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But Peter & Ihon answered, and sayde vnto the: Iudge ye youre selues, whether it be right before God, that we shulde be more obedient vnto you, then vnto God.

But they threatened them, and let them go, and founde nothinge how to punyshe them because of ye people: for they all praysed God because of that, which was done.

Wha they herde that, they lifte vp their voyce wt one acorde vnto God, and sayde: LORDE, thou that art the God which made heauen and earth, and the see, and all that therin is thou

And wha they had prayed, the place moued where they were gathered together, & they were all fylled with ye holy goost, & spake the worde of God boldly.

Mightest thou not haue kepte it, whan thou haddest it? And whan it was solde, the money was also in thy power: Why hast thou then conceaued this thinge in thine hert? Thou hast not lyed vnto me, but vnto God.

But Peter and the Apostles answered, and sayde: We ought more to obeye God then men.

The God of oure fathers hath raysed vp Iesus, who ye slewe, and hanged on tre.

Him hath the righte hande of God exalted, to be a prynce and Sauioure, to geue repentaunce and forgeuenesse of synnes vnto Israel.

And we are his recordes of these wordes, and the holy goost, who God hath geuen vnto the that obeye him.

but yf it be of God, ye are not able to destroye it, lest ye be founde to be the men, that wil stryue agaynst God.

Then the twolue called the multitude of the disciples together, and sayde: It is not mete that we shulde leaue the worde of God, and to serue at the tables.

But we wil geue oure selues vnto prayer, and to the mynistracion of the worde of God.

And the worde of God increased, and the nombre of the disciples multiplied greatly at Ierusalem. And there were many prestes also obedient vnto the fayth.

Then sent they in certayne men, that sayde: We haue herde him speake blasphemous wordes agaynst Moses, and agaynst God.

He sayde: Deare brethren and fathers, herken to, The God of glorye appeared vnto or father Abraha, whyle he was yet in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,

But thus sayde God vnto him: Thy sede shalbe a straunger in a straunge londe, and they shal make bonde men of them, and intreate the euell foure hundreth yeares:

and ye people whom they shal serue, wil I iudge, sayde God. And after that shal they go forth, and serue me in this place.

And the Patriarkes had indignacion at Ioseph, and solde hi in to Egipte. And God was with him,

Now wha the tyme of the promes drue nye (which God had sworne vnto Abraha) the people grewe and multiplied in Egipte,

At the same tyme was Moses borne, and was a proper childe before God, and was norished thre monethes in his fathers house.