Acts NKJV Audio Bible

The Acts of the Apostles The above account was made by Theophilus of everything that Jesus began to do and teach until the day he was received up after having given by the Holy Spirit Commandments to the Apostles whom he had chosen whom he also He presented him alive after his suffering with many infallible proofs, being seen by them for forty days and speaking about the things of the kingdom of God and being gathered with them he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem but to wait for the promise of the father whom you have heard from me because John truly baptized with water but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit in not many days, so when they had gathered together they asked him Lord, will you restore the kingdom to Israel at this time?

It is not for you to know the times or the epochs that the Father has put in his own power, but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria to the end of the world. . earth now when he had spoken these things as they looked on as he was lifted up and a cloud received him out of their sight and as they looked intently toward the sky as he ascended, behold, two men stood over them in white garments, men of Galilee, why that you be looking at the sky this same Jesus who was taken from you to heaven so he will come in the same way as you saw him go to heaven then return to Jerusalem from the mountain called the Olive Grove which is near Jerusalem on the way on a Sabbath day and when once they had entered, they went up to the upper room where Peter James, John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James, son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas, son of James, were staying, all of them pursued unanimously in prayer and supplication with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brothers and in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples all together the number of names was about one hundred and twenty men and brothers this scripture had to be fulfilled that the Holy Spirit I spoke before through the mouth of David about of Judas, who was a guide to those who arrested Jesus because he was counted with us and obtained a part in this ministry.

Now this man bought a field with the wages of iniquity and falling headlong it opened in the middle and all its insides gushed out and it was known to all who dwelt in Jerusalem, so that field is called in their own language Akeldama, which is a field of blood, because it is written in the book of Psalms, that his dwelling be desolate and not that one live in it and that another take his office, well, of these men who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus came and went among us from the baptism of John until that day when one of these was taken from among us. must become a witness with us of his resurrection and they proposed Joseph called Barsabbas who was nicknamed Justus and Matthias and they begged you, O Lord who knows the hearts of all, show which of these two you have chosen to participate in this ministry and Apostolate . from where Judas fell by transgression to go to his own place and they cast lots and the lot fell on Matthias and he was numbered with the eleven apostles when the day of Pentecost had completely arrived they were all of one accord in one place.

And suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a mighty wind blowing and filled the whole house where they were sitting. Then divided tongues appeared to them like fire and one sat on each of them and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. and they began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them to speak, and there were Jews living in Jerusalem, pious men from all nations under heaven, and when this sound occurred, the crowd gathered together and were confused because each one heard them speaking in their own language. Then they were all amazed and amazed.

Look, aren't these all speaking Galileans and how is it that we listen to each one in our own language in which we were born, the Parthians and the Medes and the Elamites, those who live in Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia Phrygia? and Pamphylia Egypt and the parts of Libya adjoining Cyrene II visitors from Rome both Jews and Cretan and Arab proselytes heard them speak in our own languages ​​the wonderful works of God so that all were astonished and perplexed, whatever this may be. mean, others mockingly said that they are full of new wine but Peter, standing up with the eleven, raised his voice and said to the men of Judea and to all those who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you and hear my words but these They are not drunk as you think, since it is only the third hour. of the day but this is what the Prophet Joel spoke and it will happen and the last days God says that I will pour out my spirit on all flesh your sons and your daughters will prophesy your young men will see visions your old men will dream dreams and on the servants of my men and I will pour out my spirit on my handmaids in those days and they will prophesy.

I will show wonders in the sky above and signs and beneath the earth blood and fire and vapor of smoke. The sun will turn into darkness and the moon into blood before the great and terrible day comes. of the Lord and it will come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved, men of Israel, listen to these words of Jesus of Nazareth. man confirmed by God among you with miracles, wonders and signs that God did among you through him, as you yourselves also know, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by wicked hands, crucified and killed whom God resurrected. having released the pangs of death because it was not possible for him to be held by it because David says about him I foresaw the Lord always before my face because he is at my right hand so that I would not be moved therefore my heart rejoiced and my tongue rejoiced furthermore my flesh will also rest in hope because you will not leave my soul in Hades nor will you allow your Holy One to see corruption you have made known to me the ways of life you will fill me with joy in your presence, men and brothers, allow me to speak to you freely from the patriarch David, who is dead and buried and his tomb is with us to this day, being therefore a prophet and knowing that God had sworn to him with an oath that from the fruit of his body according to the flesh he would raise up the Christ to sit in his throne he upon seeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ that his soul was not left in Hades nor did his flesh see corruption this Jesus God has raised up of which we are all witnesses therefore being exalted to the right hand of God and having received from the father the promise of the holy spirit poured out this that you now see and here because David did not ascend to heaven but he himself says the Lord said to my lord sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool, know, well , most certainly the whole house of Israel, that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified Lord and Christ, now that upon hearing this they were pricked in their hearts and said to Peter and the rest of the Apostles men and brothers, what shall we do to repent and be baptized? each one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit because the promise is for you and your children and for all those who are far away whom the Lord our God will call and with many other words he testified and He exhorted to be saved from this perverse generation, then those who gladly received his word were baptized and that day around three thousand souls were added to them and they continued firmly in the doctrine of the Apostles and in the fellowship in the breaking of bread and in prayers.

Then fear came upon every soul and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles. Now all those who believed were together and had everything. things in common and sold their possessions and goods and distributed them among everyone as each one had need, thus continuing each day unanimously in the temple and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with joy and simplicity of heart, praising God and Having favor with all the people and the Lord, they daily added to the church those who were being saved. Now Peter and John went up together to the temple of the art of prayer at the ninth hour and carried a certain man lame from his mother's womb, whom they laid daily. at the door of the temple that is called beautiful to ask us for those who were entering the temple who, seeing Peter and Juan who were going to enter the temple, asked for weapons and fixing his eyes on him with Juan Pedro said look at us and gave them his attention waiting I do not have anything to receive from them, silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

Get up and take him by the right hand and lift him up and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength so he jumped. He stood up and walked and entered the temple with them walking, jumping and praising God and all the people saw him walking and praising God so they knew that it was he who sat asking for arms at the beautiful door of the temple. and they were filled with amazement and amazement at what had now happened to him, while the lame man who had been healed clung to Peter and John, all the people ran to them in the porch that is called Solomon's, greatly astonished, so when Peter saw it, he responded to the people men of Israel why do you marvel at this or why do you look at us so intently as if by our own power or piety we had made this man walk the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob the god of Our Fathers glorified his servant Jesus whom you handed over and denied before Pilate, when he was determined to let him go, but you denied the Holy and the righteous and asked that a murderer be granted to you and that you would kill the Prince of life, whom God raised from among the dead. of which we are witnesses and his name through faith in his name has strengthened this man whom you see and know, yes, the faith that comes through him has given him this perfect solidity in the presence of you all, but now brothers, be that you did it. in ignorance as your rulers also did, but those things that God foretold by the mouth of all his prophets that the Christ would suffer, he has fulfilled, therefore, repent and convert, so that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshment. the presence of the Lord and to send Jesus Christ, who was announced to you, before whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets from the beginning of the world, for Moses truly said to the fathers, your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers;

You will hear him in everything that he tells you, and it will be that every soul that does not listen to that prophet will be completely destroyed from among the people if and all the prophets since Samuel and those who follow who have spoken have also predicted in these days you you are children of the prophets and of the Covenant that God made with our fathers saying to Abraham and in your seed all the families of the earth will be blessed to you first God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to bless you and setting apart each one of your iniquities, now while they were speaking to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them. and they were greatly troubled when they taught the people and preached in Jesus the resurrection from the dead and they laid hands on them and put them in custody until the next day because it was already evening, but many of those who heard the word believed and the number The men numbered about 5,000, and it came to pass on the next day that their rulers, elders, and scribes, as well as the high priest of Anna, Caiaphas, John, and Alexander, and all the family of the high priests, gathered together in Jerusalem.

And when they put them in the middle they asked by what power or by what name you have done this. Then Peter, full of the Holy Spirit, told them that they are the rulers and elders of Israel if today we are judged for a good work. done to a helpless man, by what means he has been healed, let all of you and all the people of Israel know that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead through him, this man is standing. here before you whole this is the stone that was rejected by you builders which has become the main Cornerstone nor is there salvation in any other because there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must now be saved They saw the bravery of Peter and John and when they saw that they were uneducated and inexperienced men they were amazed and realized that they had been with Jesus and seeing the man who had been healed standing next to them they could not say anything against it but when They had ordered them to leave.

From the council they deliberated among themselves what we will do with these men because in truth that a notable miracle has been done through them is evident to all who live in Jerusalem and we cannot deny it except so that it does not spread further. among the people. We severely threatened them not to speak to anyone in this name from now on, so they called them and ordered them not to speak or teach in the name of Jesus, but Peter and John answered whether it is right in the eyes of God. Listen to yourself more than to God, you judge because we cannot stop saying the things we have seen and heard, so when they threatened them the most they let them go, without finding a way to punish them because of the people, since they all glorified God for what they they made. had been done because the man was over forty years old in whom it had beenperformed this miracle of healing and being released, they went to their own companions and told everything that the chief priests and the elders had told them, so when they heard that they had raised their voices to God with one accord and said Lord, you are God who made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in which you have spoken by the mouth of your servant David.

Why was the nation angry and the people plotting in vain days the kings of the earth stood firm and the rulers gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ because truly against your holy servant Jesus whom you anointed both Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and the people of Israel gathered to do everything that your hand and your purpose determined before it was done now Lord look at their threats And grant to your servants that with all the bowlers they speak your word, extending your hand to heal and that signs and wonders be done in the name of your holy servant Jesus.

And when they had prayed, the place where they were gathered shook, everyone was filled with the Holy Spirit. and they spoke the Word of God boldly now the multitude of those who believed were of one heart and one soul nor did anyone say that nothing they owned was theirs but that they had everything. In common and with great power the Apostles bore witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus and great grace was upon all of them, nor was there anyone lacking among them for all those who were possessors of lands or houses of the Sultan and brought the product of things. which were sold and placed at the feet of the Apostles and they distributed to each one according to each need and Josas who was also called by the Apostles Barnabas who is translated son of encouragement a Levite from the country of Cyprus having the land sold it and brought the money and laid it at the feet of the Apostles, but a man named Ananias sold some possession with his wife Sapphira and kept part of the profits, his wife also knowing, and brought a certain part and laid it at the feet of the Apostles.

Apostles Ananias, why? Did Satan fill your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep part of the price of the land while he remained? Wasn't it yours and after being sold? Wasn't it under your own control? Why have you conceived this thing in your heart you have not lied to men but to God then Ananias upon hearing these words fell and breathed his last, so much fear came upon all who heard these things and the young man stood up and enveloped him , took him out and buried him. It was about three hours later when his wife came in without knowing what had happened and Peter answered, tell me, did you see the earth, so yes, so how is it that they have agreed together to test the spirit in the Lord, look at the Those who have buried your husband are at the door and they will take you out immediately she fell at his feet and breathed her last now the young people came in and found her dead and taking her out they buried her next to her husband so big Fear took over the entire church and All who heard these things and through the hands of the Apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people and they were all in unison in Solomon's porch, but none of the rest dared to join them except the people.

They had them in great esteem and the believers joined the Lord more and more in multitudes of men and women, who took the sick out into the streets and laid them on beds and stretchers, so that at least the shadow of Peter, as he passed by, also fell on some of them. A crowd gathered from the cities surrounding Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all healed. Then the high priest stood up and all those who were with him, which is the sect of the Sadducees, were filled with indignation and laid their hands. on the Apostles and they put them in the common prison but at night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the prison and took them out and said to them: go, stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this life and when they heard that They entered the temple in the morning and taught, but the high priest and those who were with him came and called the council together with all the elders of the children of Israel and sent to the prison to bring them, but when the officials They came and they did not They found them in the prison, they returned and reported that indeed we found the prison well closed and the guards outside in front of the doors, but when we opened them we did not find anyone inside, now that the high priest, the captain of the temple and the chief priests They heard these things and they wondered what the result would be.

Then one came and said to them, look, the men that you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people. So the captain went with the officers and brought them without violence because they feared the people to that they should not be stoned and when they brought them they placed them before the council and the high priest asked them if we were not strictly ordering you not to teach in this name and behold you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine and you intend to bring the blood of this man on us But Peter answered that we must obey God rather than men.

The god of our fathers raised Jesus for whom you murdered by hanging him on a tree. God has exalted him at his right hand to be Prince and Savior to give Israel repentance and forgiveness of the sins and we are their witnesses of these things and so is the Holy Spirit that God has given to those who obey him when they heard this they became angry and conspired to kill then one in the council arose a Pharisee named Gamaliel teacher of the law had respect for all the people and ordered them to throw the Apostles outside for a moment, men of Israel, see for yourselves what you plan to do with these men, because some time ago Judas stood up, claiming to be someone, and a number joined him. of men about 400, he was killed and all those who obeyed him were scattered and left in nothingness after this man Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the census and took many people after him, he also perished and all those who They obeyed him, they dispersed and now I tell you, stay away from these men and leave them because if this plan or this work is from men it will come to nothing but it is from God, you cannot overthrow it lest they even find you to fight against God and they agreed with him and when they called the Apostles and beat them they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus and they let them go and they left the presence of the council rejoicing that they were considered worthy to suffer. shame for his name and daily in the temple and in every house they did not stop teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ now in those days when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose against the Hebrews on the part of the hedonists s— because Their widows were neglected in the daily distribution, so the twelve called together the multitude of disciples.

It is not desirable that we leave the Word of God and serve the tables, so brothers, look for among you seven men of good reputation filled with the holy spirit and wisdom to who we can name on this business but we will continually dedicate ourselves to prayer and the Ministry of the word and the saying please the entire crowd and they elected Stephen, a man full of faith in the Holy Spirit, and Philip, procurator Nakano, Timon Parmenas. and Nicholas, a proselyte from Antioch whom they placed before the apostles and when they had prayed they laid their hands on them and the word of God spread and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem and many of the priests were obedient to the faith. and Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and signs among the people.

Then some of the so-called synagogue of the Cyrenean, Alexandrian freedmen and those of Silesia and Asia rose up, disputing with Stephen and could not resist the wisdom and the spirit. by which he spoke, then they secretly induced the men to say: We had heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God and they stirred up the people, the elders and the scribes, and they came upon him, seized him and brought him to the council. also puts up false witnesses, this man does not stop speaking blasphemous words against this holy place in the law because we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses gave to us and to all those who sat in it. he.

The council, looking intently at him, saw his face like the face of an angel. You then, the high priest said, "These things are like this, brothers and fathers, listen. The god of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia before living in Haran and said to him leave your country and your relatives and come to a land that I will show you then he left the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran and from there when his father died he moved him to this land where you now live and God did not give him inheritance in it not even enough to set foot in it but even though Abraham had no son he promised to give it as a possession and to his descendants after him but God spoke in this way that his descendants would dwell in a foreign land and subject them to bondage and They would oppress for a hundred years and the nation to which they will be in bondage I will judge, God said, and after that they will go out and serve me in this place. then he gave him the Covenant of Circumcision and so Abraham begat Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day and Isaac begat Jacob and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs and the envious patriarchs sold Joseph to Egypt but God was with him and delivered him from all. his problems and gave him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh king of Egypt and made him governor of Egypt his entire house now there came a famine and great distress over all the land of Egypt and Canaan and our fathers did not find sustenance until Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent to our fathers first and the second time Joseph was known to his brothers and Joseph's family was known to Pharaoh, then Joseph sent and called his father Jacob and all his relatives, 75 people, so Jacob went down to Egypt and he and our fathers died and were brought back to her, they came and were laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a sum of money from the sons of Haman, the father of Shechem, but when the promise time. that God had sworn to Abraham the people grew and multiplied in Egypt until another king arose who did not know Joseph this man betrayed our people and oppressed our parents by making them expose their babies so that they would not live at this time Moses was and he greatly pleased God and was raised in his father's house for three months, but when they left him, Pharaoh's daughter took him and raised him as her own son and Moses learned all the wisdom of the Egyptians, it was powerful.

In words and deeds now, when he was forty years old, it came to his heart to visit his brothers the children in misery and seeing one of them suffer wrongs, he defended and avenged the one who was oppressed and struck down the Egyptian because he supposed that his brothers they would. They had understood that God would deliver them by his hand but they did not understand and the next day he appeared to two of them while they were fighting and tried to reconcile them saying men you are brothers why do you do wrong to each other but the one who did your wrong neighbor did it.

He pushed saying who made you ruler and judge over us do you want to kill me like you did yesterday with the Egyptian then at this saying Moses fled and lived in the land of Midian where he had two sons and when forty years had passed, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush in the wilderness of Mount Sinai when Moses saw it he marveled at the sight and as he approached to observe the voice of the Lord came to him. saying, I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the god of Isaac and the God of Jacob, and Moses trembled and did not dare to look, so the Lord said to him, take off your sandals from your feet because the place where you are is holy ground.

I have certainly seen the oppression of my people who are in Egypt, I have heard their groaning and I have come down to deliver them and now come, I will send you to Egypt this Moses whom they rejected saying that the one who made you a ruler and judge is the one God sent to be a ruler. and deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush and brought them out, after having done wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, in the Red Sea and in the desert, forty years in this is that Moses, who He said to the children of Israel, The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers, he you will hear, this is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on the mountain.

Sinai and with our fathers the one who received the living Oracle to give us whom our fathers did not want to obey but rejected and in their hearts they returned to Egypt telling Aaron to make us gods to go before us like this Moses who brought us. from the land of Egypt we do not know what has become of it and they made a calf in those days they offered sacrifices to the idol and rejoiced in the works of their own hands then God turned and handed them over to worship the hosts of heaven as it is written In the book of the prophets, you offered me slaughtered animals and sacrifices for 40 years in the desert, house of Israel, you also took the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of your god, rejoicing images that you made to worship and I will take you beyond Babylon .

Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness as he had designated it, instructing Moses tobeen heard and your alms are remembered in the eyes of God, therefore send to Joppa and call here Simon, whose surname is Peter, he is staying in a house of Simon the tanner by the sea, when he comes, he will speak to you like this. I sent to you immediately and you have done well to come now, therefore we are all present before God to hear all the things that God has commanded you, then Peter opened his mouth and said truly.

I understood that God does not show partiality except in each nation. fears him and works righteousness is accepted by him the word that God sent to the children of Israel preaching peace through Jesus Christ he is Lord of all that word that you know was proclaimed throughout Judea and began from Galilee after the baptism that John preached how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all those oppressed by the devil, because God was with him and we are witnesses of everything he did, both on earth of Jews as in Jerusalem, whom they killed by hanging on a tree, God raised him up on the third day and showed him openly, not to all the people, but to the witnesses chosen beforehand by God, including us, who ate and drank with him after him.he rose from the dead and commanded us to preach to the people and testify that he is the one God has reached to be judge of the living and the dead; all the prophets testify of him, that through his name whoever believes in him will receive remission of sins while Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the word and those of the circumcision who believed were astonished how many They came with Peter because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles.

Also because they heard them speak in tongues and magnify God, can someone prohibit water so that these people who have received the Holy Spirit just as rarely are not baptized and he ordered them to be baptized in the name of the Lord, so they asked him to stay A few days ago you, the apostles and brothers who were in Judea, heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God, and when Peter went up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision contended with him, you went in to the uncircumcised and ate with them, but Pedro explained to them.

I told you in order from the beginning I was in the city of Jaffa praying and in a trance I had a vision of an object descending like a great sheet lowered from heaven by the four corners and it came to me when I observed it carefully and considered it. I saw quadrupeds of the earth, wild beasts that crawl and birds of the air and I heard a voice that said to me get up Peter kill and eat but I did not say like that Lord but nothing common or unclean has ever entered my mouth but the voice answered me another once from heaven what God has cleansed you must not call come now this was done three times and everyone was lifted up again to heaven at that same moment three men stood in front of the house where they had sent me from Caesarea Then the spirit told me that I went with him without hesitation, these six brothers accompanied me and we entered the man's house and he told us how he had seen an angel standing in his house who told him to send men to Joppa and call Simon whose last name is Peter who will tell you.

He will say words by which you and your whole house will be saved and when I began to speak the Holy Spirit fell on them as on us at the beginning then I remembered the word of the Lord how John said indeed he baptized with water but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit Yes, then God gave them the same gift as us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ who was I that I can resist God when they heard these things they were silent and glorified God saying then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance unto life now those who were scattered After the persecution that occurred because of Stephen, they traveled to Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch, preaching the word to no one but the Jews only, but some of them were men from Cyprus and Cyrene II who, when they had arrived in Antioch, spoke to the honest s- - preaching the Lord Jesus and the hand of the Lord was with them and a large number believed and turned to the Lord then news of these things reached the ears of the church in Jerusalem and they sent Barnabas to go to Antioch when he came and He saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to continue with the Lord with purpose of heart because he was a good man full of the Holy Spirit and faith and many people joined the Lord and Barnabas left for Tarsus to search for a soul. and when he found it he brought it to Antioch and for a whole year they met with the church and taught many people and the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch and in these days prophets came from Jerusalem to Antioch then one of them called Agabus He stood up and showed by the spirit that there was going to be a great famine throughout the world. the world that also happened in the days of Claudius Caesar then the disciples each according to his ability told me to send help to the brothers who lived in Judea this they also did and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and soul you now In At that time King Herod extended his hand to Harris some of the church and then killed James the brother of John with the sword and when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter (now that it was in the days of bread without bread). leaven, so when he arrested him, he put him in prison and handed him over to four squads of soldiers to hold him, intending to bring him before the people after the Passover.

Therefore, Peter was kept in prison, but the faithful offered constant prayer to God for him. church and when Herod was about to take him out that night Peter was sleeping tied with two chains between two soldiers and the guards in front of the door were guarding the prison now behold an angel of the Lord stood next to him. to him and a show of lights and he knocked Peter aside and lifted him up get up quickly and his chains fell off his hands, gird yourself all over your sandals and so he put on your cloak and follow me then he went out and followed him and he didn't know what The angel was real, but he thought he was seeing a vision.

When they passed the first and second guard posts, they reached the iron gate that leads to the city, which opened for them alone, and they left and went down a street. and immediately the angel departed from him but when Peter came to himself he said now I know for certain that the Lord has sent his angels and delivered me from the hand of Herod and he remembered the expectation of the Jewish people so when he had considered this Juan's mother, whose last name was Marcos, came to Mary's house where many were gathered praying and while Pedro was knocking on the door, a girl named Roda came to open the door and, recognizing Pedro's voice because of her joy, did so.

She didn't open the door but ran in and announced that Peter was in front of the door. Peter is outside, you're out of your mind but she kept insisting that it was, it's her angel now. Peter kept knocking and when they opened the door and saw him they were surprised. but motioning with his hand to them to be silent, he declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of prison. They went to tell these things to Santiago among the Brothers, and he left and went to another place, then, when it became day, it was done.

There was no little commotion among the soldiers about what had become of Peter, but when Herod searched for him and did not find him, he examined the guards and ordered them to be killed and went down from Judea to Caesarea and stayed there now that Herod had been very angry with the people of Tire and Sidon, but they came to him with one agreement and, having made friends with Blastoise, the King's personal attendant, they sued for peace because their country received food from the King's country, so in one day determined he addressed. dressed in royal clothing he sat on his throne and gave them a narrative and the people continued shouting the voice of a god and not a man then immediately an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give glory to God and he was eaten by worms and died but the Word of God grew and multiplied and Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem when they had fulfilled their ministry and they also took with them John whose last name was look now in the church the arches in Antioch there were certain prophets and The teachers Barnabas Simeon, who was called Naga Lucius of Cyrene II mana who had grown up with Herod the tetrarch and Saul while they ministered to the Lord and fasted the Holy Spirit, they told me now set aside Barnabas and Saul for the work I have.

They called them, after fasting, praying and laying hands on them, they dismissed them and, sent by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia and from there they sailed to Cyprus and when they arrived at Salamis they preached the Word of God in the synagogue of the Jews. to John as an assistant now when they had passed through the island to make a commotion they found a certain sorcerer a false prophet a Jew whose name was forbidden Jesus who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus an intelligent man named this man because Barnabas and Saul sought to hear the word of God, but Allah Maius, the sorcerer, which is why his name is translated, resisted by trying to lead the proconsul away from the faith, so Saul, also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, stared at him. full full of all deceit and all fraud son of the devil enemy of all justice you will not stop perverting the right paths of the heart and now certainly the hand of the Lord is on you and you will be blind without seeing the son for a moment and immediately it fell on him a dark fog and was looking for someone to take him by the hand then the proconsul believed when he saw what he had done, being amazed at the teaching of the Lord now that Paul and his group set sail from afar they came to purge in Pamphylia and John, moving away from them , returned to Jerusalem but when they left the purge they came to Antioch in Pisidia and entered the synagogue on the Sabbath day and sat down and after reading the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent men and Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, say, then Paul stood up and, making a gesture with his hand, said, men of Israel and you who fear God, listen to the god of this people.

Israel chose our fathers and exalted the people with raised arms. When they lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt, he now took them out of it for a period of about 40 years, endured their ways in the desert and when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he distributed their land to them in lots after that. gave judges for about four hundred and fifty years until Samuel the Prophet and then they asked for a king so God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin for forty years and after deposing him, he raised up David as their king, of whom He also bore witness and said: I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, who will do all my will of this man's seed.

According to the promises God raised up for Israel a savior Jesus after John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel and as John was finishing his race he said who do you think I am? Behold, one comes after me whose sandals I am not worthy to lose, men and brothers, sons of the family of Abraham and of those who fear God among you. The word of this salvation has been sent to you for those who live in Jerusalem and its rulers because they did not know him, not even the voices of the prophets that are read every Sabbath have fulfilled him by condemning him and although they found no cause of death in him they asked Pilate to be killed now that they had fulfilled everything that was written about him, they took him down from the tree and put him in a tomb but God raised him from the dead;

He was seen for many days by those who went up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses of the people and we declare good news to you the promise that was made to the fathers God has fulfilled this for us his children by resurrecting Jesus as it is also written in the second Psalm you are my son today I have begotten you and raised him from the dead so as not to return to corruption again, he has spoken thus I will give you the sure mercies of David, that is why he also says in another Psalm, no you will allow your Holy One to see corruption for David after having served his own generation by the will of God he slept was buried with his father and saw corruption but the one whom God raised did not see corruption, therefore, know you, brothers, that for this man the forgiveness of sins is preached to you, and through it everyone who believes is justified from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses, be careful, therefore, that what was said by God does not come upon you. the prophets.

Look, despisers of marble, and perish, for I am doing a work of murder, a work that you will do. By no means believe, although I would declare it to you, sir, when the Jews left the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath, now that the congregation had disintegrated, many of the Jews and the devout proselytes they followed. Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God the next Sabbath, almost the entire city gathered to hear the word of God, but when the Jews saw the crowd they were filled with envy and contradicting and blaspheming, they they opposed. the things said by Paul but then Paul and Barnabas dared it was necessary that the Word ofGod was spoken to you first but since you rejected yourselves and judged yourselves unworthy of eternal life, here we turn to the Gentiles because this is what the Lord has commanded us.

I have sent you as a light to the Gentiles so that you may be for salvation to the ends. of the land now that the headless Gentiles were rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord and all those who had been appointed to eternal life believed and the word of the Lord was spreading throughout the region but the Jews incited the pious women and prominent men and leaders of the city raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them from their region, but they shook off the dust from their feet. against them and they came to Iconium and the disciples were filled with joy and the Holy Spirit.

Now it came to pass at Iconium that they went together to the synagogue of the Jews and spoke in such a way that a great multitude, both of Jews and Greeks, believed. But the unbelieving Jews incited the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brethren, so they remained there for a long time speaking boldly in the Lord, who bore witness to the word of his grace by granting signs and wonders to be done with their hands. , but the crowd of the city was divided partly with the Jews and partly with the Apostles and when both the Gentiles and the Jews with their rulers made a violent attempt to abuse them and stone them, they realized this and fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Laconia. and to the surrounding region and they were preaching the gospel there and in Lystra a certain man without strength on his feet was sitting a from his mother's womb who had never walked this man had Paul speaking Paul looking at him intently and seeing that he had faith to be healed said in a loud voice, stand up straight on your feet and jump and walk.

Now when the people saw what Paul had done, they raised their voices saying in laconic language the guides have come down to us in the likeness of men and they called Barnabas Zeus and Paul Hermes. because he was the main speaker and then the priest of Zeus whose The temple was in front of their city, they brought oxen and garlands to the gates with the intention of making sacrifices with the crowd, but when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard this, they tore their clothes. and they ran into the crowd shouting, Men, why do you do these things?

We also. They are men of the same nature as you and they preached to you that you should turn from these useless things to the Living God who made the sky, the earth, the sea and everything in them, who in past generations allowed all nations to walk in their ways. own ways, however, he was not left without testimony that he did good, he gave us rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and joy and with these words they were barely able to prevent the multitudes from then sacrificing to them Jews of Antioch and of Iconium.

Handin and having persuaded the crowds to stone Paul and drag him out of the city supposing him to be dead, however, when the disciples gathered around him, he arose and entered the city and the next day he set out with Barnabas to Derby and when they had preached the gospel to that city and made many disciples they returned to Lystra Iconium and Antioch strengthening the souls of the disciples exhorting them to continue in the faith we must endure many tribulations to enter the kingdom of God so when they had appointed elders in each Church and praying with fasting they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed and after having passed through Pi Cidia they arrived at Pamphylia now that they had preached the word in purge they went down to Watchtower and there they sailed to Antioch where they had been commended to the grace of God by the work that they had completed now, when they came and gathered the church, they reported all that God had done with them and that he had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles, so they stayed there a long time with The disciples, you and some men, came down from Judea and taught the brothers, unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.

Therefore, when Paul and Barnabas had no little dissension and dispute with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas and some others of them should go up to Jerusalem to the Apostles and the elders about this matter and being sent by the church, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria recounting the conversion of the Gentiles and caused great joy to all the brothers and when they had arrived in Jerusalem they were received by the church and the Apostles and the elders and they told all the things that God had done with them but some of the sect of The Pharisees who believed stood up saying that it is necessary to circumcise them and command.

They to keep the law of Moses now the Apostles and the elders met to consider this matter and when there had been much dispute Pedro Roza men and brothers you know that a long time ago God chose among us fed by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and so God who knows the heart recognized them by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did us and made no distinction between us and them purifying their hearts by faith now then why do you test God by putting a yoke? the neck of the disciples that not even our parents knew that we could endure but we believe that by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we will be saved like a child then the whole crowd was silent and listened to Barnabas and Paul declaring how many miracles and wonders God had done through them. them among the Gentiles and after they were silent, James responded, men and brothers, listen to me.

Simon has declared how God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people for his name and with this agree the words of the prophets as it is written after this I will return and rebuild the tabernacle of David that has fallen I will rebuild its ruins and I will raise it up so that the rest of humanity may seek the Lord, even all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord who makes all these things known to God from eternity, they are all his works, therefore I judge that we do not bother those of among the Gentiles who are turning to God but that we write to them to abstain from things contaminated by idols, from sexual immorality, from things strangled and from blood, because Moses has had those who preached it in every city throughout many generations, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath, then it pleased the Apostles and the elders with the whole church to send chosen men from their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas, that is, Judas, who was also called Barrasabbas, and Silas, leaders among the brothers, the apostles, the elders and the brothers of the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch of Syria wrote this letter at that time. and Cilicia, greetings, since we have heard that some of us have disturbed you with words that disturbed your souls, saying that you must be circumcised and keep the law, to whom We did not give such a commandment, it seemed good to us to meet in one accord to send. chosen men for you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that is why we have sent Judas and Silas, who will also report the same thing by word of mouth, because it seemed good to the Spirit Holy. and on us not to impose any burden greater than these necessary things, that you abstain from what is sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled and from sexual immorality, if you keep from this, you will do well, goodbye, so when they were fired they came. to Antioch and when they gathered the crowd they delivered the letter, when they read it they rejoiced at its encouragement.

Now Judas and Silas themselves, being prophets, also exhorted and strengthened the brothers with many words and after staying there for a while, they were returned with greetings from the brothers to the apostles but it seemed good to Silas to stay there Paul and Barnabas too They stayed in Antioch teaching and preaching the word of the Lord with many others also after some days Paul said to Barnabas let us now go back and visit our brothers in each city where we have preached the word of the Lord and see how they are now Barnabas was determined to take with them John called Mark but Paul insisted that they not take the one who had left. of them in Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work, then the discord became so acute that they separated from each other, so Barnabas took mark and sailed to Cyprus, but Paul chose Silas and set out being commended by the brothers to the grace of God and passed through Syria and Cilicia strengthening the churches, then he came to Derbe and Lystra, and, behold, there was a certain disciple there named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who believed, but his father was a Greek, they spoke well of him the brothers who were there.

In Lystra and Iconium Paul wanted him to continue with him and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in that region because everyone knew that his father was Greek and when passing through the cities they gave them the decrees that the apostles had to fulfill. and the elders in Jerusalem so that the churches might be strengthened in faith and increase in number daily now that they had passed through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, the holy spirit forbade them to preach the word in Asia, after they had reached Monsieur, they tried go to Bathinia, but the spirit would not allow it, so, passing through Monsieur, they went down to Troas and a vision appeared to Paul in the night in which a man from Macedonia stood up and begged him to come. to Macedonia and help us now, after having seen the vision, we immediately sought to go to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them, therefore, sailing from Troas, we ran straight to Samothrace and the next day came to Neapolis and from there to Philip I, which is the most important city in that part of Macedonia, a colony and we were in that city for some days and on the Sabbath we left the city to the Riverside where it was customary to pray and sit He spoke to the women who were there now.

A woman named Lydia listened to us. She was a seller of purple from the city of Thyatira who worshiped God. The Lord opened her heart to listen to the things said by Paul and when she and her household were baptized we He begged us, if you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay like this. He persuaded us. Now it happened that while we were going to prayer, a certain slave girl possessed of a spirit of divination who brought her master's spirit came to meet us. Very useful in guessing this girl followed Paul and us and shouted these men are the servants of the Most High God who proclaimed to us the way of salvation and she did this for many days but Paul, very upset, turned and said to the spirit I order you in the name of Jesus Christ that you come out of it and he went out with that Barry Allen, but when his masters saw what his hope of profit was, they seized everything in Silas and dragged them to the market to the authorities and brought them to the magistrates, these chosen men greatly disturb our city and teach customs that we, being Romans, are not lawful to receive or observe, then the crowd rose up against them and the magistrates tore their clothes and ordered them to be beaten with After having given them many blows, They threw them into prison demanding the jailer keep them safe.

Having received this charge, he put them in the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks, but at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was a great earthquake so that their bones were shaken. foundations of the prison and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's chains were released and the guard of the prison woke up from sleep and seeing the The doors of the prison opened, supposing that the prisoners had flares, he took out his sword and He was about to kill himself, but Paul shouted out loud, Don't hurt yourself, but we're all here, so he called for a light, ran in, and fell trembling in front of Paul and Silas.

He brought them out, gentlemen, what must I do to be saved? Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you and your house will be saved. Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all those who were in his house, and he brought them the At the same time of night and washed them. his whippings and he and his entire family were immediately baptized. Now when he had brought them into his house he gave them food and was glad that he had believed in God with his entire household and when it was day the magistrates sent the officers to let those men go then the warden of the prison reported these words to The poor people, the magistrates have sent to let them go now, therefore, go and leave in peace.

They have business openly without condensing and they have put us in prison and now that they put us in. They left secretly, but no, but they themselves came to the square and The officers said these words to the magistrates and were afraid when they heard that they were Romans, so they came and begged them and took them out and asked them to leave. From the city they left the prison and entered Lydia's house and when they saw the brothers they encouraged them and they left now that they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia they arrived at Thessalonica where there was a synagogue of the Jews at that time.

Paul, as was his custom, entered into them and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them based on the Scriptures, explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had tosuffer and rise from the dead, saying that it is Jesus whom I preached, who is the Christ and some of them were convinced. and a large crowd of the devout Greeks and not a few of the leading women joined Paul and Silas, but the Jews who were not convinced, feeling envious, took some of the bad men in the square and gathered a mob and made the whole town riot. The city and attacked the house of Jason and tried to bring him out to the people, but when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brothers before the rulers of the city, crying: These who have turned the world upside down have come here: Jason has housed.

They and all of these are acting against the decrees of Caesar who says that there is another King Jesus and they disturbed the crowd and the rulers of the city when they heard these things, so when they took security of Jason and the rest, they let them go . The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas by night to Berea. When they arrived, they entered the synagogue of the Jews. These were more impartial than those in Thessalonica, since they received the word with all readiness and searched the Scriptures daily to find out. If these things were so, then many of them believed and also not a few of the Greeks, prominent women and men, but when the Jews of fess only Michael heard that the Word of God was preached by Paul in Berea, they also came there and they stirred.

Then the brothers immediately sent Paul to go to the sea, but both Silas and Timothy remained there, so those who were leading Paul took him to Athens and, receiving orders for Silas and Timothy to come to him with all speed, They left now while Paul waited for them in Athens, his spirit became angry within him when he saw that the city was given over to idols, so he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with the Gentile worshipers and in the square daily with those who worshiped. were there at that time. certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers met him, what does this charlatan mean?

Being a proclaimer of foreign gods they said this because he preached Jesus and the resurrection to them and they took him and brought him to the Areopagus so that we know what this new doctrine of the that you speak because you are bringing some strange things to our years. That is why we want to know what these things mean for all the Athenians and the foreigners who were there, they were not busy with anything other than telling or hearing something new. Then Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, the men of Athens perceived and in everything you are very religious because as I passed by and considering the objects of your worship I even found an altar with this inscription to the unknown God, which is why you worship without knowing him, I proclaimed you God who made the world and everything in it, as he is Lord of Heaven and Earth, he does not live in temples made with hands nor worship with the hands of men as if he needed something since he gives everyone the breath of life and all things. and has made of one blood each nation of men to dwell on the entire face of the earth and has determined their pre-established times and the limits of their dwellings so that they may seek the Lord in the hope of being able to grope for Him and find Him even though He is not there. far from each one of us because in him we live and move we have our being as some of your own poets have also said because we are also his offspring therefore as we are God's offspring we should not think that the divine nature is like gold or silver or stone, something molded by the heart and by man truly devising these times of ignorance, God overlooked but now commands all men everywhere to repent because he has appointed a day when he will judge the world with justice for the man to whom he has given security. of this to everyone by raising him from the dead and when they heard of the resurrection of the dead some mocked while others said we will hear from you again about this matter so Paul left among them however some men joined him and believed among them. them to Dionysius the Areopagite a woman named Damaris and others with them after these things Paul left Athens and went to Corinth and found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews who left Rome and came to them, so as he was of the same trade he stayed with them and worked by occupation they were tent makers and he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded both Jews and Greeks When Silas and Timothy had come from Macedonia Paul was compelled by the spirit and testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ but when they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook his clothes and said to them: May your blood fall on your own heads, I am clean. from now on I will go to the Gentiles and he left there and entered the house of a man called righteousness, one who worshiped God whose house was next to the synagogue then on Christmas the leader of the synagogue believed in the Lord with his entire house. and many of the Corinthians when they heard it believed and were baptized now the Lord spoke to Paul in the night in a vision do not be afraid but speak and do not be silent because I am with you and no one will attack you because I have many people in this city and it continued there a year and six months teaching the Word of God among them when Gallio was proconsul of Acara the Jews by common consent rose up against Paul and took him to court this guy persuades men to worship God against the law and when Paul Gallius was about to open his mouth and told the Jews if it was a bad deed or a wicked crime, so Jews there would be reason for me to be patient with you but if it is about words and names in your own law look at you. themselves because I do not want to be a judge of such matters and expelled them from the court and all the Greeks kneeled the ruler of the synagogue and beat him before the court but Gallio did not notice these things, so Paul remained for a long time, Then he said goodbye to the brothers and embarked for Syria, and Priscilla and Aquila were with him.

They cut his hair at Cenchrea because he had made a vow and he came to Ephesus and left them there, but himself. He entered the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews when they asked him to stay longer with them, he did not give his consent but took his leave of them. I must by all means celebrate his next feast in Jerusalem, but I will return to you again, God willing. , he left and toured the region of Galatia and Phrygia to strengthen all the disciples, now a certain Jew. named Apollo born in Alexandria a man eloquent and powerful in the scriptures came to Ephesus this man had been instructed in the way of the Lord and being fervent in spirit he spoke and taught accurately the things of the Lord although he only knew the baptism of John Then he began to speak boldly in the synagogue, when a Corolla and Priscilla heard him, they took him aside and explained to him with greater precision the way of God and when he wanted to move on to a care the Brothers wrote exhorting the disciples to receive him and when he arrived he helped a lot those who had believed by grace because he vigorously refuted the Jews by publicly showing in the scriptures that Jesus is the Christ and it happened that while Apollo was in Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper regions, came to Ephesus and found some disciples.

He said to them: Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed? We haven't even heard if there is a Holy Spirit and what did they do then? Were you baptized in the baptism of John? John in fact baptized with the baptism of repentance telling the people that they should believe in the one who would come after the one who is in Christ Jesus when they heard this they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus and when Paul laid his hands on them the holy spirit came about them and they spoke in tongues and they prophesied now The men were about twelve in all and he entered the synagogue and spoke boldly for three months reasoning and persuading about the things of the kingdom of God, but when some became hardened and did not believe, but they spoke evil of the way before the crowd, and he departed. from them and withdrew the disciples reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus and this continued for two years so that all those who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus both Jews and Greeks now God worked extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul so that they even brought handkerchiefs or aprons from their bodies to the sick and the illness left them and the evil spirits came out of them.

So some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists were in charge of invoking the name of the Lord Jesus on those who had evil spirits saying We exorcise you. for the Jesus that Paul preached. There were also seven sons of Siva, a Jewish high priest who did it and the evil spirit replied: Jew, I know it and Paul, I know it, but who have you been the man and whose evils have arisen and dominated them? and he prevailed against them so that they fled from that house naked and wounded. This was made known to all the Jews and to the Greeks who lived in Ephesus and fear fell on the wasteland and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified and many who had believed came confessing and telling of their deeds also many of those who had believed. practiced magic, they gathered their books and burned them in the sight of everyone and counted their value and it was in total fifty thousand silver coins, so the word of the Lord grew powerfully and prevailed when These things were fulfilled, Paul purposed in the spirit when there was He passed through Macedonia and was careful to go to Jerusalem after having been there.

He also had to see Rome, so he sent to Macedonia two of those who ministered to him, Timothy and Erastus, but himself. He remained in Asia for a time and about that time a great commotion arose in the way of a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver altars of Diana, bringing no small profit to the craftsmen he called along with the occupation workers. similar and said men, you know that we have our prosperity with this trade, furthermore, you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia, this Paul has persuaded and rejected many people saying that they are not gods who are made with hands, so not only is this craft of ours in danger of falling into disrepute, but also the temple of the Great Goddess Diana may be despised and the Magnificence destroyed who worships all Asia and the world?

Now, when they heard this, they were filled with ruffs and shouted for the whole city. was filled with confusion and rushed to the theater by mutual agreement, having captured Gaius and Aristarchus Macedonians, Paul's traveling companions, and when Paul wanted to enter among the people, the disciples would not allow him, so they sent him some of the officers from Asia who were his friends. begging him not to venture into the theater, some shouted one thing and others another, because the Assembly was confused and the majority did not know why they had gathered and took Alexander out of the crowd, the Jews presented him and Alexander made a gesture . with his hand and wanted to defend himself before the people, but when they discovered that he was a Jew, everyone shouted with one voice for about two hours, when the city secretary had calmed the crowd, he said men of Ephesus, what man is there? does not know that the city of the Ephesians is the guardian temple of the Great Goddess Diana and of the fallen image of Zeus, therefore, since these things cannot be denied, you must be calm and do nothing hastily because you have brought here to these men who are not thieves of temples nor blasphemers against your goddess, therefore, if Demetrius and his fellow artisans have a case against someone, the courts are open and there are professional councils, let them accuse each other, but if If you have any other investigation to do, it will be determined in the legitimate assembly because we are in danger of being called to be questioned for the uproar today there is no reason that we can account for this disorderly meeting and when he had said these things he dismissed the assembly After the commotion had stopped Paul called the disciples to him, embraced them, and left to go to Macedonia.

After touring that region and encouraging them with many words, he came to Greece and stayed three months, and when the Jews conspired against him when he was preparing to sail to Syria he decided to return through Macedonia and the saboteur in Berea accompanied him to Asia as well. Aristarchus and second of the Thessalonians and Gaius of Derby and Timothy and tikka cous and Trophimus of Asia their men who went ahead waited for us at Troas but we sailed from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread and in five days joined them in Troas where we stayed seven days now on the first day of the week when the disciples gathered to break bread Paul ready to leave the next day spoke to them and continued his message until At midnight there were many lamps in the upper room where they were gathered and In a window was sitting a certain young man named Eutychus who was sunk in a deep sleep, sleep overcame him and while Paul was still speaking he fell from the third floor and was picked up dead but Paul descended, fell on him and hugging him said don't bother because his life is in him now when he came up he had broken the bread andhad eaten and talked much until dawn left and they brought the young man alive and felt a little comforted, so we went ahead of the ship and sailed towards Asus there with the intention of taking Paul on board, for which he had given orders with intending to go on foot and when he found us at Asus, we took him on board and arrived at the middle Eenie we sailed from there and the next day we arrived off Chios the next day we arrived at Samos and stayed in trow Jilian the next day we came with my leaders because Paul had decided to sail beyond Ephesus so that he would not have to spend time in Asia because he was in a hurry to be in Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost, from Meletis he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church and when they came to him, he said to them: Know from the first day that I came to Asia how I always lived among you serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears and trials that happened to me because of the conspiracies of the Jews, how I retained nothing useful, but I proclaimed it. to you and taught you publicly and from house to house, testifying to Jews and also to Greeks of repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ; and behold now I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will happen to me there, except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city saying that chains and tribulations await me but none of these things move me nor do I consider my life dear to finish my career with joy and the Ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus. to testify of the gospel of the grace of God and in fact now I know that all of you among whom I have been preaching the kingdom of God will no longer see my face, that is why I testify to you today that I am innocent of the blood of all.

Men or I have not shied away from declaring to you the whole counsel of God, therefore, take heed to yourselves and to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to shepherd the Church of God which he purchased with his own blood, because I knew. This is because after my departure ravenous wolves will enter among you who will not spare the flock and also from among you men will arise speaking perverse things to drag away the disciples after them, therefore be vigilant and remember that for three years I did not stop warning everyone night and day with tears so now, brothers, I commend you to God and to the word of his grace that can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

I have coveted no one silver or gold or clothing but you. You know that these hands have provided for my needs and to those who were with me I have shown you in every way working so you must support the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus who said that it is more blessed to give than to receive and when he had said these things he knelt down and prayed with all of them then they They all cried profusely and fell on Paul's neck and kissed him, saddened above all by the words he had said, that they would never see his face again and accompanied him to the ship.

And it came to pass that when we had departed from them and set sail in a straight course, the next day we came to cause two roads and from there to the master and finding his ship sailing towards Phoenicia we got on board and set sail when we sighted Cyprus we passed it on the left we sailed towards Syria and we disembarked. Upon arriving there the ship was going to unload its cargo and finding disciples we stayed there seven days, they told Paul by the spirit not to go up to Jerusalem, when we had reached the end of those days we left and continued on our way and they They all accompanied us with their wives and children until we left the city and we knelt on the shore and prayed when we said goodbye to each other we boarded the ship and they returned home and when we finished our journey from Tire we came to Ptolemaeus he greeted the brothers and he stayed with them one day the next day we who were companions of Paul left and arrived at Caesarea and entered the house of Philip the evangelist who was one of the seven and we stayed with him now this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied And while we were many days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea, when he came to us, he took Paul's belt, tied his hands and feet, and said thus says the Holy Spirit, thus shall the Jews in Jerusalem bind the man.

Who owns this belt and will we deliver it into the hands of the Gentiles? Now that we heard these things, both we and those in that place begged him not to go up to Jerusalem, what do you mean by crying and breaking my heart because I am not ready? only to be bound but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus, so when he was not persuaded, we stopped the Lord's will from being done and after those days we packed up and went up to Jerusalem also some of the disciples of Caesarea went with us and brought with him a certain nation from Cyprus, one of the first disciples with whom we were going to stay and when we arrived in Jerusalem, the brothers received us with joy the next day, Paul entered with us to Santiago and all the elders were present when he greeted them, he told them in detail those things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry and when they heard it they glorified the Lord.

You see, brother, how many myriads of Jews there are who have believed and they are all zealous for the law, but they are has reported of you that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to abandon Moses, saying that they should not circumcise their children or walk according to customs, which then the Assembly must certainly assemble because they will hear. that you have come there Fork do what we tell you we have four men who have taken a vow take them and purify yourself with them and pay their expenses so that they shave their heads and that everyone knows that those things that were about you are not reported but that You also walk in order and keep the law, but regarding the Gentiles who believe that we have written and decided that they should not observe such a thing except that they abstain from what is sacrificed to idols, from the blood of what is strangled. and from sexual immorality, then Paul took the men and the next day, having been purified with them, he entered the temple to announce the expiration of the days of purification at which time an offering should be made for each of them now that It was almost seven days.

The Jews of Asia ended up seeing him in the temple, they stirred up the entire crowd and laid hands on him shouting, men of Israel, hello, this is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people the law and this place and also brought the Greeks to the temple and has defiled this holy place because before they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, whom they supposed that the poor had brought to the temple and the whole city was in an uproar and the people ran together, they grabbed him and They dragged him out of the temple and immediately the doors were closed because they sought to kill him, the news reached the commander of the garrison that all of Jerusalem was in an uproar, he immediately took soldiers and centurions and ran towards them and when they saw the commander and the soldiers they stopped beating The commander then came here and took him and ordered him to be tied with two chains and asked who he was and what he had done and among the crowd some shouted one thing and others another so when he could not determine the truth because of the commotion he ordered that They would take him to the barracks when he reached the stairs he had to be taken by the soldiers due to the violence of the mob because the town crowd followed him after shouting then when Pablo was about to Let yourself be taken to the barracks, he told the commander.

Can I speak to you? Can you speak Greek? Are you not the Egyptian who some time ago provoked a rebellion and led the four thousand murderers into the desert? I am a Jew, the Tarsus of Silesia. a citizen of no city and I implore you to allow me to speak to the people sir when I had given him permission Paul stood on the stairs and made a gesture with his hand to the people and when there was a great silence he spoke to them in the Brothers and Fathers of the Hebrew language here my defense before you now and when they heard that I spoke to them in the Hebrew language they were much more silent.

In truth I am a Jew born in Tarsus of Silesia but raised in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, I taught according to the severity of the law of our fathers and I was zealous for God as you all are today. Thus I persecuted to death, tying up and delivering men and women to prisons, as the high priest and the entire council of elders also attest to me, from whom I also received letters for the brothers and went to Damascus to bring change even those who were there. to Jerusalem to be punished now it happened that while I was traveling and approaching Damascus about noon, suddenly a great light from heaven shone around me and I fell to the ground and I heard a voice that told me then why are you persecuting me then I answered who are you?

Lord and he said to me I am Jesus of Nazareth whom you are persecuting and those who were with me certainly saw the light and were afraid but they did not hear the voice of the one who spoke to me so I said what will I do Lord and the Lord told me get up and go to Damascus and there You will be told all the things that are appointed for you to do and since I could not see because of the glory of that light, being led by the hand of those who were with me, I entered Damascus then a certain Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good testimony with All the Jews who lived there came to me and stood up and said to me, brother Saul, receive your sight and at that same hour I looked up at him and he said to me, the god of Our Fathers has chosen you so that you may know his will and see the righteous and listen to the voice of his mouth because you will be his witness to all then of what you have seen and heard and now why do you wait get up and be baptized and wash away your sins calling on the name of the Lord now it happened when I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple that was in a trance and I saw him telling me hurry up and leave Jerusalem quickly because they will not receive his testimony about me then I said Lord let them know that in every synagogue I imprison and beat. those who believe in you and when the blood of your martyrs was shed Stephen, I was also standing consenting to his death and keeping the clothes of those who killed him and he told me go because I will send you far from here to the The Gentiles and they listened to him until this word and then they raised their voices with such a guy from the land because he is not fit to live then while they shouted and tore their clothes and threw dust into the air, the commander ordered him.

They took him to the barracks and told him to examine him under whipping so that he would know why they shouted so much against him and while they tied him with straps, Paul said to the centurion who was there, is it lawful for you to whip a man? who is Roman and without condensing assuring him that he went and told the commander be careful what you do for this man he is Roman then the commander came and said tell me are you Roman if with a large sum I obtained this citizenship but I was born a citizen then immediately those who They were going to interrogate him, they withdrew from him and the commander was also afraid after knowing that he was Roman and because he had tied him up the next day because he wanted to know for sure why he was accused by the Jews, he freed him from his bonds and ordered the main priests and all his council to present themselves and he took Paul down and set him before them.

Then Paul, looking seriously at the council, said, Men and brothers, I have lived with a good conscience. before God to this day, and Ananias the high priest ordered those standing by him to hit him on the mouth. God will hit you, whitewashed wall, because you said judge me according to the law and you command me to be hit contrary to the law? law you insult the High Priest of God. I did not know, brothers, that he was the high priest because it is written that you shall not speak evil of the ruler of your people, but when Paul realized that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he shouted in the councils and brothers I am a Pharisee, son of a Pharisee, regarding the hope and resurrection of the dead, I am being judged and when he had said this, dissension arose between the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the assembly was divided because the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel nor spirit, but the Pharisees both confess then a great cry arose and the scribes of the group of Pharisees stood up and protested.

We do not find any evil in this man but if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him, Do not fight against God now, when a great dissension arose. , the commander, fearing that Paul would be torn to pieces by them, ordered the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them and take him to the barracks, because the next night the Lord was standing. Be of good courage for him, Paul, because just as you have testified about me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify in Rome. And when it was day, some of the Jews gathered together and took an oath, saying that they would not eat or drink until They had killed Paul now there were more than forty who had formed this conspiracy they came to the chief priests and the elders we have pledged ourselves under a great oath that we will not eat anything until we have killed Paul now you are there along with the advice you suggest to the commander to bring him to you tomorrow as if you were going to make more inquiries about him, but we are ready to kill him before he gets close, so when Paul's sister's son found out about the ambush, he went and entered the barracks and Paul said to him, when he called one of thecenturions, he took this young man to the commander because he had something to tell him, so he took him and took him to the commander.

Pablo the prisoner called me and asked me to bring this young man. you have something to tell you then the commander took him by the hand and stood aside and asked him privately what do you have to tell me. The Jews have agreed to ask you to take Paul to the council tomorrow as if they were going. to investigate further about him, but not give in to them, because more than forty of them are lying in wait for him, men who have sworn not to eat or drink until they have killed him and are now ready waiting. your promise then the commander dismissed the young man and ordered him not to tell anyone that you have revealed these things to me and called two centurions, prepared two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen to go to Caesarea at the third hour. of the night and provide mounts to mount Pablo and take him safely to Governor Felix.

He wrote a letter as follows Claudius Lysias to the excellent governor Felix. Greetings. This man was captured by the Jews and was about to be killed by them. Coming with the troops I rescued him having learned that he was Roman and when I wanted to know the reason why he was accused I took him before his Council I discovered that he was accused on matters of their law but he had nothing charged against him that deserved death or Chains and when they told me that the Jews were lying down waiting for the man, I immediately sent him to you and also ordered his accusers to lay before you the charges against him, goodbye, then the soldiers, as they had been ordered, took Paul and held him. they brought He took him at night to Patras, the next day they left the horsemen to go with him and return to the barracks when they arrived in Caesarea and gave the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him and when the governor had read it, he asked what it was about. province it was and when he understood that it was from Silesia, he said: I will hear you when your accusers have also come and ordered that he be held in Herod's praetorium.

Now, after five days, the high priest Ananias came down with the The elders and a certain orator named Talas testified to the governor against Paul and when he was called to Tallis he began his accusation was to see that through you we enjoyed great peace and prosperity is being brought to this nation by your foresight, we always accept. and in every very noble place, Felix, with all gratitude, however, and in order not to be more tedious, I beg you, out of your courtesy, to bring here a few words on our part because we have found in this man a plague that created dissension among all the Jews throughout the world. world.

The world and leader of the sect of the Nazarenes even tried to desecrate the temple and we seized him and wanted to judge him according to our law, but Commander Lishus came and with great violence took it from our hands, ordering his accusers to come to you and examine it yourself. You will be able to verify all these things of which we accused him and the Jews also agreed, maintaining that these things were fulfilled. Then Paul, after the governor had signaled him to speak, replied that, since I know that you have been judge of this nation for many years, I respond with more joy for myself because you can verify that there are no more than twelve days. since I went up to Jerusalem to worship and they did not find me in the temple disputing with anyone or inciting the crowd neither in the synagogue nor in the city nor can they prove the things of which they now accuse me but this I confess to you that according to the way which they call a sect so I worship the God of my father believing all things that are written in the law and in the prophets I have hope in God which they also except that there will be a resurrection of the dead both of the just and the unjust so I myself always strive to have a conscience without offense towards God and men.

Now after many years I came to bring weapons and offerings to my nation in the midst of which some Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple neither with peat nor with uproar they should have been here before you to object if they had anything against me or let those who are right here say if they found any fault in me while I was before the council, unless it is For this one declaration that I cried while I was among them about the resurrection of the dead, I am being judged by you today, but when Felix heard these things, having a more precise knowledge of the way, he postponed the proceedings when this is the commander, descends. will make a decision about his case, then he ordered the centurion to keep everything and let him have freedom and told him not to forbid any of his friends to support him or visit him and after some days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was The Jew sent for Paul and listened to him about faith in Christ now as he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgment.

Felix was afraid and replied, go for now, when I have a convenient time I will call you in the meantime he too. He hoped that Paul would give him money so he could free him, so he sent for him more often and talked with him, but after two years, Porcius Festus succeeded Felix and Felix, wanting to do the Jews a favor, left Paul tied up. Now in Festus he had arrived in the province after three days he left Caesar's ear to Jerusalem then the high priest and the leader of the Jews informed him against Paul and asked him for a favor against him to call him to Jerusalem while they were lying in They ambushed him on the road to kill him, but Festus replied that they should hold Paul in Caesarea and that he himself was going there shortly.

Therefore let those who are in authority among you go down with me and accuse this man to see if there is any fault in him. and when he was among the more than 10 days, he went down to Caesarea and the next day, sitting in court, he ordered that Paul be brought in, when he arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood up and presented many serious complaints. against Paul which they could not prove while he answered for himself neither against the law of the Jews nor against a temple nor against Caesar have I offended in anything but Festus wanting to do a favor to the Jews answered Paul, are you willing to go up? to Jerusalem and there be judged before me about these things I am in Caesar's court where I must be judged the Jews I have not done any wrong as you well know because if I am a criminal or have committed something worthy of death I do it I do not oppose die, but if there is nothing in these things that these men accuse me of, no one can hand me over to them.

He appealed to Caesar when Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered: You have appealed to Caesar, to Caesar, you will go and After some days, King Agrippa and Berenice came to Caesarea to preach to Festus, when they had been there many days, Festus presented Paul's case to the king. There is a man left prisoner by Felix about whom the chief priests and elders of the Jews informed me. When I was in Jerusalem, asking them for judgment against him, I replied that it is not the custom of the Romans to hand over any man to destruction before the accused meets his accusers face to face and has an opportunity to answer the charges for himself. that are attributed to him.

Therefore, when they assembled without delay the next day, I sat in the court and ordered the man to be brought in; When the accusers arose, they did not present any accusation against him of the things that I supposed, but they had some questions against him about his own religion and about a certain Jesus who had died, whom Paul affirmed was alive and as I was not. I was sure of such questions I asked him if he was willing to go to Jerusalem and be tried there on these matters but when Paul appealed to be reserved for the decision of Augustus I ordered him to be kept the same and sent to Caesar.

I would also like to hear that man tomorrow, so you will hear him the next day, when Agrippa and Berenice arrived with great pomp and entered the auditorium with the The commanders and prominent men of the city by order of Festus brought Paul and Festus said: King Agrippa and all the men who are here present with us, you see this man about whom the entire assembly of the Jews made petitions to me both in Jerusalem and here weeping. I discovered that he was not fit to live any longer, but when I discovered that he had not committed anything worthy of death and that he himself had appealed to Augustus I decided to send him.

I have nothing certain to write to my lord about him, therefore I have brought him out before you and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after the interrogation he may have something to write, because it seems to me unreasonable to send a prisoner and not specify the charges against him. Then Agrippa said to Paul, you can do it. to speak for yourself, then Paul stretched out his hand and answered: I am happy, King Agrippa, because today I will answer for myself before you for all the things of which the Jews accuse me, especially since you are an expert in all customs and issues that I have to do with the Jews, therefore I beg you to listen to me patiently my way of life from my youth, which I spent from the beginning among my own nation in Jerusalem, all the Jews know that they knew me from the beginning if they were willing to testify that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived as a Pharisee and now I am judged by the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers to this promise our twelve tribes fervently serving God night and day hope to achieve by this hope King Agrippa I am accused by the Jews, why does it seem incredible to you that God raises the dead?

In truth I myself thought that I should do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth, this I also did in Jerusalem and many of the saints locked up in prison having received authority from the chief priests and when they were executed, I voted against them and punished them many times in each synagogue and forced them to blaspheme, being very angry with them, I persecuted them even in foreign cities, while Thus busy while traveling to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests at noon or King on the road I saw a light from the sky brighter than the sun shining around me and those who traveled with me and when we had all fallen to the ground I heard a voice speaking to me and saying in the Hebrew language I saw I saw why you are chasing me it is difficult for you to kick against the stings Then I said who are you sir and he said I am Jesus whom you persecute but arise and stand, for this is why I have appeared to you, to make you a minister and witness of the things that you have seen and of which I will yet reveal to you.

I will also free you from the Jewish people. as of the Gentiles whom I now send to you to open their eyes to turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and inheritance among those sanctified by faith, therefore, Kingdom. Reba I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, but I declared first to those of Damascus and to those of Jerusalem and to the entire region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God and do works worthy of repentance.

For these reasons the Jews arrested me. in the temple and tried to kill me, therefore, having obtained help from God to this day, I am despising boasting as small and great, saying no other things than what the prophets and Moses said would come, that the Christ would suffer, that he would be the first to rise from the dead and would proclaim the light to the Jewish people and the Gentiles now that this is how he made his defense Festus said out loud everything that you are outside of yourself a lot of learning is driving you crazy I'm NOT Festus is a very noble madman, but he speaks words of truth and reason, because the king before whom I also speak freely knows these things because I am convinced that none of these things escape his attention, since this was not done in a corner.

King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? You know what you think, you almost persuaded me to become a Christian. I wish to God that not only you, but also all those who listen to me today, could become almost and totally like me, except for these chains when the King said these things. The governor and Berenice and those who were sitting with them also got up and when they went to one side they talked among themselves this man is not doing anything that deserves death or chains so Agrippa told Festus this man could have been freed if He would not have appealed to Caesar and when it was decided that we should sail to Italy they handed Paul and some other prisoners over to a centurion called Julius of Augustine's regiment, so entering a ship of a dream language we set to sea with the meaning of sailing along the coast of Asia Aristarchus the Macedonian of Thessalonica was with us and the next day we landed beside him he and Julia treated Paul kindly gave him freedom to go to his friends and receive care and we had put to sea from There we sailed under the cover of Cyprus because the winds were contrary and when we had sailed over the sea that is in front of Silesia and Pamphylia we arrived at Myra, a city of Lexia.

There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing towards Italy and took us on board when we had sailed. slowly for many days and we arrived with difficulty, the wind did not allow us to advance, we sailed under the protection of Salman's Crete.I am passing with difficulty we arrived at a place called beautiful ports near the city of Lucia now that a lot of time had passed and navigation was now dangerous because the fast had already ended Paul advised the men that I perceived that this journey would end in disaster and much loss not only of the cargo and cargo but also of our lives.

However, the Centurion was more persuaded by the helmsman and the owner of the ship than by the things said by Pablo and because the port was not suitable for wintering, the majority advised setting sail. from there also if by any means he could reach the Phoenix port of Crete which opens towards the southwest and northwest and winter there when the south wind blew gently supposing that they had obtained their wish by setting sail to the sea they sailed near Crete but not long after they were a stormy headwind came up called euroclydon so when the boat was caught it could not sail against the wind we let it drive and running under the cover of an island called claw of, with difficulty we secured the skiff when they brought it on board they used cables to gird the ship and fearing that they would run aground in the syrtis and hoisted sails and thus were pushed and because The next day a tremendous storm hit us.

On the third day they lightened the ship. On the third day we threw the ship's rigging overboard with our bare hands. Now that for many days neither the sun nor the stars appeared and no small tempest was buffeting us all in the hope that we would be saved. Salvation finally gave up, but after a long abstinence from food, Paul stood in the middle of them and said, men, you should have listened to me and not sailed from Crete, and that is disaster and loss, and now I urge you to take heart from that. There will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship, for this night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve stood by my side, saying: Do not be afraid, Paul, you must be brought before Caesar, and God will surely tell you. has granted.

Therefore, all who sail with you, take heart, men, for I believe in God that it will be just as it was told me, however, we must run aground on a certain island now that the fourteenth nine had arrived while we were being driven to and fro. In the Adriatic Sea around midnight the sailors felt that they were approaching a certain land and they took soundings which they found to be twenty fathoms and when they had advanced a little further they sounded again and found that it was fifteen fathoms so fearing that we would run they ran aground on the rocks. , they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for the day to come, and as the sailors tried to escape from the ship when they had lowered the skiff into the sea under the pretext of dropping the anchors from the bow, Paul said: the centurion and the soldiers a Unless these men stay on the boat they will not be able to save themselves so the soldiers cut the ropes of the skiff and let it fall that day it was about to dawn Paul and Plourd all to eat food today is the 14th you have waited and continued without food and you have not eaten nothing, so I urge you to take food because this is for your survival since not a hair will fall from the head of any of you and when he had said these things he took bread and gave thanks to God in the presence of everyone and when he had The party began to eat so everyone cheered up and also took food and in total there were 276 people on the boat so when they finished eating enough they lightened the boat and threw the wheat into the sea.

When it became day they did not recognize the land but they observed a bay with a beach towards which they planned to take the boat if possible and they dropped the anchors and left them in the sea while they released the rudder ropes and raised the main sail to the wind and secured themselves but when they reached a place where two seas met they ran aground The ship and the bow got stuck and remained motionless but the stern was breaking due to the violence of the wave and the soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners so that none of them could escape by swimming but the centurion wanted to save Paul and stopped them. and he ordered that those who knew how to swim should jump overboard first and reach land and the rest, some on the planks and others on parts of the ship, and so it was that they all escaped safely to land.

Now when they escaped they discovered that the island was called Malta. and the natives showed us unusual kindness because they lit a fire and welcomed us all because of the rain that was falling and because of the cold, but when Paul gathered a bunch of wood and put them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat and he noticed the sand, so when the The natives saw the creature hanging from his hand and said to each other without a doubt this man is a murderer who although he escaped from the sea but justice does not allow him to live but he shook off the creature in the fire and did not suffer any damage as expected. that he would suddenly swell up or drop dead, but after they had searched for a long time and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god.

In that region there was a property of the main citizen of the island, his name was Publius, who received us and received us courteously for three days and it happened that the father of Publius lay sick with fever and dysentery. Paul entered into him and prayed and laid his hands on him. and he healed him so when this was done the rest of those who were on the island who had diseases also came and were healed they also honored us in many ways and when we left they provided what was necessary, after three months we sailed on an Alexandrian ship whose figurehead in the bow were the twin brothers who We had spent the winter on the island and landed at Syracuse, we stayed three days from there, we turned around and arrived at the region and after one day the south wind blew and the next day we arrived at Pootie Allah, where we found brothers and they invited us seven to stay with them. days and so we went towards Rome and from there when the brothers heard about us they came to meet us up to a biforo and three corporals and Paul saw them he thanked God and was encouraged now when we arrived in Rome the centurion handed the prisoners over to the captain of the guard, but Paul was allowed to dwell alone with the soldier who guarded him and it came to pass that after three days the pool summoned the leaders of the Jews, so when they gathered together, he said to them men and Brothers, although I have done nothing against our people nor against the customs of our fathers, I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans, who, after examining me, wanted to let me go because there was no reason to test me. death but when the Jews spoke against it I was forced to appeal to Caesar not because I had anything to accuse my nation of for this reason, that is why I have called you to see you and speak with you because for the hope of Israel I am Bound with this chain we did not receive letters from Judea about you nor did any of the brothers who came report or speak ill of any of you, but we wish to know from you what you think about this sect, we know that everywhere people speak against it.

Then, when they appointed him a day, many came to him at his lodging, to whom he solemnly explained and testified of the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus both of the law of Moses and of the prophets from morning until evening and some They were persuaded by the things that were spoken and some did not believe, so since they did not agree among themselves, they left after Paul had spoken a word, the Holy Spirit spoke well through the prophet Isaiah to our fathers, saying: Go to this people and tell them that by hearing you will hear and not understand. and seeing you will see and not perceive because the heart of this people has sunk, their ears are hard of hearing and their eyes have closed, unless they see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they understand with their heart and be come back.

So that I may heal you, know therefore that the salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles and they will hear it. And when he had said these words, the Jews left and had a great dispute among themselves. Then Paul stayed two whole years in his own rented house and received all who came to him, preaching the kingdom of God and teaching the things that concerned the Lord Jesus Christ with complete confidence, without anyone forbidding him.