Acts 12 Cross References - BBE

¹ Now, about that time, Herod the king made cruel attacks on the Christians. ² And he put James, the brother of John, to death with the sword. ³ And when he saw that this was pleasing to the Jews he went on to take Peter in addition. This was at the time of the feast of unleavened bread. ⁴ And having taken him, he put him in prison, with four bands of armed men to keep watch over him; his purpose being to take him out to the people after the Passover. ⁵ So Peter was kept in prison: but the church made strong prayer to God for him. ⁶ And when Herod was about to take him out, the same night Peter was sleeping in chains between two armed men, and the watchmen were keeping watch before the door of the prison. ⁷ And a great light was seen shining in the room, and an angel of the Lord came to Peter and, touching him on his side so that he came out of his sleep, said, Get up quickly. And his chains came off his hands. ⁸ Then the angel said, Put on your shoes and get ready to go. And he did so. And he said, Put your coat round you and come with me. ⁹ And he went out after him; and he was not certain if what was done by the angel was a fact, for it seemed to him that he was seeing a vision. ¹⁰ And when they had gone past the first and second watchmen they came to the iron door into the town, which came open by itself: and they went out and down one street; and then the angel went away. ¹¹ And when Peter came to his senses he said, Now, truly, I am certain that the Lord has sent his angel and taken me out of the hands of Herod, against all the hopes of the Jews. ¹² And when he became clear about this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John named Mark, where a number of them had come together for prayer. ¹³ And he gave a blow on the door, and a young girl came to it, named Rhoda. ¹⁴ And hearing the voice of Peter, in her joy she went running, without opening the door, to say that Peter was outside. ¹⁵ And they said to her, You are off your head. But still she said, with decision, that it was so. And they said, It is his angel. ¹⁶ But Peter went on giving blows on the door: and when it was open and they saw him, they were full of wonder. ¹⁷ But he made a sign to them with his hand to be quiet, and gave them an account of how the Lord had taken him out of prison. And he said, Give the news to James and the brothers. And then he went away. ¹⁸ Now when it was day, the armed men were greatly troubled about what had become of Peter. ¹⁹ And Herod, when he sent for him, and he was not there, after questioning the watchmen, gave orders that they were to be put to death. Then he went down from Judaea to Caesarea for a time. ²⁰ Now he was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon: and they came to him, all together, and having made friends with Blastus, the controller of the king's house, they made a request for peace, because their country was dependent on the king's country for its food. ²¹ And on the day which had been fixed, Herod, dressed in his robes and seated in his place, made a public statement to them. ²² And the people, with loud cries, said, It is the voice of a god, not of a man. ²³ And straight away the angel of the Lord sent a disease on him, because he did not give the glory to God: and his flesh was wasted away by worms, and so he came to his end. ²⁴ But the word of the Lord went on increasing. ²⁵ And Barnabas and Saul came back from Jerusalem, when their work was ended, taking with them John named Mark.

²² And all these things Noah did; as God said, so he did.

¹⁵ And Canaan was the father of Zidon, who was his oldest son, and Heth,

¹⁹ Their country stretching from Zidon to Gaza, in the direction of Gerar; and to Lasha, in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim.

¹³ And he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a land which is not theirs, as servants to a people who will be cruel to them for four hundred years;

¹³ And the Lord said, Why was Sarah laughing and saying, Is it possible for me, being old, to give birth to a child?

¹⁵ And when morning came, the angels did all in their power to make Lot go, saying, Get up quickly and take your wife and your two daughters who are here, and go, for fear that you come to destruction in the punishment of the town. ¹⁶ But while he was waiting, the men took him and his wife and his daughters by the hand, for the Lord had mercy on them, and put them outside the town.

¹⁴ And Abraham gave that place the name Yahweh-yireh: as it is said to this day, In the mountain the Lord is seen.

⁹ And he said to Isaac, It is clear that she is your wife: why then did you say, She is my sister? And Isaac said, For fear that I might be put to death because of her.

³ And he put them in prison under the care of the captain of the army, in the same prison where Joseph himself was shut up.

¹⁷ So he put them in prison for three days.

²⁶ And they said to him, Joseph is living, and is ruler over all the land of Egypt. And at this word Jacob was quite overcome, for he had no faith in it.

¹⁶ The angel who has been my saviour from all evil, send his blessing on these children: and let my name and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, be given to them; and let them become a great nation in the earth.

¹⁷ Are you still uplifted in pride against my people so that you will not let them go?

³ Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you be lifted up in your pride before me? let my people go so that they may give me worship.

¹² For on that night I will go through the land of Egypt, sending death on every first male child, of man and of beast, and judging all the gods of Egypt: I am the Lord.

¹⁴ And this day is to be kept in your memories: you are to keep it as a feast to the Lord through all your generations, as an order for ever. ¹⁵ For seven days let your food be unleavened bread; from the first day no leaven is to be seen in your houses: whoever takes bread with leaven in it, from the first till the seventh day, will be cut off from Israel. ¹⁶ And on the first day there is to be a holy meeting and on the seventh day a holy meeting; no sort of work may be done on those days but only to make ready what is necessary for everyone's food. ¹⁷ So keep the feast of unleavened bread; for on this very day I have taken your armies out of the land of Egypt: this day, then, is to be kept through all your generations by an order for ever. ¹⁸ In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day, let your food be unleavened bread till the evening of the twenty-first day of the month. ¹⁹ For seven days no leaven is to be seen in your houses: for whoever takes bread which is leavened will be cut off from the people of Israel, if he is from another country or if he is an Israelite by birth. ²⁰ Take nothing which has leaven in it; wherever you are living let your food be unleavened cakes.

²³ For the Lord will go through the land, sending death on the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the two sides and the top of the door, the Lord will go over your door and will not let death come in for your destruction.

²⁹ And in the middle of the night the Lord sent death on every first male child in the land of Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of power to the child of the prisoner in the prison; and the first births of all the cattle.

³ And Moses said to the people, Let this day, on which you came out of Egypt, out of your prison-house, be kept for ever in memory; for by the strength of his hand the Lord has taken you out from this place; let no leavened bread be used. ⁴ On this day, in the month Abib, you are going out. ⁵ And it will be that, when the Lord takes you into the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, the land which he made an oath to your fathers that he would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you will do this act of worship in this month. ⁶ For seven days let your food be unleavened cakes; and on the seventh day there is to be a feast to the Lord. ⁷ Unleavened cakes are to be your food through all the seven days; let no leavened bread be seen among you, or any leaven, in any part of your land.

¹⁵ You are to keep the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days let your bread be without leaven, as I gave you orders, at the regular time in the month Abib for in it you came out of Egypt; and let no one come before me without an offering:

⁶ And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days let your food be unleavened bread. ⁷ On the first day you will have a holy meeting; you may do no sort of field-work. ⁸ And every day for seven days you will give a burned offering to the Lord; and on the seventh day there will be a holy meeting; you may do no field-work. ⁹ And the Lord said to Moses, ¹⁰ Say to the children of Israel, When you have come to the land which I will give you, and have got in the grain from its fields, take some of the first-fruits of the grain to the priest; ¹¹ And let the grain be waved before the Lord, so that you may be pleasing to him; on the day after the Sabbath let it be waved by the priest. ¹² And on the day of the waving of the grain, you are to give a male lamb of the first year, without any mark, for a burned offering to the Lord. ¹³ And let the meal offering with it be two tenth parts of an ephah of the best meal mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to the Lord for a sweet smell; and the drink offering with it is to be of wine, the fourth part of a hin. ¹⁴ And you may take no bread or dry grain or new grain for food till the very day on which you have given the offering for your God: this is a rule for ever through all your generations wherever you are living.

³⁴ And they had him shut up, because they had no directions about what was to be done with him.

²⁶ I said I would send them wandering far away, I would make all memory of them go from the minds of men:

²⁹ And the limit goes round to Ramah and the walled town of Tyre and Hosah, ending at the sea by Heleb and Achzib;

¹⁴ And David kept in the waste land, in safe places, waiting in the hill-country in the waste land of Ziph. And Saul was searching for him every day, but God did not give him up into his hands.

²⁶ And Saul and his men went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men went on the other: and David's purpose was to get away as quickly as possible, for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men were making a circle round David and his men in order to take them. ²⁷ But a man came to Saul saying, Be quick and come; for the Philistines have made an attack on the land.

³⁸ And about ten days after, the Lord sent disease on Nabal and death came to him.

¹ And David made a song to the Lord in these words, on the day when the Lord made him free from the hands of all his haters, and from the hand of Saul:

²⁹ For you are my light, O Lord; and the Lord will make the dark bright for me.

¹⁶ And when the hand of the angel was stretched out in the direction of Jerusalem, for its destruction, the Lord had regret for the evil, and said to the angel who was sending destruction on the people, It is enough; do no more. And the angel of the Lord was by the grain-floor of Araunah the Jebusite. ¹⁷ And when David saw the angel who was causing the destruction of the people, he said to the Lord, Truly, the sin is mine; I have done wrong: but these are only sheep; what have they done? let your hand be against me and against my family.

⁹ My men will take them down from Lebanon to the sea, where I will have them corded together to go by sea to whatever place you say, and I will have them cut up there so that you may take them away; as for payment, it will be enough if you give me food for my people. ¹⁰ So Hiram gave Solomon all the cedar-wood and cypress-wood he had need of; ¹¹ And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of grain, as food for his people, and twenty measures of clear oil; this he did every year.

¹ Ahab gave Jezebel news of all Elijah had done, and how he had put all the prophets to death with the sword.

⁵ And stretching himself on the earth, he went to sleep under the broom-plant; but an angel, touching him, said to him, Get up and have some food.

⁷ And the angel of the Lord came again a second time, and touching him said, Get up and have some food, or the journey will be overmuch for your strength.

¹⁰ And he said, I have been burning for the honour of the Lord, the God of armies; for the children of Israel have not kept your agreement; they have made destruction of your altars, and have put your prophets to death with the sword: till I, even I, am the only one living; and now they are attempting to take away my life.

⁴³ Then the king of Israel went back to his house, bitter and angry, and came to Samaria.

³⁵ And that night the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men; and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.

¹⁴ So the Lord sent disease on Israel, causing the death of seventy thousand men. ¹⁵ And God sent an angel to Jerusalem for its destruction: and when he was about to do so, the Lord saw, and had regret for the evil, and said to the angel of destruction, It is enough; do no more. Now the angel of the Lord was by the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite. ¹⁶ And David, lifting up his eyes, saw the angel of the Lord there between earth and heaven, with an uncovered sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the responsible men, clothed in haircloth, went down on their faces. ¹⁷ And David said to God, Was it not I who gave the order for the people to be numbered? It is I who have done the sin and the great wrong; but these are only sheep; what have they done? let your hand, O Lord God, be lifted up against me and against my family, but not against your people to send disease on them. ¹⁸ Then the angel of the Lord gave orders to Gad to say to David that he was to go and put up an altar to the Lord on the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

¹⁰ And I will give as food to your servants, the wood-cutters, twenty thousand measures of grain, and twenty thousand measures of barley and twenty thousand measures of wine and twenty thousand measures of oil.

¹⁵ So now let my lord send to his servants the grain and the oil and the wine as my lord has said;

⁹ For the eyes of the Lord go this way and that, through all the earth, letting it be seen that he is the strong support of those whose hearts are true to him. In this you have done foolishly, for from now you will have wars.

¹⁸ And after all this the Lord sent on him a disease of the stomach from which it was impossible for him to be made well. ¹⁹ And time went on, and after two years, his inside falling out because of the disease, he came to his death in cruel pain. And his people made no burning for him like the burning made for his fathers.

²¹ And the Lord sent an angel who put to death all the men of war and the chiefs and the captains in the army of the king of Assyria. So he went back to his country in shame. And when he came into the house of his god, his sons, the offspring of his body, put him to death there with the sword.

⁷ And they gave money to the stoneworkers and woodworkers; and meat and drink and oil to the people of Zidon and of Tyre, for the transport of cedar-trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, as Cyrus, king of Persia, had given them authority to do.

⁶ But it was not enough for him to make an attack on Mordecai only; for they had made clear to him who Mordecai's people were; so Haman made it his purpose to put an end to all the Jews, even Mordecai's people, through all the kingdom of Ahasuerus. ⁷ In the first month, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, from day to day and from month to month they went on looking for a sign given by Pur that is chance before Haman, till the sign came out for the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month Adar.

¹³ And letters were sent by the runners into every division of the kingdom ordering the death and destruction of all Jews, young and old, little children and women, on the same day, even the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month Adar, and the taking of all their goods by force.

¹² And Mordecai came back to the king's doorway. But Haman went quickly back to his house, sad and with his head covered.

¹⁹ He will keep you safe from six troubles, and in seven no evil will come near you.

⁵ My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.

¹⁶ If I had sent for him to be present, and he had come, I would have no faith that he would give ear to my voice.

²⁶ And (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) without my flesh I will see God;

³¹ If the men of my tent did not say, Who has not had full measure of his meat?

⁵ I took my rest in sleep, and then again I was awake; for the Lord was my support. ⁶ I will have no fear, though ten thousand have come round me, putting themselves against me.

⁸ I will take my rest on my bed in peace, because you only, Lord, keep me safe.

² Everyone says false words to his neighbour: their tongues are smooth in their talk, and their hearts are full of deceit.

¹⁸ See, the eye of the Lord is on those in whose hearts is the fear of him, on those whose hope is in his mercy;

⁷ The angel of the Lord is ever watching over those who have fear of him, to keep them safe.

²² The Lord will be the saviour of the souls of his servants, and no one who has faith in him will be put to shame.

³² The sinners are watching the upright man, desiring to put him to death. ³³ The Lord will not give him into their hands, or be against him when he is judged.

² The Lord will keep him safe, and give him life; the Lord will let him be a blessing on the earth, and will not give him into the hand of his haters.

¹⁶ Come, give ear to me, all you God-fearing men, so that I may make clear to you what he has done for my soul.

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¹⁰ You who are lovers of the Lord, be haters of evil; he keeps the souls of his saints; he takes them out of the hand of sinners.

²⁰ Hearing the cry of the prisoner, making free those for whom death is ordered; ²¹ So that they may give out the name of the Lord in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;

¹⁸ His feet were fixed in chains; his neck was put in iron bands; ¹⁹ Till the time when his word came true; he was tested by the word of the Lord. ²⁰ The king sent men to take off his chains; even the ruler of the people, who let him go free.

¹⁴ He took them out of the dark and the black night, and all their chains were broken.

²¹ Let men give praise to the Lord for his mercy, and for the wonders which he does for the children of men! ²² Let them make offerings of praise, giving news of his works with cries of joy.

³¹ For he is ever at the right hand of the poor, to take him out of the hands of those who go after his soul.

¹ Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name let glory be given, because of your mercy and your unchanging faith.

¹⁴ I will make the offering of my oath to the Lord, even before all his people. ¹⁵ Dear in the eyes of the Lord is the death of his saints. ¹⁶ O Lord, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of her who is your servant; by you have my cords been broken.

¹ A Song of the going up. When the Lord made a change in Zion's fate, we were like men in a dream.

⁶ Give ear to my cry, for I am made very low: take me out of the hands of my haters, for they are stronger than I. ⁷ Take my soul out of prison, so that I may give praise to your name: the upright will give praise because of me; for you have given me a full reward.

⁷ Who gives their rights to those who are crushed down; and gives food to those who are in need of it: the Lord makes the prisoners free;

¹⁴ The start of fighting is like the letting out of water: so give up before it comes to blows.

²¹ A man's heart may be full of designs, but the purpose of the Lord is unchanging.

¹⁸ Every purpose is put into effect by wise help: and by wise guiding make war.

⁸ Do not be quick to go to law about what you have seen, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbour has put you to shame?

¹ Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be.

²⁸ When evil-doers are lifted up, men take cover; but when destruction overtakes them, the upright are increased.

⁴ If the wrath of the ruler is against you, keep in your place; in him who keeps quiet even great sins may be overlooked.

¹¹ Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them.

⁸ And the watchman gave a loud cry, O my lord, I am on the watchtower all day, and am placed in my watch every night:

¹ The word about Tyre. Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish, because your strong place is made waste; on the way back from the land of Kittim the news is given to them. ² Send out a cry of grief, you men of the sea-land, traders of Zidon, who go over the sea, whose representatives are on great waters; ³ Who get in the seed of Shihor, whose wealth is the trade of the nations. ⁴ Be shamed, O Zidon: for the sea, the strong place of the sea has said, I have not been with child, or given birth; I have not taken care of young men, or kept watch over the growth of virgins.

³ The man whose heart is unmoved you will keep in peace, because his hope is in you. ⁴ Let your hope be in the Lord for ever: for the Lord Jah is an unchanging Rock.

⁴ My passion is over: if the thorns were fighting against me, I would make an attack on them, and they would be burned up together. ⁵ Or let him put himself under my power, and make peace with me.

²³ Against whom have you said evil and bitter things? and against whom has your voice been loud and your eyes lifted up? even against the Holy One of Israel.

³⁰ And this will be the sign to you: you will get your food this year from what comes up of itself, and in the second year from the produce of the same; and in the third year you will put in your seed, and get in the grain, and make vine-gardens, and take of their fruit.

¹⁰ Have no fear, for I am with you; do not be looking about in trouble, for I am your God; I will give you strength, yes, I will be your helper; yes, my true right hand will be your support. ¹¹ Truly, all those who are angry with you will be made low and put to shame: those desiring to do you wrong will come to nothing and never again be seen. ¹² You will make search for your haters but they will not be there; those who make war against you will be as nothing and will come to destruction. ¹³ For I, the Lord your God, have taken your right hand in mine, saying to you, Have no fear; I will be your helper.

¹ The Lord says to the man of his selection, to Cyrus, whom I have taken by the right hand, putting down nations before him, and taking away the arms of kings; making the doors open before him, so that the ways into the towns may not be shut; ² I will go before you, and make the rough places level: the doors of brass will be broken, and the iron rods cut in two:

⁸ For like a coat they will be food for the insect, the worm will make a meal of them like wool: but my righteousness will be for ever, and my salvation to all generations.

¹⁴ All your rights will be made certain to you: have no fear of evil, and destruction will not come near you. ¹⁵ See, they may be moved to war, but not by my authority: all those who come together to make an attack on you, will be broken against you. ¹⁶ See, I have made the iron-worker, blowing on the burning coals, and making the instrument of war by his work; and I have made the waster for destruction. ¹⁷ No instrument of war which is formed against you will be of any use; and every tongue which says evil against you will be judged false. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness comes from me, says the Lord.

¹⁰ For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not go back again, but gives water to the earth, and makes it fertile, giving seed to the planter, and bread for food;

¹ Up! let your face be bright, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord is shining on you.

⁶ I have put watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will not keep quiet day or night: you who are the Lord's recorders, take no rest, ⁷ And give him no rest, till he puts Jerusalem in her place to be praised in the earth.

²⁴ And before they make their request I will give an answer, and while they are still making prayer to me, I will give ear.

²⁴ And they will go out to see the dead bodies of the men who have done evil against me: for their worm will ever be living, and their fire will never be put out, and they will be a thing of fear to all flesh.

²³ And they took Uriah out of Egypt and came back with him to Jehoiakim the king; who put him to death with the sword, and had his dead body put into the resting-place of the bodies of the common people.

²⁶ And the king gave orders to Jerahmeel, the king's son, and Seraiah, the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah, the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the Lord kept them safe.

⁴ Now see, this day I am freeing you from the chains which are on your hands. If it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon, then come, and I will keep an eye on you; but if it does not seem good to you to come with me to Babylon, then do not come: see, all the land is before you; if it seems good and right to you to go on living in the land,

³⁷ Who is able to say a thing, and give effect to it, if it has not been ordered by the Lord?

¹⁷ Judah and the land of Israel were your traders; they gave grain of Minnith and sweet cakes and honey and oil and perfume for your goods.

² Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, This is what the Lord has said: Because your heart has been lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I am seated on the seat of God in the heart of the seas; but you are man and not God, though you have made your heart as the heart of God:

⁹ Will you say, in the face of those who are taking your life, I am God? but you are man and not God in the hands of those who are wounding you.

² And there was the glory of the God of Israel coming from the way of the east: and his voice was like the sound of great waters, and the earth was shining with his glory.

¹¹ The king's request is a very hard one, and there is no other who is able to make it clear to the king, but the gods, whose living-place is not with flesh. ¹² Because of this the king was angry and full of wrath, and gave orders for the destruction of all the wise men of Babylon. ¹³ So the order went out that the wise men were to be put to death; and they were looking for Daniel and his friends to put them to death.

²⁴ For this reason Daniel went to Arioch, to whom the king had given orders for the destruction of the wise men of Babylon, and said to him, Do not put to death the wise men of Babylon: take me in before the king and I will make clear to him the sense of the dream.

⁴⁴ And in the days of those kings, the God of heaven will put up a kingdom which will never come to destruction, and its power will never be given into the hands of another people, and all these kingdoms will be broken and overcome by it, but it will keep its place for ever.

²⁴ Then King Nebuchadnezzar, full of fear and wonder, got up quickly, and said to his wise men, Did we not put three men in cords into the fire? and they made answer and said to the king, True, O King. ²⁵ He made answer and said, Look! I see four men loose, walking in the middle of the fire, and they are not damaged; and the form of the fourth is like a son of the gods.

²⁵ He made answer and said, Look! I see four men loose, walking in the middle of the fire, and they are not damaged; and the form of the fourth is like a son of the gods.

²⁸ Nebuchadnezzar made answer and said, Praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who has sent his angel and kept his servants safe who had faith in him, and who put the king's word on one side and gave up their bodies to the fire, so that they might not be servants or worshippers of any other god but their God.

³⁰ The king made answer and said, Is this not great Babylon, which I have made for the living-place of kings, by the strength of my power and for the glory of my honour? ³¹ While the word was still in the king's mouth, a voice came down from heaven, saying, O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is said: The kingdom has gone from you: ³² And they will send you out from among men, to be with the beasts of the field; they will give you grass for your food like the oxen, and seven times will go by you, till you are certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure. ³³ That very hour the order about Nebuchadnezzar was put into effect: and he was sent out from among men, and had grass for his food like the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hair became long as eagles' feathers and his nails like those of birds. ³⁴ And at the end of the days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifting up my eyes to heaven, got back my reason, and, blessing the Most High, I gave praise and honour to him who is living for ever, whose rule is an eternal rule and whose kingdom goes on from generation to generation. ³⁵ And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing? ³⁶ At the same time my reason came back to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my honour and my great name came back to me; and my wise men and my lords were turned to me again; and I was made safe in my kingdom and had more power than before. ³⁷ Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, give worship and praise and honour to the King of heaven; for all his works are true and his ways are right: and those who go in pride he is able to make low.

¹⁸ As for you, O King, the Most High God gave to Nebuchadnezzar, your father, the kingdom and great power and glory and honour: ¹⁹ And because of the great power he gave him, all peoples and nations and languages were shaking in fear before him: some he put to death and others he kept living, at his pleasure, lifting up some and putting others down as it pleased him. ²⁰ But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became hard with pride, he was put down from his place as king, and they took his glory from him: ²¹ And he was sent out from among the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts', and he was living with the asses of the fields; he had grass for his food like the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he was certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives power over it to anyone at his pleasure. ²² And you, his son, O Belshazzar, have not kept your heart free from pride, though you had knowledge of all this; ²³ But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory; ²⁴ Then the part of the hand was sent out from before him, and this writing was recorded.

⁷ All the chief rulers of the kingdom, the chiefs and the captains, the wise men and the rulers, have made a common decision to put in force a law having the king's authority, and to give a strong order, that whoever makes any request to any god or man but you, O King, for thirty days, is to be put into the lions' hole.

²² My God has sent his angel to keep the lions' mouths shut, and they have done me no damage: because I was seen to be without sin before him; and further, before you, O King, I have done no wrong.

⁸ For she had no knowledge that it was I who gave her the grain and the wine and the oil, increasing her silver and gold which they gave to the Baal. ⁹ So I will take away again my grain in its time and my wine, and I will take away my wool and my linen with which her body might have been covered.

⁶ But in all your towns I have kept food from your teeth, and in all your places there has been need of bread: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord. ⁷ And I have kept back the rain from you, when it was still three months before the grain-cutting: I sent rain on one town and kept it back from another: one part was rained on, and the part where there was no rain became a waste. ⁸ So two or three towns went wandering to one town looking for water, and did not get enough: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord. ⁹ I have sent destruction on your fields by burning and disease: the increase of your gardens and your vine-gardens, your fig-trees and your olive-trees, has been food for worms: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

⁹ I will undergo the wrath of the Lord, because of my sin against him; till he takes up my cause and does what is right for me: when he makes me come out into the light, I will see his righteousness;

⁴ He was shining like the light; he had rays coming out from his hand: there his power was kept secret.

¹¹ At the light of your arrows they went away, at the shining of your polished spear.

⁸ Go up to the hills and get wood and put up the house; and I will take pleasure in it and be honoured, says the Lord. ⁹ You were looking for much, and it came to little; and when you got it into your house, I took it away with a breath. Why? says the Lord of armies. Because of my house which is a waste, while every man takes care of the house which is his. ¹⁰ For this cause the heaven over you is kept from giving dew, and the earth from giving her fruit. ¹¹ And by my order no rain came on the land or on the mountains or the grain or the wine or the oil or the produce of the earth or on men or cattle or on any work of man's hands.

¹⁶ How, when anyone came to a store of twenty measures, there were only ten: when anyone went to the wine-store to get fifty vessels full, there were only twenty. ¹⁷ And I sent burning and wasting and a rain of ice-drops on all the works of your hands; but still you were not turned to me, says the Lord.

¹³ And when they had gone, an angel of the Lord came to Joseph in a dream, saying, Get up and take the young child and his mother, and go into Egypt, and do not go from there till I give you word; for Herod will be searching for the young child to put him to death.

¹⁶ Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, was very angry; and he sent out, and put to death all the male children in Beth-lehem and in all the parts round about it, from two years old and under, acting on the knowledge which he had got with care from the wise men.

²¹ And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James, the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother, in the boat with their father, stitching up their nets; and he said, Come. ²² And they went straight from the boat and their father and came after him.

¹⁷ But be on the watch against men: for they will give you up to the Sanhedrins, and in their Synagogues they will give you blows; ¹⁸ And you will come before rulers and kings because of me, for a witness to them and to the Gentiles.

²³ But when they are cruel to you in one town, go in flight to another: for truly, I say to you, You will not have gone through the towns of Israel before the Son of man comes.

²¹ Unhappy are you, Chorazin! Unhappy are you, Beth-saida! For if the works of power which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have been turned from their sins in days gone by, clothing themselves in haircloth and putting dust on their heads. ²² But I say to you, It will be better for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judging, than for you.

¹⁸ And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock will my church be based, and the doors of hell will not overcome it.

¹⁰ Let it not seem to you that one of these little ones is of no value; for I say to you that in heaven their angels see at all times the face of my Father in heaven.

¹⁹ Again, I say to you, that if two of you are in agreement on earth about anything for which they will make a request, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.

¹⁹ Again, I say to you, that if two of you are in agreement on earth about anything for which they will make a request, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. ²⁰ For where two or three are come together in my name, there am I among them.

²³ They say to him, We are able. He says to them, Truly, you will take of my cup: but to be seated at my right hand and at my left is not for me to give, but it is for those for whom my Father has made it ready.

⁹ Then they will be cruel to you, and will put you to death: and you will be hated by all nations because of my name.

⁵ But they said, Not while the feast is going on, for fear of trouble among the people.

¹⁷ Now on the first day of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Where are we to make ready for you to take the Passover meal?

⁶⁴ Give orders, then, that the place where his body is may be made safe till the third day, for fear that his disciples come and take him away secretly and say to the people, He has come back from the dead: and the last error will be worse than the first. ⁶⁵ Pilate said to them, You have watchmen; go and make it as safe as you are able. ⁶⁶ So they went, and made safe the place where his body was, putting a stamp on the stone, and the watchmen were with them.

⁴ And for fear of him the watchmen were shaking, and became as dead men.

⁸ And they went away quickly, with fear and great joy, to give his disciples the news.

¹¹ Now, while they were going, some of the watchmen came into the town and gave news to the chief priests of all the things which had taken place. ¹² And when they had come together with those in authority, and had made their decision, they gave much money to the watchmen, saying, ¹³ Say, His disciples came by night and took him away secretly while we were sleeping. ¹⁴ And if this comes to the ruler's ears, we will see that he does not make you responsible. ¹⁵ So they took the money, and did as they had been ordered: and this account has been current among the Jews till the present time.

⁴³ And if your hand is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off; it is better for you to go into life with one hand than to have two hands and go into hell, into the eternal fire. ⁴⁴ (OMITTED TEXT) ⁴⁵ And if your foot is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off: it is better for you to go into life with one foot than to have two feet and go into hell. ⁴⁶ (OMITTED TEXT) ⁴⁷ And if your eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out: it is better for you to go into the kingdom of God with one eye than, having two eyes, to go into hell, ⁴⁸ Where their worm is ever living and the fire is not put out.

³⁵ And there came to him James and John, the sons of Zebedee, saying to him, Master, will you give us whatever may be our request?

³⁸ But Jesus said to them, You have no knowledge of what you are saying. Are you able to take of my cup? or to undergo the baptism which I am to undergo?

¹¹ And they, when it came to their ears that he was living, and had been seen by her, had no belief in it.

¹⁴ And later he was seen by the eleven themselves while they were taking food; and he said sharp words to them because they had no faith and their hearts were hard, and because they had no belief in those who had seen him after he had come back from the dead.

²² And when he came out he was not able to say anything, and they saw that he had seen a vision in the Temple; and he was making signs to them without words.

⁹ And an angel of the Lord came to them, and the glory of the Lord was shining round about them: and fear came on them.

⁴⁷ And the servant who had knowledge of his lord's desires and was not ready for him and did not do as he was ordered, will be given a great number of blows; ⁴⁸ But he who, without knowledge, did things for which punishment is given, will get only a small number of blows. The man to whom much is given, will have to give much; if much is given into his care, of him more will be requested.

²⁵ When the master of the house has got up, and the door has been shut, and you, still outside, give blows on the door, saying, Lord, let us in; he will make answer and say, I have no knowledge of where you come from.

³¹ Or what king, going to war with another king, will not first take thought if he will be strong enough, with ten thousand men, to keep off him who comes against him with twenty thousand? ³² Or while the other is still a great distance away, he sends representatives requesting conditions of peace.

¹⁷ But when he came to his senses, he said, What numbers of my father's servants have bread enough, and more, while I am near to death here through need of food!

⁸ And his lord was pleased with the false servant, because he had been wise; for the sons of this world are wiser in relation to their generation than the sons of light.

¹ And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired;

¹² But before all this, they will take you and be very cruel to you, giving you up to the Synagogues and to prisons, taking you before kings and rulers, because of my name.

³³ And he said to him, Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death.

⁵³ When I was in the Temple with you every day, your hands were not stretched out against me: but this is your hour, and the authority of the dark power.

⁴ And while they were in doubt about it, they saw two men in shining clothing by them:

¹¹ But these words seemed foolish to them, and they had no belief in them.

³⁷ But they were full of fear, being of the opinion that they were seeing a spirit. ³⁸ And he said to them, Why are you troubled, and why are your hearts full of doubt?

⁴¹ And because, for joy and wonder, they were still in doubt, he said to them, Have you any food here?

⁵ His mother said to the servants, Whatever he says to you, do it.

¹ After this, Jesus went from place to place in Galilee. He did not go about in Judaea, because the Jews were looking for a chance to put him to death.

⁵⁹ So they took up stones to send at him: but Jesus got secretly out of their way and went out of the Temple.

⁴⁰ And he went again to the other side of the Jordan, to the place where John first gave baptism; and he was there for a time.

⁵⁴ So Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but went from there into the country near to the waste land, to a town named Ephraim, where he was for some time with the disciples.

¹⁰ Now there was talk among the chief priests of putting Lazarus to death; ¹¹ For because of him a great number of the Jews went away and had belief in Jesus.

⁴³ For the praise of men was dearer to them than the approval of God.

²⁴ Making a sign to him, Simon Peter said, Who is it he is talking about?

³⁶ Simon Peter said to him, Lord, where are you going? Jesus said in answer, Where I am going you may not come with me now, but you will come later. ³⁷ Peter said to him, Why may I not come with you even now? I will give up my life for you. ³⁸ Jesus said in answer, Will you give up your life for me? Truly I say to you, Before the cry of the cock you will have said three times that you are not my disciple.

²⁰ Keep in mind the words I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they were cruel to me, they will be cruel to you; if they kept my words, they will keep yours.

² They will put you out of the Synagogues: yes, the time is coming when whoever puts you to death will have the belief that he is doing God's pleasure.

¹⁶ But Peter was kept outside at the door. Then this other disciple, who was a friend of the high priest, came out and had a word with the girl who kept the door, and took Peter in. ¹⁷ Then the girl who was the door-keeper said to Peter, Are you not one of this man's disciples? In answer he said, I am not.

¹¹ Jesus gave this answer: You would have no power at all over me if it was not given to you by God; so that he who gave me up to you has the greater sin.

²³ And when Jesus was nailed to the cross, the men of the army took his clothing, and made a division of it into four parts, to every man a part, and they took his coat: now the coat was without a join, made out of one bit of cloth.

¹⁹ At evening on that day, the first day of the week, when, for fear of the Jews, the doors were shut where the disciples were, Jesus came among them and said to them, May peace be with you!

²⁶ And after eight days, his disciples were again in the house and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were shut, Jesus came, and taking his place in the middle of them, he said, May peace be with you!

¹⁸ Truly I say to you, When you were young, you made yourself ready and went wherever you had a desire to go: but when you are old, you will put out your hands and another will make you ready, and you will be taken where you have no desire to go.

¹⁴ But Peter, getting up, with the eleven, said in a loud voice, O men of Judaea, and all you who are living in Jerusalem, take note of this and give ear to my words.

²⁴ But God gave him back to life, having made him free from the pains of death because it was not possible for him to be overcome by it.

³ And they took them and put them in prison till the morning, for it was now evening.

¹³ Now when they saw that Peter and John were without fear, though they were men of no education or learning, they were greatly surprised; and they took note of them that they had been with Jesus.

²³ And when they had been made free, they came back to their friends, and gave an account of all the things which the chief priests and the authorities had said to them.

²⁸ To do that which had been fixed before by your hand and your purpose.

³⁰ While your hand is stretched out to do works of mercy; so that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy servant Jesus.

³⁶ And Joseph, who was given by the Apostles the name of Barnabas the sense of which is, Son of comfort, a Levite and a man of Cyprus by birth,

¹⁸ And they took the Apostles and put them in the common prison. ¹⁹ But in the night an angel of the Lord, opening the doors of the prison, took them out and said,

²² But the men who were sent saw that they were not in the prison, and came back with the news, ²³ Saying, The doors of the prison were safely shut, and the keepers were at the doors, but when they were open, there was nobody inside.

²³ Saying, The doors of the prison were safely shut, and the keepers were at the doors, but when they were open, there was nobody inside. ²⁴ Now, at these words, the captain of the Temple and the chief priests were greatly troubled about what might be the end of this business. ²⁵ And someone came and said to them, The men, whom you put in prison, are in the Temple teaching the people.

³⁹ But if it is of God, you will not be able to overcome them, and you are in danger of fighting against God.

⁷ And the word of God was increasing in power; and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem became very great, and a great number of priests were in agreement with the faith.

³ But Saul was burning with hate against the church, going into every house and taking men and women and putting them in prison.

⁴⁰ But Philip came to Azotus, and went through all the towns, preaching the good news, till he came to Caesarea.

³ And while he was journeying, he came near Damascus; and suddenly he saw a light from heaven shining round him;

¹⁰ Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and the Lord said to him in a vision, Ananias! and he said, Here I am, Lord.

³¹ And so the church through all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was made strong; and, living in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, was increased greatly.

³ He saw in a vision, clearly, at about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of the Lord coming to him and saying to him, Cornelius!

¹⁷ Now while Peter was in doubt as to the purpose of this vision, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made search for Simon's house, came to the door,

²⁵ And when Peter came in, Cornelius came to him and, falling down at his feet, gave him worship. ²⁶ But Peter, lifting him up, said, Get up, for I am a man as you are.

³⁰ And Cornelius said, Four days from now I was in my house in prayer at the ninth hour; and I saw before me a man in shining clothing,

⁵ I was in the town of Joppa, at prayer: and falling into a deep sleep, I saw in a vision a vessel like a great cloth let down from heaven, and it came down to me:

²¹ And the power of the Lord was with them, and a great number had faith and were turned to the Lord.

²⁹ And the disciples, everyone as he was able, made a decision to send help to the brothers living in Judaea: ³⁰ Which they did, sending it to the rulers of the church by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

⁴ And having taken him, he put him in prison, with four bands of armed men to keep watch over him; his purpose being to take him out to the people after the Passover. ⁵ So Peter was kept in prison: but the church made strong prayer to God for him. ⁶ And when Herod was about to take him out, the same night Peter was sleeping in chains between two armed men, and the watchmen were keeping watch before the door of the prison. ⁷ And a great light was seen shining in the room, and an angel of the Lord came to Peter and, touching him on his side so that he came out of his sleep, said, Get up quickly. And his chains came off his hands.

¹² And when he became clear about this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John named Mark, where a number of them had come together for prayer.

¹⁶ But Peter went on giving blows on the door: and when it was open and they saw him, they were full of wonder.

²³ And straight away the angel of the Lord sent a disease on him, because he did not give the glory to God: and his flesh was wasted away by worms, and so he came to his end.

²⁵ And Barnabas and Saul came back from Jerusalem, when their work was ended, taking with them John named Mark.

¹ Now there were at Antioch, in the church there, prophets and teachers, Barnabas, and Symeon who was named Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, a relation of Herod the king, and Saul. ² And while they were doing the Lord's work, and going without food, the Holy Spirit said, Let Barnabas and Saul be given to me for the special work for which they have been marked out by me. ³ Then, after prayer and going without food they put their hands on them, and sent them away. ⁴ So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia; and from there they went by ship to Cyprus. ⁵ And at Salamis they were preaching the word of God in the Synagogues of the Jews: and John was with them, helping them.

⁵ And at Salamis they were preaching the word of God in the Synagogues of the Jews: and John was with them, helping them. ⁶ And when they had gone through all the island to Paphos, they came across a certain wonder-worker and false prophet, a Jew whose name was Bar-Jesus; ⁷ Who was with the ruler, Sergius Paulus, an able man. This man sent for Barnabas and Saul, desiring to have knowledge of the word of God. ⁸ But Elymas, the wonder-worker for that is the sense of his name, put himself against them, with the purpose of turning the ruler from the faith. ⁹ But Saul, whose other name is Paul, being full of the Holy Spirit, looking hard at him, said, ¹⁰ O you, who are full of false tricks and evil ways, a son of the Evil One, hating all righteousness, will you for ever be turning people from the right ways of the Lord? ¹¹ And now, see, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind and not able to see the sun for a time. And straight away a dark mist came down on him; and he went about looking for a guide. ¹² Then the ruler, when he saw what was done, had faith, being full of wonder at the teaching of the Lord. ¹³ Then Paul and those who were with him went by ship from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia: and there John went away from them and came back to Jerusalem.

¹³ Then Paul and those who were with him went by ship from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia: and there John went away from them and came back to Jerusalem. ¹⁴ But they, going through from Perga, came to Antioch in Pisidia; and they went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath and were seated. ¹⁵ And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the Synagogue sent to them, saying, Brothers, if you have a word of comfort for the people, say on. ¹⁶ And Paul, getting up and making a sign with his hand, said, Men of Israel, and you who have the fear of God, give ear.

¹⁶ And Paul, getting up and making a sign with his hand, said, Men of Israel, and you who have the fear of God, give ear. ¹⁷ The God of this people Israel made selection of our fathers, lifting the people up from their low condition when they were living in the land of Egypt, and with a strong arm took them out of it. ¹⁸ And for about forty years he put up with their ways in the waste land. ¹⁹ And having put to destruction seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them the land for their heritage for about four hundred and fifty years. ²⁰ And after these things he gave them judges, till the time of Samuel the prophet. ²¹ Then at their request for a king, God gave them Saul, the son of Kish, a man of the family of Benjamin, who was their king for forty years. ²² And having put him on one side, he made David their king, to whom he gave witness, saying, I have taken David, the son of Jesse, a man dear to my heart, who will do all my pleasure. ²³ From this man's seed has God given to Israel a Saviour, even Jesus, as he gave his word; ²⁴ For whose coming John made ready the way by preaching to all the people of Israel the baptism which goes with a change of heart. ²⁵ And when John was completing his work, he said, What do I seem to you to be? I am not he; but one is coming after me, whose shoes I am not good enough to undo. ²⁶ My brothers, children of the family of Abraham, and those among you who have the fear of God, to us the word of this salvation is sent. ²⁷ For the men of Jerusalem and their rulers, having no knowledge of him, or of the sayings of the prophets which come to their ears every Sabbath day, gave effect to them by judging him. ²⁸ And though no cause of death was seen in him, they made a request to Pilate that he might be put to death. ²⁹ And when they had done all the things said in the Writings about him, they took him down from the tree, and put him in the place of the dead. ³⁰ But God gave him back from the dead: ³¹ And for a number of days he was seen by those who came with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses before the people. ³² And we are giving you the good news of the undertaking made to the fathers, ³³ Which God has now put into effect for our children, by sending Jesus; as it says in the second Psalm, You are my Son; this day I have given you being. ³⁴ And about his coming back from the dead, never again to go to destruction, he has said these words, I will give you the holy and certain mercies of David. ³⁵ Because he says in another Psalm, You will not let your Holy One see destruction. ³⁶ Now David, having done God's work for his generation, went to sleep, and was put with his fathers, and his body came to destruction: ³⁷ But he, who was lifted up by God, did not see destruction. ³⁸ And so, let it be clear to you, my brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is offered to you: ³⁹ And through him everyone who has faith is made free from all those things, from which the law of Moses was not able to make you free. ⁴⁰ So take care that these words of the prophets do not come true for you; ⁴¹ See, you doubters, have wonder and come to your end; for I will do a thing in your days to which you will not give belief, even if it is made clear to you. ⁴² And when they went out, they made a request that these words might be said to them again on the Sabbath after. ⁴³ Now when the meeting was ended, a number of the Jews and of the God-fearing Gentiles who had become Jews, went after Paul and Barnabas: who put before them how important it was to keep on in the grace of God. ⁴⁴ And on the Sabbath after, almost all the town came together to give hearing to the word of God. ⁴⁵ But when the Jews saw such a great number of people, they were full of envy and said evil words against Paul's preaching. ⁴⁶ Then Paul and Barnabas without fear said, It was necessary for the word of God to be given to you first; but because you will have nothing to do with it, and have no desire for eternal life, it will now be offered to the Gentiles. ⁴⁷ For so the Lord has given us orders, saying, I have given you for a light to the Gentiles so that you may be for salvation to the ends of the earth. ⁴⁸ And the Gentiles, hearing this, were glad and gave glory to the word of God: and those marked out by God for eternal life had faith. ⁴⁹ And the word of the Lord went through all the country. ⁵⁰ But the Jews, working up the feelings of the God-fearing women of high position and of the chief men of the town, got an attack started against Paul and Barnabas, driving them out of those parts. ⁵¹ But they, shaking off the dust of that place from their feet, came to Iconium. ⁵² And the disciples were full of joy and of the Holy Spirit.

¹⁰ Said in a loud voice, Get up on your feet. And, jumping up, he went walking about. ¹¹ And when the people saw what Paul had done, they said in a loud voice, in the language of Lycaonia, The gods have come down to us in the form of men. ¹² And they gave the name of Jupiter to Barnabas, and to Paul that of Mercury, because he was the chief talker. ¹³ And the priest of the image of Jupiter, which was before the town, took oxen and flowers to the doors of the town, and was about to make an offering with the people. ¹⁴ But when this came to the ears of the Apostles, Paul and Barnabas, they went running out among the people, parting their clothing, and crying out, ¹⁵ Good people, why are you doing these things? We are men with the same feelings as you, and we give you the good news so that you may be turned away from these foolish things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things in them:

¹³ And when they had come to an end, James, answering, said, My brothers, give ear to me:

³⁷ And Barnabas had a desire to take with them John, named Mark.

³⁷ And Barnabas had a desire to take with them John, named Mark. ³⁸ But Paul was of the opinion that it was not right to take with them one who had gone away from them in Pamphylia, and had not gone on with the work. ³⁹ And there was a sharp argument between them, so that they were parted from one another, and Barnabas took Mark with him and went by ship to Cyprus;

²³ And when they had given them a great number of blows, they put them in prison, giving orders to the keeper of the prison to keep them safely: ²⁴ And he, having such orders, put them into the inner prison with chains on their feet.

²⁶ And suddenly there was an earth-shock, so that the base of the prison was moved: and all the doors came open, and everyone's chains came off. ²⁷ And the keeper, coming out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, took his sword and was about to put himself to death, fearing that the prisoners had got away.

⁴⁰ And they came out of the prison and went to the house of Lydia: and when they had seen the brothers they gave them comfort and went away.

²⁰ So the word of the Lord was increased very greatly and was full of power.

²³ And about that time a great outcry took place about the Way.

³³ Then they took Alexander out from among the people, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander, making a sign with his hand, was about to make a statement to the people in answer:

⁶ And we went away from Philippi by ship after the days of unleavened bread, and came to them at Troas in five days; and we were there for seven days.

⁸ And on the day after, we went away and came to Caesarea, where we were guests in the house of Philip, the preacher, who was one of the seven.

¹⁸ And on the day after, Paul went with us to James, and all the rulers of the church were present.

³³ Then the chief captain came near and took him, and gave orders for him to be put in chains, questioning them as to who he was and what he had done.

⁴⁰ And when he let him do so, Paul, from the steps, made a sign with his hand to the people, and when they were all quiet, he said to them in the Hebrew language,

¹² And when it was day, the Jews came together and put themselves under an oath that they would take no food or drink till they had put Paul to death. ¹³ And more than forty of them took this oath. ¹⁴ And they came to the chief priests and the rulers and said, We have taken a great oath to take no food till we have put Paul to death ¹⁵ So now, will you and the Sanhedrin make a request to the military authorities to have him sent down to you, as if you were desiring to go into the business in greater detail; and we, before ever he gets to you, will be waiting to put him to death. ¹⁶ But Paul's sister's son had word of their design, and he came into the army building and gave news of it to Paul. ¹⁷ And Paul sent for a captain and said, Take this young man to your chief, for he has news for him. ¹⁸ So he took him to the chief captain and said, Paul, the prisoner, made a request to me to take this young man to you, for he has something to say to you. ¹⁹ And the chief took him by the hand and, going on one side, said to him privately, What is it you have to say to me? ²⁰ And he said, The Jews are in agreement together to make a request to you for Paul to be taken, on the day after this, into the Sanhedrin, to be questioned in greater detail. ²¹ But do not give way to them, for more than forty of them are waiting for him, having taken an oath not to take food or drink till they have put him to death: and now they are ready, waiting for your order. ²² So the chief captain let the young man go, saying to him, Do not say to anyone that you have given me word of these things. ²³ And he sent for two captains and said, Make ready two hundred men, with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen, to go to Caesarea, at the third hour of the night: ²⁴ And get beasts so that they may put Paul on them, and take him safely to Felix, the ruler. ²⁵ And he sent a letter in these words: ²⁶ Claudius Lysias, to the most noble ruler, Felix, peace be with you. ²⁷ This man was taken by the Jews, and was about to be put to death by them, when I came on them with the army and took him out of danger, having knowledge that he was a Roman. ²⁸ And, desiring to get at the reason for their attack on him, I took him down to their Sanhedrin: ²⁹ Then it became clear to me that it was a question of their law, and that nothing was said against him which might be a reason for prison or death. ³⁰ And when news was given to me that a secret design was being made against the man, I sent him straight away to you, giving orders to those who are against him to make their statements before you.

²⁷ But after two years Porcius Festus took the place of Felix, who, desiring to have the approval of the Jews, kept Paul in chains.

³ Requesting Festus to give effect to their design against him, and send him to Jerusalem, when they would be waiting to put him to death on the way. ⁴ But Festus, in answer, said that Paul was being kept in prison at Caesarea, and that in a short time he himself was going there. ⁵ So, he said, let those who have authority among you go with me, and if there is any wrong in the man, let them make a statement against him.

⁹ But Festus, desiring to get the approval of the Jews, said to Paul, Will you go up to Jerusalem, and be judged before me there in connection with these things?

¹³ Now when some days had gone by, King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea and went to see Festus.

¹⁹ So, then, King Agrippa, I did not go against the vision from heaven;

²⁴ And when he made his answer in these words, Festus said in a loud voice, Paul, you are off your head; your great learning has made you unbalanced.

²³ For this night there came to my side an angel of the God who is my Master and whose servant I am, ²⁴ Saying, Have no fear, Paul, for you will come before Caesar, and God has given to you all those who are sailing with you.

⁴² Then the armed men were for putting the prisoners to death, so that no one would get away by swimming.

²⁰ But for this reason I sent for you, to see and have talk with you: for because of the hope of Israel I am in these chains.

⁷ Take away, then, the old leaven, so that you may be a new mass, even as you are without leaven. For Christ has been put to death as our Passover. ⁸ Let us then keep the feast, not with old leaven, and not with the leaven of evil thoughts and acts, but with the unleavened bread of true thoughts and right feelings.

²⁶ And if there is pain in one part of the body, all the parts will be feeling it; or if one part is honoured, all the parts will be glad.

⁷ Then he was seen by James; then by all the Apostles.

⁸ For it is our desire that you may not be without knowledge of our trouble which came on us in Asia, that the weight of it was very great, more than our power, so that it seemed that we had no hope even of life: ⁹ Yes, we ourselves have had the answer of death in ourselves, so that our hope might not be in ourselves, but in God who is able to give life to the dead: ¹⁰ Who gave us salvation from so great a death: on whom we have put our hope that he will still go on to give us salvation; ¹¹ You at the same time helping together by your prayer for us; so that for what has been given to us through a number of persons, praise may go up to God for us from all of them.

¹ As it is necessary for me to take glory to myself, though it is not a good thing, I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. ² I have knowledge of a man in Christ, fourteen years back if he was in the body, or out of the body, I am not able to say, but God only, who was taken up to the third heaven. ³ And I have knowledge of such a man if he was in the body, or out of the body, I am not able to say, but God only,

¹⁰ Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

¹⁹ But of the other Apostles I saw only James, the Lord's brother.

⁹ When they saw the grace which was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who had the name of being pillars, gave to me and Barnabas their right hands as friends so that we might go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision;

¹² For before certain men came from James, he did take food with the Gentiles: but when they came, he went back and made himself separate, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

¹⁴ For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.

¹⁸ With prayers and deep desires, making requests at all times in the Spirit, and keeping watch, with strong purpose, in prayer for all the saints, ¹⁹ And for me, that words may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make clear without fear the secret of the good news, ²⁰ For which I am a representative in chains, and that I may say without fear the things which it is right for me to say.

²⁰ For which I am a representative in chains, and that I may say without fear the things which it is right for me to say.

⁶ Have no cares; but in everything with prayer and praise put your requests before God. ⁷ And the peace of God, which is deeper than all knowledge, will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

⁶ Which has come to you; and which in all the world is giving fruit and increase, as it has done in you from the day when it came to your ears and you had true knowledge of the grace of God;

¹⁰ Aristarchus, my brother-prisoner, sends his love to you, and Mark, a relation of Barnabas about whom you have been given orders: if he comes to you, be kind to him,

⁴ But even as the good news was given to us by the approval of God, so we give it out; not as pleasing men, but God by whom our hearts are tested.

¹⁷ Keep on with your prayers.

⁴ Who puts himself against all authority, lifting himself up over all which is named God or is given worship; so that he takes his seat in the Temple of God, putting himself forward as God.

¹ For the rest, my brothers, let there be prayer for us that the word of the Lord may go forward with increasing glory, even as it does with you;

¹⁶ May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus because he frequently gave me help, and had no feeling of shame because I was in chains;

¹¹ Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and take him with you; for he is of use to me in the work.

²⁴ And so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my brother-workers.

¹⁴ Are they not all helping spirits, who are sent out as servants to those whose heritage will be salvation?

⁸ By faith Abraham did as God said when he was ordered to go out into a place which was to be given to him as a heritage, and went out without knowledge of where he was going.

³⁷ They were stoned, they were cut up with knives, they were tested, they were put to death with the sword, they went about in sheepskins and in goatskins; being poor and in pain and cruelly attacked,

³ Keep in mind those who are in chains, as if you were chained with them, and those who are in trouble, as being yourselves in the body.

⁶ So that we say with a good heart, The Lord is my helper; I will have no fear: what is man able to do to me?

¹ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends words of love to the twelve tribes of the Jews living in all parts of the earth.

¹⁶ So then, make a statement of your sins to one another, and say prayers for one another so that you may be made well. The prayer of a good man is full of power in its working.

¹³ She who is in Babylon, who has a part with you in the purpose of God, sends you her love; and so does my son Mark.

⁹ The Lord is able to keep the upright safe in the time of testing, and to keep evil-doers under punishment till the day of judging;

¹⁴ And we are certain that if we make any request to him which is right in his eyes, he will give ear to us: ¹⁵ And if we are certain that he gives ear to all our requests, we are equally certain that we will get our requests.

¹⁶ These are the men who make trouble, ever desiring change, going after evil pleasures, using high-sounding words, respecting men's position in the hope of reward.

⁷ And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia say: These things says he who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, opening the door so that it may be shut by no one, and shutting it so that it may be open to no one.

⁴ And they gave worship to the dragon, because he gave authority to the beast; and worshipping the beast, they said, Who is like the beast? and who is able to go to war with him?

¹ After these things I saw another angel coming down out of heaven, having great authority; and the earth was bright with his glory.