KJV Audio Bible - Acts

The Acts of the Apostles chapter 1 the form of treatise that I have made of Theophilus of everything that Jesus began to do and teach until the day he was caught away after by the Holy Spirit he had given Commandments to the apostles whom he had chosen to whom he also showed himself alive after his Passion with many infallible proofs, appearing to them for 40 days and speaking about the things of the kingdom of God and being reunited with them he ordered them not to leave Jerusalem but to wait. for the promise of the Father that says that you have heard from me because John was truly baptized with water but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit within not many days when, well, they gathered together and asked him, saying Lord, do you want at this time? restore the kingdom again to Israel and he said to them: it is not for you to know the times or the seasons that the father has set in his own power but you will receive power after the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you will be witnesses of me in Jerusalem, in all Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth, and when he had spoken these things, while they saw him, he was taken up, and a cloud hid him from their sight, and while they looked intently. toward heaven as he ascended, behold, two men stood by them in white garments, who also said, Men of Galilee, why are you looking at heaven?

This same Jesus who is taken from you into heaven, so he will come in the same way as you have seen. he went to heaven and then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called Olvet, which is from Jerusalem a Sabbath journey and when they entered they went up to an upper room where Peter, James, John, Andrew, Philip and Thomas Bartholomew dwelt. and Matthew James son of Alus and Simon Zealots and Judas brother of James these all continued unanimous in prayer and supplication with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus and with his Brothers and in those days Peter stood in the midst of the disciples and They said that the number of names together was about 120 men and brothers, it was necessary that this scripture be fulfilled that the Holy Spirit through the mouth of David spoke before about Judas, who was a guide for those who brought Jesus because he was counted with us and He had obtained part of this ministry now this man bought a field with the reward of iniquity and falling headlong he burst in half and all his insides gushed out and he was known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem as that field is called. in their own language, Aela, that is, the field of blood, because it is written in the Book of Psalms, that their habitation be left desolate and that no one inhabit it, and that another bishopric take responsibility for these men who They have accompanied us all along. time that the Lord Jesus entered and left Among Us beginning from the baptism of John until that same day that he was taken from among us, one must be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection and they appointed two Josephs called barabus whose surname was Justice. and they prayed and said: Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show whether of these two you have chosen so that I can take part in this ministry and apostille from which Judas by transgression fell so that he could go to his own place and they cast out His lots and the lot fell on Mias and he was numbered with the 11 Apostles chapter 2 and when the day of Pentecost came, they were all in one agreement in one place and suddenly a sound came from heaven.

It was like a strong wind that blew and filled the entire house where they were sitting and cloaked tongues appeared to them like fire and it sat on each of them and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues. While the spirit gave them expression and there were Jews living in Jerusalem, devout men from every nation under heaven, when this was heard abroad, the crowd gathered together and was confused because each one heard them speaking in their own language and everyone was amazed. and they marveled, saying to each other: Behold, these are not all that speak Galileans and how we hear each one in our own language in which we were born, Parthians and Mos and Elamites and the inhabitants in Mesopotamia and in Judea and Caposa in Pontis and Asia Friia. and pamilia in Egypt and in the parts of Libya about sirens and foreigners from Rome Jews and pre-enlightened cities and Arabs yes we heard them speak in our languages ​​the wonders of God and everyone was amazed and doubted, telling each other what these others meant, mockingly they said that these men are full of new wine but Peter, rising with the 11, raised his voice and said to them, men of Judea and all you who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you and hear my words because these are not drunk as You suppose that seeing that it is only the third hour of the day but this is what was said by the prophet Joel and it will happen in the last days says God I will pour out my spirit on All Flesh and your sons and your daughters will prophesy and your young men will see visions and your elders will dream dreams and on my male and female servants I will pour out my spirit in those days and they will prophesy and I will show one ERS in Heaven above and signs on earth, under blood, fire and vapor of smoke, the sun will become darkness and the moon in blood before that great and notable day of the Lord comes and it will come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be Be saved, men of Israel, hear these words of Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God among you for the miracles and wonders and signs which God worked through him in your midst, just as you also know him, being delivered by determined counsel and formal knowledge. of God you have taken and by evil hands you have crucified and killed him whom God resurrected having released the pains of death because it was not possible for him to contemplate him because David speaks about him.

I always foresee the Lord before my face because he is at my right so that I will not be moved, so my heart rejoiced and my tongue was glad. Furthermore, my flesh will also rest in hope because you will not leave my soul in hell nor will you allow your Holy see corruption that you have you have made known to me the ways of life, you will fill me with joy with your face, men and brothers, let me speak freely to you of the patriarch David, who is dead and buried and that his Seiler is with us until the day today, being, therefore, a prophet and knowing that God had sworn to him with an oath that from the fruit of his loins according to the flesh he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne, seeing this before he spoke of the resurrection of Christ that his soul did not remain in hell nor did his flesh see corruption, this Jesus God resurrected of which we are all witnesses, therefore, exalted by the right hand of God and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that now you see and hear. for David did not ascend into heaven without his own saying: The Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your foot; therefore let all the house of Israel know with certainty that God has made that man. same Jesus to whom you.

They have crucified the Lord and Christ now, when they heard this, they were pricked in their hearts and said to Peter and the other apostles, men and brothers, what shall we do? Then Peter said to them, 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 for your children and for all who are AAR, as many as the Lord our God God called and with many other words he testified and exhorted saying save yourself from this generation anoint then those who gladly received his word were baptized and on the same day about 3,000 souls were added to them and they continued firm in the Doctrine and fellowship of the apostles and in the breaking of bread and in prayers and fear it came upon every soul and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles and all who believed were together and had all things in common and sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all. men as each one had need and they, continuing daily with a single agreement in the temple and breaking bread from house to house, ate their meat with joy and simplicity of heart, praising God and having favor with all the people and the Lord added to the church daily those who were to be saved chapter 3 now Peter and John went up together to the temple at the hour of prayer, it being the ninth hour, and they carried a man lame from his mother's womb, whom they placed daily at the door of the temple called the Beautiful, to ask for alms from those who entered.

He entered the temple who, seeing Peter and John about to enter the temple, asked for alms and Peter, fixing his eyes on him with John, said, look at us, and he listened to them, hoping to receive something from them, so Peter said Silver and gold. Do I have it? none but the one that I give you in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth get up and walk and he took him by the right hand and lifted him up and immediately his feet and ankles received strength and he jumped up and walked and entered with They went to the temple walking and jumping and praising God and all the people saw him walking and praising God and they knew that it was he who sat begging at the beautiful door of the temple and they were filled with amazement and amazement at that.

What had happened to him and while the lame man who had been healed supported Peter and John, all the people ran towards them in the porch called Solomon's, amazed and when Peter saw it, he answered the people, men of Israel, why do you marvel? Why do you look at us so seriously as if by our own power or holiness we had made this man walk? The god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the god of our fathers, has glorified his son Jesus, whom you handed over and denied in the presence of Pilate when he was determined to let him go but you denied the Holy One and the Righteous One and You wished to be granted a murderer and you killed the Prince of Life whom God has raised from the dead of whom we are.

Witnesses and his name through faith in his name has made strong this man whom you see and know, and the faith that is through him has given him this perfect solidity in the presence of all of you and now brothers, I know that out of ignorance you did it how you did it also to your rulers, but those things which God had previously shown by the mouth of all his prophets that Christ should suffer, he has thus fulfilled, repent therefore and convert so that your sins may be blotted out when the times of refreshing come from the presence of the Lord and He will send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before, whom Heaven must receive until the times of the restitution of all the things that God has spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the beginning of the world, for Moses truly said to the fathers.

The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet from among your brothers, like me, you will listen to him in everything he says to you, and it will happen that every soul that does not listen to that Prophet will be eliminated from among them. The Yay people and all the prophets since Samuel and those who follow after those who have spoken have also predicted these days. You are children of the prophets and of the Covenant that God made with our fathers, telling Abraham and in your descendants all will be blessed. the families of the earth first God, having raised up his son Jesus, sent him to bless you in exchange for each of you for your iniquities chapter 4 and while they were speaking to the people the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them , saddened because they taught the people and preached through Jesus the resurrection of the dead, and they laid hands on them and held them until the next day, because he was already bound, how many of them were they?

They heard the word they believed and the number of the men was about 5,000 and it came to pass that tomorrow their rulers and elders and scribes and Annis the high priest and cafas and John and Alexander and all those who were of the high priest's line were gathered together, the priests Jerusalem and when they had 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, said to them, you rulers of the people and elders of Israel, if we do this. day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent Man by what means he has been healed let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom you crucified and whom God raised from the dead even for him this man is here before you healthy this is the stone that was placed in notot of you Builders which has become the head of the corner nor is there salvation in any other because there is no other name under Heaven given among men by which we must be saved now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and realized that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled and learned of them that they had been with Jesus and looking at the man who had been healed who was standing next To them, they could say nothing against, but when they ordered them to depart from the council, they consulted among themselves saying what we will do with these men, because truly a notable miracle has been done by them, it is Manifest to all who live in Jerusalem and we.

I cannot deny it but let it not spread further among the people, directly threaten them that from now on they will not speak to anyone in this name and they called them and ordered them not to speak, speak or teach in the name of Jesus, but Peter andJohn answered and asked them if it would be right in the eyes of God to listen to you rather than to God to judge you, because we cannot stop saying the things we have seen and heard, so when they threatened them more, they let them go searching. nothing how they could punish them because of the people because all men glorified God for what was done for The man was over 40 years old in whom this miracle of healing was shown and, being released, they went to their own company and told everything they The chief priests and the elders had told them, and when they heard that, they raised their voices to God. with one accord and said Lord, You are God who has made the heavens and the earth and the sea and everything that is in them who by the mouth of your servant David has told why the pagans were angry and the people imagined vain things and the kings of the earth rose up and the rulers gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ, for truly against your holy Child Jesus, whom you anointed, Herod and Pontius Pilate gathered together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel to do everything they your hand could and your advice determined before it was done and now Lord contemplate his threats and grant to your servants that with all boldness they can speak Your Word extending your hand to heal and that signs and wonders be done in the name of your holy Child.

Jesus and when they had prayed the place where they were gathered shook and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and they spoke the word of God with boldness and the multitude of those who believed were of one heart and of one soul, not any of them said that of the things he owned was his, but they had all things in common and with great power they witnessed to the apostles of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus and great grace was upon them all, and there was no one among them who lacked it because all who had land or houses they sold and brought the price of the things sold and placed them at the feet of the apostles and the distribution was made to each one as he had need and Joseph, whom the apostles called Barnabas, which is interpreted as the son of Levite consolation and from the country of Cyprus, having land, he sold it and brought the money and laid it at the feet of the apostles chapter 5 but a certain man called ananas with saf, his wife sold the possession and kept part of the price, his wife also knowing, he brought a certain part and he placed it at the feet of the apostles, but Peter said pineapples, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep part of the price of the land? while he remained he was not yours and after he was sold he was not in your own power why have you conceived this thing in your heart?

You have not lied to men but to God and when pineapples heard these words he prostrated himself and renounced. A ghost and great fear came over all those who heard these things and the young man got up, took him out and buried him and it was about 3 hours when his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in and Peter responded. Tell me if you sold the land for so much and she said yes for so much then Peter told her how is it that you have agreed to tempt the spirit of the Lord, behold, the feet of those who buried your husband are there, she prostrated herself to his feet and gave up.

The ghost and the young men entered and found her dead and taking her away they buried her next to her husband and great fear took hold of the entire church and on all those who heard these things and by the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were performed among them. The people and all were of one accord in the portico of Solomon and of the rest no one dared to join them but the people magnified them and The believers joined more to the Lord multitudes of both men and women, in such a way that They took the sick out into the streets and put them on beds and couches, so that at least the shadow of Peter passing by could cover some of them.

Also a multitude from the cities surrounding Jerusalem brought sick people and those tormented by unclean spirits and were healed. All then the high priest stood up and all those who were with him, which is the sect of the Sadducees, and were filled. with indignation and laid their hands on the apostles and put them in the common prison but the angel of the Lord by Night opened the doors of the prison and brought them out and said: go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life. And when they heard this, they went into the temple in the morning and were teaching, but the high priest and those who were with him came and called together the council and the entire senate of the children of Israel and sent them to the prison to bring them. but when the officers came and did not find them in the prison, they came back and said saying that the prison really found that we were locked securely and the guards were standing in front of the doors, but when we opened we did not find any man inside now when The high priest and The captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things and doubted them where this would grow then one came and said to them saying: behold the men whom he had put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people then The captain went with the officers and they brought them without violence because they feared that the people had stoned them and when they brought them they presented them before the council and the high priest asked them saying: Did we not directly order you not to teach in this? name and behold you have filled Jerusalem with your Doctrine and you want to bring the blood of this man on us then Peter and the other Apostles responded and said that we must obey God rather than men the god of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you you killed and hanged a tree he has exalted him with his right hand to be prince and savior to give Israel repentance and forgiveness of sins and we are his witnesses of these things and so is the Holy Spirit that God has given to those who obeyed when they heard They were pricked in their hearts and took counsel to kill them, so there arose one in the council, a Pharisee named Gel, a doctor of the law who had a reputation among all the people, and ordered the apostles to be brought out. little space and said to them, you men of Israel, see for yourselves what you intend to do regarding these men because before these days he stood up like this boasting of being someone who was joined by a number of men about 400 who was killed and all who obeyed him were scattered and bound after this man Judas of Galilee arose in the days of taxes and dragged many people after him, he also perished and all who obeyed him were scattered and now I say a Abstain from these men and leave them alone, because if this advice or this work is from men, it will not be fulfilled, but if it is from God, you cannot overthrow it, lest you happily find yourself fighting even against God and with him you agreed. agreement 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 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 each house they did not stop teaching and preaching Jesus Christ chapter 6 and in those days when the number of the disciples multiplied, a murmuring arose from the Greeks against the Hebrews because their widows were neglected in the daily ministry then the 12th Called to the crowd of disciples and said that it is no reason for us to leave the word of God and serve tables, therefore, brothers, look.

Among you there are seven men of honest reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we can appoint in this matter. business but we will continually give ourselves to prayer and the ministry of the word and the saying pleased the entire crowd and they elected Steven A Man full of faith and the Holy Spirit and Philip and hero and nikanor and timman and parus and Nicholas a proelite of Antioch whom they placed before the apostles and when they had prayed they laid their hands on them and the word of God increased and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem and a great multitude of the priests obeyed the faith and Stephen was full of faith and power did great wonders and miracles among the people then some of the synagogue that is called the synagogue of the libertines and Sirenians and Alexandrians and those of Cycia and Asia arose disputing with Stephen and could not resist the wisdom and the Spirit with which He spoke then they bribed men who said: We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God and they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes and they came upon him, seized him and brought him away. to the council and they put false Witnesses who said that this man does not stop speaking Blasphemous words against this holy place and the law because we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the Customs that Moses gave us and all those who were sitting in the council staring at him they saw his face as it had been the face of an angel chapter 7 then the high priest said this is how these things are and he said men, brothers and fathers, listen, the god of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia before living in Karen and said to him: leave your country and your relatives and come to the land that I will show you, then he left the land of the Calans and lived in Karen and Then, when his father died, he moved him to this land in which you now dwell and did not give him any inheritance in it, not even to set foot in, but promised that he would give it to him as a possession and to his children. descendants after him when he was still childless and God spoke in this way that his descendants would dwell in a strange land and that they would be brought into slavery and they would supplicate evil to them for 400 years and the nation that they will be in bondage to will do so.

I judge said God and after that they will go out and serve me in this place and 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 12 Patriarchs and the Patriarchs they moved. With envy he sold Joseph to Egypt but God was with him and delivered him from all his afflictions and gave him favor and wisdom in the eyes of Pharaoh king of Egypt and made him governor of Egypt and from all his house now came a land dir. over all the land of Egypt and Canaan and great affliction and our fathers found no sustenance but when Jacob heard that there was wheat in Egypt he sent to our fathers first and the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers and became a relative Jose's. known to Pharaoh then he sent Joseph and called his father Jacob and all his relatives sixty-fifteen souls, so Jacob went down to Egypt and he and our fathers died and were taken to Saim and put in the separator which Abraham bought for a sum of money from the sons of EMR the father of syum, but when the time of the promise that God had sworn to Abraham approached, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt until another king arose who did not know Joseph, the same subtly dealt with our relatives and evil begged our parents to send away their little children until the end so that they would not live, at which time Moses was born and was extremely beautiful and raised in his father's house for three months and when he was expelled, Pharaoh's daughter took him and fed him for her own son and Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in words and deeds and when he was 40 years old it came to his heart to visit his brothers and sons. of Israel and seeing one of them suffer badly, he defended him and avenged the one who was oppressed and he wounded the Egyptian because he assumed that his brothers would have understood how God by his hand would deliver them, but they did not understand and the next day he showed himself to them while They fought and He would have confronted them again saying: "You are brothers, why do you hurt each other?", but the one who did wrong to his neighbor rejected him saying: who made you ruler and judge over us?

Will you kill me like you killed the Egyptian yesterday? Then Moses fled at this saying and was a stranger in the land of Midian where he begat two sons and when 40 years were completed an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Si in a flame of fire in a bush when Moses saw him, He marveled at the sight and when he approached to behold it, the voice of the Lord came to him saying: I am the god of your fathers, the god of Abraham, the god of Isaac and the god of Jacob, then Moses trembled and I have not here then the Lord said to him, take off your shoes from your feet because the place where you are is the Holy Land.

I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and I have heard their groaning and I am down to deliver them and now come, I will send you to Egypt this Moses whom they rejected saying who made you ruler and judge, the same God sent to be ruler and liberator by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush, he brought them out after he had done wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the desert 40 years this is that Moses who said to the Children of Israel, Jehovah your God will be a prophet.

Raise up among your brothers like me the one you will hear here, this is the one who was in the church in the desert with the angel who spoke to him about the mountain of sin and with our fathers who received the vivid oracles. to give them to us. whom our fathers would not obey, but they drove him out of them and in their hearts they returned again to Egypt, saying to Aaron, make us gods to go before us, for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we don't want what we havesure mercies of David, for which he also says in another Psalm: Thou shalt not suffer. your Holy One to see corruption in David after having served his own Generation by the will of God fell asleep and was placed before his parents and saw corruption but he whom God raised did not see corruption, be it known to youTherefore, men and brothers, For through him the forgiveness of sins is preached to you, and through him all who believe are justified from everything that could not be justified by the law of Moses, take heed, therefore, that what is said does not come upon you. says. of the prophets behold, despisers and you marvel and perish because I do a work in your days a work that you will in no way believe even if a man declares it to you and when the Jews left the synagogue the Gentiles prayed that these words could be preached to them The following Sabbath now when the congregation dissolved many of the pre-enlightened Jews and religious followed Paul and Barnabas who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God and on the next Sabbath day almost the entire city arrived.

They gathered to hear the word of God, but when the Jews saw the crowds they were filled with envy and spoke against the things that Paul spoke, contradicting and blaspheming, then Paul and Barnabas dared and said that it was necessary that the word of God be first. It has been spoken to you, but distancing you from you and judging you unworthy of eternal life. Behold, we turn to the Gentiles, for thus has the Lord commanded us, saying, I have appointed you to be a light to the Gentiles, that you may be for salvation. to the ends of the earth and when the Gentiles heard this they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord and all those who were ordained to eternal life believed and the word of the Lord was published throughout the region but the Jews stirred up the pious women and honorable men and the chief men of the city and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them from their borders but they shook off the dust from their feet against them and came to Iconium and the disciples were filled with joy and the Holy Spirit chapter 14 and it came to pass in Iconium that they both entered together into the synagogue of the Jews and spoke in such a way that a great multitude, both of Jews and also of Greeks, believed, but the unbelieving Jews incited the Gentiles and made their evil minds against the brothers for a long time , therefore they stood speaking boldly in the Lord, who bore witness to the word of his grace and granted signs and wonders to be done by his hands, but the multitude of the city was divided and partly retained with the Jews and they separated from the apostles and when there was an assault made by both the Gentiles and the Jews against their rulers to use them with contempt and stone them, they realized this and fled to Lysra and Derby, cities of Lonia and to the region that was around and There they preached the gospel and there was a certain man in lysra helpless on his feet since his mother's womb who had never walked like this.

He heard Paul speak who, looking at him intently and realizing that he had faith to be healed, said in a loud voice, stand up on your feet and jumped. and he walked and when the people saw what Paul had done they raised their voices saying in the speech of Leonia the gods have come down to us in the likeness of men and they called Barnabas Jupiter and Paul mercurial because he was the main speaker then the priest of Jupiter who was before his city brought oxen and garlands under the gates and had made sacrifice with the people who when the apostles Barnabas and Paul found out, they tore their clothes and ran among the people shouting and saying: Why do you do these things?

We too are men of passions like yours and we preach to you that you turn from these cities to the living God who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things in it, who in times past permitted all The nations walked in their own ways, but he did not leave himself without testimony, doing good and giving us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and joy and with these words. As soon as they restrained the people because they had not made a sacrifice to them, certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium arrived there and persuaded the people and, after stoning Paul, took him out of the city, supposing that he had been dead.

How will it be while the disciples were standing? around him rose up and entered the city and the next day he set out with Barnabas to Derby and when they had preached the gospel in that city and had taught many, they returned again to Lysra and Iconium and confirmed the souls of the disciples and exhorted them to persevere in faith and that through much tribulation we must enter the kingdom of God and when they were ordained by Elders in each church and prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed and after having gone through pdia they arrived at pamilia and when they had preached the word in perga they went down to Adelia and then sailed to Antioch from where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work they had accomplished and when they arrived and had gathered the church and reviewed all that God had done with them and how he had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles and there they remained a long time with the disciples chapter 15 and certain men who came down from Judea taught the brothers and said unless you are circumcised after the manner of Moses, he cannot be saved, so Paul and Barnabas had no small ascension and disputed with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas and some others of them should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders to discuss this matter. and being carried by the church they passed through Physio and Samaria declaring the conversion of the Gentiles and caused Great Joy to all the Brethren and when they arrived at Jerusalem they were received by the church and the Apostles and elders and they declared all the things that God had done with them, but some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed stood up, saying that it was necessary to circumcise them and command them to keep the law of Moses, and the apostles and elders gathered together to consider this matter, and after there had been much dispute, Peter stood up and He said to them, men and brothers, you know how some time ago God chose among us so that the Gentiles through my mouth might hear the word of the gospel and believe and believe.

God, who knows the hearts, witnesses to them by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did with us and did not put a difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. Now then, why do you tempt God to put a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we could bear it but we believe that by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we will be saved just as they were then the whole crowd was silent and heard Barnabas and Paul declaring what miracles and wonders God had done among the Gentiles for them and after being silent, James responded saying: Men and brothers, listen to me.

Simeon has declared how God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people for his name and with this the words of the prophets agree. As it is written after this, I will return and build again the Tabernacle of David that is fallen and will rebuild its ruins and raise it up so that the rest of men may seek the Lord and all the Gentiles. upon whom my name is called, says the Lord, who makes all these things known to God, they are all his works from the beginning of the world, therefore my sentence is that we do not trouble those who turn to God from among the Gentiles , but we wrote to them to abstain from the defilements of idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood because Moses of old had those in every city who preached it, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath day. then he pleased the apostles and Elders with all The church sent chosen men from their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas, that is, Judas Suram Barabus and Silas, leading men among the brethren, and wrote letters from them.

In this way, the apostles, elders and brothers send greetings to the brothers who are from the Gentiles. in Antioch, in Syria and in Cycia, because we heard that some who came out from us worried you with words that upset your souls, saying that you should be circumcised and keep the law, to those of us who did not give such a commandment, it seemed good to us to be gathered with one agreement to send you chosen men with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, we have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who will also tell you the same things by mouth, because it seemed good for the Holy Spirit and for us not to impose on you any greater burden than these necessary things: that you abstain from foods offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from fornication, from which, if you you keep, you will do well.

So they dismissed them and came to Antioch and gathered the multitude and delivered the epistle, which when they read it they rejoiced at the conaction and Judas and Silas being prophets themselves also exhorted the brothers with many words and confirmed them and After carrying their as , the brothers let the apostles go in peace, although Silu was pleased to stay there still, Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch teaching and preaching the word of the Lord with many others also and some days after Paul. He said to Barnabas, "Let us go again and visit our brothers in each city where we have preached the word of the Lord and see how they are doing, and Barnabas determined to take with him John, whose last name was Mark, but Paul did not see fit to take him with them." . who separated from them from pamilia and did not go with them to work and the strife was so acute between them that they separated from each other and then Barnabas took Mark and sailed to Cyprus and Paul chose Silas and left being recommended by the siblings. to the grace of God and passed through Syria and Cycia confirming the churches chapter 16 then he came to Derby and Lysra and behold, a certain disciple was there named Timothy, the son of a certain woman who was a Jew and believed, but his father was a Greek of whom He was well informed by the brothers who were in Lystra and Iconium, Paul would have to go out with him and take him and circumcise him because of the Jews who were in those neighborhoods because they all knew that his father was Greek and as they toured the cities they gave them the decrees to keep that they were ordained by the Apostles and Elders who were in Jerusalem and thus the churches were established in the faith and increased in number daily now that they had traveled through Friia and the region of Galatia and they were prohibited by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in Asia after reaching Missia, they tried to go to Betenia but the spirit did not allow them and, passing through Missia, they went down to Traz and Div.

A vision appeared to Paul at night. There was a man from Macedonia and he prayed to him saying: come to Macedonia and help us and after having seen the vision we immediately strove to go to Macedonia safely, gathering that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them, therefore, letting go of trace We came directly to Samothrace and the next day to Neapolis and from there to Philippi, which is the main city of that part of Macedonia and a colony, and we stayed in that city for certain days and on Saturday we left the city next to a riverbank where I needed to pray and we sat and talked with the women who came there and a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple from the city of Fyra, who worshiped God, heard us, whose heart the Lord opened so that she attended to the things that were They were talking about Paul and when she was baptized and her house she begged us saying if you have judged that I am faithful to the Lord, enter my house and stay there and she forced us and it happened that when we went to pray and a certain maiden possessed by the spirit of divination She went out to meet us, which gave her Masters a lot of profit by telling the truth.

She followed Paul and us and cried saying that these men are the Servants of the Most High God who show us the way to Salvation. and she did this for many days but Paul, saddened, turned and said to the spirit, I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her and he left at the same hour and when his Masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they arrested Paul and Silas and took them to the square under the rulers and brought them to the magistrates, saying that these men, being Jews, greatly disturb our city and teach customs that it is not lawful for us to receive or observe being Romans, and the crowd rose up. .

They rose up together against them and the magistrates tore their clothes and ordered them to be beaten and after having given them many whips they put them in prison, entrusting the Jailer to keep them safe, who having received such a charge put them in the inner prison and strengthened their positions. feet on the stalks and at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises to God and the prisoners heard them and suddenly there was a great earthquake so that the foundations of the prison shook and immediately all the doors and gates of the prison were opened. all.

The bonds were released and the prison guard, waking up from his sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and wanted to kill himself, thinking that the prisoners had fled, but Paul screamed with a loud voice.saying: don't hurt yourself because we are all here so he asked for a light and jumped up and came trembling and fell down before Paul and Silas and brought them out and said: what must I do to be saved? and they said: believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved and to your house and they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all those who were in his house and he took them at the same time of the night and washed their stripes and he was baptized and They all walked straight and when he had brought them he put them in his house, he put food before them and he rejoiced, believing in God with his entire house, and when it was day the magistrate sent the sergeant saying that they should let those men go and the guard of the prison He said this to Paul, the magistrates have sent to let you go now, therefore, go and go in peace, but Paul said to them: they have beaten us openly without being condemned being Romans and they have thrown us into prison and now they are throwing us out. secretly, no, really, but let them come themselves and take us out.

And the sergeants said these words to the magistrates and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans and they came and begged them and brought them out and asked them to leave there. city ​​and left the prison and entered the house of Lydia and when they saw the Brothers they consoled them and left chapter 17 now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Abalonia they arrived at Thelonite where there was a synagogue of the Jews and Paul, according to their customs, He entered into them and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures, opening and alleging that Christ must have suffered and risen from the dead and that this Jesus that I preach to you is the Christ and some of them. believed and associated with Paul and Silas and of the devout Greeks a great multitude and of the leading women not a few but the Jews who believe that they were not moved with envy took certain lascivious fellows of the lower class and gathered a company and put The city rioted and raided Jason's house and tried to get them out into the town and when they did not find them, they lured Jason and certain brothers under the rulers of the city, shouting that these who have turned the world upside down have come. here too. whom Jason has received and all these do against the decrees of Caesar saying that there is another king called Jesus and they stirred up the people and the rulers of the city when they heard these things and when they had taken security from Jason and the others they let them go and The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas by night to Berea.

And when they came there, they entered the synagogue of the Jews. These were more noble than those of Thessalonica, because they received the word with all readiness and searched the Scriptures. Daily if those things were like that, that's why many of them also believed honorable women were Greeks and not a few men, but when the Jews of Thessalonica learned that the word of God was preached by Paul in Berea, they came there too and rioted. The people and then immediately the brothers sent Paul to go as if to the sea, but Silas and Timothy still remained there and those who led Paul took him to Athens and, receiving an order from Silas and Timothy, they were to come to him with all speed.

They now departed while Paul was waiting for them in Athens. His spirit was stirred in him when he saw the city entirely given over to idolatry, which is why he disputed in the synagogue with the Jews and with the devout, and in the square daily with those who met him. Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans and the Stoics met him and some said what will this drunk say, others considered him a creator of strange gods because he preached Jesus and the resurrection to them and they took him and took him to the Areopagus. saying: Can we know what this new doctrine is of which you speak, because you bring certain strange things to our ears?

We would know, therefore, what these things mean to all the Athenians and foreigners who were there, and who did not dedicate their time to anything other than telling or saying. I heard something new, then Paul stood in the middle of the hill of Mars and said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that you are too superstitious in everything, because as I passed by and contemplated your devotions I found an altar with this inscription to the unknown God to whom by You worship that ignorantly, I declare to you God who made the world and all the things that are in it, since he is Lord of Heaven and Earth, he does not live in temples made with hands nor is he worshiped with the hands of men as if he needed something, since he gives to everyone. life and breath and all things and has made of one blood all the nations of men to dwell on the entire face of the Earth and has determined the previously appointed times and the limits of their habitation so that they may seek the Lord if they happily they feel. follow him and find him, even if he is not far from each of us, because in him we live, move and have our being, as some of your own poets have said, because we are also his offspring, as much as we are The Offspring.

Of God we should not think that divinity is like gold, silver or stone. Sculpted by the art and invention of man and the times of this ignorance God winked, but now he commands all men everywhere to repent because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world with justice by that man whom he has ordained, of whom he has given assurance to all men and who has raised him from the dead and when they heard of the resurrection of the dead some mocked and others said that we will hear about this matter again so Paul turned away among them how certain men joined him and believed among whom was Diana the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them chapter 18 after these things Paul left Athens and came to Corinth and found a certain Jew named Aquila born in Pontis who had recently arrived from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome and came to them and as he was of the same trade he stayed with them and searched for their occupation they were tent makers and He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks and when Silas and Timothy came from Macedonia Paul was pressed in the spirit and testified to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ and when they opposed themselves and blasphemed he shook his reigned and said to them your blood be on your heads I am clean from now on I will go to the Gentiles and he left V and entered the house of a certain man called justice one who worshiped God whose house was strongly attached to the synagogue and Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with his entire house and many of the Corinthians who heard believed and were baptized, then the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision at night, do not be afraid, but speak and do not withhold your peace because I I am with you and no one will get on top of you to harm you because I have many people in this city and he continued there for a year and 6 months teaching the word of God among them and when Gallo was a deputy of AA the Jews They made an insurrection by mutual agreement against Paul and they took him to court saying that this guy persuaded men to worship God against the law and when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallo told the Jews if it was something bad or evil.

Lasciviousness, O Jews, reason would allow me to bear you, but if it is about words and names and your law, look at it for I will not be a judge of such matters and he threw them out of the court, then all the Greeks took sanes, the main ruler of the synagogue, and they beat him before the court and Gallo did not care about any of those things and after this, Paul stayed there for a long time and then he said goodbye to the brothers and then he sailed to Syria and with him. Priscilla and Aquila had their heads in Syria because he had a vow and he came to Ephesus and left them there, but he himself entered the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews when they asked him to stay longer with them, but he did not consent, but instead gave them said.

He said goodbye saying that I must keep by all means this Feast that is coming in Jerusalem but I will return to you again if God wills and he set sail from Ephesus and when he landed in Caesaria and went up and greeted the church, he descended to Antioch and after having been There some time, he set out and traveled throughout the land of Galatia and Phryia to strengthen all the disciples, and there came to Ephesus a certain Jew named Apollos, born in Alexandria, a man eloquent and powerful in the Scriptures, this man was instructed in the way of Lord and being fervent in the spirit he spoke and taught diligently the things of the Lord knowing only the baptism of John and began to speak boldly in the synagogue who when Aquila and Priscilla heard him, took him to them and explained to him the way of God more perfectly and when he was willing to pass over to AA the Brothers wrote exhorting the disciples to receive him who when he came greatly helped those who had believed through Grace because he powerfully convinced the Jews and that publicly showing through the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ chapter 19 and it came to pass that while Apollos was in Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper coasts, came to Ephesus and finding certain disciples, he said to them, have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed? and they told him about him we have not even heard if there is any Holy Spirit and he said to them what then were you baptized and they said about the baptism of John then they said Paul John really baptized with the baptism of repentance telling the people to believe ? about the one who would come after the one about 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 upon them and they spoke in tongues and they prophesied and all the men were about 12 and he He entered the synagogue and spoke boldly for 3 months, discussing and persuading things concerning the kingdom of God, but when several became hardened and did not believe, he spoke evil of that way before the crowd from which he separated.

They and separated the disciples arguing daily in the school of a tyrant and this continued for the space of 2 years so that all those who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus both Jews and Greeks and God worked special miracles by the hands of Paul so that handkerchiefs or aprons would be brought from his body under the sick and the diseases would depart from them and the evil spirits would come out of them. Then certain wandering Jews took charge of exorcists to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus on those who had evil spirits, saying we endure you for Jesus whom Paul preaches and there were seven sons of a CA a Jew and chief of the priests who did so and the evil spirit answered and said Jesus, I know it and Paul I know it, but who are you and the man ? in whom the evil spirit leaped upon them and defeated them and prevailed against them so that they fled from that house naked and wounded and this was known to all the Jews and Greeks who also lived in ephis and fear fell on all of them and the The name of the Lord Jesus was magnified and many who believed came and confessed and showed their works.

Many of them also who used curious arts gathered their books and burned them before all the men and counted the price of them and found that they were 50,000 pieces of silver. The word of God grew so powerfully and prevailed after these things ended. Paul purposed in the spirit when he passed through Macedonia and go to Jerusalem, saying that after having been there he should also see Rome, so he sent two of them to Macedonia. who ministered to Timothy and Arus, but he himself remained in Asia for a season and at the same time there was no small stir on that road because a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver altars for Diana, brought in no small profit under the artisans. whom he called along with the workers of similar occupation and said: sir, you know that thanks to this trade we have our wealth;

Furthermore, you see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in almost all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and rejected many people, saying that there are no gods made with hands, so that not only this our office is in danger of being destroyed in KN, but also that the Temple of the Great Goddess Diana be despised and her magnificence be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world shine and When they heard these words they were filled with anger and shouted saying great is Diana of the Ephesians and all the The city was filled with confusion and having surprised Gaas and Arist Starus Men of Macedonia, Paul's traveling companions, rushed unanimously to the theater and when Paul wanted to enter under the people, the disciples did not allow him, and some of the leaders of Asia, who were his friends, sent him to him, wishing that he would not venture into the theater, some shouting one thing and others another.

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 signs with his hand and would have made his defense under the people, but when they knew that a Jew was there All with one voice for two hours shouted, Great is Diana of the Ephesians, and when the scribe had appeased the people, he said: "You men of Ephesus, what man is there who does not know how the city of the Ephesus ?" He is a worshiper of the Great Goddess Diana and of the fallen image of Jupiter, seeing then that you cannot speak against these things, you must be calm and do nothing hastily.because you have brought here these men who are not thieves of churches nor yet blasphemers of your goddess, so that if Demetrius and the artisans who are with him have a matter against any man, the law is open and there are deputies, who they challenge each other, but if you ask something about other matters, it will be determined legally. assembly because we are in danger of being called to be questioned by the commotion of this day, there being no cause by which we can account for this contest and having thus spoken he dismissed the assembly chapter 20 and after the commotion had ceased Paul called the disciples and He embraced them and left to go to Macedonia and when he had visited those parts and had given them much exhortation, he came to Greece and stayed there for 3 months and when the Jews ambushed him when he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia and there they found him.

He accompanied Asia soer of Berea and of the Thessalonians Aristarchus and Secundus and Gaas of Derby and Timothy and of Asia Tius and Tropus these who went before took us to traz and usHe set sail from Philippi after the days of bread UNL and came to them in traz in 5 days where we dwell seven days and on the first day of the week when the disciples gathered to break bread, Paul preached to them ready to leave tomorrow. and he continued his speech until midnight and there were many lights in the upper room where they were gathered and there was sitting at a window a certain young man named Uus who fell into a deep sleep and as Paul was preaching for a long time he sank into sleep and fell from the third attic and he was taken up dead and Paul descended and fell on him and embracing him said: Do not be troubled for his life is in him when, therefore, he came up again and broke bread and ate and talked for a long time.

Even until dawn, he set out and they brought the young man alive and they were not a little consoled and we went before the ship and said that we sailed there with Asos with the intention of receiving Paul, because he had so appointed him, thinking of going one foot and when he met us at Asos we took him and we came to Melini and we sailed then and we arrived the next day off Kios and the next day we arrived at Samus and we took Trillium and the next day we arrived at Militus because Paul had decided to sail through Ephesus because he couldn't He would spend time in Asia because he hurried if it was possible for him to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost and Myus he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church and when they came to him he said: you have known from the first day that I came to Asia, how I have been with you at all times serving the Lord with all humility of mind and with many tears and temptations that came to me while lying down. weight of the Jews and how I withheld nothing that was useful to you, but showed and taught you publicly and from house to house, testifying to the Jews and also to the Greeks of repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ . and now I go bound in spirit to Jerusalem not knowing the things that will happen to me there, except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city saying that bonds and afflictions await me, but none of these things move me nor do I consider my life dear. myself to finish my race with joy and the ministry that I have received from the Lord Jesus to testify the gospel of the grace of God and now I know that all among whom I have been preaching the kingdom of God, will no longer see my face therefore I confirm to you on this day that I am pure from the blood of all men because I have not avoided declaring to you the entire counsel of God, therefore, be careful with yourselves and with all the flock over which the Holy Spirit has placed you overseers. to feed the Church of God that he has purchased with his own blood, for I know this that after my departure, ravenous wolves will enter among you, without sparing the flock, and also yourselves, men will arise speaking perversely. things to draw the disciples behind them, therefore watch and remember that for 3 years I have not ceased to warn everyone night and day with tears and now, brothers, I commend you to God and to the word of his grace that can edify you and to give you an inheritance among all the Sanctified, I have coveted no one silver or gold or a pearl, and you know that these hands have ministered to my needs and to those who were with me I have shown you all things how by working in this way you must support the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus how he said that it is more blessed to give than to receive and when he had spoken thus he knelt down and prayed with all of them and they all cried painfully and he fell on Paul's neck and kissed him, grieving above all for the words he had said, that they should no longer see his face and they accompanied him under the ship chapter 21 and it happened that after we were taken out of them and had launched, he came to us in a straight course under Coos and the next day to RADS and from there to p and finding a ship that It was sailing towards Phenicia, we climbed aboard and set off.

When we discovered Cyprus, we left it to the left and sailed towards Syria. and he landed in Ty because there the ship had to unload its cargo and finding disciples we spent there seven days who told Paul by the spirit not to go up to Jerusalem and when we had completed those days we left and set out on our way and they all took us with our wives and children until we left the city and we knelt on the shore and prayed and when we said goodbye to each other we took a boat and they returned home again and when we finished our course from TY we arrived at yours and greeted the Brothers and Abode with them one day and the next day we who were from Paul's company left and arrived at Caesarea and entered the house of Philip the Evangelist who was one of the seven and dwelt with him and the same man had four virgin daughters who prophesied.

And while we were there many days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea and when he came to us he took Paul's belt and tied his hands and feet. And he said thus says the Holy Spirit, thus the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man who wears this belt and hand him over into the hands of the Gentiles and when we heard these things, both we and those of that place begged him not to go up to Jerusalem, then Paul answered what? you want to cry and break My Heart because I am willing not only to be bound but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus and since he did not allow himself to be persuaded we stopped saying the will of the Lord, and after those days we took our chariots and We went up to Jerusalem, there also some of the Disciples of Caesaria went with us and they brought with them a nation from Cyprus, an ancient disciple with whom we were to stay and when we arrived at The brothers of Jerusalem received us with joy and the next day Paul entered with us to see James and all the elders were present and when he had greeted them he particularly declared the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry and when they heard it, they glorified. the Lord and said to him, see, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are who believe and they are all zealous for the law and are informed about you who teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to abandon Moses, saying that they must not circumcise their children or walking according to customs, what is it?

Therefore, it is necessary that the crowd assemble because they will hear that you have come, do this, that we tell you that we have four men who have a vote over them, do it and Purify Yourself with them and be in charge with them so that they shave their heads and let everyone know that those things of which they were informed about you are nothing more than that you yourself were also ordained and kept the law regarding the Gentiles who believe in us. They have written and concluded that they observe no such thing except only that they guard against things offered to idols and from blood and from those who are strangled and from fornication.

Then Paul took the men and the next day, purifying himself with them, he entered the temple to represent the fulfillment of the days of purification until an offering was offered for each of them and when the seven days were almost finished the Jews who were from Asia, upon seeing him in the temple, stirred up all the people and laid their hands on him, crying. Men of Israel, help, this is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people and the law and this place and also brought the Greeks also to the temple and has defiled this holy place because they had seen him before in the city of Tropus. an Ephesian whom they supposed that Paul had put into the temple and the whole city was moved and the people ran together and they took Paul and took him out of the temple and immediately the doors were closed and when they were going to kill him, News came to the captain of the band that all Jerusalem was in an uproar, who immediately took soldiers and centurions and ran towards them and when they saw the captain and the soldiers, they left Paul beating, so the captain approached and took him. and he ordered that they tie him with two chains and he asked who he was and what he had done and some people shouted things in the crowd and since he could not know the certainty due to the tumult, he ordered that they take him to the castle and when he reached the stairs, so it was that He was born from the soldiers because of the violence of the town, because the crowd of the town followed him after crying with him and when Pablo was going to be taken to the castle, he said to the captain's chief, can I talk to you who said, Can you speak Greek?

Are you not that Egyptian who before these days made an uproar and did not go out into the desert 4,000 men who were murderers? But Paul said: I am a man I am a Jew of Tarsus a Cyan. Cicia was a citizen of a not insignificant city and I beg you to allow me to speak to the people and when I had given him permission, Paul stood on the stairs and made signs with his hand to the people and when there was a great silence, he spoke to them. . in the Hebrew language saying chapter 22 men Brothers and fathers listen to my defense that I make to you now and when they heard that I spoke to them in the Hebrew language they were more silent and he said truly I am a man I am a Jew born in Tarsus, a city in Cycia, but raised in this city at the feet of gel and taught according to the perfect way of the law of the fathers and I was zealous for God as you all are today and I pursued this path to death, binding and delivering men and women to prisons, as well as The high priest and all the property of the LRA testifies to me from whom I also received letters for the brothers and I went to Damascus to bring those who were imprisoned there to Jerusalem to be punished and it happened that while I was making my journey and approaching Damascus Around noon, suddenly a great light shone from the sky around me and I fell to the ground and I heard a voice saying to me, Saul Saul, why are you persecuting?

I and I answered who are you Lord and he said to me: I am Jesus of Nazareth whom you persecute and those who were with me truly saw the light and were afraid but they did not hear the voice of the one who spoke to me and I said what What will I do Lord? And the Lord said to me: get up and go to Damascus and there you will be told everything that has been assigned to you to do and when I could not see by the glory of that light being guided by the By the hand of those who were with me I came to Damascus , and one Ananas, a devout man according to the law, having a good report of all the Jews who lived there, came to me and stood up and said to me, brother Saul, receive your sight, and at the same time I looked at him and he said: The god of our fathers has chosen you so that you may know his will and see the righteous and hear the voice of his mouth because you will be his witness before all men of what you have seen and heard and now why do you get up and be baptized and Do you wash away your sins by invoking the name of the Lord?

And it came to pass, when I returned to Jerusalem, while I was praying in the temple, I was in a trance and saw him. telling me hurry up and leave Jerusalem quickly because they will not receive your testimony about me and I said Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat those who believed in you in every synagogue and when the blood of your martyr Steven was shed. I was also present and I consented to his death and I kept the reign of those who killed him and he said to me: go away because I will send you far from here to the Gentiles and they gave hearing to this word and then they raised their voices and said that out of the earth with a guy like that because it is not appropriate for him to live and while they screamed and took off their clothes and threw dust into the air, the chief captain ordered that he be brought to the castle and that he should be examined with whips so that he would know why They shouted against him like this and while they tied him with straps, Paul said to the centurion who was there, is it lawful for you to flog a man who is a Roman and has not been condemned when the centurion heard that he went and said to the chief captain saying have Be careful what you do because this man is Roman, so the captain-in-chief came and said, tell me, are you Roman?

He said yes, and the captain-in-chief responded with a large sum. I got this freedom and Paul said, but I was born free. So they immediately left. of him what should have been examined and the chief captain was also afraid after knowing that he was Roman and because he had tied him in the Tom because he would have known the truth of why the Jews were accusing him, he released him from his bonds and ordered that The chief priests and all their councils appeared and he took Paul down and set him before them chapter 23 and Paul, seriously contemplating the council, said men and brothers in whom I have lived. every good conscience before God to this day and the high priest ananas ordered those who were standing by him to hit him on the mouth, then Paul said to him: God will strike you, whitewashed wall, because you wantjudge me according to the law and you command me to be wounded contrary to the law and those who were there said: "You, high priest of God", then Paul said, I do not wish, brothers, that he were the high priest because it is written: No you will speak evil of the ruler of your people, but when Paul understood that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees he C CRI in the council men and brothers I am a Pharisee son of a Pharisee of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question and having said This arose A dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the crowd was divided because the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection nor angel nor spirit but the Pharisees confess both and a great clamor arose and the scribes who were on the side of the Pharisees and when a great dissension arose, the captain-in-chief, fearing that Paul had been torn to pieces, ordered the soldiers to come down and take him by force from among them and bring him back.

He put him in the castle and the following night the Lord appeared next to him and said: Be of good cheer, 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 were gathered together and tied up. They themselves were under a curse saying that they would not eat or drink until they had killed Paul and there were more than 40 who had made this conspiracy and they came to the chief priests and the elders and said: we have bound ourselves under a great curse that you do not eat anything until we have killed Paul now, therefore with the advice you indicate to the chief captain whether he will bring him with you tomorrow as if you wanted to ask something more perfectly about him and we, wherever he approaches, are ready to kill him and when Paul.

His sister's son found out that they were lying in wait, went and entered the castle and told Pablo. Then Paul called one of the centurions and told him to bring this young man to the chief captain because he had a certain thing to tell him, so he took him. and he took him to the chief captain and said to him: Paul. The prisoner called him and begged me to bring you this young man who has something to tell you. Then the chief captain took him by the hand and went with him privately and asked him. What do you have to tell me?

And he said that the Jews have agreed to want you to take Paul to the council tomorrow as if they were going to ask him something more perfectly, but do not give in to them because they lie in wait for you there. for him of them more than 40 men who have pledged themselves with an oath that they will not eat or drink until they have killed him and now they are ready waiting for a promise from you, so the chief captain let the young man go and accused. He look, do not tell anyone that you have shown me these things and he called two centurions saying: "Prepare 200 soldiers to go to Caesaria and sixty horsemen and 10 and 200 spearmen at the third hour of the night and proportionate beasts." so that they can arrest Paul and bring him safely to the governor Felix and he wrote a letter in this way Claudius Liso, under the excellent governor Felix, sends greetings: this man was captured by the Jews and should have been killed by them, then I came with an army and rescued him knowing that he was Roman and when I learned the cause for which he was accused, I took him to his council, whom I perceived accused of matters of his law but who had nothing to be charged against him. worthy of death or imprisonment, and when they told me that the Jews were lying in wait for that man, I immediately sent to you and ordered his accusers to also tell before you what they had against him, then the soldiers took their leave, as ordered.

They took Paul and brought him to Antipatris by night. The next day they left the horsemen to go with him and returned to the castle, who when they arrived at Caesaria and delivered the epistle to the governor, they also presented Paul before him, and when the governor had read it. The letter asked what province it was from and when he understood that it was from Cicia, I will hear you, he said, when your accusers have also come, and he ordered that he be kept in Herod's trial, room chapter 24, and after 5 days, ananas el alto. The priest descended with the elders. and with a certain oror named Turelo who informed the governor against Paul and when Talus was called he began to accuse him saying that because of you we enjoy great tranquility and that your very worthy works are done to this nation on your behalf.

We accept Providence always and in every noble place Felix with all gratitude even though it may not be more tedious for you. I beg you to hear from your mercy a few words because we have found this man to be a pestilential fellow and a promoter of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world and leader of the sect of the Nazarin who has also desecrated the temple to whom We took and would have judged according to our law, but the chief captain Lissus came upon us and with great violence snatched him from our hands, commanding his accusers to come to you, examining who may know all these things of which we accuse him, and the Jews also came up saying that these things were so, so Paul after the governor had made signs to him to speak.

I answered because, because I know that you have been judge of this nation for many years, I answer with more joy for myself, because so that you can understand that it has not yet been more than 12 days since I went up to Jerusalem to worship and I did not even They were found in the temple disputing with no one or raising up the people neither in the synagogues nor in the city nor can they prove the things of which they now accuse me but this I confess to you that after the path to what they call heresy, this is how I worship the god of my fathers , believing all things written in the law and the prophets, and having hope in God, which they themselves also admit, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust. and in this I exercise myself in always having a conscience free of offense towards God and towards men now that after many years I came to bring weapons to my nation and offerings with which certain Jews of Asia found me purified in the temple nor with multitude nor with tumult.

Who should have stood here before you and objected if they had done it against me or let the same here say if they had found any evil in me while I was before the council, except for this one voice that I cried standing among them? Concerning the resurrection of the dead, I am questioned by you this day and when Felix heard these things, having a more perfect knowledge in that way, he postponed them and said that when Lius, the chief captain, comes down, I will know everything related to your matter. and ordered a centurion to hold Paul and let him have freedom and not to forbid any of his acquaintances to minister or come to him and after certain days, when Felix came with his wife through pH, ​​who was a Jew, he sent He went to look for Paul and listened to him about faith in Christ and while he reasoned about justice Temperance and judgment to come Felix trembled and answered go by this time when I have a convenient time I will call you I also hoped that he would have been given money from Paul to lose him so he sent the offer for him and took communion with him but after 2 years the porous Festus entered Felix's room and Felix willing to show the Jews a pleasure left Paul tied chapter 25 now in Fesus he arrived in the province After 3 days he ascended from Caesaria to Jerusalem, then the high priest and the leaders of the Jews denounced him against Paul and begged him and asked for favor against him to send him to Jerusalem, putting weight on the way to kill him, but Fesus replied that Paul should being held in Cesaria and that he himself would soon leave there, let them say, then, whoever among you can go down with me and accuse this man if there is any evil in him, and when he has been among them more than 10 Days he came down through Cesaria and The next day, sitting at the tribunal, he ordered that Paul be brought and when he arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around and presented many serious complaints against Paul that they could not prove while he answered for himself or against the law. of the Jews neither against the temple nor against Caesar have I offended in anything at all except fesus willing to do the Jews a pleasure answered Paul and said: will you go up to Jerusalem and there be judged for these things?

Before me then said Paul, I am before Caesar's tribunal where I must be judged before the Jews. Have I done no wrong, as you very well know? Because if I am a criminal or have committed something worthy of death, I refuse to die, but if there are none of these things that these accuse me of, no one can hand me over to them. I appealed to Caesar, then Fesus, when he had consulted with the council, answered, You have appealed to Caesar, to Caesar you will go, and after certain days King Agria and Berenice came. to Caesaria to greet Ephesus and when they had been there for many days, Ephesus declared Paul's cause to the king saying that there is a man left prisoner by Felix about whom when I was in Jerusalem the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me.

Desiring to have trial against him to whom I answered, it is not the custom of the Romans to hand over anyone to die before the accused has his accusers face to face and has license to answer for himself for the crime with which he is charged, therefore, when They came here without delay tomorrow. I sat down in court and ordered that the man be brought against whom, when the accusers arose, they did not present any accusation of the things I supposed, but had certain questions against him. Superstition and a Jesus who was dead whom Paul claimed was alive and as I doubted such questions I asked him if he would go to Jerusalem and there be judged on these matters but when Paul had appealed to be reserved under the hearing of Augustus , I ordered it to be kept until I could send it to Caesar, so Agrippa said to Fesus I would also listen to the man tomorrow, he said: You will listen to him and tomorrow, when Agrippa came and Berenice with great PP and they entered.

In the place of audience with the chief captains and leading men of the city by order of Fesus, Paul was brought out and Fesus said King Agria and all the men who are here present with us, you see this man about whom the whole multitude of the Jews has tried. with me both in Jerusalem and here shouting that he should no longer live, but when I discovered that he had committed nothing worthy of death and that he himself had appealed to Augustus, I have decided to send him of whom I have nothing certain. write to my Lord, that is why I have brought him before you and especially before you, oh King Agria, so that after the main examination he will have something to write, because it seems unreasonable to me to send a prisoner and not indicate with all the crimes committed. he chapter 26 then Agrippa said to Paul You are permitted to speak for yourself then Paul stretched out his hand and answered for himself I consider myself happy King Agrippa because today I will answer for myself before you about all the things of which the Jews accuse me especially because I know that you are an expert in all the customs and questions that exist among the Jews, therefore I beg you to listen to me patiently my way of living from my youth, which was the first among my own nation in Jerusalem, know all the Jews. who knew me from the beginning if they would testify that after the most righteous act of our religion I lived a Pharisee and now I am and am judged by the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers to which promise our 12 tribes instantly fulfilled.

God waits day and night to come for the love of hope King Agria I am accused of the Jews, why should it be considered something incredible among you that God raises the dead? Truly I thought within myself that I should do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth, which I also did in Jerusalem and I locked up many of the saints in prison having received authority from the chief priests and when they were killed I gave my voice against them. and I punished them in everything in the synagogue and forced them to blaspheme and, being very angry with them, I pursued them even to strange cities, after which, as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests at noon, O King, I saw on the road a light from heaven superior to the brightness of the sun, shining around me and those who were traveling with me, and when we were all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice that spoke to me and said in the Hebrew language, soul, soul, why are you persecuting me? ?

It's hard for you to kick against the stingers. and I said who are you Lord and he said I am Jesus whom you persecute but arise and stand on your feet because for this purpose I have appeared to you to make you a minister and witness of these things that you have seen and of those things in which you I will appear to free you from the people and from the Gentiles to whom I now send you to open their eyes and convert them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God so that they may receive forgiveness. of sins and of the inheritance among those sanctified by the faith that is in Me, therefore, O King Agria, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, but I showed first to those of Damascus and to those of Jerusalem and throughout the entire coast of Judea and then to the Gentiles who should repent and turn to God and do fleshly works for repentance for these causes the Jews trapped me in the temple and were about to kill me having therefore obtained thehelp from God.

To this day I continue to witness to both young and old without saying anything else. that those whom the prophets and Moses said would come, that Christ would suffer and that he would be the first to rise from the dead and show the light to the people and to the Gentiles, and while thus speaking for himself, Fesus said with a loud voice. High, Pablo, you are out of your mind. Much knowledge drives you mad, but he said: I am not mad, noble Festus, but speak words of truth and sobriety, for the king knows of these things, before whom I also speak freely because I am sure that none of these things are hidden from him. because this was not done in a corner.

King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe then Agrippa said to Paul you almost persuaded me to be a Christian and Paul said: I wish to God that not only you, but also all those who hear me today, were almost all together like me.except these bonds and when he had spoken So the king stood up and the governor and Berenice and those who were sitting with them and when they went aside they spoke among themselves saying that this man does nothing worthy of death or bondage and then he said crya under Festus.

This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar chapter 27 and when it was determined that we should sail to Italy, they handed over Paul and some other prisoners to one named Julius, a centurion of Augustus's band, and entered a Adium ship we set out with the intention of sailing along the coasts of Asia, with us being with us an arist starus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, and the next day we touched at Sidon and Julius courteously begged Paul and gave him freedom to go with his friends to refresh himself and When we had launched since then we sailed under Cyprus because the winds were contrary and when we had sailed over the sea of ​​Cycia and Pamilia we arrived at Mira a city of Lysia and there the centurion found a ship from Alexandria sailing towards Italy and he put us there and When we had We sailed slowly for many days and as soon as we reached Nidus, the wind did not support us, we sailed under Cre, in front of salmon, and as soon as we passed it we reached a place called the beautiful ports, near where the city of Lua now stood.

When a lot of time had passed and when navigation was already dangerous because the fast had already passed, Paul admonished them and told them: I perceive that this Journey will be with pain and much damage not only to the cargo and the ship but also to Our Lives. The centurion believed more in the captain and the owner of the ship than in the things said by Paul, and as Haven was not comfortable for Winter, for the most part he advised leaving too if by some means they could reach physi and there to Winter who It is in Haven de creit and li towards the southwest and northwest and when the south wind blew gently supposing that they had obtained their purpose by losing V they sailed near cre but a short time later a stormy wind called yadon arose against it and when When the ship He was trapped and couldn't resist the wind, we let him drive and run under a certain island called Claud.

We had a lot of work to get to the boat, that when they lifted it they used help to hold the boat and fearing. so that the straight sail does not fall into the quicksand and so we are carried away and greatly tossed by a storm. The next day they lightened the ship and on the third day we cast the ship's rigging with our own hands and when neither the sun nor the stars appeared in many days and it was not a small storm that fell on us. All hope of our being saved was then taken away, but after a long abstinence, Paul stood in their midst and said, Sir, you should have listened to me and not let me go. believe and have gained this damage and loss and now I urge you to be of good cheer because there will be no loss of life of any man among me except that of the ship because tonight the angel of God whose I am and whom I serve was at my side saying do not fear Paul, you must be brought before Caesar and behold, God has given you all those who sail with you, therefore be of good cheer, for I believe in God that it will be just as it was told me, how will it be? be thrown upon a certain island, but when the 14th night came, as we were going to and fro in Adria about midnight, the sailors considered that they were approaching some country and they sounded and found 20 fathoms and when they had gone a little further, They sounded it again and found it at 15 fathoms;

Then, fearing that we had fallen on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and wished the day to pass, and as the sailors were about to flee from the ship when they had lowered the boat into the sea under color as if they had dropped anchor outside the ship Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers if they do not remain in the ship it cannot be saved so the soldiers cut the ropes of the ship and let it fall and as the day approached Paul begged everyone to take meat saying that this day It is the 14th day that you have carried and continued fasting without having eaten anything, so I beg you to take some meat because this is for your health because there will be no one.

One of you had hair falling from his head and having spoken thus he took bread. and he gave thanks to God in the presence of everyone and when he broke it he began to eat, then everyone was happy and also took a little. meat and we were in total on the ship 203 scores and 16 souls and when they had eaten enough they lightened the ship and threw the wheat into the sea and when it became day they did not know the land but they discovered a stream with a shore towards which they thought if it was possible to lower the ship and when they had raised anchor they submerged under the sea and loosened the rudder straps and whipped the mainsail into the wind and headed towards the shore and When they landed in a place where two seas met, they caused the ship to sink and The four parts got stuck and remained immovable, but the rear part broke with the violence of the waves and the soldiers' advice was to kill the prisoners so that none of them would swim out. and they escaped but the centurion ready to save Paul prevented them from their purpose and ordered those who knew how to swim to jump into the sea first and reach land and the rest, some on planks and others on pieces of the ship, and so they arrived. happen that they all escaped safely to land chapter 28 and when they escaped then they learned that the island was called Melata and the barbarian people showed us no small kindness because they lit a fire and welcomed us all because of the present rain and because of the cold and when Pablo gathered a bundle of wood and put them on the fire, a viper came out of the heat and caught on his hand and when the barbarians saw the poisonous beast hanging from his hand, they said among themselves without a doubt this: The man is a murderer who, although He has escaped from the sea, Vengeance does not allow him to live and he shook off the Beast in the fire and felt no harm.

What did they look like when they should have suddenly swelled up or fallen dead, but after having looked for a long time and seeing that no harm had happened to him they changed their minds and said that he was a God in the same place they were possessions of the main man of the island called Paul who received us and lodged us for 3 days courteously and came to Pasa when Paul's father was lying sick with fever and issue of blood, to whom Paul entered and prayed and laid his hands on him and healed him; and when this happened, others also who had diseases on the island came and were healed. who also honored us with many honors and when we left they loaded us with the things that were necessary and after 3 months we left on a ship from Alexandria that had wintered in the hall whose sign was Caster and Pollock and we landed at Syracuse which we took there. 3 days and from there we took a compass and arrived at the regium and after a day the wind blew from the south and the next day we arrived at Puti where we found the brothers and they asked us to stay with them for 7 days and so we went to Rome and Then, when the brothers heard about us, they came to meet us as far as the API forum and the three taverns.

When Paul saw them, he thanked God and was encouraged. When we arrived in Rome, the centurion handed the prisoners over to the captain of the guard, but Paul refused. He allowed him to live alone with a soldier who guarded him and it happened that after 3 days Paul summoned the leaders of the Jews and when they were meeting he told them men and brothers, although I have not committed anything against the people. According to the customs of our fathers, I was still handed over as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans, who, when they examined me, would have let me go because there was no cause of death in me, but when the Jews spoke against it, I found myself forced to appeal.

Caesar did not know that he should accuse my nation 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 and they told him that we neither received Letters from Judea about you, nor None of the brothers who came showed or spoke ill of you, but we want to know what you think because about this sect we know that everywhere people speak against it again and when they appointed it. One day many came to him at his lodging, to whom he explained and testified about the kingdom of God, persuading them about Jesus, both by the law of Moses and by the prophets, from morning until evening, and some believed what was said.

He said, and others did not believe and since they did not agree among themselves they left after Paul had spoken a word well the Holy Spirit spoke through the prophet Isaiah to our fathers saying go to this people and say hearing you will hear and you will not understand and seeing you will see and not perceive because the heart of this people is thickened and their ears are deaf to hear and their eyes have closed so as not to see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and convert and heal.

Know therefore that the salvation of God is sent to the Gentiles and that they will hear it. And when he had said these words, the Jews went away and had great arguments among themselves and Paul lived two whole years in his own house rented from him. and he received all who came to him, preaching the kingdom of God and teaching the things that concern the Lord Jesus Christ with complete confidence, without anyone forbidding him.