in that city. Now there was a certain +man named Simon who before had been a magician in that city, seducing +the people of Samaria, giving out that he was some great one: + +8:10. To whom they all gave ear, from the least to the greatest, saying: +This man is the power of God, which is called great. + +8:11. And they were attentive to him, because, for a long time, he had +bewitched them with his magical practices. + +8:12. But when they had believed Philip preaching of the kingdom of God, +in the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. + +8:13. Then Simon himself believed also and, being baptized, he adhered +to Philip. And being astonished, wondered to see the signs and exceeding +great miracles which were done. + +8:14. Now, when the apostles, who were in Jerusalem, had heard that +Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and +John. + +8:15. Who, when they were come, prayed for them that they might receive +the Holy Ghost. + +8:16. For he was not as yet come upon any of them: but they were only +baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. + +8:17. Then they laid their hands upon them: and they received the Holy +Ghost. + +They laid their hands upon them, etc... The apostles administered the +sacrament of confirmation, by imposition of hands, and prayer; and the +faithful thereby received the Holy Ghost. Not but they had received the +grace of the Holy Ghost at their baptism: yet not that plenitude of +grace and those spiritual gifts which they afterwards received from +bishops in the sacrament of confirmation, which strengthened them to +profess their faith publicly. + +8:18. And when Simon saw that, by the imposition of the hands of the +apostles, the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, + +8:19. Saying: Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I shall lay my +hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost. But Peter said to him: + +8:20. Keep thy money to thyself, to perish with thee: because thou hast +thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money. + +8:21. Thou hast no part nor lot in this matter. For thy heart is not +right in the sight of God. + +8:22. Do penance therefore for this thy wickedness: and pray to God, +that perhaps this thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee. + +8:23. For I see thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the bonds of +iniquity. + +8:24. Then Simon answering, said: Pray you for me to the Lord that none +of these things which you have spoken may come upon me. + +8:25. And they indeed, having testified and preached the word of the +Lord, returned to Jerusalem: and preached the gospel to many countries +of the Samaritans. + +8:26. Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying: Arise, go +towards the south, to the way that goeth down from Jerusalem into Gaza: +this is desert. + +8:27. And rising up, he went. And behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch, +of great authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who had +charge over all her treasures, had come to Jerusalem to adore. + +8:28. And he was returning, sitting in his chariot and reading Isaias +the prophet. + +8:29. And the Spirit said to Philip: Go near and join thyself to this +chariot. + +8:30. And Philip running thither, heard him reading the prophet Isaias. +And he said: Thinkest thou that thou understandest what thou readest? + +8:31. Who said: And how can I, unless some man shew me? And he desired +Philip that he would come up and sit with him. + +8:32. And the place of the scripture which he was reading was this: He +was led as a sheep to the slaughter: and like a lamb without voice +before his shearer, so openeth he not his mouth. + +8:33. In humility his judgment was taken away. His generation who shall +declare, for his life shall be taken from the earth? + +8:34. And the eunuch answering Philip, said: I beseech thee, of whom +doth the prophet speak this? Of himself, or of some other man? + +8:35. Then Philip, opening his mouth and beginning at this scripture, +preached unto him Jesus. + +8:36. And as they went on their way, they came to a certain water. And +the eunuch said: See, here is water: What doth hinder me from being +baptized? + +8:37. And Philip said: If thou believest with all thy heart, thou +mayest. And he answering, said: I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son +of God. + +If thou believest with all thy heart... The scripture many times +mentions only one disposition, as here belief, when others equally +necessary are not expressed, viz., a sorrow for sins, a firm hope, and +the love of God. Moreover, believing with the whole heart signifies a +belief of every thing necessary for salvation. + +8:38. And he commanded the chariot to stand still. And they went down +into the water, both Philip and the eunuch. And he baptized him. + +8:39. And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the +Lord took away Philip: and the eunuch saw him no more. And he went on +his way rejoicing. + +8:40. But Philip was found in Azotus: and passing through, he preached +the gospel to all the cities, till he came to Caesarea. + +Acts Chapter 9 + +Paul's conversion and zeal. Peter heals Eneas and raises up Tabitha to +life. + +9:1. And Saul, as yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against +the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest + +9:2. And asked of him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues: that if he +found any men and women of this way, he might bring them bound to +Jerusalem. + +9:3. And as he went on his journey, it came to pass that he drew nigh to +Damascus. And suddenly a light from heaven shined round about him. + +9:4. And falling on the ground, he heard a voice saying to him: Saul, +Saul, why persecutest thou me? + +9:5. Who said: Who art thou, Lord? And he: I am Jesus whom thou +persecutest. It is hard for thee to kick against the goad. + +9:6. And he, trembling and astonished, said: Lord, what wilt thou have +me to do? + +9:7. And the Lord said to him: Arise and go into the city; and there it +shall be told thee what thou must do. Now the men who went in company +with him stood amazed, hearing indeed a voice but seeing no man. + +9:8. And Saul arose from the ground: and when his eyes were opened, he +saw nothing. But they, leading him by the hands, brought him to +Damascus. + +9:9. And he was there three days without sight: and he did neither eat +nor drink. + +9:10. Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias. And +the Lord said to him in a vision: Ananias, And he said: Behold I am +here, Lord. + +9:11. And the Lord said to him: Arise and go into the street that is +called Strait and seek in the house of Judas, one named Saul of Tarsus. +For behold he prayeth. + +9:12. (And he saw a man named Ananias coming in and putting his hands +upon him, that he might receive his sight.) + +9:13. But Ananias answered: Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how +much evil he hath done to thy saints in Jerusalem. + +9:14. And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that +invoke thy name. + +9:15. And the Lord said to him: Go thy way: for this man is to me a +vessel of election, to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and +the children of Israel. + +9:16. For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's +sake. + +9:17. And Ananias went his way and entered into the house. And laying +his hands upon him, he said: Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus hath sent me, +he that appeared to thee in the way as thou camest, that thou mayest +receive thy sight and be filled with the Holy Ghost. + +9:18. And immediately there fell from his eyes as it were scales: and he +received his sight. And rising up, he was baptized. + +9:19. And when he had taken meat, he was strengthened. And he was with +the disciples that were at Damascus, for some days. + +9:20. And immediately he preached Jesus in the synagogues, that he is +the son of God. + +9:21. And all that heard him were astonished and said: Is not this he +who persecuted in Jerusalem those that called upon this name and came +hither for that intent, that he might carry them bound to the chief +priests? + +9:22. But Saul increased much more in strength and confounded the Jews +who dwelt at Damascus, affirming that this is the Christ. + +9:23. And when many days were passed, the Jews consulted together to +kill him. + +9:24. But their lying in wait was made known to Saul. And they watched +the gates also day and night, that they might kill him. + +9:25. But the disciples, taking him in the night, conveyed him away by +the wall, letting him down in a basket. + +9:26. And when he was come into Jerusalem, he essayed to join himself to +the disciples: and they all were afraid of him, not believing that he +was a disciple. + +9:27. But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles and told +them how he had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken to him: and how in +Damascus he had dealt confidently in the name of Jesus. + +9:28. And he was with them, coming in and going out in Jerusalem and +dealing confidently in the name of the Lord. + +9:29. He spoke also to the Gentiles and disputed with the Greeks. But +they sought to kill him. + +9:30. Which when the brethren had known, they brought him down to +Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus. + +9:31. Now, the church had peace throughout all Judea and Galilee and +Samaria: and was edified, walking in the fear of the Lord: and was +filled with the consolation of the Holy Ghost. + +9:32. And it came to pass that Peter, as he passed through, visiting +all, came to the saints who dwelt at Lydda. + +9:33. And he found there a certain man named Eneas, who had kept his bed +for eight years, who was ill of the palsy. + +9:34. And Peter said to him: Eneas, the Lord Jesus Christ healeth thee. +Arise and make thy bed. And immediately he arose. + +9:35. And all that dwelt at Lydda and Saron saw him: who were converted +to the Lord. + +9:36. And in Joppe there was a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by +interpretation is called Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and +almsdeeds which she did. + +9:37. And it came to pass in those days that she was sick and died. Whom +when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber. + +9:38. And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Joppe, the disciples, hearing +that Peter was there, sent unto him two men, desiring him that he would +not be slack to come unto them. + +9:39. And Peter rising up went with them. And when he was come, they +brought him into the upper chamber. And all the widows stood about him, +weeping and shewing him the coats and garments which Dorcas made them. + +9:40. And they all being put forth, Peter, kneeling down, prayed. And +turning to the body, he said: Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes +and, seeing Peter, sat up. + +9:41. And giving her his hand, he lifted her up. And when he had called +the saints and the widows, he presented her alive. + +9:42. And it was made known throughout all Joppe. And many believed in +the Lord. + +9:43. And it cane to pass that he abode many days in Joppe, with one +Simon a tanner. + +Acts Chapter 10 + +Cornelius is received into the church. Peter's vision. + +10:1. And there was a certain man in Caesarea, named Cornelius, a +centurion of that which is called the Italian band: + +10:2. A religious man, and fearing God with all his house, giving much +alms to the people and always praying to God. + +10:3. This man saw in a vision manifestly, about the ninth hour of the +day, an angel of God coming in unto him and saying to him: Cornelius. + +10:4. And he, beholding him, being seized with fear, said: What is it, +Lord? And he said to him: Thy prayers and thy alms are ascended for a +memorial in the sight of God. + +10:5. And now send men to Joppe: and call hither one Simon, who is +surnamed Peter. + +10:6. He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea +side. He will tell thee what thou must do. + +10:7. And when the angel who spoke to him was departed, he called two of +his household servants and a soldier who feared the Lord, of them that +were under him. + +10:8. To whom when he had related all, he sent them to Joppe. + +10:9. And on the next day, whilst they were going on their journey and +drawing nigh to the city, Peter went up to the higher parts of the house +to pray, about the sixth hour. + +10:10. And being hungry, he was desirous to taste somewhat. And as they +were preparing, there came upon him an ecstasy of mind. + +10:11. And he saw the heaven opened and a certain vessel descending, as +it were a great linen sheet let down by the four corners from heaven to +the earth: + +10:12. Wherein were all manner of four-footed beasts and creeping things +of the earth and fowls of the air. + +10:13. And there came a voice to him: Arise, Peter. Kill and eat. + +10:14. But Peter said: Far be it from me. For I never did eat any thing +that is common and unclean. + +10:15. And the voice spoke to him again the second time: That which God +hath cleansed, do not thou call common. + +10:16. And this was done thrice. And presently the vessel was taken up +into heaven. + +10:17. Now, whilst Peter was doubting within himself what the vision +that he had seen should mean, behold the men who were sent from +Cornelius, inquiring for Simon's house, stood at the gate. + +10:18. And when they had called, they asked if Simon, who is surnamed +Peter, were lodged there. + +10:19. And as Peter was thinking of the vision, the Spirit said to him: +Behold three men seek thee. + +10:20. Arise, therefore: get thee down and go with them, doubting +nothing: for I have sent them. + +10:21. Then Peter, going down to the men, said: Behold, I am he whom you +seek. What is the cause for which you are come? + +10:22. Who said: Cornelius, a centurion, a just man and one that feareth +God, and having good testimony from all the nation of the Jews, received +an answer of an holy angel, to send for thee into his house And to hear +words of thee. + +10:23. Then bringing them in, he lodged them. And the day following, he +arose and went with them: and some of the brethren from Joppe +accompanied him. + +10:24. And the morrow after, he entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius +waited for them, having called together his kinsmen and special friends. + +10:25. And it came to pass that when Peter was come in, Cornelius came +to meet him and falling at his feet adored. + +10:26. But Peter lifted him up, saying: Arise: I myself also am a man. + +10:27. And talking with him, he went in and found many that were come +together. + +10:28. And he said to them: you know how abominable it is for a man that +is a Jew to keep company or to come unto one of another nation: but God +hath shewed to me, to call no man common or unclean. + +10:29. For which cause, making no doubt, I came when I was sent for. I +ask, therefore, for what cause you have sent for me? + +10:30. And Cornelius said: Four days ago, unto this hour, I was praying +in my house, at the ninth hour and behold a man stood before me in white +apparel and said: + +10:31. Cornelius, thy prayer is heard and thy alms are had in +remembrance in the sight of God. + +10:32. Send therefore to Joppe: and call hither Simon, who is surnamed +Peter. He lodgeth in the house of Simon a tanner, by the sea side. + +10:33. Immediately therefore I sent to thee: and thou hast done well in +coming. Now, therefore, all we are present in thy sight to hear all +things whatsoever are commanded thee by the Lord. + +10:34. And Peter opening his mouth, said: in very deed I perceive that +God is not a respecter of persons. + +10:35. But in every nation, he that feareth him and worketh justice is +acceptable to him. + +In every nation, etc... That is to say, not only Jews, but Gentiles +also, of what nation soever, are acceptable to God, if they fear him and +work justice. But then true faith is always to be presupposed, without +which (saith St. Paul, Heb. 11. 6) it is impossible to please God. +Beware then of the error of those, who would infer from this passage, +that men of all religions may be pleasing to God. For since none but the +true religion can be from God, all other religions must be from the +father of lies, and therefore highly displeasing to the God of truth. + +10:36. God sent the word to the children of Israel, preaching peace by +Jesus Christ (He is Lord of all). + +10:37. You know the word which hath been published through all Judea: +for it began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached. + +10:38. Jesus of Nazareth: how God anointed him with the Holy Ghost and +with power, who went about doing good and healing all that were +oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. + +10:39. And we are witnesses of all things that he did in the land of the +Jews and in Jerusalem: whom they killed, hanging him upon a tree. + +10:40. Him God raised up the third day and gave him to be made manifest, + +10:41. Not to all the people, but to witnesses preordained by God, even +to us, who did eat and drink with him, after he arose again from the +dead. + +10:42. And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that +it is he who was appointed by God to be judge of the living and of the +dead. + +10:43. To him all the prophets give testimony, that by his name all +receive remission of sins, who believe in him. + +10:44. While Peter was yet speaking these words, the Holy Ghost fell on +all them that heard the word. + +10:45. And the faithful of the circumcision, who came with Peter, were +astonished for that the grace of the Holy Ghost was poured out upon the +Gentiles also. + +10:46. For they heard them speaking with tongues and magnifying God. + +10:47. Then Peter answered: Can any man forbid water, that these should +not be baptized, who have received the Holy Ghost, as well as we? + +10:48. And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord +Jesus Christ. Then they desired him to tarry with them some days. + +Acts Chapter 11 + +Peter defends his having received the Gentiles into the church. + +11:1. And the apostles and brethren, who were in Judea, heard that the +Gentiles also had received the word of God. + +11:2. And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the +circumcision contended with him, + +11:3. Saying: Why didst thou go in to men uncircumcised and didst eat +with them? + +11:4. But Peter began and declared to them the matter in order, saying: + +11:5. I was in the city of Joppe praying: and I saw in an ecstasy of +mind a vision, a certain vessel descending, as it were a great sheet let +down from heaven by four corners. And it came even unto me. + +11:6. Into which looking, I considered and saw fourfooted creatures of +the earth and beasts and creeping things and fowls of the air. + +11:7. And I heard also a voice saying to me: Arise, Peter. Kill and eat. + +11:8. And I said: Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath ever +entered into my mouth. + +11:9. And the voice answered again from heaven: What God hath made +clean, do not thou call common. + +11:10. And this was done three times. And all were taken up again into +heaven. + +11:11. And behold, immediately there were three men come to the house +wherein I was, sent to me from Caesarea. + +11:12. And the Spirit said to me that I should go with them, nothing +doubting. And these six brethren went with me also: and we entered into +the man's house. + +11:13. And he told us how he had seen an angel in his house, standing +and saying to him: Send to Joppe and call hither Simon, who is surnamed +Peter, + +11:14. Who shall speak to thee words whereby thou shalt be saved, and +all thy house. + +11:15. And when I had begun to speak, the Holy Ghost fell upon them, as +upon us also in the beginning. + +11:16. And I remembered the word of the Lord, how that he said: John +indeed baptized with water but you shall be baptized with the Holy +Ghost. + +11:17. If then God gave them the same grace as to us also who believed +in the Lord Jesus Christ: who was I, that could withstand God? + +11:18. Having heard these things, they held their peace and glorified +God, saying: God then hath also to the Gentiles given repentance, unto +life. + +11:19. Now they who had been dispersed by the persecution that arose on +occasion of Stephen went about as far as Phenice and Cyprus and Antioch, +speaking the word to none, but to the Jews only. + +11:20. But some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they +were entered into Antioch, spoke also to the Greeks, preaching the Lord +Jesus. + +11:21. And the hand of he Lord was with them: and a great number +believing, were converted to the Lord. + +11:22. And the tidings came to the ears of the church that was at +Jerusalem, touching these things: and they sent Barnabas as far as +Antioch. + +11:23. Who, when he was come and had seen the grace of God, rejoiced. +And he exhorted them all with purpose of heart to continue in the Lord. + +11:24. For he was a good man and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith. +And a great multitude was added to the Lord. + +11:25. And Barnabas went to Tarsus to seek Saul: whom, when he had +found, he brought to Antioch. + +11:26. And they conversed there in the church a whole year: and they +taught a great multitude, so that at Antioch the disciples were first +named Christians. + +11:27. And in these days there came prophets from Jerusalem to Antioch. + +11:28. And one of them named Agabus, rising up, signified by the Spirit +that there should be a great famine over the whole world, which came to +pass under Claudius. + +11:29. And the disciples, every man according to his ability, purposed +to send relief to the brethren who dwelt in Judea. + +11:30. Which also they did, sending it to the ancients, by the hands of +Barnabas and Saul. + +Acts Chapter 12 + +Herod's persecution. Peter's deliverance by an angel. Herod's +punishment. + +12:1. And at the same time, Herod the king stretched forth his hands, to +afflict some of the church. + +12:2. And he killed James, the brother of John, With the sword. + +12:3. And seeing that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to take up Peter +also. Now it was in the days of the Azymes. + +Azymes... The festival of the unleavened bread, or the pasch, which +answers to our Easter. + +12:4. And when he had apprehended him, he cast him into prison, +delivering him to four files of soldiers, to be kept, intending, after +the pasch, to bring him forth to the people. + +12:5. Peter therefore was kept in prison. But prayer was made without +ceasing by the church unto God for him. + +12:6. 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. + +12:7. And behold an angel of the Lord stood by him and a light shined in +the room. And he, striking Peter on the side, raised him up, saying: +Arise quickly. And the chains fell off from his hands. + +12:8. And the angel said to him: Gird thyself and put on thy sandals. +And he did so. And he said to him: Cast thy garment about thee and +follow me, + +12:9. And going out, he followed him. And he knew not that it was true +which was done by the angel: but thought he saw a vision. + +12:10. And passing through the first and the second ward, they came to +the iron gate that leadeth to the city which of itself opened to them. +And going out, they passed on through one street. And immediately the +angel departed from him. + +12:11. And Peter coming to himself, said: Now I know in very deed that +the Lord hath sent his angel and hath delivered me out of the hand of +Herod and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews. + +12:12. And considering, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, +who was surnamed Mark, where many were gathered together and praying. + +12:13. And when he knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to +hearken whose name was Rhode. + +12:14. And as soon as she knew Peter's voice, she opened not the gate +for joy: but running in she told that Peter stood before the gate. + +12:15. But they said to her: Thou art mad. But she affirmed that it was +so. Then said they: It is his angel. + +12:16. But Peter continued knocking. And when they had opened, they saw +him and were astonished. + +12:17. But he, beckoning to them with his hand to hold their peace, told +how the Lord had brought him out of prison. And he said: Tell these +things to James and to the brethren. And going out, he went into another +place. + +12:18. Now when day was come, there was no small stir among the +soldiers, what was become of Peter. + +12:19. And when Herod had sought for him and found him not, having +examined the keepers, he commanded they should be put to death. And +going down from Judea to Caesarea, he abode there. + +12:20. And he was angry with the Tyrians and the Sidonians. But they +with one accord came to him: and, having gained Blastus who was the +king's chamberlain, they desired peace, because their countries were +nourished by him. + +12:21. And upon a day appointed, Herod being arrayed in kingly apparel, +sat in the judgment seat and made an oration to them. + +12:22. And the people made acclamation, saying: It is the voice of a +god, and not of a man. + +12:23. And forthwith an angel of the Lord struck him, because he had not +given the honour to God: and, being eaten up by worms, he gave up the +ghost. + +12:24. But the word of the Lord increased and multiplied. + +12:25. And Barnabas and Saul, returned from Jerusalem, having fulfilled +their ministry, taking with them John who was surnamed Mark. + +Acts Chapter 13 + +Saul and Barnabas are sent forth by the Holy Ghost. They preach in +Cyprus and in Antioch of Pisidia. + +13:1. Now there were in the church which was at Antioch prophets and +doctors, among whom was Barnabas and Simon who was called Niger, and +Lucius of Cyrene and Manahen who was the foster brother of Herod the +tetrarch, and Saul. + +13:2. And as they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy +Ghost said to them: Separate me Saul and Barnabas, for the work +whereunto I have taken them. + +13:3. Then they fasting and praying and imposing their hands upon them, +sent them away. + +13:4. So they, being sent by the Holy Ghost, went to Seleucia: and from +thence they sailed to Cyprus. + +13:5. And when they were come to Salamina, they preached the word of God +in the synagogues of the Jews. And they had John also in the ministry. + +13:6. And when they had gone through the whole island, as far as Paphos, +they found a certain man, a magician, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name +was Bar-Jesu: + +13:7. Who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, a prudent man. He, +sending for Barnabas and Saul, desired to hear the word of God. + +13:8. But Elymas the magician (for so his name is interpreted) withstood +them, seeking to turn away the proconsul from the faith. + +13:9. Then Saul, otherwise Paul, filled with the Holy Ghost, looking +upon him, + +13:10. Said: O full of all guile and of all deceit, child of the devil, +enemy of all justice, thou ceases not to pervert the right ways of the +Lord. + +13:11. And now behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee: and thou shalt +be blind, not seeing the sun for a time. And immediately there fell a +mist and darkness upon him: and going about, he sought some one to lead +him by the hand. + +13:12. Then the proconsul, when he had seen what was done, believed, +admiring at the doctrine of the Lord. + +13:13. Now when Paul and they that were with him had sailed from Paphos, +they came to Perge in Pamphylia. And John departing from them, returned +to Jerusalem. + +13:14. But they, passing through Perge, came to Antioch in Pisidia: and, +entering into the Synagogue on the sabbath day, they sat down. + +13:15. And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of +the synagogue sent to them, saying: Ye men, brethren, if you have any +word of exhortation to make to the people, speak. + +13:16. Then Paul rising up and with his hand bespeaking silence, said: +Ye men of Israel and you that fear God, give ear. + +13:17. The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers and exalted the +people when they were sojourners in the land of Egypt: And with an high +arm brought them out from thence: + +13:18. And for the space of forty years endured their manners in the +desert: + +13:19. And, destroying seven nations in the land of Chaanan, divided +their land among them by lot. + +13:20. As it were, after four hundred and fifty years. And after these +things, he gave unto them judges, until Samuel the prophet. + +13:21. And after that they desired a king: and God gave them Saul the +son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, forty years. + +13:22. And when he had removed him, he raised them up David to be king: +to whom giving testimony, he said: I have found David, the son of Jesse, +a man according to my own heart, who shall do all my wills. + +13:23. Of this man's seed, God, according to his promise, hath raised up +to Israel a Saviour Jesus: + +13:24. John first preaching, before his coming, the baptism of penance +to all the people of Israel. + +13:25. And when John was fulfilling his course, he said: I am not he +whom you think me to be. But behold, there cometh one after me, whose +shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose. + +13:26. Men, brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever +among you fear God: to you the word of this salvation is sent. + +13:27. For they that inhabited Jerusalem and the rulers thereof, not +knowing him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every +sabbath, judging him, have fulfilled them. + +13:28. And finding no cause of death in him, they desired of Pilate that +they might kill him. + +13:29. And when they had fulfilled all things that were written of him, +taking him down from the tree, they laid him in a sepulchre. + +13:30. But God raised him up from the dead the third day. + +13:31. Who was seen for many days by them who came up with him from +Galilee to Jerusalem, who to this present are his witnesses to the +people. + +13:32. And we declare unto you that the promise which was made to our +fathers, + +13:33. This same God hath fulfilled to our children, raising up Jesus, +as in the second psalm also is written: Thou art my Son: this day have I +begotten thee. + +13:34. And to shew that he raised him up from the dead, not to return +now any more to corruption, he said thus: I will give you the holy +things of David, faithful. + +I will give you the holy, etc... These are the words of the prophet +Isaias, 55. 3. According to the Septuagint, the sense is: I will +faithfully fulfil the promises I made to David. + +13:35. And therefore, in another place also, he saith: Thou shalt not +suffer thy holy one to see corruption. + +13:36. For David, when he had served in his generation, according to the +will of God, slept: and was laid unto his fathers and saw corruption. + +13:37. But he whom God hath raised from the dead saw no corruption. + +13:38. Be it known therefore to you, men, brethren, that through him +forgiveness of sins is preached to you: and from all the things from +which you could not be justified by the law of Moses. + +13:39. In him every one that believeth is justified. + +13:40. Beware, therefore, lest that come upon you which is spoken in the +prophets: + +13:41. Behold, ye despisers, and wonder and perish: for I work a work in +your days, a work which you will not believe, if any man shall tell it +you. + +13:42. And as they went out, they desired them that on the next sabbath +they would speak unto them these words. + +13:43. And when the synagogue was broken up, many of the Jews and of the +strangers who served God followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to +them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God. + +13:44. But the next sabbath day, the whole city almost came together, to +hear the word of God. + +13:45. And the Jews, seeing the multitudes, were filled with envy and +contradicted those things which were said by Paul, blaspheming. + +13:46. Then Paul and Barnabas said boldly: To you it behoved us first to +speak the word of God: but because you reject it and judge yourselves +unworthy of eternal life, behold we turn to the Gentiles. + +13:47. For so the Lord hath commanded us: I have set thee to be the +light of the Gentiles: that thou mayest be for salvation unto the utmost +part of the earth. + +13:48. And the Gentiles hearing it were glad and glorified the word of +the Lord: and as many as were ordained to life everlasting believed. + +13:49. And the word of the Lord was published throughout the whole +country. + +13:50. But the Jews stirred up religious and honourable women and the +chief men of the city: and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas: +and cast them out of their coasts. + +13:51. But they, shaking off the dust of their feet against them, came +to Iconium. + +13:52. And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Ghost. + +Acts Chapter 14 + +Paul and Barnabas preach in Iconium and Lystra. Paul heals a cripple. +They are taken for gods. Paul is stoned. They preach in Derbe and Perge. + +14:1. And it came to pass in Iconium that they entered together into the +synagogue of the Jews and so spoke that a very great multitude both of +the Jews and of the Greeks did believe. + +14:2. But the unbelieving Jews stirred up and incensed the minds of the +Gentiles against the brethren. + +14:3. A long time therefore they abode there, dealing confidently in the +Lord, who gave testimony to the word of his grace, granting signs and +wonders to be done by their hands. + +14:4. And the multitude of the city was divided. And some of them indeed +held with the Jews, but some with the apostles. + +14:5. And when there was an assault made by the Gentiles and the Jews +with their rulers, to use them contumeliously and to stone them: + +14:6. They, understanding it, fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of +Lycaonia, and to the whole country round about: and were there preaching +the gospel. + +14:7. And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, a +cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked. + +14:8. This same heard Paul speaking. Who looking upon him and seeing +that he had faith to be healed, + +14:9. Said with a loud voice: Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped +up and walked. + +14:10. And when the multitudes had seen what Paul had done, they lifted +up their voice in the Lycaonian tongue, saying: The gods are come down +to us in the likeness of men. + +14:11. And they called Barnabas, Jupiter: but Paul, Mercury: because he +was chief speaker. + +14:12. The priest also of Jupiter that was before the city, bringing +oxen and garlands before the gate, would have offered sacrifice with the +people. + +14:13. Which, when the apostles Barnabas and Paul had heard, rending +their clothes, they leaped out among the people, crying, + +14:14. And saying: Ye men, why do ye these things? We also are mortals, +men like unto you, preaching to you to be converted from these vain +things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea +and all things that are in them: + +14:15. Who in times past, suffered all nations to walk in their own +ways. + +14:16. Nevertheless he left not himself without testimony, doing good +from heaven, giving rains and fruitful Seasons, filling our hearts with +food and gladness. + +14:17. And speaking these things, they scarce restrained the people from +sacrificing to them. + +14:18. Now there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium: +and, persuading the multitude and stoning Paul, drew him out of the +city, thinking him to be dead. + +14:19. But as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up and +entered into the city: and the next day he departed with Barnabas to +Derbe. + +14:20. And when they had preached the gospel to that city and had taught +many, they returned again to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch: + +14:21. Confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorting them to +continue in the faith: and that through many tribulations we must enter +into the kingdom of God. + +14:22. And when they had ordained to them priests in every church and +had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, in whom they +believed. + +14:23. And passing through Pisidia, they came into Pamphylia. + +14:24. And having spoken the word of the Lord in Perge, they went down +into Attalia. + +14:25. And thence they sailed to Antioch, from whence they had been +delivered to the grace of God, unto the work which they accomplished. + +14:26. And when they were come and had assembled the church, they +related what great things God had done with them and how he had opened +the door of faith to the Gentiles. + +14:27. And they abode no small time with the disciples. + +Acts Chapter 15 + +A dissension about circumcision. The decision and letter of the council +of Jerusalem. + +15:1. And some, coming down from Judea, taught the brethren: That, +except you be circumcised after the manner of Moses, you cannot be +saved. + +15:2. And when Paul and Barnabas had no small contest with them, they +determined that Paul and Barnabas and certain others of the other side +should go up to the apostles and priests to Jerusalem, about this +question. + +15:3. They therefore, being brought on their way by the church, passed +through Phenice and Samaria, relating the conversion of the Gentiles. +And they caused great joy to all the brethren. + +15:4. And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received by the +church and by the apostles and ancients, declaring how great things God +had done with them. + +15:5. But there arose of the sect of the Pharisees some that believed, +saying: They must be circumcised and be commanded to observe the law of +Moses. + +15:6. And the apostles and ancients assembled to consider of this +matter. + +15:7. And when there had been much disputing, Peter, rising up, said to +them: Men, brethren, you know that in former days God made choice among +us, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and +believe. + +15:8. And God, who knoweth the hearts, gave testimony, giving unto them +the Holy Ghost, as well as to us: + +15:9. And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts +by faith. + +15:10. Now therefore, why tempt you God to put a yoke upon the necks of +the disciples which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? + +15:11. But by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, we believe to be +saved, in like manner as they also. + +15:12. And all the multitude held their peace: and they heard Barnabas +and Paul telling what great signs and wonders God had wrought among the +Gentiles by them. + +15:13. And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying: Men, +brethren, hear me. + +15:14. Simon hath related how God first visited to take to the Gentiles, +a people to his name. + +15:15. And to this agree the words of the prophets, as it is written: + +15:16. After these things I will return and will rebuild the tabernacle +of David, which is fallen down: and the ruins thereof I will rebuild. +And I will set it up: + +15:17. That the residue of men may seek after the Lord, and all nations +upon whom my name is invoked, saith the Lord, who doth these things. + +15:18. To the Lord was his own work known from the beginning of the +world. + +15:19. For which cause, judge that they who from among the Gentiles are +converted to God are not to be disquieted: + +15:20. But that we write unto them, that they refrain themselves from +the pollutions of idols and from fornication and from things strangled +and from blood. + +15:21. For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him in +the synagogues, where he is read every sabbath. + +15:22. Then it pleased the apostles and ancients, with the whole church, +to choose men of their own company and to send to Antioch with Paul and +Barnabas, namely, Judas, who was surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men +among the brethren. + +15:23. Writing by their hands: The apostles and ancients, brethren, to +the brethren of the Gentiles that are at Antioch and in Syria and +Cilicia, greeting. + +15:24. Forasmuch as we have heard that some going out from us have +troubled you with words, subverting your souls, to whom we gave no +commandment: + +15:25. It hath seemed good to us, being assembled together, to choose +out men and to send them unto you, with our well beloved Barnabas and +Paul: + +15:26. Men that have given their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus +Christ. + +15:27. We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who themselves also will, +by word of mouth, tell you the same things. + +15:28. For it hath seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us to lay no +further burden upon you than these necessary things: + +15:29. That you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood +and from things strangled and from fornication: from which things +keeping yourselves, you shall do well. Fare ye well. + +From blood, and from things strangled... The use of these things, though +of their own nature indifferent, was here prohibited, to bring the Jews +more easily to admit of the society of the Gentiles; and to exercise the +latter in obedience. But this prohibition was but temporary, and has +long since ceased to oblige; more especially in the western churches. + +15:30. They therefore, being dismissed, went down to Antioch and, +gathering together the multitude, delivered the epistle. + +15:31. Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation. + +15:32. But Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, with many +words comforted the brethren and confirmed them. + +15:33. And after they had spent some time there, they were let go with +peace by the brethren unto them that had sent them. + +15:34. But it seemed good unto Silas to remain there: and Judas alone +departed to Jerusalem. + +15:35. And Paul and Barnabas continued at Antioch, teaching and +preaching, with many others, the word of the Lord. + +15:36. And after some days, Paul said to Barnabas: Let us return and +visit our brethren in all the cities wherein we have preached the word +of the Lord, to see how they do. + +15:37. And Barnabas would have taken with them John also, that was +surnamed Mark. + +15:38. But Paul desired that he (as having departed from them out of +Pamphylia and not gone with them to the work) might not be received. + +15:39. And there arose a dissension so that they departed one from +another. And Barnabas indeed, taking Mark, sailed to Cyprus. + +15:40. But Paul, choosing Silas, departed, being delivered by the +brethren to the grace of God. + +15:41. And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches, +commanding them to keep the precepts of the apostles and the ancients. + +Acts Chapter 16 + +Paul visits the churches. He is called to preach in Macedonia. He is +scourged at Philippi. + +16:1. And he came to Derbe and Lystra. And behold, there was a certain +disciple there named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman that believed: +but his father was a Gentile. + +16:2. To this man the brethren that were in Lystra and Iconium gave a +good testimony. + +16:3. Him Paul would have to go along with him: and taking him, he +circumcised him, because of the Jews who were in those places. For they +all knew that his father was a Gentile. + +16:4. And as they passed through the cities, they delivered unto them +the decrees for to keep, that were decreed by the apostles and ancients +who were at Jerusalem. + +16:5. And the churches were confirmed in faith and increased in number +daily. + +16:6. And when they had passed through Phrygia and the country of +Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Ghost to preach the word in +Asia. + +16:7. And when they were come into Mysia, they attempted to go into +Bithynia: and the Spirit of Jesus suffered them not. + +16:8. And when they had passed through Mysia, they went down to Troas. + +16:9. And a vision was shewed to Paul in the night, which was a man of +Macedonia standing and beseeching him and saying: Pass over into +Macedonia and help us. + +16:10. And as soon as he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to +go into Macedonia: being assured that God had called us to preach the +gospel to them. + +16:11. And sailing from Troas, we came with a straight course to +Samothracia, and the day following to Neapolis. + +16:12. And from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of part of +Macedonia, a colony. And we were in this city some days conferring +together. + +16:13. And upon the Sabbath day, we went forth without the gate by a +river side, where it seemed that there was prayer: and sitting down, we +spoke to the women that were assembled. + +16:14. And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city +of Thyatira, one that worshipped God, did hear: whose heart the Lord +opened to attend to those things which were said by Paul. + +16:15. And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, +saying: If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my +house and abide there. And she constrained us. + +16:16. And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain girl having +a pythonical spirit met us, who brought to her masters much gain by +divining. + +A pythonical spirit... That is, a spirit pretending to divine, and tell +fortunes. + +16:17. This same following Paul and us, cried out, saying: These men are +the servants of the Most High God, who preach unto you the way of +salvation. + +16:18. And this she did many days. But Paul being grieved, turned and +said to the spirit: I command thee, in the name of Jesus Christ, to go +from her. And he went out the same hour. + +16:19. But her masters, seeing that the hope of their gain was gone, +apprehending Paul and Silas, brought them into the market place to the +rulers. + +16:20. And presenting them to the magistrates, they said: These men +disturb our city, being Jews: + +16:21. And preach a fashion which it is not lawful for us to receive nor +observe, being Romans. + +16:22. And the people ran together against them: and the magistrates, +rending off their clothes, commanded them to be beaten with rods. + +16:23. And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them +into prison, charging the gaoler to keep them diligently. + +16:24. Who having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner +prison and made their feet fast in the stocks. + +16:25. And at midnight, Paul and Silas, praying, praised God. And they +that were in prison heard them. + +16:26. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the +foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors +were opened and the bands of all were loosed. + +16:27. And the keeper of the prison, awakening out of his sleep and +seeing the doors of the prison open, drawing his sword, would have +killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled. + +16:28. But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying: Do thyself no harm, for +we all are here. + +16:29. Then calling for a light, he went in: and trembling, fell down at +the feet of Paul and Silas. + +16:30. And bringing them out, he said: Masters, what must I do, that I +may be saved? + +16:31. But they said: believe in the Lord Jesus: and thou shalt be +saved, and thy house. + +16:32. And they preached the word of the Lord to him and to all that +were in his house. + +16:33. And he, taking them the same hour of the night, washed their +stripes: and himself was baptized, and all his house immediately. + +16:34. And when he had brought them into his own house, he laid the +table for them: and rejoiced with all his house, believing God. + +16:35. And when the day was come, the magistrates sent the serjeants, +saying: Let those men go. + +16:36. And the keeper of the prison told these words to Paul: The +magistrates have sent to let you go. Now therefore depart. And go in +peace. + +16:37. But Paul said to them: They have beaten us publicly, uncondemned, +men that are Romans, and have cast us into prison. And now do they +thrust us out privately? Not so: but let them come. + +16:38. And let us out themselves. And the serjeants told these words to +the magistrates. And they were afraid: hearing that they were Romans. + +16:39. And coming, they besought them: and bringing them out, they +desired them to depart out of the city. + +16:40. And they went out of the prison and entered into the house of +Lydia: and having seen the brethren, they comforted them and departed. + +Acts Chapter 17 + +Paul preaches to the Thessalonians and Bereans. His discourse to the +Athenians. + +17:1. And when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they +came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. + +17:2. And Paul, according to his custom, went in unto them. And for +three sabbath days he reasoned with them out of the scriptures: + +17:3. Declaring and insinuating that the Christ was to suffer and to +rise again from the dead; and that this is Jesus Christ, whom I preach +to you. + +17:4. And some of them believed and were associated to Paul and Silas: +and of those that served God and of the Gentiles a great multitude: and +of noble women not a few. + +17:5. But the Jews, moved with envy and taking unto them some wicked men +of the vulgar sort and making a tumult, set the city in an uproar: and +besetting Jason's house, sought to bring them out unto the people. + +17:6. And not finding them, they drew Jason and certain brethren to the +rulers of the city, crying: They that set the city in an uproar are come +hither also: + +City. Urbem... In the Greek, the world. + +17:7. Whom Jason hath received. And these all do contrary to the decrees +of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus. + +17:8. And they stirred up the people: and the rulers of the city, +hearing these things, + +17:9. And having taken satisfaction of Jason and of the rest, they let +them go. + +17:10. But the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night +unto Berea. Who, when they were come thither, went into the synagogue of +the Jews. + +17:11. Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, who +received the word with all eagerness, daily searching the scriptures, +whether these things were so. + +More noble... The Jews of Berea are justly commended, for their eagerly +embracing the truth, and searching the scriptures, to find out the texts +alleged by the apostle: which was a far more generous proceeding than +that of their countrymen at Thessalonica, who persecuted the preachers +of the gospel, without examining the grounds they alleged for what they +taught. + +17:12. And many indeed of them believed: and of honourable women that +were Gentiles and of men, not a few. + +17:13. And when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of +God was also preached by Paul at Berea, they came thither also, stirring +up and troubling the multitude. + +17:14. And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul, to go unto the +sea: but Silas and Timothy remained there. + +17:15. And they that conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens: and +receiving a commandment from him to Silas and Timothy, that they should +come to him with all speed, they departed. + +17:16. Now whilst Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred +within him, seeing the city wholly given to idolatry. + +17:17. He disputed, therefore, in the synagogue with the Jews and with +them that served God: and in the market place, every day, with them that +were there. + +17:18. And certain philosophers of the Epicureans and of the Stoics +disputed with him. And some said: What is it that this word sower would +say? But others: He seemeth to be a setter forth of new gods. Because he +preached to them Jesus and the resurrection. + +17:19. And taking him, they brought him to the Areopagus, saying: May we +know what this new doctrine is, which thou speakest of? + +17:20. For thou bringest in certain new things to our ears. We would +know therefore what these things mean. + +17:21. (Now all the Athenians and strangers that were there employed +themselves in nothing else, but either in telling or in hearing some new +thing.) + +17:22. But Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: Ye men of +Athens, I perceive that in all things you are too superstitious. + +17:23. For passing by and seeing your idols, I found an altar also, on +which was written: To the Unknown God. What therefore you worship +without knowing it, that I preach to you: + +17:24. God, who made the world and all things therein, he being Lord of +heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands. + +Dwelleth not in temples... God is not contained in temples; so as to +need them for his dwelling, or any other uses, as the heathens imagined. +Yet by his omnipresence, he is both there and everywhere. + +17:25. Neither is he served with men's hands, as though he needed any +thing: seeing it is he who giveth to all life and breath and all things: + +17:26. And hath made of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face +of the earth, determining appointed times and the limits of their +habitation. + +17:27. That they should seek God, if haply they may feel after him or +find him, although he be not far from every one of us. + +17:28. For in him we live and move and are: as some also of your own +poets said: For we are also his offspring. + +17:29. Being therefore the offspring of God, we must not suppose the +divinity to be like unto gold or silver or stone, the graving of art and +device of man. + +17:30. And God indeed having winked at the times of this ignorance, now +declareth unto men that all should every where do penance. + +17:31. Because he hath appointed a day wherein he will judge the world +in equity, by the man whom he hath appointed: giving faith to all, by +raising him up from the dead. + +17:32. And when they had heard of the resurrection of the dead, some +indeed mocked. But others said: We will hear thee again concerning this +matter. + +17:33. So Paul went out from among them. + +17:34. But certain men, adhering to him, did believe: among whom was +also Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with +them. + +Acts Chapter 18 + +Paul founds the church of Corinth and preaches at Ephesus and in other +places. Apollo goes to Corinth. + +18:1. After these things, departing from Athens, he came to Corinth. + +18:2. And finding a certain Jew, named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately +come from Italy, with Priscilla his wife (because that Claudius had +commanded all Jews to depart from Rome), he came to them. + +18:3. And because he was of the same trade, he remained with them and +wrought. (Now they were tentmakers by trade.) + +18:4. And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, bringing in the +name of the Lord Jesus. And he persuaded the Jews and the Greeks. + +18:5. And when Silas and Timothy were come from Macedonia, Paul was +earnest in preaching, testifying to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ. + +18:6. But they gainsaying and blaspheming, he shook his garments and +said to them: Your blood be upon your own heads: I am clean. From +henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles. + +18:7. And departing thence, he entered into the house of a certain man, +named Titus Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house was adjoining +to the synagogue. + +18:8. And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, +with all his house. And many of the Corinthians hearing, believed and +were baptized. + +18:9. And the Lord said to Paul in the night, by a vision: Do not fear, +but speak. And hold not thy peace, + +18:10. Because I am with thee and no man shall set upon thee, to hurt +thee. For I have much people in this city. + +18:11. And he stayed there a year and six months, teaching among them +the word of God. + +18:12. But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord +rose up against Paul and brought him to the judgment seat, + +18:13. Saying: This man persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the +law. + +18:14. And when Paul was beginning to open his mouth, Gallio said to the +Jews: If it were some matter of injustice or an heinous deed, O Jews, I +should with reason bear with you. + +18:15. But if they be questions of word and names and of your law, look +you to it. I will not be judge of such things. + +18:16. And he drove them from the judgment seat. + +18:17. And all laying hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, +beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those +things. + +18:18. But Paul, when he had stayed yet many days, taking his leave of +the brethren, sailed thence into Syria (and with him Priscilla and +Aquila), having shorn his head in Cenchrae. For he had a vow. + +18:19. And he came to Ephesus and left them there. But he himself, +entering into the synagogue, disputed with the Jews. + +18:20. And when they desired him that he would tarry a longer time, he +consented not: + +18:21. But taking his leave and saying: I will return to you again, God +willing, he departed from Ephesus. + +18:22. And going down to Caesarea, he went up to Jerusalem and saluted +the church: and so came down to Antioch. + +18:23. And after he had spent some time there, he departed and went +through the country of Galatia and Phrygia, in order, confirming all the +disciples. + +18:24. Now a certain Jew, named Apollo, born at Alexandria, an eloquent +man, came to Ephesus, one mighty in the scriptures. + +18:25. This man was instructed in the way of the Lord: and being fervent +in spirit, spoke and taught diligently the things that are of Jesus, +knowing only the baptism of John. + +18:26. This man therefore began to speak boldly in the synagogue. Whom +when Priscilla and Aquila had heard, they took him to them and expounded +to him the way of the Lord more diligently. + +18:27. And whereas he was desirous to go to Achaia, the brethren +exhorting wrote to the disciples to receive him. Who, when he was come, +helped them much who had believed. + +18:28. For with much vigour he convinced the Jews openly, shewing by the +scriptures that Jesus is the Christ. + +Acts Chapter 19 + +Paul establishes the church at Ephesus. The tumult of the silversmiths. + +19:1. And it came to pass, while Apollo was at Corinth, that Paul, +having passed through the upper coasts, came to Ephesus and found +certain disciples. + +19:2. And he said to them: Have you received the Holy Ghost since ye +believed? But they said to him: We have not so much as heard whether +there be a Holy Ghost. + +19:3. And he said: In what then were you baptized? Who said: In John's +baptism. + +19:4. Then Paul said: John baptized the people with the baptism of +penance saying: That they should believe in him, who was to come after +him, that is to say, in Jesus. + +19:5. Having heard these things, they were baptized in the name of the +Lord Jesus. + +19:6. And when Paul had imposed his hands on them, the Holy Ghost came +upon them: and they spoke with tongues and prophesied. + +19:7. And all the men were about twelve. + +19:8. And entering into the synagogue, he spoke boldly for the space of +three months, disputing and exhorting concerning the kingdom of God. + +19:9. But when some were hardened and believed not, speaking evil of the +way of the Lord before the multitude, departing from them, he separated +the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus. + +19:10. And this continued for the space of two years, so that all who +dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Gentiles. + +19:11. And God wrought by the hand of Paul more than common miracles. + +19:12. So that even there were brought from his body to the sick, +handkerchiefs and aprons: and the diseases departed from them: and the +wicked spirits went out of them. + +19:13. Now some also of the Jewish exorcists, who went about, attempted +to invoke over them that had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, +saying: I conjure you by Jesus, whom Paul preacheth. + +19:14. And there were certain men, seven sons of Sceva, a Jew, a chief +priest, that did this. + +19:15. But the wicked spirit, answering, said to them: Jesus I know: and +Paul I know. But who are you? + +19:16. And the man in whom the wicked spirit was, leaping upon them and +mastering them both, prevailed against them, so that they fled out of +that house naked and wounded. + +19:17. And this became known to all the Jews and the Gentiles that dwelt +a Ephesus. And fear fell on them all: and the name of the Lord Jesus was +magnified. + +19:18. And many of them that believed came, confessing and declaring +their deeds. + +19:19. And many of them who had followed curious arts brought together +their books and burnt them before all. And, counting the price of them, +they found the money to be fifty thousand pieces of silver. + +19:20. So mightily grew the word of God and was confirmed. + +19:21. And when 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 see Rome also. + +19:22. And sending into Macedonia two of them that ministered to him, +Timothy and Erastus, he himself remained for a time in Asia. + +19:23. Now at that time there arose no small disturbance about the way +of the Lord. + +19:24. For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver +temples for Diana, brought no small gain to the craftsmen. + +19:25. Whom he calling together with the workmen of like occupation, +said: Sirs, you know that our gain is by this trade. + +19:26. And you see and hear that this Paul, by persuasion hath drawn +away a great multitude, not only of Ephesus, but almost of all Asia, +saying: they are not gods which are made by hands. + +19:27. So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought, +but also the temple of great Diana shall be reputed for nothing! Yea, +and her majesty shall begin to be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world +worshippeth. + +19:28. Having heard these things, they were full of anger and cried out, +saying: Great is Diana of the Ephesians! + +19:29. And the whole city was filled with confusion. And having caught +Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions, they rushed +with one accord into the theatre. + +19:30. And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the +disciples suffered him not. + +19:31. And some also of the rulers of Asia, who were his friends, sent +unto him, desiring that he would not venture himself into the theatre. + +19:32. Now some cried one thing, some another. For the assembly was +confused: and the greater part knew not for what cause they were come +together. + +19:33. And they drew forth Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews +thrusting him forward. And Alexander, beckoning with his hand for +silence, would have given the people satisfaction, + +19:34. But as soon as they perceived him to be a Jew, all with one +voice, for the space of about two, hours, cried out: Great is Diana of +the Ephesians! + +19:35. And when the town clerk had appeased the multitudes, he said: Ye +men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not that the city of the +Ephesians is a worshipper of the great Diana and of Jupiter's offspring? + +19:36. For as much therefore as these things cannot be contradicted, you +ought to be quiet and to do nothing rashly. + +19:37. For you have brought hither these men, who are neither guilty of +sacrilege nor of blasphemy against your goddess. + +19:38. But if Demetrius and the craftsmen that are with him have a +matter against any man, the courts of justice are open: and there are +proconsuls. Let them accuse one another. + +19:39. And if you inquire after any other matter, it may be decided in a +lawful assembly. + +19:40. For we are even in danger to be called in question for this day's +uproar, there being no man guilty (of whom we may give account) of this +concourse. And when he had said these things, he dismissed the assembly. + +Acts Chapter 20 + +Paul passes through Macedonia and Greece. He raises a dead man to life +at Troas. His discourse to the clergy of Ephesus. + +20:1. And after the tumult was ceased, Paul calling to him the disciples +and exhorting them, took his leave and set forward to go into Macedonia. + +20:2. And when he had gone over those parts and had exhorted them with +many words, he came into Greece: + +20:3. Where, when he had spent three months, the Jews laid wait for him, +as he was about to sail into Syria. So he took a resolution to return +through Macedonia. + +20:4. And there accompanied him Sopater, the son of Pyrrhus, of Berea: +and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus: and Gaius of Derbe +and Timothy: and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus. + +20:5. These, going before, stayed for us at Troas. + +20:6. But we sailed from Philippi after the days of the azymes and came +to them to Troas in five days, where we abode seven days. + +20:7. And on the first day of the week, when we were assembled to break +bread, Paul discoursed with them, being to depart on the morrow. And he +continued his speech until midnight. + +And on the first day of the week... Here St. Chrysostom and many other +interpreters of the scripture explain, that the Christians even at this +time, must have changed the sabbath into the first day of the week, (the +Lord's day,) as all Christians now keep it. This change was undoubtedly +made by the authority of the church; hence the exercise of the power, +which Christ had given to her: for he is Lord of the sabbath. + +20:8. And there were a great number of lamps in the upper chamber where +we were assembled. + +20:9. And a certain young man named Eutychus, sitting on the window, +being oppressed with a deep sleep (as Paul was long preaching), by +occasion of his sleep fell from the third loft down and was taken up +dead. + +20:10. To whom, when Paul had gone down, he laid himself upon him and, +embracing him, said: Be not troubled, for his soul is in him. + +20:11. Then going up and breaking bread and tasting and having talked a +long time to them, until daylight, so he departed. + +20:12. And they brought the youth alive and were not a little comforted. + +20:13. But we going aboard the ship, sailed to Assos, being there to +take in Paul. For so he had appointed, himself purposing to travel by +land. + +20:14. And when he had met with us at Assos, we took him in and came to +Mitylene. + +20:15. And sailing thence, the day following we came over against Chios: +and the next day we arrived at Samos: and the day following we came to +Miletus. + +20:16. For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, lest he should be +stayed any time in Asia. For he hasted, if it were possible for him, to +keep the day of Pentecost at Jerusalem. + +20:17. And sending from Miletus to Ephesus, he called the ancients of +the church. + +20:18. And when they were come to him and were together, he said to +them: You know from the first day that I came into Asia, in what manner +I have been with you, for all the time. + +20:19. Serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and temptations +which befell me by the conspiracies of the Jews: + +20:20. How I have kept back nothing that was profitable to you, but have +preached it to you, and taught you publicly, and from house to house, + +20:21. Testifying both to Jews and Gentiles penance towards God and +faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. + +20:22. And now, behold, being bound in the spirit, I go to Jerusalem: +not knowing the things which shall befall me there: + +20:23. Save that the Holy Ghost in every city witnesseth to me, saying: +That bands and afflictions wait for me at Jerusalem. + +20:24. But I fear none of these things, neither do I count my life more +precious than myself, so that I may consummate my course and the +ministry of the word which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify +the gospel of the grace of God. + +20:25. And now behold, I know that all you, among whom I have gone +preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more. + +20:26. Wherefore I take you to witness this day that I am clear from the +blood of all men. + +20:27. For I have not spread to declare unto you all, the counsel of +God. + +20:28. Take heed to yourselves and to the whole flock, wherein the Holy +Ghost hath placed you bishops, to rule the Church of God which he hath +purchased with his own blood. + +20:29. I know that after my departure ravening wolves will enter in +among you, not sparing the flock. + +20:30. And of your own selves shall arise men speaking perverse things, +to draw away disciples after them. + +20:31. Therefore watch, keeping in memory that for three years I ceased +not with tears to admonish every one of you, night and day. + +20:32. And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, who is +able to build up and to give an inheritance among all the sanctified. + +20:33. I have not coveted any man's silver, gold or apparel, as + +20:34. You yourselves know. For such things as were needful for me and +them that are with me, these hands have furnished. + +20:35. I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring you ought to +support the weak and to remember the word of the Lord Jesus, how he +said: It is a more blessed thing to give, rather than to receive. + +20:36. And when he had said these things, kneeling down, he prayed with +them all. + +20:37. And there was much weeping among them all. And falling on the +neck of Paul, they kissed him, + +20:38. Being grieved most of all for the word which he had said, that +they should see his face no more. And they brought him on his way to the +ship. + +Acts Chapter 21 + +Paul goes up to Jerusalem. He is apprehended by the Jews in the temple. + +21:1. And when it came to pass that, being parted from them, we set +sail, we came with a straight course to Coos, and the day following to +Rhodes: and from thence to Patara. + +21:2. And when we had found a ship sailing over to Phenice, we went +aboard and set forth. + +21:3. And when we had discovered Cyprus, leaving it on the left hand, we +sailed into Syria, and came to Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade +her burden. + +21:4. And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to +Paul, through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem. + +21:5. And the days being expired, departing we went forward, they all +bringing us on our way, with their wives and children, till we were out +of the city. And we kneeled down on the shore: and we prayed. + +21:6. And when we had bid one another farewell, we took ship. And they +returned home. + +21:7. But we, having finished the voyage by sea, from Tyre came down to +Ptolemais: and saluting the brethren, we abode one day with them. + +21:8. And the next day departing, we came to Caesarea. And entering into +the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, we abode +with him. + +The evangelist... That is, the preacher of the gospel; the same that +before converted the Samaritans, and baptized the eunuch, chap. 8., +being one of the first seven deacons. + +21:9. And he had four daughters, virgins, who did prophesy. + +21:10. And as we tarried there for some days, there came from Judea a +certain prophet, named Agabus. + +21:11. Who, when he was come to us, took Paul's girdle: and binding his +own feet and hands, he said: Thus saith the Holy Ghost: The man whose +girdle this is, the Jews shall bind in this manner in Jerusalem and +shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles. + +21:12. Which when we had heard, both we and they that were of that place +desired him that he would not go up to Jerusalem. + +21:13. Then Paul answered and said: What do you mean, weeping and +afflicting my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but to die +also in Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus. + +21:14. And when we could not persuade him, we ceased, saying: The will +of the Lord be done. + +21:15. And after those days, being prepared, we went up to Jerusalem. + +21:16. And there went also with us some of the disciples from Caesarea, +bringing with them one Mnason a Cyprian, an old disciple, with whom we +should lodge. + +21:17. And when we were come to Jerusalem, the brethren received us +gladly. + +21:18. And the day following, Paul went in with us unto James: and all +the ancients were assembled. + +21:19. Whom when he had saluted, he related particularly what things God +had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry. + +21:20. But they hearing it, glorified God and said to him: Thou seest, +brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews that have believed: +and they are all zealous for the law. + +21:21. Now they have heard of thee that thou teachest those Jews, who +are among the Gentiles to depart from Moses: saying that they ought not +to circumcise their children, nor walk according to the custom. + +21:22. What is it therefore? The multitude must needs come together: for +they will hear that thou art come. + +21:23. Do therefore this that we say to thee. We have four men, who have +a vow on them. + +21:24. Take these and sanctify thyself with them: and bestow on them, +that they may shave their heads. And all will know that the things which +they have heard of these are false: but that thou thyself also walkest +keeping the law. + +Keeping the law... The law, though now no longer obligatory, was for a +time observed by the Christian Jews: to bury, as it were, the synagogue +with honour. + +21:25. But, as touching the Gentiles that believe, we have written, +decreeing that they should only refrain themselves from that which has +been offered to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from +fornication. + +21:26. Then Paul took the men and, the next day being purified with +them, entered into the temple, giving notice of the accomplishment of +the days of purification, until an oblation should be offered for every +one of them. + +21:27. But when the seven days were drawing to an end, those Jews that +were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people +and laid hands upon him, crying out: + +21:28. Men of Israel, help: This is the man that teacheth all men every +where against the people and the law and this place; and moreover hath +brought in Gentiles into the temple and hath violated this holy place. + +21:29. (For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him. +whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.) + +21:30. And he whole city was in an uproar: and the people ran together. +And taking Paul, they drew him out of the temple: and immediately the +doors were shut. + +21:31. And as they went about to kill him, it was told the tribune of +the band that all Jerusalem was in confusion. + +21:32. Who, forthwith taking with him soldiers and centurions, ran down +to them. And when they saw the tribune and the soldiers, they left off +beating Paul. + +21:33. Then the tribune, coming near, took him and commanded him to be +bound with two chains: and demanded who he was and what he had done. + +21:34. 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. + +21:35. And when he was come to the stairs, it fell out that he was +carried by the soldiers, because of the violence of the people. + +21:36. For the multitude of the people followed after, crying: Away with +him! + +21:37. And as Paul was about to be brought into the castle, he saith to +the tribune: May I speak something to thee? Who said: Canst thou speak +Greek? + +21:38. Art not thou that Egyptian who before these days didst raise a +tumult and didst lead forth into the desert four thousand men that were +murderers? + +21:39. But Paul said to him: I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen +of no mean city. And I beseech thee, suffer me to speak to the people. + +21:40. And when he had given him leave, Paul standing on the stairs, +beckoned with his hand to the people. And a great silence being made, he +spoke unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying: + +Acts Chapter 22 + +Paul declares to the people the history of his conversion. He escapes +scourging by claiming the privilege of a Roman citizen. + +22:1. Men, brethren and fathers, hear ye the account which I now give +unto you. + +22:2. (And when they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew tongue, +they kept the more silence.) + +22:3. And he saith: I am a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought +up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the truth +of the law of the fathers, zealous for the law, as also all you are this +day: + +22:4. Who persecuted this way unto death, binding and delivering into +prisons both men and women, + +22:5. As the high priest doth bear me witness and all the ancients. From +whom also receiving letters to the brethren, I went to Damascus, that I +might bring them bound from thence to Jerusalem to be punished. + +22:6. And it came to pass, as I was going and drawing nigh to Damascus, +at mid-day, that suddenly from heaven there shone round about me a great +light: + +22:7. And falling on the ground, I heard a voice saying to me: Saul, +Saul, why persecutest thou me? + +22:8. And I answered: Who art thou, Lord? And he said to me: I am Jesus +of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest. + +22:9. And they that were with me saw indeed the light: but they heard +not the voice of him that spoke with me. + +Heard not the voice... That is, they distinguished not the words; though +they heard the voice. Acts 9. 7. + +22:10. And I said: What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said to me: Arise +and go to Damascus; and there it shall be told thee of all things that +thou must do. + +22:11. And whereas I did not see for the brightness of that light, being +led by the hand by my companions, I came to Damascus, + +22:12. And one Ananias, a man according to the law, having testimony of +all the Jews who dwelt there, + +22:13. Coming to me and standing by me, said to me: Brother Saul, look +up. And I, the same hour, looked upon him. + +22:14. But he said: The God of our fathers hath preordained thee that +thou shouldst know his will and see the Just One and shouldst hear the +voice from his mouth. + +Just One... Our Saviour, who appeared to St. Paul, Acts 9. 17. + +22:15. For thou shalt be his witness to all men of those things which +thou hast seen and heard. + +22:16. And now why tarriest thou? Rise up and be baptized and wash away +thy sins, invoking his name. + +22:17. And it came to pass, when I was come again to Jerusalem and was +praying in the temple, that I was in a trance, + +22:18. And saw him saying unto me: Make haste and get thee quickly out +of Jerusalem: because they will not receive thy testimony concerning me. + +22:19. And I said: Lord, they know that I cast into prison and beat in +every synagogue them that believed in thee. + +22:20. And when the blood of Stephen thy witness was shed, I stood by +and consented: and kept the garments of them that killed him. + +22:21. And he said to me: Go, for unto the Gentiles afar off will I send +thee. + +22:22. And they heard him until this word and then lifted up their +voice, saying: Away with such an one from the earth. For it is not fit +that he should live. + +22:23. And as they cried out and threw off their garments and cast dust +into the air, + +22:24. The tribune commanded him to be brought into the castle, and that +he should be scourged and tortured: to know for what cause they did so +cry out against him. + +22:25. And when they had bound him with thongs, Paul saith to the +centurion that stood by him: Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that +is a Roman and uncondemned? + +22:26. Which the centurion hearing, went to the tribune and told him, +saying: What art thou about to do? For this man is a Roman citizen. + +22:27. And the tribune coming, said to him: Tell me. Art thou a Roman? +But he said: Yea. + +22:28. And the tribune answered: I obtained the being free of this city +with a great sum. And Paul said: But I was born so. + +22:29. Immediately therefore they departed from him that were about to +torture him. The tribune also was afraid after he understood that he was +a Roman citizen and because he had bound him. + +22:30. But on the next day, meaning to know more diligently for what +cause he was accused by the Jews, he loosed him and commanded the +priests to come together and all the council: and, bringing forth Paul, +he set him before them. + +Acts Chapter 23 + +Paul stands before the council. The Jews conspire his death. He is sent +away to Cesarea. + +23:1. And Paul, looking upon the council, said: Men, brethren, I have +conversed with all good conscience before God until this present day. + +23:2. And the high priest, Ananias, commanded them that stood by him to +strike him on the mouth. + +23:3. Then Paul said to him: God shall strike thee, thou whited wall. +For, sittest thou to judge me according to the law and, contrary to the +law, commandest me to be struck? + +23:4. And they that stood by said: Dost thou revile the high priest of +God? + +23:5. And Paul said: I knew not, brethren, that he is the high priest. +For it is written: Thou shalt not speak evil of the prince of thy +people. + +23:6. And Paul, knowing that the one part were Sadducees and the other +Pharisees, cried out in the council: Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee, the +son of Pharisees: concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am +called in question. + +23:7. And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the +Pharisees and the Sadducees. And the multitude was divided. + +23:8. For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither +angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both. + +23:9. And there arose a great cry. And some of the Pharisees rising up, +strove, saying: We find no evil in this man. What if a spirit hath +spoken to him, or an angel? + +23:10. And when there arose a great dissension, the tribune, fearing +lest Paul should be pulled in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to +go down and to take him by force from among them and to bring him into +the castle. + +23:11. And the night following, the Lord standing by him, said: Be +constant: for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou +bear witness also at Rome. + +23:12. And when day was come, some of the Jews gathered together and +bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor +drink till they killed Paul. + +23:13. And they were more than forty men that had made this conspiracy. + +23:14. Who came to the chief priests and the ancients and said: We have +bound ourselves under a great curse that we will eat nothing till we +have slain Paul. + +23:15. Now therefore do you with the council signify to the tribune, +that he bring him forth to you, as if you meant to know something more +certain touching him. And we, before he come near, are ready to kill +him. + +23:16. Which when Paul's sister's son had heard, of their lying in wait, +he came and entered into the castle and told Paul. + +23:17. And Paul, calling to him one of the centurions, said: Bring this +young man to the tribune: for he hath some thing to tell him. + +23:18. And he, taking him, brought him to the tribune and said: Paul, +the prisoner, desired me to bring this young man unto thee, who hath +some thing to say to thee. + +23:19. And the tribune, taking him by the hand, went aside with him +privately and asked him: What is it that thou hast to tell me? + +23:20. And he said: The Jews have agreed to desire thee that thou +wouldst bring forth Paul to-morrow into the council, as if they meant to +inquire some thing more certain touching him. + +23:21. But do not thou give credit to them: for there lie in wait for +him more than forty men of them, who have bound themselves by oath +neither to eat nor to drink, till they have killed him. And they are +now ready, looking for a promise from thee. + +23:22. The tribune therefore dismissed the young man, charging him that +he should tell no man that he had made known these things unto him. + +23:23. Then having called two centurions, he said to them: Make ready +two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea: and seventy horsemen and +two hundred spearmen, for the third hour of the night. + +23:24. And provide beasts, that they may set Paul on and bring him safe +to Felix the governor. + +23:25. (For he feared lest perhaps the Jews might take him away by force +and kill him: and he should afterwards be slandered, as if he was to +take money.) And he wrote a letter after this manner: + +23:26. Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor, Felix, greeting: + +23:27. This man, being taken by the Jews and ready to be killed by them, +I rescued, coming in with an army, understanding that he is a Roman. + +23:28. And meaning to know the cause which they objected unto him, I +brought him forth into their council. + +23:29. Whom I found to be accused concerning questions of their law; but +having nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bands. + +23:30. And when I was told of ambushes that they had prepared for him, I +sent him to thee, signifying also to his accusers to plead before thee. +Farewell. + +23:31. Then the soldiers, according as it was commanded them, taking +Paul, brought him by night to Antipatris. + +23:32. And the next day, leaving the horsemen to go with him, they +returned to the castle. + +23:33. Who, when they were come to Caesarea and had delivered the letter +to the governor, did also present Paul before him. + +23:34. And when he had read it and had asked of what province he was and +understood that he was of Cilicia: + +23:35. I will hear thee, said he, when thy accusers come. And he +commanded him to be kept in Herod's judgment hall. + +Acts Chapter 24 + +Paul defends his innocence before Felix the governor. He preaches the +faith to him. + +24:1. And after five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with some +ancients and one Tertullus, an orator, who went to the governor against +Paul. + +24:2. And Paul being called for, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying: +Whereas, through thee we live in much peace and many things are +rectified by thy providence, + +24:3. We accept it always and in all places, most excellent Felix, with +all thanksgiving. + +24:4. But that I be no further tedious to thee, I desire thee of thy +clemency to hear us in a few words. + +24:5. We have found this to be a pestilent man and raising seditions +among all the Jews throughout the world: and author of the sedition of +the sect of the Nazarenes. + +24:6. Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom, we having +apprehended, would also have judged according to our law. + +24:7. But Lysias the tribune, coming upon us with great violence, took +him away out of our hands; + +24:8. Commanding his accusers to come to thee. Of whom thou mayest +thyself, by examination, have knowledge of all these things whereof we +accuse him. + +24:9. And the Jews also added and said that these things were so. + +24:10. Then Paul answered (the governor making a sign to him to speak): +Knowing that for many years thou hast been judge over this nation, I +will with good courage answer for myself. + +24:11. For thou mayest understand that there are yet but twelve days +since I went up to adore in Jerusalem: + +24:12. And neither in the temple did they find me disputing with any man +or causing any concourse of the people: neither in the synagogues, nor +in the city. + +24:13. Neither can they prove unto thee the things whereof they now +accuse me. + +24:14. But this I confess to thee that according to the way which they +call a heresy, so do I serve the Father and my God, believing all things +which are written in the law and the prophets: + +24:15. Having hope in God, which these also themselves look for, that +there shall be a resurrection of the just and unjust. + +24:16. And herein do I endeavour to have always a conscience without +offence, towards God and towards men. + +24:17. Now after many years, I came to bring alms to my nation and +offerings and vows. + +24:18. In which I was found purified in the temple: neither with +multitude nor with tumult. + +24:19. But certain Jews of Asia, who ought to be present before thee and +to accuse, if they had anything against me: + +24:20. Or let these men themselves say if they found in me any iniquity, +when standing before the council, + +24:21. Except it be for this one voice only that I cried, standing among +them: Concerning the resurrection of the dead am I judged this day by +you. + +24:22. And Felix put them off, having most certain knowledge of this +way, saying: When Lysias the tribune shall come down, I will hear you. + +24:23. And he commanded a centurion to keep him: and that he should be +easy and that he should not prohibit any of his friends to minister unto +him. + +24:24. And after some days, Felix, coming with Drusilla his wife, who +was a Jew, sent for Paul and heard of him the faith that is in Christ +Jesus. + +24:25. And as he treated of justice and chastity and of the judgment to +come, Felix, being terrified, answered: For this time, go thy way: but +when I have a convenient time, I will send for thee. + +24:26. Hoping also withal that money should be given him by Paul: for +which cause also oftentimes sending for him, he spoke with him. + +24:27. But when two years were ended, Felix had for successor Portius +Festus. And Felix being willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul +bound. + +Acts Chapter 25 + +Paul appeals to Caesar. King Agrippa desires to hear him. + +25:1. Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days, he +went up to Jerusalem from Cesarea. + +25:2. And the chief priests and principal men of the Jews went unto him +against Paul: and they besought him, + +25:3. Requesting favour against him, that he would command him to be +brought to Jerusalem, laying wait to kill him in the way. + +25:4. But Festus answered: That Paul was kept in Caesarea: and that he +himself would very shortly depart thither. + +25:5. Let them, therefore, saith he, among you that are able, go down +with me and accuse him, if there be any crime in the man. + +25:6. And having tarried among them no more than eight or ten days, he +went down to Caesarea. And the next day, he sat in the judgment seat and +commanded Paul to be brought. + +25:7. Who being brought, the Jews stood about him, who were come down +from Jerusalem, objecting many and grievious causes, which they could +not prove: + +25:8. Paul making answer for himself: Neither against the law of the +Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I offended in any +thing. + +25:9. But Festus, willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, answering Paul, +said: Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem and there be judged of these things +before me? + +25:10. Then Paul said: I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought +to be judged. To the Jews I have done no injury, as thou very well +knowest. + +25:11. For if I have injured them or have committed any thing worthy of +death, I refuse not to die. But if there be none of these things whereof +they accuse me, no man may deliver me to them. I appeal to Caesar. + +25:12. Then Festus, having conferred with the council, answered: Hast +thou appealed to Caesar? To Caesar shalt thou go. + +25:13. And after some days, king Agrippa and Bernice came down to +Caesarea, to salute Festus. + +25:14. And as they tarried there many days, Festus told the king of +Paul, saying: A certain man was left prisoner by Felix. + +25:15. About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the +ancients of the Jews came unto me, desiring condemnation against him. + +25:16. To whom I answered: it is not the custom of the Romans to condemn +any man, before that he who is accused have his accusers present and +have liberty to make his answer, to clear himself of the things laid to +his charge. + +25:17. When therefore they were come hither, without any delay, on the +day following, sitting in the judgment seat, I commanded the man to be +brought. + +25:18. Against whom, when the accusers stood up, they brought no +accusation of this which I thought ill of: + +25:19. But had certain questions of their own superstition against him, +and of one Jesus deceased, whom Paul affirmed to be alive. + +25:20. I therefore being in a doubt of this manner of question, asked +him whether he would go to Jerusalem and there be judged of these +things. + +25:21. But Paul, appealing to be reserved unto the hearing of Augustus, +I commanded him to be kept, till I might send him to Caesar. + +25:22. And Agrippa said to Festus: I would also hear the man, myself. +To-morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him. + +25:23. And on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice were come with +great pomp and had entered into the hall of audience with the tribunes +and principal men of the city, at Festus' commandment, Paul was brought +forth. + +25:24. And Festus saith: King Agrippa and all ye men who are here +present with us, you see this man, about whom all the multitude of the +Jews dealt with me at Jerusalem, requesting and crying out that he ought +not to live any longer. + +25:25. Yet have I found nothing that he hath committed worthy of death. +But forasmuch as he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined +to send him. + +25:26. Of whom I have nothing certain to write to my lord. For which +cause, I have brought him forth before you, and especially before thee, +O king Agrippa, that, examination being made, I may have what to write. + +25:27. For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner and not to +signify the things laid to his charge. + +Acts Chapter 26 + +Paul gives an account to Agrippa of his life, conversion and calling. + +26:1. Then Agrippa said to Paul: Thou art permitted to speak for +thyself. Then Paul, stretching forth his hand, began to make his answer. + +26:2. I think myself happy, O king Agrippa, that I am to answer for +myself this day before thee, touching all the things whereof I am +accused by the Jews. + +26:3. Especially as thou knowest all, both customs and questions, that +are among the Jews. Wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently. + +26:4. And my life indeed from my youth, which was from the beginning +among my own nation in Jerusalem, all the Jews do know: + +26:5. Having known me from the beginning (if they will give testimony) +that according to the most sure sect of our religion I lived, a +Pharisee. + +26:6. And now for the hope of the promise that was made by God to the +fathers, do I stand subject to judgment: + +26:7. Unto which, our twelve tribes, serving night and day, hope to +come. For which hope, O king, I am accused by the Jews. + +26:8. Why should it be thought a thing incredible that God should raise +the dead? + +26:9. And I indeed did formerly think that I ought to do many things +contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. + +26:10. Which also I did at Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut +up in prison, having received authority of the chief priests. And when +they were put to death, I brought the sentence. + +26:11. And oftentimes punishing them, in every synagogue, I compelled +them to blaspheme: and being yet more mad against them, I persecuted +them even unto foreign cities. + +26:12. Whereupon, when I was going to Damascus with authority and +permission of the chief priest, + +26:13. 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 that were in +company with me. + +26:14. And when we were all fallen down on the ground, I heard a voice +speaking to me in the Hebrew tongue: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou +me? It is hard for thee to kick against the good. + +26:15. And I said: Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord answered: I am Jesus +whom thou persecutest. + +26:16. But rise up and stand upon thy feet: for to this end have I +appeared to thee, that I may make thee a minister and a witness of those +things which thou hast seen and of those things wherein I will appear to +thee, + +26:17. Delivering thee from the people and from the nations unto which +now I send thee: + +26:18. To open their eyes, that they may be converted from darkness to +light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive +forgiveness of sins and a lot among the saints, by the faith that is in +me. + +26:19. Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not incredulous to the heavenly +vision. + +26:20. But to them first that are at Damascus and at Jerusalem, and unto +all the country of Judea, and to the Gentiles did I preach, that they +should do penance and turn to God, doing works worthy of penance. + +26:21. For this cause, the Jews, when I was in the temple, having +apprehended me, went about to kill me. + +26:22. But being aided by the help of God, I stand unto this day, +witnessing both to small and great, saying no other thing than those +which the prophets and Moses did say should come to pass: + +26:23. That Christ should suffer and that he should be the first that +should rise from the dead and should shew light to the people and to the +Gentiles. + +26:24. As he spoke these things and made his answer, Festus said with a +loud voice: Paul, thou art beside thyself: much learning doth make thee +mad. + +26:25. And Paul said: I am not mad, most excellent Festus, but I speak +words of truth and soberness. + +26:26. For the king knoweth of these things, to whom also I speak with +confidence. For I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from +him. For neither was any of these things done in a corner. + +26:27. Believest thou the prophets, O king Agrippa? I know that thou +believest. + +26:28. And Agrippa said to Paul: In a little thou persuadest me to +become a Christian. + +26:29. And Paul said: I would to God that both in a little and in much, +not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, should become such as +I also am, except these bands. + +26:30. And the king rose up, and the governor and Bernice and they that +sat with them. + +26:31. And when they were gone aside, they spoke among themselves, +saying: This man hath done nothing worthy of death or of bands. + +26:32. And Agrippa said to Festus: This man might have been set at +liberty, if he had not appealed to Caesar. + +Acts Chapter 27 + +Paul is shipped for Rome. His voyage and shipwreck. + +27:1. And when it was determined that he should sail into Italy and that +Paul, with the other prisoners, should be delivered to a centurion, +named Julius, of the band Augusta, + +27:2. Going on board a ship of Adrumetum, we launched, meaning to sail +by the coasts of Asia, Aristarchus, the Macedonian of Thessalonica, +continuing with us. + +27:3. And the day following, we came to Sidon. And Julius, treating Paul +courteously, permitted him to go to his friends and to take care of +himself. + +27:4. And when we had launched from thence, we sailed under Cyprus, +because the winds were contrary. + +27:5. And sailing over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to +Lystra, which is in Lycia. + +27:6. And there, the centurion, finding a ship of Alexandria sailing +into Italy, removed us into it. + +27:7. And when for many days we had sailed slowly and were scarce come +over against Gnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed near Crete by +Salmone. + +27:8. And with much ado sailing by it, we came into a certain place, +which is called Good-havens, nigh to which was the city of Thalassa. + +27:9. And when much time was spent and when sailing now was dangerous, +because the fast was now past, Paul comforted them, + +27:10. Saying to them: Ye men, I see that the voyage beginneth to be +with injury and much damage, not only of the lading and ship, but also +of our lives. + +27:11. But the centurion believed the pilot and the master of the ship, +more than those things which were said by Paul. + +27:12. And whereas it was not a commodious haven to winter in, the +greatest part gave counsel to sail thence, if by any means they might +reach Phenice, to winter there, which is a haven of Crete, looking +towards the southwest and northwest. + +27:13. And the south wind gently blowing, thinking that they had +obtained their purpose, when they had loosed from Asson, they sailed +close by Crete. + +27:14. But not long after, there arose against it a tempestuous wind, +called Euroaquilo. + +27:15. And when the ship was caught and could not bear up against the +wind, giving up the ship to the winds, we were driven. + +27:16. And running under a certain island that is called Cauda, we had +much work to come by the boat. + +27:17. Which being taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship: and +fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, they let down the +sail yard and so were driven. + +27:18. And we, being mightily tossed with the tempest, the next day they +lightened the ship. + +27:19. And the third day they cast out with their own hands the tacking +of the ship. + +27:20. And when neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and no +small storms lay on us, all hope of our being saved was now taken away. + +27:21. And after they had fasted a long time, Paul standing forth in the +midst of them, said: You should indeed, O ye men, have hearkened unto me +and not have loosed from Crete and have gained this harm and loss. + +27:22. And now I exhort you to be of good cheer. For there shall be no +loss of any man's life among you, but only of the ship. + +27:23. For an angel of God, whose I am and whom I serve, stood by me +this night, + +27:24. Saying: Fear not, Paul, thou must be brought before Caesar; and +behold, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee. + +27:25. Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it +shall so be, as it hath been told me. + +27:26. And we must come unto a certain island. + +27:27. But after the fourteenth night was come, as we were sailing in +Adria, about midnight, the shipmen deemed that they discovered some +country. + +27:28. Who also sounding, found twenty fathoms: and going on a little +further, they found fifteen fathoms. + +27:29. Then fearing lest we should fall upon rough places, they cast +four anchors out of the stern: and wished for the day. + +27:30. But as the shipmen sought to fly out of the ship, having let down +the boat into the sea, under colour, as though they would have cast +anchors out of the forepart of the ship, + +27:31. Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers: Except these stay +in the ship, you cannot be saved. + +27:32. Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat and let her fall +off. + +27:33. And when it began to be light, Paul besought them all to take +meat, saying: This day is the fourteenth day that you have waited and +continued fasting, taking nothing. + +27:34. Wherefore, I pray you to take some meat for your health's sake: +for there shall not an hair of the head of any of you perish. + +27:35. And when he had said these things, taking bread, he gave thanks +to God in the sight of them all. And when he had broken it, he began to +eat. + +27:36. Then were they all of better cheer: and they also took some meat. + +27:37. And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen +souls. + +27:38. And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, casting +the wheat into the sea. + +27:39. And when it was day, they knew not the land. But they discovered +a certain creek that had a shore, into which they minded, if they could, +to thrust in the ship. + +27:40. And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves +to the sea, loosing withal the rudder bands. And hoisting up the +mainsail to the wind, they made towards shore. + +27:41. And when we were fallen into a place where two seas met, they run +the ship aground. And the forepart indeed, sticking fast, remained +unmoveable: but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the sea. + +27:42. And the soldiers' counsel was that they should kill the +prisoners, lest any of them, swimming out should escape. + +27:43. But the centurion, willing to save Paul, forbade it to be done. +And he commanded that they who could swim should cast themselves first +into the sea and save themselves and get to land. + +27:44. And the rest, some they carried on boards and some on those +things that belonged to the ship. And so it came to pass that every soul +got safe to land. + +Acts Chapter 28 + +Paul, after three months' stay in Melita, continues his voyage and +arrives at Rome. His conference there with the Jews. + +28:1. And when we had escaped, then we knew that the island was called +Melita. But the barbarians shewed us no small courtesy. + +28:2. For kindling a fire, they refreshed us all, because of the present +rain and of the cold. + +28:3. And when Paul had gathered together a bundle of sticks and had +laid them on the fire, a viper, coming out of the heat, fastened on his +hand. + +28:4. And when the barbarians saw the beast hanging on his hand, they +said one to another: Undoubtedly this man is a murderer, who, though he +hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance doth not suffer him to live. + +28:5. And he indeed, shaking off the beast into the fire, suffered no +harm. + +28:6. But they supposed that he would begin to swell up and that he +would suddenly fall down and die. But expecting long and seeing that +there came no harm to him, changing their minds, they said that he was a +god. + +28:7. Now in these places were possessions of the chief man of the +island, named Publius: who, receiving us for three days, entertained us +courteously. + +28:8. And it happened that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and +of a bloody flux. To whom Paul entered in. And when he had prayed and +laid his hands on him, he healed him. + +28:9. Which being done, all that had diseases in the island came and +were healed. + +28:10. Who also honoured us with many honours: and when we were to set +sail, they laded us with such things as were necessary. + +28:11. And after three months, we sailed in a ship of Alexandria, that +had wintered in the island, whose sign was the Castors. + +28:12. And when we were come to Syracusa, we tarried there three days. + +28:13. From thence, compassing by the shore, we came to Rhegium: and +after one day, the south wind blowing, we came the second day to +Puteoli: + +28:14. Where, finding brethren, we were desired to tarry with them seven +days. And so we went to Rome. + +28:15. And from thence, when the brethren had heard of us, they came to +meet us as far as Appii Forum and the Three Taverns. Whom when Paul +saw, he gave thanks to God and took courage. + +28:16. And when we were come to Rome, Paul was suffered to dwell by +himself, with a soldier that kept him. + +28:17. And after the third day, he called together the chief of the +Jews. And when they were assembled, he said to them: Men, brethren, I, +having done nothing against the people or the custom of our fathers, was +delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans. + +28:18. Who, when they had examined me, would have released me, for that +there was no cause of death in me. + +28:19. But the Jews contradicting it, I was constrained to appeal unto +Caesar: not that I had anything to accuse my nation of. + +28:20. For this cause therefore I desired to see you and to speak to +you. Because that for the hope of Israel, I am bound with this chain. + +28:21. But they said to him: We neither received letters concerning thee +from Judea: neither did any of the brethren that came hither relate or +speak any evil of thee. + +28:22. But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as +concerning this sect, we know that it is every where contradicted. + +28:23. And when they had appointed him a day, there came very many to +him unto his lodgings. To whom he expounded, testifying the kingdom of +God and persuading them concerning Jesus, out of the law of Moses and +the prophets, from morning until evening. + +28:24. And some believed the things that were said: but some believed +not. + +28:25. And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, Paul +speaking this one word: Well did the Holy Ghost speak to our fathers by +Isaias the prophet, + +28:26. Saying: Go to this people and say to them: With the ear you shall +hear and shall not understand: and seeing you shall see and shall not +perceive. + +28:27. For the heart of this people is grown gross, and with their ears +have they heard heavily and their eyes they have shut, lest perhaps they +should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with +their heart and should be converted: and I should heal them. + +28:28. Be it known therefore to you that this salvation of God is sent +to the Gentiles: and they will hear it. + +28:29. And when he had said these things, the Jews went out from him, +having much reasoning among themselves. + +28:30. And he remained two whole years in his own hired lodging: and he +received all that came in to him, + +28:31. Preaching the kingdom of God and teaching the things which +concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, without prohibition. + + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS, BOOK 51 *** + +*********** This file should be named 8351.txt or 8351.zip *********** + +Produced by David Widger + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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