Acts 21 Cross References - BLB

¹ And it happened that after having drawn away from them, having run directly in our sailing, we came to Cos, and the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara. ² And having found a boat passing over into Phoenicia, having gone on board, we set sail. ³ And having sighted Cyprus and having left it on the left, we kept sailing to Syria and landed at Tyre, for the ship was unloading the cargo there. ⁴ And we remained there seven days, having sought out the disciples, who kept telling Paul through the Spirit not to go up to Jerusalem. ⁵ And it happened that when we had completed the days, having set out, we journeyed, all accompanying us with wives and children as far as outside the city. And having bowed the knees on the shore, having prayed, ⁶ having said farewell to one another, we then went up into the boat, and they returned to the own. ⁷ And having completed the voyage from Tyre, we came down to Ptolemais, and having greeted the brothers, we stayed one day with them. ⁸ And having gone forth on the next day, we came to Caesarea, and having entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, being of the seven, we stayed with him. ⁹ And with this man there were four daughters, virgins prophesying. ¹⁰ And remaining many days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. ¹¹ And having come to us and having taken Paul’s belt, having bound his feet and hands, he said, “Thus the Holy Spirit says, ‘In this way the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man whose belt this is, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’” ¹² And when we had heard these things, both we and those of that place began begging him not to go up to Jerusalem. ¹³ Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I have readiness not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.” ¹⁴ And of him not being persuaded, we were silent, having said, “The will of the Lord be done.” ¹⁵ Now after these days, having packed the baggage, we started on our way up to Jerusalem. ¹⁶ And some of the disciples from Caesarea also went with us, bringing a certain Mnason, a Cypriot, an early disciple with whom we would lodge. ¹⁷ Now of our having arrived at Jerusalem, the brothers received us gladly. ¹⁸ And on the following day, Paul went in with us unto James, and all the elders arrived. ¹⁹ And having greeted them, he began to relate, one by each, the things God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry. ²⁰ And those having heard began glorifying God, and they said to him, “You see, brother, how many myriads there are among the Jews having believed, and are all zealous ones for the Law. ²¹ Now they have been informed about you, that you teach all Jews among the Gentiles apostasy from Moses, telling them not to circumcise the children nor to walk in the customs. ²² What then is it? Certainly they will hear that you have come. ²³ Therefore do this that we say to you. With us there are four men, having a vow on themselves. ²⁴ Having taken these men, be purified with them and bear expense for them, so that they will shave the head, and all will know that of which they have been informed about you is nothing, but you yourself also walk orderly, keeping the Law. ²⁵ Now concerning those of the Gentiles having believed, we wrote, having adjudged them to keep from both the things offered to idols, and blood, and what is strangled, and sexual immorality.” ²⁶ Then Paul, having taken the men on the following day, having been purified with them, entered into the temple, declaring the fulfillment of the days of the purification until the sacrifice was offered for each one of them. ²⁷ Now when the seven days were about to be completed, the Jews from Asia, having seen him in the temple, began stirring up the whole crowd and laid the hands upon him, ²⁸ crying out, “Men, Israelites, help! This is the man teaching all those everywhere against the people and the Law and this place. And besides, he has also brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.” ²⁹ For it was they having previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him, whom they were supposing that Paul had brought into the temple. ³⁰ And the whole city was provoked, and there was a rushing together of the people. And having laid hold of Paul, they dragged him outside the temple, and immediately the doors were shut. ³¹ And of them seeking to kill him, a report came to the commander of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in an uproar, ³² who at once, having taken with him soldiers and centurions, ran down upon them. And having seen the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul. ³³ Then having drawn near, the commander laid hold of him and commanded him to be bound with two chains, and began inquiring who he might be and what it is he has been doing. ³⁴ They were crying out in the crowd one thing, but others another. And he being unable to know the facts on account of the uproar, ordered him to be brought into the barracks. ³⁵ Now when he came to the stairs, it happened that he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd. ³⁶ For the multitude of the people were following, crying out, “Away with him!” ³⁷ And being about to be brought into the barracks, Paul says to the commander, “Is it permitted to me to say something to you?” Then he was saying, “Do you know Greek? ³⁸ Are you not, then, the Egyptian, the one before these days having led a revolt and having led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the ‘Assassins?’” ³⁹ But Paul said, “I am indeed a Jew, a man of Tarsus of Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. Now I implore you, allow me to speak to the people.” ⁴⁰ And he having allowed him, Paul, having stood on the stairs, made a sign with the hand to the people. And great silence having taken place, he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, saying:

⁴ And when He left off speaking, He said to Simon, “Put off into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.”

²² And it came to pass, on one of the days also, He with His disciples entered into a boat, and He said to them, “Let us pass over to the other side of the lake.” And they launched out.

¹⁰ Now when he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go forth to Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them. ¹¹ And having sailed from Troas, we made a straight course to Samothrace, and on the following day to Neapolis,

³⁷ Then there was much weeping among all, and having fallen upon the neck of Paul, they were kissing him, ³⁸ sorrowing especially over the word that he had spoken, that they are about to see his face no more. Then they accompanied him to the ship.

² And having boarded a ship of Adramyttium being about to sail to the places along Asia, we set sail—Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.

⁴ And having set sail from there, we sailed under Cyprus because of the winds being contrary.

¹⁷ But we, having been bereaved of you, brothers, for the time of an hour—in face, not in heart—were more abundantly eager with great desire to see your face.

¹⁹ So indeed those having been scattered by the tribulation having taken place over Stephen passed through to Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews alone.

³ Therefore indeed having been sent forward by the church, they were passing through both Phoenicia and Samaria, relating in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and they were bringing great joy to all the brothers.

⁶ And there the centurion, having found a ship of Alexandria sailing to Italy, placed us into it.

²⁴ And the news of Him went out into all Syria. And they brought to Him all the sick having various diseases and oppressing pains, and being possessed by demons, and having seizures, and paralytics—and He healed them.

²¹ “Woe to you Chorazin! Woe to you Bethsaida! For if the miracles having taken place in you had taken place in Tyre and Sidon, then they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

² This registration first took place when Quirinius was governing Syria.

¹³ Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles having taken place in you had taken place in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

³⁶ Now Joseph having been called Barnabas by the apostles (which is translated, Son of encouragement), a Levite, a Cypriot at the birth,

²⁰ Now he had been furiously angry with the Tyrians and Sidonians, and they came to him with one accord. And having gained Blastus, who was over the bedchamber of the king, they were seeking peace because of their region being nourished by the king’s.

⁴ Therefore indeed having been sent forth by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and they sailed from there to Cyprus.

²³ having written by their hand: “The apostles and the elders, brothers, To those brothers among the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia: Greetings.

³⁹ Therefore a sharp disagreement arose, so that they separated from one another. And Barnabas having taken Mark, sailed to Cyprus.

⁴¹ And he was passing through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.

¹⁸ Now Paul, having remained many days more, having taken leave of the brothers, sailed away to Syria—and with him Priscilla and Aquila—having shaved the head in Cenchrea, for he had a vow.

¹⁶ And some of the disciples from Caesarea also went with us, bringing a certain Mnason, a Cypriot, an early disciple with whom we would lodge.

¹¹ And into whatever city or village you enter, inquire who is worthy in it. Remain there until you go forth.

²⁶ and having found him, he brought him to Antioch. Now it came to pass that they also gathered together an entire year in the church, and taught a large crowd. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.

¹ Now it came to pass, while Apollos was in Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper parts to come to Ephesus, and having found certain disciples,

⁶ And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of the Unleavened Bread, and within five days we came to them at Troas, where we stayed seven days. ⁷ And on the first day of the week, of us having come together to break bread, Paul, about to depart on the next day, talked to them and continued the talk until midnight.

²² And now behold, bound in the Spirit I go to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me in it, ²³ except that the Holy Spirit fully testifies to me in every city, saying that chains and tribulations await me.

¹⁰ And remaining many days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. ¹¹ And having come to us and having taken Paul’s belt, having bound his feet and hands, he said, “Thus the Holy Spirit says, ‘In this way the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man whose belt this is, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’” ¹² And when we had heard these things, both we and those of that place began begging him not to go up to Jerusalem.

¹⁴ where having found some brothers, we were entreated to remain with them seven days. And so we came to Rome.

¹⁷ But having arrived in Rome, he earnestly sought me out and found me.

¹⁰ I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like that of a trumpet,

²¹ And those eating were about five thousand men, besides women and children.

⁴⁰ And a leper comes to Him, imploring Him and kneeling down to Him, and saying to Him, “If You are willing, You are able to cleanse me.”

⁴⁰ And Peter having put all outside and having bowed the knees, prayed. And having turned to the body he said, “Tabitha, arise!” And she opened her eyes, and having seen Peter, she sat up.

¹⁰ And the brothers sent away both Paul and Silas immediately by night to Berea, who having arrived, went into the synagogue of the Jews.

³⁶ And having said these things, having bowed his knee, he prayed with them all.

³⁸ sorrowing especially over the word that he had spoken, that they are about to see his face no more. Then they accompanied him to the ship.

¹¹ He came to the own, and the own did not receive Him.

⁵³ And each went to his home.

³² Behold, an hour is coming and has come, when you will be scattered, each to the own, and I, you shall leave alone; yet I am not alone, for the Father is with Me.

²⁷ Then He says to the disciple, “Behold, your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her to the own.

¹³ I had no rest in my spirit, in my not finding Titus my brother. Instead, having taken leave of them, I went out to Macedonia.

⁴⁷ And if you greet only your brothers, what extraordinary are you doing? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?

²² and having landed at Caesarea, having gone up and having greeted the church, he went down to Antioch.

¹⁰ And remaining many days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

¹⁹ And having greeted them, he began to relate, one by each, the things God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

¹³ Now some days having passed, Agrippa the king and Bernice came down to Caesarea, greeting Festus.

¹² And having put in at Syracuse, we stayed three days,

²⁴ Greet all those leading you and all the saints. Those from Italy greet you.

⁵ And the statement was pleasing before the whole multitude. And they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas of Antioch, a convert,

⁵ Now Philip, having gone down to a city of Samaria, was proclaiming the Christ to them. ⁶ And the crowds with one accord were giving heed to the things being spoken by Philip in the time for them to hear and to see the signs that he was performing. ⁷ For from many of those having unclean spirits, they were coming out, crying in a loud voice. And many having been paralyzed and lame were healed. ⁸ So there was great joy in that city. ⁹ Now a certain man named Simon had formerly been practicing sorcery in the city and amazing the people of Samaria, declaring himself to be someone great, ¹⁰ to whom all were giving heed, from small to great, saying, “This one is the power of God that is called Great.” ¹¹ Now they were giving heed to him because for a long time he had amazed them with the magic arts. ¹² But when they believed Philip, proclaiming the gospel concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. ¹³ And Simon himself also believed, and having been baptized, was steadfastly continuing with Philip. And beholding the signs and great miracles being performed, he was amazed.

²⁶ Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Rise up and go toward the south, to the road going down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is the desert road.) ²⁷ And having risen up, he went. And behold, an Ethiopian eunuch, a potentate of Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship. ²⁸ And he was returning and sitting in his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah. ²⁹ And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go near and join yourself to this chariot.” ³⁰ And Philip having run up, heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and said, “Do you then understand what you are reading?” ³¹ And he said, “How indeed could I be able, unless someone will guide me?” And he invited Philip, having come up, to sit with him. ³² Now the passage of Scripture that he was reading was this: “He was led as a sheep to slaughter, and as a lamb before the one shearing him is silent, so He does not open His mouth. ³³ In His humiliation, justice was taken away from Him. Who will describe His generation? For His life is removed from the earth.” ³⁴ And the eunuch answering said to Philip, “I beseech you, concerning whom does the prophet say this? Concerning himself, or concerning some other?” ³⁵ And Philip, having opened his mouth and having begun from this Scripture, proclaimed the good news to him—Jesus. ³⁶ And as they were going along the road they came upon some water, and the eunuch says, “Behold, water! What prevents me to be baptized?” ^{37 38} And he commanded the chariot to stop. And they both went down to the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him. ³⁹ Now when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried away Philip, and the eunuch saw him no longer. For he went his way rejoicing. ⁴⁰ But Philip was found at Azotus, and passing through, he was proclaiming the gospel to all the towns until his coming to Caesarea.

³⁰ But the brothers having known it, brought him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus.

¹ Now a certain man in Caesarea named Cornelius was a centurion of the Cohort that is called Italian,

¹⁰ Now when he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go forth to Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.

¹³ And on the day of the Sabbaths, we went forth outside the city gate, by a river, where there was customary to be a place of prayer. And having sat down, we began speaking to the women having gathered.

¹⁶ Now it happened of us going to the place of prayer, a certain girl, having a spirit of Python, met us, who was bringing her masters much gain by fortune-telling.

⁶ And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of the Unleavened Bread, and within five days we came to them at Troas, where we stayed seven days.

¹³ But we, having gone ahead to the ship, sailed to Assos, being about to take in Paul there. For having arranged thus, he was readying himself to go on foot.

²³ And having summoned certain two of the centurions, he said, “Prepare for the third hour of the night two hundred soldiers and seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen, so that they might go as far as Caesarea,

¹ Now when our sailing to Italy was determined, they delivered both Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the cohort of Augustus.

¹¹ Then after three months, we sailed in an Alexandrian ship having wintered in the island, with a figurehead of the Dioscuri.

¹⁶ Now when we came to Rome, Paul was allowed to stay by himself, with the soldier who was guarding him.

¹¹ And He gave some indeed to be apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some shepherds and teachers,

⁵ But you, be sober in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fully carry out your ministry.

³⁶ And there was a prophetess, Anna, daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She, being advanced greatly in years, had lived with a husband seven years from her marriage,

¹⁷ ‘And it will be in the last days, God says, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your elders will dream dreams.

¹ Now there were prophets and teachers in Antioch in the church being there, both Barnabas and Simeon who was called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

²⁵ Now concerning virgins, I do not have a commandment of the Lord, but I give judgment as having received mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy. ²⁶ Therefore I think this is good, because of the present necessity, that it is good for a man to remain in the same manner. ²⁷ Have you been bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Have you been loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife. ²⁸ But if also you shall have married, you did not sin; and if the virgin shall have married, she did not sin. But such will have tribulation in the flesh, and I am sparing you. ²⁹ Now I say this, brothers: The season is shortened; that from now on both those having wives, should be as having none; ³⁰ and those weeping, as not weeping; and those rejoicing, as not rejoicing; and those buying, as not possessing; ³¹ and those using the world, as not using it as their own. For the present form of this world is passing away. ³² And I desire you to be without concern. The unmarried man cares for the things of the Lord, how he should please the Lord; ³³ but the one having been married cares for the things of the world, how he should please the wife, ³⁴ and is divided. And the unmarried woman and virgin cares for the things of the Lord, that she should be holy both in body and in spirit; but the one having been married cares for the things of the world, how she should please the husband.

³⁸ So then also, the one marrying the own virgin does well, and the one not marrying will do better.

⁴ Every man praying or prophesying having anything on his head dishonors his head. ⁵ And every woman praying or prophesying with the head uncovered dishonors her head; for it is one and the same with having been shaven.

²⁰ But I have against you that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, the one calling herself a prophetess and teaching and misleading My servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

²⁸ And one of them named Agabus, having risen up, signified by the Spirit that a great famine is about to be over the whole world—which came to pass under Claudius.

¹⁶ For Paul had decided to sail by Ephesus, so that it might not come upon him to spend time in Asia; for he was hastened, if it was possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.

⁴ And we remained there seven days, having sought out the disciples, who kept telling Paul through the Spirit not to go up to Jerusalem.

⁷ And having completed the voyage from Tyre, we came down to Ptolemais, and having greeted the brothers, we stayed one day with them.

¹⁸ “Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn Him to death. ¹⁹ And they will betray Him to the Gentiles to mock and to flog and to crucify; and the third day He will rise again.”

¹ And morning having arrived, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, so that they might put Him to death. ² And having bound Him, they led Him away and delivered Him to Pilate the governor.

¹⁶ For I will show to him how much it behooves him to suffer for My name.”

² Now as they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart then to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

⁶ And having passed through Phrygia and the Galatian region, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia,

²³ except that the Holy Spirit fully testifies to me in every city, saying that chains and tribulations await me.

³³ Then having drawn near, the commander laid hold of him and commanded him to be bound with two chains, and began inquiring who he might be and what it is he has been doing.

²⁵ But as he stretched him forward with the straps, Paul said to the centurion standing by, “Is it lawful to you to flog a man who is a Roman and uncondemned?”

²⁷ But two years having been completed, Felix received Porcius Festus as successor, and wishing to acquire for himself favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul imprisoned.

²⁹ Then Paul said, “I would wish anyhow to God, both in a little and in much, not only you but also all those hearing me this day to become such as I also am, except these chains.”

¹⁷ And it came to pass after three days, he called together those being leaders of the Jews. And of them having come together, he was saying to them, “Men, brothers, having done nothing against the people or the customs of our fathers, I was delivered from Jerusalem a prisoner into the hands of the Romans,

²⁰ Therefore for this cause I have called to see you and to speak to you. For because of the hope of Israel, I have around me this chain.”

²⁵ And being discordant with one another they began to leave, Paul having spoken one word: “The Holy Spirit spoke rightly by the prophet Isaiah to your fathers,

¹ For reason of this, I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles...

¹ Therefore I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to walk worthily of the calling to which you were called,

²⁰ for which I am an ambassador in a chain, that in it I may be bold, as it behooves me to speak.

⁹ in which I suffer hardship even to chains as an evildoer. But the word of God is not bound!

⁷ Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says: “Today if you should hear His voice,

³⁴ For both you sympathized with the prisoners and you accepted the plundering of your possessions with joy, knowing yourselves to have a better and abiding possession.

¹² to whom it was revealed that they were serving not themselves, but you, in those things which now have been proclaimed to you by those having proclaimed the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit having been sent from heaven, into which angels desire to look.

²¹ From that time Jesus began to show to His disciples that it is necessary for Him to go away to Jerusalem, and to suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and to be killed, and to be raised on the third day. ²² And Peter having taken Him aside, began to rebuke Him, saying, “Far be it from You, Lord! This never will be to You!” ²³ And having turned, He said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me. For your thoughts are not of the things of God, but the things of men.”

²² And now behold, bound in the Spirit I go to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me in it,

⁴¹ Therefore indeed they departed from the presence of the Council, rejoicing that they had been counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the Name.

²⁴ But I make my life neither dear nor any account to myself, so as to finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus: to testify fully the gospel of the grace of God.

³⁷ Then there was much weeping among all, and having fallen upon the neck of Paul, they were kissing him,

³⁵ Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? ³⁶ As it has been written: “For Your sake we face death all the day; we were regarded as sheep of slaughter.” ³⁷ But in all these things, we more than conquer through the One having loved us.

³¹ I die every day, as surely as the boasting in you, brothers, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹⁰ always carrying around the death of Jesus in our body, so that the life of Jesus also should be manifested in our body. ¹¹ For we the living are always being delivered to death on account of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our mortal flesh. ¹² So then, death works in us, but life in you. ¹³ But having the same spirit of faith according to that having been written: “I believed, therefore I have spoken,” we also believe and therefore speak, ¹⁴ knowing that the One having raised up the Lord Jesus also will raise us up through Jesus and will present us with you. ¹⁵ For all things are for your sake, so that the grace having abounded through more and more people may increase the thanksgiving to the glory of God. ¹⁶ Therefore we do not lose heart; but indeed if our outward man is being brought to decay, yet our inner self is being renewed day and day. ¹⁷ For the momentary lightness of our affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory, far surpassing to excessiveness.

²³ Are they servants of Christ? I speak as being beside myself, I too above measure: more abundantly in labors, more abundantly in imprisonments, in beatings above measure, in deaths often. ²⁴ Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one. ²⁵ Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I have passed a night and a day in the deep sea; ²⁶ in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers; in perils from my own race, in perils from the Gentiles; in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness; in perils on the sea, in perils among false brothers; ²⁷ in labor and toil, often in watchings; in hunger and thirst, often in fastings; in cold and nakedness.

²⁰ according to my earnest expectation and hope that I will be ashamed in nothing, but in all boldness also now as always, Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death. ²¹ For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.

¹⁷ But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.

²⁶ since he was longing after you all and being deeply distressed because you heard that he was ill.

²⁴ Now I rejoice in the sufferings for you, and I am filling up in my flesh that which is lacking of the tribulations of Christ for His body, which is the church,

⁴ longing to see you, recalling your tears, so that I may be filled with joy,

⁴ No one serving as a soldier entangles himself in the affairs of this life, that he might please the one having enlisted him. ⁵ Now also, if anyone competes, he is not crowned unless he shall have competed lawfully. ⁶ It is necessary for the hardworking farmer first to partake of the fruits.

⁶ For already I am being poured out, and the time of my departure is come.

¹⁴ knowing that the putting off of my tabernacle is impending, as also our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

¹⁰ Because you have kept the word of My patient endurance, I also will keep you out of the hour of the trial being about to come upon the whole inhabited world, to try those dwelling upon the earth.

¹¹ And they have overcome him by reason of the blood of the Lamb, and by reason of the word of their testimony; and they have not loved their life unto death.

¹⁰ Your kingdom come. Your will be done as in heaven, so also upon earth.

³⁹ And having gone forward a little, He fell upon His face, praying, and saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Nevertheless not as I will, but as You.”

⁴² Again for a second time having gone away, He prayed, saying, “My Father, if this is not possible to pass unless I drink it, Your will be done.”

² And He said to them, “When you pray, say: ‘Father, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come.

⁴² saying, “Father, if You are willing, take away this cup from Me. Yet not My will, but Yours be done.”

¹ Therefore Festus, having arrived in the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

⁶ And having spent with them not more than eight or ten days, having gone down to Caesarea, on the next day having sat on the judgment seat, he commanded Paul to be brought.

⁹ But Festus, wishing to lay a favor on the Jews, answering, said to Paul, “Are you willing, having gone up to Jerusalem, to be judged before me there concerning these things?”

⁴⁰ But Philip was found at Azotus, and passing through, he was proclaiming the gospel to all the towns until his coming to Caesarea.

²⁴ And on the next day, he entered into Caesarea. Now Cornelius was expecting them, having called together his relatives and close friends.

⁴⁸ And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to remain some days.

³ And having sighted Cyprus and having left it on the left, we kept sailing to Syria and landed at Tyre, for the ship was unloading the cargo there. ⁴ And we remained there seven days, having sought out the disciples, who kept telling Paul through the Spirit not to go up to Jerusalem.

⁸ And having gone forth on the next day, we came to Caesarea, and having entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, being of the seven, we stayed with him.

⁷ Greet Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, and who were in Christ before me.

⁹ rather, I exhort you for the sake of love, being such a one as Paul, now aged and also a prisoner of Christ Jesus.

¹³ I am writing to you, fathers because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I have written to you, little children, because you know the Father. ¹⁴ I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

⁴ And having come to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders. And they declared all that God had done with them.

⁷ Therefore receive one another as Christ also received you, to the glory of God.

¹ Let brotherly love abide. ² Do not be forgetful of hospitality, for through this, some have entertained angels unawares.

⁷ For they went forth on behalf of the name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles. ⁸ Therefore we ought to receive such men, so that we may be fellow workers in the truth.

² And these are the names of the twelve apostles: first Simon called Peter, and his brother Andrew; and James the son of Zebedee, and his brother John;

³⁰ which also they did, having sent it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

¹⁷ And having made a sign to them with the hand to be silent, he related to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, “Report these things to James and to the brothers.” And having gone out, he went to another place.

² Having been brought about, then, no small commotion and discussion by Paul and Barnabas with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas and certain others out from them to go up to Jerusalem, to the apostles and elders, about this question.

⁶ And both the apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.

¹³ And after they were silent, James answered, saying, “Men, brothers, hear me.

¹⁷ And from Miletus, having sent to Ephesus, he called for the elders of the church.

¹⁹ But I saw none of the other apostles, only James, the Lord’s brother.

⁹ and having recognized the grace having been given to me, James and Cephas and John, those esteemed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, but they to the circumcision,

¹ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings.

¹⁷ For he was numbered with us, and was allotted a share of this ministry.”

⁴ Now Peter having begun, set forth to them in order, saying, ⁵ “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, a certain vessel like a great sheet descending, being let down out of heaven by four corners, and it came down as far as me. ⁶ Having looked intently on it, I was observing it, and I saw the quadrupeds of the earth and the wild beasts and the creeping things and the birds of the air. ⁷ And also I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Having risen up, Peter, kill and eat.’ ⁸ But I said, ‘In no way, Lord. For nothing ever common or unclean has entered into my mouth.’ ⁹ But for a second time the voice answered out of heaven, ‘What God has cleansed, you do not call unholy.’ ¹⁰ Now this happened on three times, and all was drawn up into heaven again. ¹¹ And behold, immediately three men having been sent to me from Caesarea stood at the house in which I was. ¹² Now the Spirit told me to go with them, not having discriminated. Now these six brothers also went with me, and we entered into the man’s house, ¹³ and he related to us how he had seen the angel having stood in his house and having said, ‘Send forth to Joppa, and send for Simon who is called Peter, ¹⁴ who will speak words to you in which will be saved, you and all your household.’ ¹⁵ And in my beginning to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, even as also upon us in the beginning. ¹⁶ And I remembered the word of the Lord, how He had said, ‘John indeed baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ ¹⁷ If then God has given to them the same gift as also to us having believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, how was I able to forbid God?” ¹⁸ And having heard these things, they were silent and glorified God, saying, “Then indeed God has given also to the Gentiles repentance unto life.”

²⁷ Now having arrived and having gathered together the church, they began declaring all that God had done with them, and that He had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.

¹² Now the whole multitude kept silent and were listening to Barnabas and Paul relating what signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles by them.

¹⁸ For I will not dare to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me unto the obedience of the Gentiles by word and deed, ¹⁹ in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God, so as for me, from Jerusalem and around unto Illyricum, to have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ,

⁵ Who then is Apollos? And who is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord has given to each. ⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God kept it growing. ⁷ So neither the one planting nor the one watering is anything, but only God, the One giving growth. ⁸ Now the one planting and the one watering are one, and each will receive the own reward, according to the own labor. ⁹ For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me has not been void. Rather, I toiled more abundantly than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

¹ And working together, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

¹² For the signs of the apostle were performed among you in all perseverance, and in signs, and wonders, and miracles.

²⁹ Unto this also I toil, striving according to His energy, working in me in power.

³¹ He put before them another parable, saying: “The kingdom of the heavens is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man having taken, sowed in his field, ³² which indeed is smallest of all the seeds; but when it is grown, it is greater than the garden plants, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and encamp in its branches.” ³³ He spoke to them another parable: “The kingdom of the heavens is like leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of flour until all of it was leavened.”

¹ In these times, the myriads of the crowd having been gathered together so as to trample upon one another, He began to say to His disciples first, “Take heed to yourselves of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

³ And He spoke to them this parable, saying, ⁴ “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, does not leave the ninety nine in the open field, and go after the one having been lost, until he finds it? ⁵ And having found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. ⁶ And having come to the house, he calls together the friends and the neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep, the one having been lost!’ ⁷ I say to you that in the same way there will be joy in heaven over one sinner repenting, rather than over ninety nine righteous ones who have no need of repentance. ⁸ Or what woman having ten drachmas, if she should lose one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house, and seek carefully until she finds it? ⁹ And having found it, she calls together the friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma that I lost.’ ¹⁰ Thus I say to you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

³² But it was fitting to make merry and to rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; and he was lost and is found.’”

²⁴ Truly, truly, I say to you, unless the grain of wheat, having fallen into the ground, should die, it abides alone; but if it should die, it bears much fruit.

⁴¹ Therefore those indeed having received his word were baptized, and on that day about three thousand souls were added.

⁴ But many of those having heard the word believed, and the number of the men became about five thousand.

²¹ And having further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way they might punish them, on account of the people, because all were glorifying God for that having happened.

⁷ And the word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem was multiplied exceedingly, and a great multitude of the priests were becoming obedient to the faith.

¹⁸ And having heard these things, they were silent and glorified God, saying, “Then indeed God has given also to the Gentiles repentance unto life.”

¹ But certain ones having come down from Judea were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you are not able to be saved.”

⁵ Now certain of those who believed, from the sect of the Pharisees, rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the Law of Moses.”

²⁴ Inasmuch as we have heard that some went out from us, to whom we had given no instructions, and troubled you by words, upsetting your minds,

³ “I am a Jew, a man born in Tarsus of Cilicia and brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been instructed according to the exactness of the Law of our Fathers, being a zealous one of God, even as you all are this day,

² For I bear witness about them that they have zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

⁶ so that with one accord, with one mouth, you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁷ Therefore receive one another as Christ also received you, to the glory of God.

⁹ and for the Gentiles to glorify God for mercy, as it has been written: “Because of this I will praise You among the Gentiles, and will I sing to Your name.” ¹⁰ And again it says: “Rejoice you Gentiles, with His people.” ¹¹ And again: “Praise the Lord, all the Gentiles, and praise Him, all the peoples.” ¹² And again, Isaiah says: “There will be the root of Jesse, and the One arising to rule over the Gentiles; in Him the Gentiles will hope.” ¹³ Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, for you to abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.

¹⁴ And I was advancing in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my people, being more abundantly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

²⁴ And they were glorifying God in me.

¹⁰ when in that day He shall come to be glorified in His saints, and to be marveled at among all those having believed because our testimony to you was believed,

⁶ And I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the sound of many waters, and like a sound of mighty thunders, saying: “Hallelujah! For the Lord God our Almighty has reigned. ⁷ We should rejoice and should exult and will give to Him the glory, because the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready.

¹³ And they set false witnesses, saying, “This man does not stop speaking words against this holy place and the Law. ¹⁴ For we have heard him saying that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and will change the customs that Moses delivered to us.”

¹⁹ Therefore I judge not to trouble those from the Gentiles turning to God, ²⁰ but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols, and sexual immorality, and that which is strangled, and from blood. ²¹ For Moses has ones proclaiming him in every city from generations of old, being read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.”

³ Paul wanted this one to go forth with him, and having taken him, he circumcised him on account of the Jews being in those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

²⁸ crying out, “Men, Israelites, help! This is the man teaching all those everywhere against the people and the Law and this place. And besides, he has also brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.”

¹ Now receive the one being weak in the faith, not for passing judgment on reasonings. ² Indeed, one believes to eat all things; but the one being weak eats vegetables. ³ The one eating, let him not despise the one not eating; and the one not eating, let him not judge the one eating, for God has received him. ⁴ Who are you, judging another’s servant? To the own master he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to uphold him. ⁵ For indeed one judges a day to be above another day, but one judges every day alike. Let each be fully assured in the own mind. ⁶ The one regarding the day, regards it to the Lord; the one eating, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and the one not eating, does not eat to the Lord and gives thanks to God.

¹⁸ Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not be uncircumcised. Was anyone called in uncircumcision? Let Him not be circumcised. ¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God.

¹⁹ For being free from all, I myself became servant to all, so that I might win the more. ²⁰ And to the Jews I became like a Jew, so that I might win the Jews. To those under the Law, as under the Law (myself not being under the Law) so that I might win those under the Law. ²¹ To those outside the Law, as outside the Law (not being outside the law of God, but under the law of Christ) so that I might win those outside the Law.

¹ In freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore and do not be entangled again in a yoke of slavery! ² Behold, I Paul say to you that if you shall become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. ³ Now again I testify to every man receiving circumcision that he is a debtor to keep the whole Law. ⁴ Whoever are being justified in the Law, you are severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. ⁵ For through the Spirit, by faith, we eagerly await the hope of righteousness. ⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any power, but only faith working through love.

¹² As many as desire to have a fair appearance in the flesh, these compel you to be circumcised, only that they might not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. ¹³ For not even those being circumcised keep the Law themselves, but they desire you to be circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh. ¹⁴ But for me, may it be never to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world. ¹⁵ For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is anything; instead, a new creation.

²² Then it seemed good to the apostles and to the elders, with the whole church, having chosen out from them, to send men to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas and Silas, leading men among the brothers,

³² So some indeed were crying out one thing; others another. For the assembly was confused, and most did not know for what cause they were assembled.

²⁵ Then a debate arose among the disciples of John with a certain Jew about purification.

⁵⁵ Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the region before the Passover, so that they might purify themselves.

²⁶ Then Paul, having taken the men on the following day, having been purified with them, entered into the temple, declaring the fulfillment of the days of the purification until the sacrifice was offered for each one of them.

¹⁸ during which they found me purified in the temple, not with a crowd nor in tumult. But there are some Jews from Asia

²⁰ And to the Jews I became like a Jew, so that I might win the Jews. To those under the Law, as under the Law (myself not being under the Law) so that I might win those under the Law.

¹² For before certain ones came from James, he had been eating with the Gentiles. But when they came, he was drawing back and was separating himself, being afraid of those of the circumcision.

¹⁰ consisting only in foods and drinks and various washings—ordinances of the flesh being imposed until the time of reformation. ¹¹ But Christ, having appeared as high priest of the good things having come, by the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made by hands, that is, not of this creation, ¹² nor by blood of goats and calves, but through the own blood, He entered once for all into the holy places, having obtained eternal redemption. ¹³ For if the blood of goats and of bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those having been defiled sanctify them for the purification of the flesh, ¹⁴ how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our conscience from dead works, in order to serve the living God!

¹⁹ Therefore I judge not to trouble those from the Gentiles turning to God, ²⁰ but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols, and sexual immorality, and that which is strangled, and from blood.

²⁹ to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality. Keeping yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”

²⁴ Having taken these men, be purified with them and bear expense for them, so that they will shave the head, and all will know that of which they have been informed about you is nothing, but you yourself also walk orderly, keeping the Law.

¹² But before all these things, they will lay their hands upon you, and will persecute you, delivering you to the synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors on account of My name.

³ And they laid hands on them and put them in custody until the next day; for it was already evening.

¹⁸ and they laid hands on the apostles and put them in the public jail.

¹² And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes; and having come upon him, they seized him and brought him to the Council.

⁵⁰ But the Jews incited the worshipping women of honorable position and the principals of the city, and they stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them from their district.

² But the unbelieving Jews stirred up and poisoned the minds of the Gentiles against the brothers.

⁵ And when there was a rush both of the Gentiles and Jews, with their rulers, to mistreat and to stone them,

¹⁹ But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds, and having stoned Paul, they dragged him outside the city, supposing him to have died.

⁵ Now the Jews having become jealous, and having taken to them certain wicked men of the market-loungers, and having collected a crowd, set the city in uproar. And having assailed the house of Jason, they were seeking them to bring out to the people. ⁶ But not having found them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the city authorities, crying out, “These ones having upset the world come here also,

¹³ But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God also was proclaimed by Paul in Berea, they came there also, stirring up and agitating the crowds.

¹² But Gallio being proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and led him to the judgment seat,

²¹ On account of these things the Jews, having seized me being in the temple, were attempting to kill me.

¹⁵ Therefore when you shall see ‘the abomination of desolation,’ having been spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place—the one reading, let him understand—

²⁶ And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but almost all of Asia, this Paul, having persuaded them, has turned away a great many people, saying that they are not gods which have been made by hands. ²⁷ Now not only is this business to us endangered to come into disrepute, but also for the temple of the great goddess Artemis to be reckoned for nothing, and also her majesty to be deposed, whom all Asia and the world worship.” ²⁸ And having heard, and having become full of rage, they were crying out saying, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians.”

²¹ Now they have been informed about you, that you teach all Jews among the Gentiles apostasy from Moses, telling them not to circumcise the children nor to walk in the customs.

⁵ For we are having found this man a pest, and stirring insurrection among all the Jews in the world, and a leader of the sect of the Nazarenes ⁶ who even attempted to profane the temple, whom also we seized.

²⁰ but both first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, and all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, I kept declaring to repent and to turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance. ²¹ On account of these things the Jews, having seized me being in the temple, were attempting to kill me.

¹⁹ Now they came to Ephesus, and left them there. And he himself having entered into the synagogue, reasoned with the Jews.

⁴ And he was accompanied by Sopater son of Pyrrhus from Berea, and Aristarchus, and Secundus of the Thessalonians, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy, and the Asians Tychicus and Trophimus.

²⁰ Erastus remained in Corinth, but Trophimus I left ailing in Miletus.

³ And King Herod having heard this, was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.

¹⁰ And of Him having entered into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred, saying, “Who is this?”

²⁹ and having risen up, they cast Him out of the city, and led Him unto the brow of the hill upon which their town had been built, in order to throw Him over.

⁵⁷ And having cried out with a loud voice, they held their ears and rushed upon him with one accord, ⁵⁸ and having cast him out of the city, began to stone him. And the witnesses laid aside their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

¹⁹ Now her masters having seen that their hope of profit was gone, having taken hold of Paul and Silas, dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers. ²⁰ And having brought them up to the magistrates, they said, “These men, being Jews, exceedingly trouble our city ²¹ and preach customs that it is not lawful for us, being Romans, to accept nor to practice.” ²² And the crowd rose up together against them, and the magistrates having torn off their garments, were commanding that they be beaten with rods.

²⁹ And the whole city was filled with confusion, and with one accord they rushed to the theatre, having dragged off Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, fellow travelers of Paul.

²⁶ in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers; in perils from my own race, in perils from the Gentiles; in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness; in perils on the sea, in perils among false brothers;

⁵ But they were saying, “Not during the feast, lest there be a riot among the people.”

² For they were saying, “Not during the feast, lest there will be an uproar of the people.”

² They will put you out of the synagogues; but an hour is coming that everyone having killed you will think it is to offer a service to God.

¹² Then the cohort and the commander and the officers of the Jews took hold of Jesus and bound Him.

⁵ Now the Jews having become jealous, and having taken to them certain wicked men of the market-loungers, and having collected a crowd, set the city in uproar. And having assailed the house of Jason, they were seeking them to bring out to the people.

⁴⁰ And indeed, we are in danger of being accused of insurrection in regard to this day, there existing not one cause concerning which we will be able to give a reason for this commotion.”

³⁸ Are you not, then, the Egyptian, the one before these days having led a revolt and having led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the ‘Assassins?’”

²² Now they were listening to him until this word. Then they lifted up their voice, saying, “Away with such from the earth. For he is not fit to live!”

¹⁷ Then Paul, having summoned one of the centurions, was saying, “Take this young man to the commander, for he has something to report to him.”

⁶ who even attempted to profane the temple, whom also we seized.

²² But Felix, more precisely having knowledge of the things concerning the Way, put them off, having said, “When Lysias the commander might have come down, I will examine the things as to you,”

²³ So on the next day Agrippa and Bernice, having come with great pomp and having entered into the audience hall with both the commanders and the men in prominence in the city, and Festus having commanded, Paul was brought in.

⁹ Therefore I indeed in myself thought I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth, ¹⁰ which also I did in Jerusalem. And I also locked up many of the saints in prisons, having received the authority from the chief priests; and they being put to death, I cast against them a vote.

²³ Are they servants of Christ? I speak as being beside myself, I too above measure: more abundantly in labors, more abundantly in imprisonments, in beatings above measure, in deaths often. ²⁴ Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one. ²⁵ Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I have passed a night and a day in the deep sea; ²⁶ in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers; in perils from my own race, in perils from the Gentiles; in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness; in perils on the sea, in perils among false brothers; ²⁷ in labor and toil, often in watchings; in hunger and thirst, often in fastings; in cold and nakedness. ²⁸ Besides the external things, the pressure on me on every day is my care for all the churches. ²⁹ Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn inwardly? ³⁰ If it behooves me to boast, I will boast in the things of my weakness. ³¹ The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, the One being blessed to the ages, knows that I am not lying. ³² In Damascus the governor under the king Aretas was guarding the city of the Damascenes to seize me. ³³ But I was let down in a basket through a window through the wall, and I escaped his hands.

⁴⁰ And they were persuaded by him. And having called in the apostles, having beaten them, they commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and they released them.

¹⁷ Then all of them, having seized Sosthenes the ruler of the synagogue, began to beat him before the judgment seat. And it mattered nothing to Gallio about these things.

¹⁹ And I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that in each of those synagogues I was imprisoning and beating those believing on You.

²³ And having summoned certain two of the centurions, he said, “Prepare for the third hour of the night two hundred soldiers and seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen, so that they might go as far as Caesarea, ²⁴ and provide mounts, so that having set Paul upon them, they might bring him safely to Felix the governor,”

²⁷ This man having been seized by the Jews and being about to be killed by them, having come up with the troop, I rescued him, having learned that he is a Roman.

²⁹ Therefore Pilate went out to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?” ³⁰ They answered and said to him, “If He were not doing evil, we would not have delivered Him to you.”

⁶ And when Herod was about to bring him forth, on that night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, having been bound with two chains, and guards before the door were watching the prison.

¹¹ And having come to us and having taken Paul’s belt, having bound his feet and hands, he said, “Thus the Holy Spirit says, ‘In this way the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man whose belt this is, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’”

²⁴ The commander ordered him to be brought into the barracks, having directed him to be examined by flogging, so that he might know for what cause they were crying out against him like this. ²⁵ But as he stretched him forward with the straps, Paul said to the centurion standing by, “Is it lawful to you to flog a man who is a Roman and uncondemned?”

²⁹ So immediately those being about to examine him departed from him, and the commander also was afraid, having ascertained that he is a Roman, and because he had bound him.

¹⁶ to whom I answered that it is not the custom with Romans to give up any man before that the one being accused may have it to face the accusers, and he may have the opportunity of defense concerning the accusation.

¹⁶ May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he refreshed me often, and he was not ashamed of my chain.

³⁷ And being about to be brought into the barracks, Paul says to the commander, “Is it permitted to me to say something to you?” Then he was saying, “Do you know Greek?

²⁴ The commander ordered him to be brought into the barracks, having directed him to be examined by flogging, so that he might know for what cause they were crying out against him like this.

³⁰ And on the next day, desiring to know for certain why he is accused by the Jews, he unbound him and commanded the chief priests and the whole council to assemble. And having brought down Paul, he set him among them.

¹⁰ And great dissension arising, the commander, having feared lest Paul should be torn to pieces by them, commanded the troop, having gone down, to take him by force from their midst and to bring him into the barracks.

¹⁶ But the son of Paul’s sister, having heard of the ambush, having come near and having entered into the barracks, reported it to Paul.

³² And on the next day, having allowed the horsemen to go with him, they returned to the barracks,

²⁶ concerning whom I have nothing definite to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him before you all, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that of the examination having taken place, I might have something to write.

⁴⁰ And he having allowed him, Paul, having stood on the stairs, made a sign with the hand to the people. And great silence having taken place, he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, saying:

¹⁸ But they cried out all together, saying, “Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas,”

¹⁵ So they cried out, “Away with Him, away! Crucify Him!” Pilate says to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king except Caesar.”

⁵⁴ Now hearing these things, they were cut to their hearts and began gnashing the teeth at him.

¹³ being slandered, we entreat. We have become as the residue of the world, the refuse of all, until now.

¹⁸ And you will be brought also before governors and kings on account of Me, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. ¹⁹ And when they deliver you up, do not be anxious how or what you should speak; for in that hour you will be given what you should say, ²⁰ for you are not those speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

¹⁵ For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all those opposing you will not be able to resist nor to reply to.

³⁰ But of Paul intending to go in to the people, the disciples would not allow him.

³⁴ They were crying out in the crowd one thing, but others another. And he being unable to know the facts on account of the uproar, ordered him to be brought into the barracks.

¹¹ Blessed are you when they shall insult you and shall persecute you, and lying shall say all kinds of evil against you on account of Me.

²⁶ Therefore if they say to you, ‘Behold, He is in the wilderness,’ do not go forth; or ‘Behold, in the inner rooms,’ do not believe.

³⁶ For before these days, Theudas rose up, affirming himself to be somebody—to whom a number of men, about four hundred, were joined—who was put to death, and all, as many as were persuaded by him, were dispersed; and it came to nothing. ³⁷ After this man, Judas the Galilean rose up in the days of the registration and drew away people after him. And he perished, and all, as many as were persuaded by him, were scattered.

⁹ But certain of those from the synagogue called Freedmen, including Cyrenians and Alexandrians and of those from Cilicia and Asia, arose, disputing with Stephen.

¹¹ And the Lord said to him, “Having risen up, go into the street called Straight, and seek in the house of Judas the one of Tarsus named Saul, for behold, he is praying,

³⁷ But Paul was saying to them, “Having beaten us publicly, uncondemned men being Romans, they cast us into prison, and now do they throw us out secretly? No indeed! Instead, having come themselves, let them bring us out.”

²⁵ But as he stretched him forward with the straps, Paul said to the centurion standing by, “Is it lawful to you to flog a man who is a Roman and uncondemned?” ²⁶ And the centurion having heard it, having gone to the commander, reported it saying, “What are you going to do? For this man is a Roman.” ²⁷ And having come near, the commander said to him, “Tell me, are you a Roman?” And he was saying, “Yes.” ²⁸ Then the commander answered, “I bought this citizenship with a great sum.” But Paul was saying, “But I even was born so.” ²⁹ So immediately those being about to examine him departed from him, and the commander also was afraid, having ascertained that he is a Roman, and because he had bound him.

³⁴ And having read it and having asked what province he is from, and having learned that he is from Cilicia,

¹⁵ But in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord, always ready for a defense to everyone asking you an account concerning the hope in you; yet with gentleness and fear,

¹⁵ For let not any of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evildoer, or as a troublesome meddler, ¹⁶ but if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this name.

³⁸ And there was also this inscription over Him: The King of the Jews.

² Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Hebrew called Bethesda, having five porches.

¹³ Therefore Pilate, having heard these words, brought Jesus out and sat down upon the judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement, and in Hebrew, Gabbatha.

¹⁷ And bearing His own cross, He went out to the place called the Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha,

²⁰ Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.

¹ Now in these days when the disciples are multiplying, there arose a grumbling of the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution.

¹⁶ And Paul, having risen up and having made a sign with the hand, said, “Men of Israel and those fearing God, listen:

³³ Now out of the crowd they put forward Alexander, the Jews having thrust him forward. And Alexander, having motioned with the hand, was wanting to make a defense to the people.

³⁵ Now when he came to the stairs, it happened that he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd.

² And having heard that he was addressing them in the Hebrew language, they became even more quiet. And he says,

¹⁴ And of all of us having fallen down to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’

¹¹ They have a king over them, the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek, he has the name Apollyon.

¹⁶ And he gathered them together unto the place called in Hebrew Armageddon.