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at his breast at the supper, and had said, Lord, which is he who betrayeth thee?)

21 Peter, therefore, seeing him, saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall he do?

22 Jesus saith to him, If I will that he remain till I come, what is it to thee? follow thou

me:

23 then this saying went forth

to the brethren, that that disciple should not die; yet Jesus said not to him, that he should not die, but, If I will that he remain till I come, what is it to thee?

24 This disciple is he who both testifieth of these things, and hath written these things; and we know that his testimony

is true.

THE ACTS

OF

THE APOSTLE S.

46.

CHAPTER I.

THE former relation I made,
O Theophilus, of all that
Jesus both did and taught, from
the beginning,

2 until the day in which he was taken up; after having given commandments, through the Holy Spirit, to the apostles whom he had chosen :

3 to whom also, after he had suffered, he shewed himself to be living by many proofs; being seen by them during forty days; and speaking to them of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:

4 and, being assembled with them, he commanded them not Luke, xxiv. to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait there for the promise of the Father, Which, said he, ye heard from me:

Luke, xxiv. 47.

5 for, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit, not many days hence.

6 Being therefore assembled with him, they asked him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this

time restore the kingdom to Israel?

37.

1 Tim. vi. 15.

7 and he said to them, It is Matt. xxiv. not for you to know times or Mark, xv. 32. seasons, which the Father hath reserved to his own authority:

8 but ye shall receive power, from the Holy Spirit coming upon you; and shall be my witnesses, in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.

9 And when he had said these words, while they were yet beholding him, he was taken up, and a cloud concealed him from their sight:

10 and while they were gazing toward heaven, as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white clothing;

11 who also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye looking up to heaven? this Jesus, who hath been taken up from you into heaven, will so come in the same manner as ye have seen him go toward heaven.

12 Then they returned to Jersualem from the mount called, of Olives, which is a

T. 6.

About 14
mile.

Matt. xxvii.7.

sabbath day's journey from Jerusalem.

13 And when they were come into the city, they went up to the upper chamber where abode Peter and John, and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alpheus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James: 14 all these continued with one accord in prayer; with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren. 15 And during those days Peter stood up in the midst of the brethren, (the number of names that were together were about an hundred and twenty,) and said,

16 Brethren, it behoved that the scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spake before, by the mouth of David, concerning Judas, who was guide to those that took Jesus; 17 for he was numbered with us apostles, and obtained that allotment of this ministry:

18 now, this man acquired a field with the reward of his iniquity; but, casting himself headlong he hung in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out:

19 and this became known to all the dwellers at Jerusalem, so that that field is called in their own tongue, Aceldama, that is, Field of blood:

and cix. 8.

20 for it is written in the book of Psalms, "Let his Ps. Ixix. 25; "habitation be desolate, and "let no one dwell therein: "and let another take his "office:"

21 wherefore it behoveth, that of these men who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us;

22 beginning from the baptism of John, until the day that he was taken up from us; one should be ordained, to be a witness with us of his resurrection.

23 And they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who surnamed Justus, and

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5 And there were sojourning in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven;

6 and when this was told abroad, the whole of these assembled together; and were confounded, because every one heard them speaking in his own language:

7 and they were amazed and marvelled, saying, Behold, are not all these that speak, Galileans?

8 and how is it, that we each hear them speaking in our own tongue in which we were born?

9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and Idumæa; 10 and in Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia; in Phrygia, and Pamphylia;

11 in Egypt, and in the parts of Lybia about Cyrene; and strangers from Rome, both Jews and proselytes; Cretes and Arabians;

12 we hear them speaking,

in our tongues, the wonderful works of God!

13 and they were all amazed, and doubted, saying one to another, What will this thing be?

14 but others, mocking together, said, They are full of new wine:

15 But Peter standing up, with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said to them, Ye Jews, and all ye who sojourn in Jerusalem, be this known to you, and hearken to my words:

16 for, these are not drunken, as ye suppose, since it is but the third hour of the day;

17 but, this is that which was spoken through the prophet Joel;

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"into blood, before that great "and notable day of the Lord "cometh :

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22 "and it shall come to

pass, that whoever shall call

on the name of the Lord, "shall be saved."

23 Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man marked out to you by God, by miracles, and wonders and signs which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves know;

24 him, being delivered up to you by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have crucified, and have slain by the hands of Gentiles:

25 whom God hath raised again, having loosed the bands of death; because it was not Matt. xvi. 14. possible that he should be withheld by it:

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30 Brethren, I may boldly say to you, of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried; and his sepulchre is with us to this day:

31 but, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn to him with an oath, That of the fruit of his loins, accord- Ps. cxxxii. 11. ing to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne;

32 he spake of the resurrection of the Christ, foreseeing, that he was not left in death, neither did his flesh see corruption:

33 this Jesus, God hath raised again, of which all we are witnesses:

34 being, therefore, exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he hath poured forth this, which ye now see and hear:

35 for, David ascended not into the heavens; but he saith himself, “The LORD said to Ps. ex. 1. "my Lord, Sit thou on my

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