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not to all the people, but to witnesses, to those having been chosen before by God -- to us who did eat with [him], and did drink with him, after his rising out of the dead;

to this one do all the prophets testify, that through his name every one that is believing in him doth receive remission of sins.'

he declared also to us how he saw the messenger in his house standing, and saying to him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter,

And about that time, Herod the king put forth his hands, to do evil to certain of those of the assembly,

and lo, a messenger of the Lord stood by, and a light shone in the buildings, and having smitten Peter on the side, he raised him up, saying, `Rise in haste,' and his chains fell from off [his] hands.

And Peter having come to himself, said, `Now I have known of a truth that the Lord did sent forth His messenger, and did deliver me out of the hand of Herod, and all the expectation of the people of the Jews;'

and they said unto her, `Thou art mad;' and she was confidently affirming [it] to be so, and they said, `It is his messenger;'

and there withstood them Elymas the magian -- for so is his name interpreted -- seeking to pervert the proconsul from the faith.

John having first preached, before his coming, a baptism of reformation to all the people of Israel;

and as John was fulfilling the course, he said, Whom me do ye suppose to be? I am not [he], but, lo, he doth come after me, of whom I am not worthy to loose the sandal of [his] feet.

and he was seen for many days of those who did come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.

for David, indeed, his own generation having served by the will of God, did fall asleep, and was added unto his fathers, and saw corruption,

long time, indeed, therefore, did they abide speaking boldly in the Lord, who is testifying to the word of His grace, and granting signs and wonders to come to pass through their hands.

And a certain man in Lystra, impotent in the feet, was sitting, being lame from the womb of his mother -- who never had walked,

Simeon did declare how at first God did look after to take out of the nations a people for His name,

`Known from the ages to God are all His works;

this one did Paul wish to go forth with him, and having taken [him], he circumcised him, because of the Jews who are in those places, for they all knew his father -- that he was a Greek.

and they spake to him the word of the Lord, and to all those in his household;

and having taken them, in that hour of the night, he did bathe [them] from the blows, and was baptized, himself and all his presently,

having brought them also into his house, he set food before [them], and was glad with all the household, he having believed in God.