9 but Saul (who is also Paul), filled with the Holy Spirit, looking steadfastly on him, said: 10 O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, enemy of all uprightness! wilt thou not cease to pervert the strait ways of the Lord?

11 and now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee; and thou shalt be blind, and not see the sun for a season:

12 and immediately a mist and darkness fell on him; and he went about seeking for some to lead him by the hand:

13 then the deputy-governor, seeing what was done, believed; being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.

14 And Paul and his companions sailed from Paphos, and came to Perga in Pamphylia but John, separating from them, returned to Jerusalem:

15 and proceeding from Perga, they arrived at Antioch of Pisidia; and, on the sabbath day, they went into the synagogue, and sat down :

16 and, after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, Brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say it:

17 and Paul arose; and way

18 The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people while they sojourned in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought them out from it;

19 and he bare with their manners in the wilderness about the space of forty years:

20 and when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he distributed to them their land for an inheritance, for about the space of four hundred and fifty years;

21 and after those things he gave them judges, until Samuel the prophet:

22 and from that time they desired a king; and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years:

23 and when he removed him, he raised up to them David to be their king; to whom he also gave testimony, saying, "I have Ps. lxxxix. 20"found David the son of Jesse,

complishing his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not he: but, behold, one cometh after me, the shoes of whose feet I am not worthy to loose.

27 Brethren, children of the stock of Abraham; to those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent:

28 for they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, who knew him not, have, in condemning him, fulfilled the very words of the prophets which are read every sabbath day: 29 and though they found no cause for death in him, yet they besought Pilate that he should be slain :

30 and when they had fulfilled all that was written concerning him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.

31 But God raised him from the dead:

32 and he was seen for

many

days by those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people :

33 and we declare to you the glad tidings of the proImise which was made to the fathers;

34 for, God hath fulfilled it to us, their children, in raising up Jesus again: even as it is written in the second psalm,

"Thou art my Son, this day Ps. ii. 7. "have I begotten thee."

35 And that he raised him up from the dead to return no more to corruption, he said thus, "I will give to you the Is. lv. 3. " mercies of David :"

36 Wherefore also he saith in another place," Thou wilt not Ps. xvi. 10. "suffer thy Holy One to see "corruption :"

37 for David, indeed, after he had served his own generation, fell asleep by the will of God, and was laid by his fathers, and saw corruption; 38 but he, whom God hath raised again, saw no corruption.

39 Be it known to you, therefore, brethren, that through him forgiveness of sins is preached to you:

40 and every one that believeth in him, is justified from all the things from which ye were not able to be justified by the law of Moses.

41 Beware, therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken in the prophets:

42" Behold, ye despisers, Hab. i. 5. "and wonder, and perish: for "I work a work in your days, "a work which ye will not "believe, though one declare "it to you:"

43 and when they went out, they desired that these same words should be spoken to them on the next sabbath.

44 And when the synagogue was dissolved, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who spake to them, persuading them to continue in the grace of God.

45 And, on the next sabbath day, almost the whole city came together to hear the word of God:

46 but when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted with blasphemy the words which were spoken by Paul:

47 then Paul and Barnabas grew bold, and said, It was

necessary that the word of God that the word of God

should first be spoken to you; but, since ye thrust it from you, and judge yourselves not worthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles:

48 for so the Lord hath commanded us, saying, "I have

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appointed thee for a light "to the Gentiles, that thou "mayest be for salvation to "the end of the earth :"

49 and when the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were disposed for eternal life, believed:

50 and the word of the Lord was spread throughout all the country.

51 But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable

women, and the chief men of the city, and raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them from their borders;

52 but they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and went to Iconium:

53 and the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Spirit.

CHAPTER XIV.

AND it came to pass in Ico

nium, that they went together into the synagogue of the Jews; and so spake, that a great number both of Jews and of Greeks believed:

2 but the unbelieving Jews stirred up and imbittered the minds of the Gentiles against the brethren :

3 therefore they staid a long time there, imboldened by the Lord, who gave testimony to the word of his grace, by granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

4 And the whole of the city was divided and part sided with the Jews, and part with the apostles:

5 but, as an attempt was made, both of the Gentiles and of the Jews with their rulers, to assault and to stone them,

6 being aware of it, they escaped to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the

the gospel there.

7 And a certain man, impotent in his feet, was sitting in Lystra, a cripple from his mother's womb, who had never walked :

8 the same was listening to Paul as he spake; who, looking steadfastly on him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,

9 said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet! and he sprang up and walked :

10 and when the multitudes saw what Paul had done, they raised their voices, saying, in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men!

11 and they called Barnabas, Jupiter; but Paul, Hermes, because he took the lead in discourse.

12 And the priest of the temple of Jupiter, which was before the city, brought bulls and garlands to the gates; and, with the people, would have offered sacrifice to them:

13 but when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard this, they rent their clothes, and rushed into the multitude, crying out, and saying,

14 Ye men! why do ye these things? We also are men, of like feelings with yourselves; and bring to you the good tidings, that ye must turn from

who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all the things that are in them :

15 who, in the passed generations, suffered all the nations to walk in their own ways;

16 although he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons; filling our hearts with food and gladness:

17 and though they said these words, they hardly restrained the people from offering to them sacrifice.

18 But certain Jews came thither from Antioch of Pisidia, and from Iconium, who gained over the people; and, having stoned Paul, they drew him out of the city, supposing he was dead;

19 but, while the disciples were standing round him, he rose up, and went into the city; and on the next day he departed, with Barnabas, to Derbe.

20 And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, and to Iconium, and to Antioch, to confirm the souls of the disciples:

21 exhorting them to continue in the faith; for that we must, through many tribulations, enter into the kingdom of God:

22 and when they had or

dained elders for them in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they committed them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

23 And passing through Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia: 24 and when they had preached the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia:

25 and from thence they sailed back to Antioch of Syria, from whence they had been committed to the grace of God, c. xiii. 2. for the work which they had fulfilled:

26 and when they were arrived, and had gathered the church together, they related all that God had done with them, and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles : 27 and they abode there some time, with the disciples.

CHAPTER XV.

BUT, certain persons had

gone down to Antioch from Judea, and taught the brethren, saying, Unless ye be circumcised according to the custom of Moses, ye cannot be saved:

2 when, therefore, Paul and Barnabas had had no small dissension and dispute with these, they determined that Paul, and Barnabas, and some others of them, should go up to the apostles and elders

at Jerusalem, concerning this question.

3 Having, therefore, been brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring, as they went, the conversion of the Gentiles; which caused great joy to all the brethren: 4 and when they arrived at Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church, and the apostles and elders; and they declared all that God had done by them.

5 But some of the sect of the Pharisees, who had believed, arose, saying, That it was necessary to circumcise them, and to enjoin them to keep the law of Moses :

6 and the apostles and elders assembled to consider of this matter:

7 and as there was much disputing, Peter rose up, and said to them, Brethren, ye

know that from the first days

God made choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel, and believe :

8 and God, who knoweth the hearts, bare testimony to them, by giving the Holy Spirit to them even as he gave it to us; 9 and made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith:

10 now, therefore, why tempt ye God, by putting a yoke upon