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For which cause, making no doubt, I came when I was sent for. I ask, therefore, for what cause you have sent for me?

You know the word which hath been published through all Judea: for it began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached.

Jesus of Nazareth: how God anointed him with the Holy Ghost and with power, who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

And the faithful of the circumcision, who came with Peter, were astonished for that the grace of the Holy Ghost was poured out upon the Gentiles also.

For they heard them speaking with tongues and magnifying God.

And I said: Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath ever entered into my mouth.

For he was a good man and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith. And a great multitude was added to the Lord.

Peter therefore was kept in prison. But prayer was made without ceasing by the church unto God for him.

And as soon as she knew Peter’s voice, she opened not the gate for joy: but running in she told that Peter stood before the gate.

And when Herod had sought for him and found him not, having examined the keepers, he commanded they should be put to death. And going down from Judea to Caesarea, he abode there.

And as they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Ghost said to them: Separate me Saul and Barnabas, for the work whereunto I have taken them.

Who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, a prudent man. He, sending for Barnabas and Saul, desired to hear the word of God.

But Elymas the magician (for so his name is interpreted) withstood them, seeking to turn away the proconsul from the faith.

And now behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee: and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a time. And immediately there fell a mist and darkness upon him: and going about, he sought some one to lead him by the hand.

And for the space of forty years endured their manners in the desert:

For they that inhabited Jerusalem and the rulers thereof, not knowing him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath, judging him, have fulfilled them.

Who was seen for many days by them who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who to this present are his witnesses to the people.

For David, when he had served in his generation, according to the will of God, slept: and was laid unto his fathers and saw corruption.

Behold, ye despisers, and wonder and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you will not believe, if any man shall tell it you.

For so the Lord hath commanded us: I have set thee to be the light of the Gentiles: that thou mayest be for salvation unto the utmost part of the earth.