apostles: and when they had CHAP. VII. prayed, they laid their hands on 1 Stephen being called, answereth to his them. accusation; 54 they stone him to death.

7 And the word of God in-THEN said the high priest, creased; and the number of the Are these things so? disciples multiplied in Jerusalem 2 And he said, Men, brethgreatly; and a great company of ren, and fathers, hearken; the the priests were obedient to the God of glory appeared unto our faith. father Abraham when he was 8 And Stephen, full of faith in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt and power, did great wonders in Charran,

and miracles among the peo- 3 And said unto him, Get ple. thee out of thy country, and 9 ¶ Then there arose certain from thy kindred, and come inof the synagogue, which is call- to the land which I shall shew ed The synagogue of the Lib- thee.

ertines, and Cyrenians, and Al- 4 Then came he out of the exandrians, and of them of Cil- land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt icia, and of Asia, disputing with in Charran. And from thence, Stephen. when his father was dead, he 10 And they were not able removed him into this land to resist the wisdom and the wherein ye now dwell. spirit by which he spake. 5 And he gave him none in

11 Then they suborned men, heritance in it, no, not so much which said, We have heard as to set his foot on: yet he him speak blasphemous words promised that he would give it against Moses, and against to him for a possession, and to God. his seed after him, when as yet

12 And they stirred up the he had no child. people, and the elders, and the 6 And God spake on this scribes, and came upon him, and wise, That his seed should socaught him, and brought him to journ in a strange land; and that the council, they should bring them into bon13 And set up false witness- dage, and entreat them evil four es, which said, This man ceas-hundred years.

eth not to speak blasphemous 7 And the nation to whom words against this holy place, they shall be in bondage will I and the law: judge, said God: and after that 14 For we have heard him shall they come forth, and serve say, That this Jesus of Naza- me in this place.

reth shall destroy this place, and 8 And he gave him the coveshall change the customs which nant of circumcision. And so Moses delivered us. Abraham begat Isaac, and cir15 And all that sat in the coun- cumcised him the eighth day; cil, looking steadfastly on him, and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jasaw his face as it had been the cob begat the twelve patriarchs. face of an angel. 9 And the patriarchs, moved

with envy, sold Joseph into] 21 And when he was cast out, Egypt: but God was with him, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, 10 And delivered him out of and nourished him for her own all his afflictions, and gave him son. favor and wisdom in the sight 22 And Moses was learned of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and in all the wisdom of the Egyphe made him governor over tians, and was mighty in words Egypt, and all his house. and in deeds.

11 Now there came a dearth 23 And when he was full forover all the land of Egypt and ty years old, it came into his Chanaan, and great affliction; heart to visit his brethren the and our fathers found no suste- children of Israel.

nance.

24 And seeing one of them 12 But when Jacob heard suffer wrong, he defended him, that there was corn in Egypt, and avenged him that was ophe sent out our fathers first. pressed, and smote the Egyp

13 And at the second time Jo- tian: seph was made known to his 25 For he supposed his brethbrethren and Joseph's kindred ren would have understood how was made known unto Pharaoh. that God by his hand would de14 Then sent Joseph, and call-liver them: but they understood ed his father Jacob to him, and not. all his kindred, threescore and 26 And the next day he shewfifteen souls. ed himself unto them as they 15 So Jacob went down into strove, and would have set them Egypt, and died, he, and our at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are fathers, brethren; why do ye wrong one 16 Ánd were carried over in- to another? to Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor, the father of Sychem.

27 But he that did his neighbour wrong, thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?

28 Wilt thou kill me, as thou didst the Egyptian yesterday? 29 Then fled Moses at this

17 But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in saying, and was a stranger in the Egypt, land of Madian, where he begat

18 Till another king arose, two sons. which knew not Joseph.

30 And when forty years

19 The same dealt subtilely were expired, there appeared to with our kindred, and evil-en-him in the wilderness of mount treated our fathers, so that they Sinai an angel of the Lord in a cast out their young children, flame of fire in a bush. to the end they might not live. 31 When Moses saw it, he 20 In which time Moses was wondered at the sight; and as born, and was exceeding fair, he drew near to behold it, the and nourished up in his father's voice of the Lord came unto house three months: him,

32 Saying, I am the God of of the land of Egypt, we wot not thy fathers, the God of Abraham, what is become of him. and the God of Isaac, and the 41 And they made a calf in God of Jacob. Then Moses those days, and offered sacrifice trembled, and durst not be- unto the idol, and rejoiced in hold. the works of their own hands.

33 Then said the Lord to 42Then God turned, and gave him, Put off thy shoes from thy them up to worship the host of feet; for the place where thou heaven; as it is written in the standest is holy ground. book of the prophets, Oye house

34 I have seen, I have seen of Israel, have ye offered to me the affliction of my people which slain beasts and sacrifices by the is in Egypt, and I have heard space of forty years in the wildertheir groaning, and am come ness?

down to deliver them. And, 43 Yea, ye took up the tabnow come, I will send thee into ernacle of Moloch, and the star Egypt. of your god Remphan, figures 35 This Moses, whom they which ye made to worship them: refused, saying, Who made thee and I will carry you away bea ruler and a judge? the same yond Babylon.

did God send to be a ruler and a 44 Our fathers had the taberdeliverer by the hand of the an- nacle of witness in the wildergel which appeared to him in the bush.

ness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.

36 He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, 45 Which also our fathers, and in the Red Sea, and in the that came after, brought in with wilderness forty years. Jesus into the possession of the 37 I This is that Moses, Gentiles, whom God drave out which said unto the children of before the face of our fathers, Israel, A Prophet shall the Lord unto the days of David;

your God raise up unto you of 46 Who found favour before your brethren, like unto me; God, and desired to find a tabhim shall ye hear. ernacle for the God of Jacob. 38 This is he, that was in the 47 But Solomon built him a church in the wilderness with house.

the angel which spake to him 48 Howbeit, the Most High in the mount Sina, and with our dwelleth not in temples made fathers: who received the lively with hands; as saith the prophoracles to give unto us:

et,

39 To whom our fathers 49 Heaven is my throne, and would not obey, but thrust him earth is my footstool: what from them, and in their hearts house will ye build me? saith the turned back again into Egypt, Lord: or what is the place of 40 Saying unto Aaron, Make my rest?

us gods to go before us: for as for 50 Hath not my hand made this Moses, which brought us out all these things?

51.1 Ye stiff-necked, and un

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CHAP. VIII.

circumcised in heart and ears, 5 Philip planteth the church in Samaria ; 26 ye do always resist the Holy he baptizeth an Ethiopian eunuch. Ghost as your fathers did, so ND Saul was consenting do ye. unto his death. And at 52 Which of the prophets that time there was a great perhave not your fathers persecut-secution against the church ed? and they have slain them which was at Jerusalem; and which shewed before of the they were all scattered abroad coming of the Just One; of throughout the regions of Judea whom ye have been now the and Samaria, except the aposbetrayers and murderers; tles.

53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.

2 And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him. 54 ¶ When they heard these 3 As for Saul, he made havthings, they were cut to the ock of the church, entering into heart, and they gnashed on him every house, and haling men with their teeth. and women, committed them to prison.

55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stead

4 Therefore they that were fastly into heaven, and saw the scattered abroad went every glory of God, and Jesus stand-where preaching the word. ing on the right hand of 5 Then Philip went down to God, the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them.

56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

57 Then they cried out with a loudvoice,and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,

6 And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philipspake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.

7 For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of 58 And cast him out of the many that were possessed with city, and stoned him: and the them: and many taken with palwitnesses laid down their clothes sies, and that were lame, were at a young man's feet, whose healed. name was Saul.

8 And there was great joy in

59 And they stoned Stephen, that city. calling upon God, and saying, 9 But there was a certain Lord Jesus, receive my spir- man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used

it. 60 And he kneeled down sorcery, and bewitched the peoand cried with a loud voice, ple of Samaria, giving out that Lord, lay not this sin to their himself was some great one: charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

10 To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the great

est, saying, This man is the nor lot in this matter: for thy great power of God. heart is not right in the sight of

11 And to him they had re- God. gard, because that of long time 22 Repent therefore of this he had bewitched them with thy wickedness, and pray God, sorceries. if perhaps the thought of thy

12 But when they believed heart may be forgiven thee. Philip, preaching the things con- 23 For I perceive that thou cerning the kingdom of God,and art in the gall of bitterness, and the name of Jesus Christ, they in the bond of iniquity. were baptized both men and 24 Then answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the Lord

women.

13 Then Simon himself be- for me, that none of these things lieved also: and when he was which ye have spoken come upbaptized, he continued with on me. Philip, and wondered, behold- 25 And they, when they had ing the miracles and signs which testified and preached the word were done. of the Lord, returned to Jerusa

14 Now when the apostles lem, and preached the gospel in which were at Jerusalem heard many villages of the Samarithat Samaria had received the tans. word of God, they sent unto 26 And the angel of the Lord them Peter and John: spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, 15 Who, when they were and go toward the south, unto come down, prayed for them that the way that goeth down from they might receive the Holy Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is Ghost: desert.

16 (For as yet he was fallen 27 And he arose, and went : upon none of them: only they and behold, a man of Ethiopia, were baptized in the name of a eunuch of great authority unthe Lord Jesus.) der Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,

17 Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.

18 And when Simon saw that 28 Was returning; and sitthrough laying on of the apos- ting in his chariot, read Esaias tles' hands the Holy Ghost was the prophet.

given, he offered them money, 29 Then the Spirit said unto 19 Saying, Give me also this Philip, Go near and join thyself power, that on whomsoever I to this chariot.

lay hands, he may receive the 30 And Philip ran thither to Holy Ghost. him, and heard him read the 20 But Peter said unto him, prophet Esaias, and said, UnThy money perish with thee, derstandest thou what thou because thou hast thought that readest? the gift of God may be pur- 31 And he said, How can chased with money. I, except some man should guide 21 Thou hast neither part me? And he desired Philip that