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The word which God sent vnto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Iesus Christ (he is Lord of all.)

How God anointed Iesus of Nazareth with the holy Ghost, and with power, who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the deuill: for God was with him.

Him God raised vp the third day, and shewed him openly,

Not to all the people, but vnto witnesses, chosen before of God, euen to vs who did eate and drinke with him after he rose from the dead.

And he commanded vs to preach vnto the people, and to testifie that it is he which was ordeined of God to be the Iudge of quicke and dead.

For they heard them speake with tongues, and magnifie God. Then answered Peter,

And the Apostles, and brethren that were in Iudea, heard that the Gentiles had also receiued the word of God.

But the voyce answered me againe from heauen, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

Forasmuch then as God gaue them the like gift as hee did vnto vs, who beleeued on the Lord Iesus Christ: what was I that I could withstand God?

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance vnto life.

Who when hee came, and had seene the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleaue vnto the Lord.

Peter therefore was kept in prison, but prayer was made without ceasing of the Church vnto God for him.

And the people gaue a shout, saying, It is the voice of a God, and not of a man.

And immediatly the Angel of the Lord smote him, because hee gaue not God the glory, and hee was eaten of wormes, and gaue vp the ghost.

But the word of God grewe, and multiplied.

And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the Synagogues of the Iewes: and they had also Iohn to their Minister.

Which was with the deputie of the countrey Sergius Paulus, a prudent man: who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to heare the word of God.

Then Paul stood vp, and beckning with his hand, said, Men of Israel, and ye that feare God, giue audience.

The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arme brought he them out of it.

And afterward they desired a King, and God gaue vnto them Saul the sonne of Cis, a man of the tribe of Beniamin, by the space of fourty yeres.