1.  The book of Acts was written by Luke the Physician about 6l-63 AD

2.  The book is addressed to Theophilus.

3.  The book was about what Jesus began both to do and to teach.,

4.  Jesus charged them not to depart from Jerusalem.

5.  Jesus was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

6.  The place he was taken was from the Mount called Olivet, which is nigh unto Jerusalem, a
     Sabbath day's journey off.

7.  Judas,  was guide to them that took Jesus.   His office let another take.

8.  Matthias; took the place of Judas and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

9.  When the day of Pentecost was now come, they were all together in one place. They were all filled
      with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance

10.  The eventson the day of Pentecost fulfilled the prophesies in Dan. 2,  Isa. 2 and Joel 2.

11.  The church and kingdom of God are the same thing.

12.  Let all the house of Israel therefore know assuredly, that God hath made him
       both Lord and Christ.

13.  Peter said,  Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ.

14.  Baptism was in water for the remission of sins.

15.  The Lord added to the church.

16.  Barnabas was, a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race.

17.  Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, and brought a part, and
       laid it at the apostles' feet.

18.  Ananias and Sapphira lied to the Holy Spirit, and kept back part of the price of the land?

19.  This couple was killed by God and buried by men and  great fear came on the church.

20.  By the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were worked among the people.

21.  We must obey God rather than men.

22.  A Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had honor of the people.

23.  A murmuring of the Grecian Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected
        in the daily feedings and supplies..

24.  Stephen, was a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit.

25.  The Jewish council, fastening their eyes on Stephen saw his face as it had been the
        face of an angel.

26.  The Jews cried with a loud voice, stopped their ears, rushed upon him, they
        cast him out of the city, and stoned Stepehen.

27.   There was a witness that held the garments of those that stoned Stephen his name was Saul.

28.  Stephen saw the heavens open and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God.

29.  Stephen, called on the Lord, saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down,
       and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this,
       he fell asleep.

30.  Saul was consenting unto stepehn's death

31.  There arose on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem;

32.  The disciples of Christ  were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of
      Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.

33. Saul laid waste the church, entering into every house, and dragging men and
       women committed them to prison.

34.  The disciples were scattered abroad, they went about preaching the word.

35.  Philip preached good tidings concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ,
       they were baptized, both men and women.

36.  When Simon saw through laying of the apostles' hands the Holy Spirit was given,
        he offered them money.

37.   The eunuch was taught by Philip.   The Eunuch said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the
         Son of God.   He commanded the chariot to stand still: and they both went down into the water,
         both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.
 
38.    Saul, breathing threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went
         unto the high priest, and asked of him letters to go to Damascus to the synagogues,
         if he found any that were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to
        Jerusalem.

39.  As Saul  journeyed near to Damascus: suddenly there shone around him a light out of heaven:
       Saul fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

40. The voice from the light said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest:

41.  Saul rose from the earth; his eyes were opened, he saw nothing; they led him
       by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.  Saul was three days without sight,
        and did neither eat nor drink.

42.  There was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; the Lord said to him in a
       vision, Ananias. he said, Behold, I am here, Lord. The Lord said to him, Arise, go to
       the street called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas for one named Saul, a
       man of Tarsus: for behold, he prayeth;

43.   Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many of this man, how much evil he did to thy
         saints at Jerusalem: He hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call upon thy
        name.

44.   The Lord said To Ananias,  Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name
        before the Gentiles and kings, and the children of Israel: for I will show him how many things
         he must suffer for my name's sake.

45.  Ananias departed, and entered into the house; and laying his hands on him said, Brother Saul,
        the Lord, even Jesus, who appeared unto thee in the way which thou camest, hath sent me,
        that thou mayest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit.  And straightway there
       fell  from his eyes as it were scales, and he received his sight; and he arose and was baptized;

46. Saul; stayed certain days with the disciples that were at Damascus.

47.  Saul stayed in Damascus and in the synagogues he proclaimed Jesus, that he is
       the Son of God. And all that heard him were amazed, and said, Is not this Saul that in
       Jerusalem made havoc of them that called on this name?  He had come here to bring
       the disciples bound before the chief priests.  Saul increased the more in strength
       and confounded the Jews that dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

48.  The Jews took counsel together to kill Saul: their plot became known to Saul. And
      they watched the gates also day and night that they might kill him: but his disciples took
      him by night, and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.

49.  When Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples: and
       they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple. Barnabas took him,
       and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord
       in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how at Damascus he had preached
       boldly in the name of Jesus.

50.  Peter said unto Aeneas, Jesus Christ healeth thee: arise and make thy bed. And
        straightway he arose.

51.  Peter  kneeled down and prayed; and turning to the dead body of Dorcas, he said,
       Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes; and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

52. Cornelius by name, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, a devout man,
       one that feared God with all his house, who gave much alms to the people, and
       prayed to God always.

53.  Cornelius was told in a vision to send for Peter.  Peter was given a vision of clean and
        unclean animals and told to kill and eat them. Cornelius dwelt in Caesarea

54.  Cornelius was the first gentile to whom the gospel was preached.

55.   Cornelius met Peter, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him.  Peter raised him up,
        saying, Stand up; I myself also am a man.

56.    Peter opened his mouth and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter
        of persons: but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness,
        is acceptable to him.

57.   While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all them that heard
        the word. And they of the circumcision (JEWS) that believed were amazed, as many
        as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the
       Holy Spirit.  they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God.

58.  Then answered Peter,  Can any man forbid the water, that these should not be baptized,
       who have received the Holy Spirit as well as we?  And he commanded them to be
      baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.

59.  The apostles and the brethren that were in Judaea heard that the Gentiles also
        had received the word of God.

60.  The disciples were called Christians first in Antioch

61.  There stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that
       there should be a great famine over all the world: which came to pass in the
         days of Claudius.

62. The disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren
      that dwelt in Judea:  which also they did, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and
      Saul.

63.  Herod the king put forth his hands to afflict certain of the church.  And he killed James
        the brother of John with the sword.

64.  Peter was kept in the prison:  prayer was made earnestly of the church unto God for him.

65. An Angel of the lord freed Peter from prison and Peter went to the house of Mary,the mother
       of John Mark where the church was praying for him.  A maid named Rhoda opened the door.

66.   Herod sought for Peter, and found him not, he examined the guards, and commanded
        that they be put to death.  Herod went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and tarried there.

67.  Upon a set day Herod arrayed himself in royal apparel, sat on the throne, and made
       an oration unto the people.  The people shouted, saying, The voice of a god, and not
       of a man.  Immediately an angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the
       glory: and he was eaten of worms, and Herod gave up the ghost.

68. The word of God grew and multiplied. Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when
       they fulfilled their ministration, taking with them John whose surname was Mark.

69.  There were at Antioch, in the church that was there, prophets and teachers, Barnabas,
       and Symeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen the foster-brother
        of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

70.  As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, Separate me Barnabas and
      Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.

71.  They found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-jesus.

72.   Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fastened his eyes on him,
        and said, O full of all guile and all villany, thou son of the devil, thou enemy of
       all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? And
       now, behold, the hand of the  Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing
       the sun for a season. And immediately  there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and
       he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.   The proconsul, when he saw
      what was done, believed, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.

73. The next sabbath almost the whole city was gathered together to hear the word of
       God.  When the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted
        the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.  Paul and Barnabas spake out
       boldly, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you. Seeing
       ye thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, lo, we turn to the
       Gentiles.

74.  As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God: and as
      many as were ordained to eternal life believed.  And the word of the Lord was spread
      abroad throughout all the region.

75. The Jews urged on devout women of honorable estate, and the chief men of the city, and stirred
     up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out of their borders.

76. At Lystra there sat a certain man, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother's womb,
      who never  had walked.   The same heard Paul speaking, who, fastening eyes upon him,
     and seeing that he had faith to be made whole, said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet.
     And he leaped up and walked.  And when the multitude saw what Paul had done, they lifted
     up their voice, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the
     likeness of men.

77.  They called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercury, because he was the chief speaker.

78.   When the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they rent their garments, and
         sprang forth among the multitude, crying out   and saying, Sirs, why do ye these things?
         We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good tidings, that ye should
         turn from these vain things unto a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the
         sea, and all that in them is:

79. There came Jews thither from Antioch and Iconium: and having persuaded the multitudes,
      they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

80.  As the disciples stood round about him, he rose up, and entered into the city: and
       on the morrow he went forth with Barnabas to Derbe.

81.   Barnabas and Paul appointed elders in every church.

82.  Barnabas and Paul  gathered the church together, they rehearsed all things that God had done
       with them, and that he had opened a door of faith unto the Gentiles.

83.   Certain men came down from Judaea and taught the brethren, saying, Except ye
        be circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye cannot be saved.

84.  The brethren appointed that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up
        to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.

85.  When they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church and the apostles
      and the elders, and they rehearsed all things that God had done with them.

86.  There rose up a certain of the sect of the Pharisees who believed, saying, It is needful
        to circumcise them, and to charge them to keep the law of Moses.

87.  The apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider of this matter.

88.   Peter rose up, and said unto them, Brethren, ye know that a good while ago God made
        choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel,
        and believe. God, who knoweth the heart, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Spirit,
        even as he did unto us; he made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts
        by faith.

89.  James answered, saying, Brethren, hearken unto me:   Symeon (Peter) hath rehearsed
        how first       God visited the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.

90.  Wherefore my judgment is, that we trouble not them that from among the Gentiles
        turn to God; but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols,
        and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

91.  Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose
        men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely,
        Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren.   they wrote thus
        by them, The apostles and the elders, brethren, unto the brethren who are of the
       Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greeting:

92.  When they were dismissed, came down to Antioch; and having gathered the multitude
       together, they delivered the epistle. And when they had read it, they rejoiced for the consolation.

93.   Paul and Barnabas tarried in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord,
        with many others also.

94.   After some days Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us return now and visit the brethren in
        every city wherein we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they fare.

95. Barnabas was minded to take with them John also, who was called Mark. But Paul thought
      it not good to take with them him who withdrew from them from Pamphylia.

96.   There arose a sharp contention, so that they parted asunder one from the other, and
        Barnabas took Mark with him, and sailed away unto Cyprus;  Paul choose Silas, and
       went forth, being commended by the brethren to the grace of the Lord.  And he went through
       Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches.

97.  Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there,
      named Timothy, the son of a Jewess that believed; but his father was a Greek.

98.  Paul circumcised him because of the Jews in those parts: all knew that his father was a Greek.

99.  A vision appeared to Paul in the night: There was a man of Macedonia standing,
      beseeching him, and saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us.

100. Paul and his group went to Philippi,  a city of Macedonia, a Roman colony:

101. By the riverside a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple of the city of
       Thyatira, one that worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened to give
        heed unto the things which were spoken by Paul.

102. She was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful
        to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there.

103.  A maid having a spirit of divination met Paul and Silas. She brought her masters gain by
       soothsaying.  She followed after Paul and cried out, saying, These men are servants of the Most
       High God, who proclaim unto you the way of salvation.    And this she did for many days. But
        Paul, turned and said to the spirit, I charge thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.
       And it came out that very hour.  When her masters saw the their gain was gone, they laid hold on
       Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers, they brought them to the
       magistrates, they said, These men, being Jews, trouble our city, set forth customs not lawful for us
       to receive, to observe, being Romans.  The multitude rose against them: the magistrates rent their
      garments off them,  beat them with rods. They laid many stripes on them, cast them into prison,
      charging the jailor to keep them safely: The Jailor cast them in the inner prison, making their feet
      fast in the stocks.

104. About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns unto God, and the
        prisoners were listening to them; suddenly there was a great earthquake, the foundations
        of the prison-house were shaken:  immediately the doors opened, and every one's bands
        were loosed.

105.  The jailor, roused of sleep seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword about to kill
        himself, supposing the prisoners had escaped.

106.   Paul cried in a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here. He called
          for lights sprang in, trembling for fear, fell down before Paul and Silas, brought them out
          and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

107.   They said, Believe on the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved, thou and thy house.
          They spake the word of the Lord unto him,with all that were in his house.

108.  The Jailor took them the same hour of the night, washed their stripes; and was
         baptized, he and all his, immediately.  He brought them into his house, set food before them,
        rejoiced greatly, with all his house, having believed in God.

109. Paul said, They have beaten us publicly, uncondemned, men that are Romans, and
        have cast us into prison; and do they now cast us out privily Let them come themselves
       and bring us out. The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates: they feared
       when they heard that they were Romans; They came and besought them; and when they
       had brought them out, they asked them to go away from the city. They went out of the prison,
      entered in the house of Lydia: when they seen the brethren, they comforted them, and
      departed.

110.  Paul waited at Athens, his spirit was provoked in him as he beheld the city full of idols.
         He reasoned in the synagogue with Jews and in the marketplace every day with them
         that met him.  Certain of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him.

111.  Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus, and said, Ye men of Athens, in all things,
         I perceive that ye are very religious. As I passed along, observing the objects of your worship,
         I found an altar with this inscription, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. What ye worship in ignorance,
         I set forth unto you.

112.   The times of ignorance God overlooked; but now commands men everywhere to repent:
          He hath appointed a day which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom
         he hath ordained; he hath given assurance to all men, in that he hath raised him from the
         dead.
 
113.  When they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; others said, We will hear thee
         concerning this yet again.  Thus Paul went out from among them.

114.  After this Paul departed Athens, and came to Corinth. He found a certain Jew named Aquila,
         lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart
         from Rome:

115.  Paul abode with them, they worked together their trades were tentmakers. Paul reasoned in
          the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.

116.  Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house; many of the
         Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.

117. The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak and hold not thy
        peace: for I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to harm thee: for I have much
        people in this city. Paul dwelt in Corinth for a year and six months, teaching the word of
        God among them.

118.    A certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came
          to Ephesus;  he was mighty in the scriptures. This man had been instructed in the way
         of the Lord; and was fervent in spirit, he spake and taught accurately the things concerning
         Jesus, knowing only the baptism of John: He began to speak boldly in the synagogue.
         When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him
         the way of God more accurately.

119.  Apollos powerfully confuted the Jews, publicly, showing by the scriptures that Jesus
         was the Christ.

120. Paul passed came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples: He said to them, Did ye receive
        the Holy Spirit when ye believed? And they said unto him, Nay, we did not so much as hear
        whether the Holy Spirit was given.  Paul asked  Into what then were ye baptized? And they
        said, Into John's baptism.  Paul said, John baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying
        unto the people that they should believe on him that should come after him, that is, on Jesus.
       When they heard this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.   Paul laid his hands
       on them, the Holy Spirit came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.  They
       were in all about twelve men.

121.  God worked special miracles by the hands of Paul: the sick carried from his body handkerchiefs
        or aprons, and evil spirits went out.

122. Upon the first day of the week, the disciples come together to break bread, Paul preached until
         midnight intending to depart on the morrow;

123.  There sat in the window a young man named Eutychus, in a deep sleep; Paul preached longer,
         being the young man fell from the third story, and was taken up dead. Paul went down, and
         fell on him, embracing him said, Make ye no ado; for his life is in him.

124. Paul called to him the elders of the church in Ephesus to meet him in Miletus.

125. Paul said to the elders, Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy
        Spirit hath made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he purchased with his
        own blood.   I know that after my departing grievous wolves shall enter in among you, not
        sparing the flock; from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things,
        to draw away the disciples after them.

126.  Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, he himself said, It is more blessed to
          give than to receive.

127.  Paul traveled to Caesarea and entering in the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one
         of the seven.  This man had four virgin daughters, who prophesied.

128.  There came down from Judaea a certain prophet, named Agabus.  He took Paul's girdle,
          bound his own feet and hands, and said, Thus saith the Holy Spirit, So shall the Jews at
         Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the
          Gentiles.

129.  The disciples begged Paul not to go to Jerusalem.

130  Paul answered, What do ye, weeping and breaking my heart? for I am ready not to
        be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. He would
       not be persuaded, the disciples ceased, begging him and said, The will of the Lord be done.

131.  Paul and his party went up to Jerusalem. When they arrived in Jerusalem, the brethren
         received them gladly. The next day Paul went unto James; and all the elders were present.
        When he had saluted them, he rehearsed one by one the things God had worked among the
        Gentiles through his ministry.  When they heard it, they  glorified God; and said to him,
        brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of them that have believed; and they
        are all zealous for the law:

132.    Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them went into the temple,
           declaring the fulfilment of the days of purification, until the offering was offered for
          every one of them.

133.   The Jews from Asia, saw Paul in the temple, stirred up the multitude, laid hands on
        him, crying out, Men of Israel, help: This man teaches all men everywhere against
        the people, and the law, and this place; and he brought Greeks into the temple, and
        has defiled this holy place.  They had seen with him in the city Trophimus the Ephesian,
        they supposed Paul had brought him into the temple. The city was moved, the people ran together;
        they laid hold on Paul, and dragged him out of the temple: and straightway the doors were shut.

134. The Jews were seeking to kill him, word came to the chief captain of the band, that all
        Jerusalem was in confusion. The captain took soldiers and centurions, ran down on the Jews.
        When they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left off beating Paul.  The chief captain
        came near, and laid hold on him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and
        inquired who he was, and what he had done. He commanded Paul to be brought into
        castle.  When he came to the stairs, it was that he was borne of soldiers for the violence of the
       crowd; The multitude of the people followed, crying out, Away with him.  As Paul was about
       to be brought into the castle, he said to the chief captain, May I say something to thee? He
       said, Do you know Greek? Are you the Egyptian, who before these days stirred up to
      sedition and led out into the wilderness four thousand men of the Assassins?  Paul said,
      I am a Jew, of Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and I beseech thee, let me speak to
      the people.  When he had given permission, Paul, stood on the stairs, motioned with
     his hand to the people; there was a great silence, Paul spoke to them in the Hebrew language.

135.  When they heard he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they were quiet: he said,
         I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia,  brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel,
         instructed according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God,
         even as ye all are this day: I persecuted this Way unto the death, binding and delivering
         into prisons both men and women.

136.   The high priest is my witness, and the elders:  I received letters unto the brethren,
           and journeyed to Damascus to bring them also that were there to Jerusalem in bonds
          to be punished.  It came to pass, as I made my journey, and was near Damascus, about
          noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me.   I fell to the ground,
         and heard a voice say unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

137.   He said to me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.  They that were
           with me saw the light, but  heard not the voice of him that spoke to me.  I said, What
          shall I do, Lord? The Lord said to me, Arise, go into Damascus; there it will be told you
         the things which are appointed for you to do.  I could not see for the glory of that light,
         and wasg led by the hand by them that were with me I came into Damascus.

138.   Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well reported of by all the Jews dwelt there,
          came to me, standing by me said to me, Brother Saul, receive thy sight.  In that very hour
          I looked upon him.  He said, The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will,
          and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth. For you shall be a witness
          for him to all men of what you have seen and heard.  Now why tarriest thou? arise, and be
          baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on his name.

139. I said, Lord, they  themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue
        them that believed on thee: When the blood of Stephen the witness was shed, I stood
        by, consenting, keeping the garments of them that slew him.

140  The Lord said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee forth far hence unto the Gentiles.

141.  The Jews gave him audience unto this word; they lifted up their voice, and said,
          Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.  They
         cried out, and threw off their garments, and cast dust into the air.

142  The chief captain commanded Paul be brought in the castle, that he should be
        examined by scourging, that he might know for what cause they so shouted against him.
       When they tied him up with the thongs, Paul said to the centurion standing by, Is it lawful
        for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?  When the centurion heard
        it, he went to the chief captain and told him, saying, What are you about to do? This man
        is a Roman. The chief captain came and said unto him, Tell me, are you a Roman? Paul said, Yes.
       The chief captain answered,  With a great sum obtained I this citizenship. And Paul said,
       I am a Roman born.

143.   Then that were about to examine him straightway departed from him: the chief captain
          also was afraid when he knew that he was a Roman, because he had bound him.

144. In the morning, desiring to know the reason why Paul was accused of the Jews, The chief
        captain loosed him, and commanded the Jewish chief priests and all the council to come
        together, and brought Paul down and set him before them.

145.  Paul, looked stedfastly on the council, said, Brethren, I have lived before God in all good
         conscience until this day.  The (Jewish) high priest Ananias commanded them that stood
        by him to smite him on the mouth.    Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: and
        sittest thou to judge me according to the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary
         to the law?   And they that stood by said, Revilest thou God's high priest?

146.   Paul said, I knew not, brethren, that he was high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not
          speak evil of a ruler of thy people.  When Paul perceived that part of the council were Sadducees
         and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of
          Pharisees: touching the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.

147.  When he said this, there arose a argument between the Pharisees and Sadducees; the
         assembly was divided.  The Sadducees say there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor
          spirit; the Pharisees (believe) confess both.  There arose a great clamor: some of the
         scribes of the Pharisees part stood up, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man:
        and what if a spirit hath spoken to him, or an angel?

148.   The chief captain, feared Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded soldiers to
           go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the castle. The next night
          the Lord stood by Paul, and said, Be of good cheer: for as thou hast testified concerning me
          at Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.

149. When it was day, the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying
         that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.  And they were more than forty
         that made this conspiracy.  They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, We
         have bound ourselves  under a great curse, to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.
        Now therefore do ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you,
        as though ye would judge of his case more exactly: and we, before he comes near, are ready to
        slay him.

150.  Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, he came and entered in the castle
         and told Paul.  Paul called to him one of the centurions, and said, Bring this young man unto
         the chief captain; for he has something to tell him.  So he took him, and brought him to the chief
         captain, and saith, Paul the prisoner called me unto him, and asked me to bring this young man
         unto thee, who hath something to say to you.  The chief captain took him by the hand, and asked
        him privately, What is it that You have to tell me?  He said, The Jews agreed to ask you to bring
       down Paul tomorrow to the council, as though thou would inquire somewhat more exactly concerning
      him. Do not thou therefore yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men,
      who bound themselves under a curse,  neither to eat nor to drink till they have slain him: and
     now are they ready, looking for the promise from thee.  The chief captain let the young man go, charging
      him, Tell no man that thou hast signified these things to me.

151. The captain called two centurions, and said, prepare two hundred soldiers
          to go as far as Caesarea, and 70 horsemen, and 200 spearmen, at the third
          hour of the night: provided beasts, to set Paul on, to bring him to Felix the governor.

152.  After five days the high priest Ananias came down with certain elders, and with an orator,
           one Tertullus; and they informed the governor against Paul.

153.  The governor Felix beckoned unto Paul to speak, Paul answered, Forasmuch as
         I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation, I cheerfully make
         my defense:   Seeing that thou canst take knowledge that it is not more than twelve days
        since I went up to worship at Jerusalem:  neither in the temple did they find me disputing
        with any man or stirring up a crowd, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city. Neither can
         they prove to thee the things whereof they now accuse me.   But this I confess unto thee,
        that after the Way which they call a sect, so serve I the God of our fathers, believing all
        things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets; having
        hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there shall be a resurrection
        both of the just and unjust.   Herein I also exercise myself to have a conscience void
        of offence toward God and men always.   Now after some years I came to bring alms to
        my nation, and offerings:   amidst which they found me purified in the temple, with no
        crowd, nor yet with tumult: but there were certain Jews from Asia-- who ought to have
        been here before thee, and to make accusation, if they had aught against me. Or else let these
        men themselves say what wrong-doing they found when I stood before the council,
       except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection
       of the dead I am called in question before you this day.

154.   After certain days, Felix came with Drusilla, his wife, who was a Jewess, and sent
          for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus.   Paul reasoned
         of righteousness, and self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified,
          and answered, Go thy way for this time; and when I have a convenient season, I
          will call thee unto me.

155.  Felix hoped that money would be given him of Paul:  he sent for him the often, and
          communed with him.  When two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius
          Festus; desiring to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds.

156. Festus, desiring to gain favor with the Jews, answered Paul and said, Wilt thou go up
         to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?

157.  Paul said, I am standing before Caesar's judgment-seat, where I ought to be judged:
         to the Jews have I done no wrong, as you also very well know.  If  I am a wrong-doer,
         and have committed anything worthy of death, I refuse not to die; but if none of those
         things is true which they accuse me, no man can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar.

158.  Festus, conferred with the council, answered, You have appealed to Caesar: to
         Caesar you shall go.

159. When certain days passed, Agrippa the King and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, saluted
       Festus.  Festus laid Paul's case before the King, saying, There is a certain man left a
        prisoner by Felix;  when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews
        informed me, asking for sentence against him.   I answered,  it is not the custom of the
        Romans to give up any man, before that the accused have the accusers face to face, and
        has opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.  When they
        came together here, I did not delay, the next day I sat on the judgment-seat, and commanded
        the man to be brought.  Concerning whom, when the accusers stood up, they brought no
        charge of such evil things as I supposed; but had questions against him  of their religion,
        one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.  I, being perplexed how
        to inquire concerning these things, asked whether he would go to Jerusalem and there
        be judged of these matters.   Paul appealed to be kept for the decision of the emperor, I
        commanded him to be kept till I should send him to Caesar.

160.   Agrippa said to Festus, I wish to hear the man myself. Tomorrow, you shall hear him.
          on the morrow, when Agrippa came with Bernice, with great pomp, they entered into
           the place of hearing with chief captains and principal men of the city, at the command of Festus
          Paul was brought in.   Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men present with us, behold this
          man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews made suit to me, both at Jerusalem and
          here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.   I found that he had committed nothing
          worthy of death: and as he himself appealed to the emperor I determined to send him.
         I have no certain thing to write unto my lord.  I have brought him forth before specially before thee,
         king Agrippa, that, after examination, I may have something to write. It seems to me unreasonable,
         in sending a prisoner, not withal to signify the charges against him.

161.  After hearing Paul,  Agrippa said  almost thou persuadest me to become a Christian.

162. Agrippa said unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not
        appealed unto Caesar.

163.   It was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and other prisoners to
         a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band.

164.  The voyage was dangerous,  Paul admonished them, and said to them, Sirs, I perceive
         that the voyage will be with injury and much loss, not only of the lading and the ship,
          but also of our lives.   The centurion gave more heed to the master and the owner of the
          ship, than to the things spoken by Paul.

165.  After a little time there beat down a tempestuous wind, called Euraquilo: the ship was caught,
         and could not face the wind, and was driven. They labored with the storm, the next day they
          began to throw the the freight overboard;  The third day they cast out with their hands the
         tackling of the ship. Neither the sun nor stars shone on them for many days, all hope that
         they would be saved was taken away.

166.  Paul stood in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, you should have heard me, and not set sail
         from Crete, and gotten this injury and loss.  I exhort you to be of good cheer; there shall be
         no loss of life among you, but only the ship. There stood by me this night an angel of God of
        whose I am, whom also I serve, saying, Fear not, Paul; you must stand before Caesar: and
         lo, God hath granted thee all them that sail with thee.

167.  Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship,
          ye cannot be saved. There was 276 people in the boat.

168.  The soldiers' counsel was kill the prisoners, lest any swim out, and escape. The
          centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped them and commanded that those who
          could swim should cast themselves overboard, and get first to the land; The rest,
          some on planks, and some on other things from the ship. It came to pass, that
          they all escaped safe to the land.

169.  They all escaped, to an island called Melita. The barbarians showed great kindness;
         they kindled a fire, and received them.  Paul gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them
         on the fire, a viper came out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. When the barbarians
         saw the venomous creature hanging from his hand, they said one to another, No doubt
         this man is a murderer, though he escaped from the sea, Justice will not allow him to live.
         Paul shook off the creature into the fire, and had no harm. They expected he would swell,
        or fall dead suddenly: but when nothing amiss happened to him, they changed their minds,
         and said that he was a god.

170.  A chief man of the island, named Publius, received them entertaining them for
         three days.  The father of Publius lay sick of fever and dysentery:  Paul entered in,
         and prayed, and laying his hands on him healed him. When this was done, the rest
        that had diseases in the island came, and were cured:   After three months they set
       sail in a ship of Alexandria which had wintered in the island. they finally arrived in
       Rome.

171.  When they entered Rome, Paul was forced to abide by himself with a soldier that
          guarded him.  It came to pass, after three days he called together those that were the
         chief of the Jews: and when they were come together, he said unto them, I, brethren,
         though I had done nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, was delivered
         prisoner from Jerusalem in the hands of the Romans:   When they had examined me,
        they desired to set me at liberty, because there was no cause of death in me. The Jews
        spake against it, and I was forced to appeal to Caesar; not that I had aught whereof to
        accuse my nation.   For this cause I entreat you to see and to speak with me:  because
        of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.  They said to him, We neither
       received letters from Judaea concerning thee, nor did any of the brethren come hither
       and report or speak any harm of thee.  We desire to hear of you what you think: for as
       concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against. They appointed
       him a day, they came to him into his lodging in great number; he expounded the matter,
       testifying the kingdom of God,  persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of
 /Moses and from the prophets, from morning till evening.

172.  Some believed the things which were spoken, and some disbelieved.

173.    Be it known to you, that salvation of God is sent to the Gentiles: they will also hear.
          When he said these words, the Jews departed, disputing among themselves.

174.  Paul abode 2 whole years in his own hired dwelling, and received all that went in
         to him,  preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching the things concerning the
         Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, none forbidding him.