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Now about that time, Herode the King stretched foorth his hands, to vexe certaine of the Church.

And beholde, the Angel of the Lord came vpon him, and a light shined in the prison: and hee smote Peter on the side, and raised him vp, saying, Arise vp quickely. And his chaines fell off from his hands.

When they were past the first and the second ward, they came vnto the yron gate that leadeth vnto the citie, which opened to them of his owne accord: and they went out and passed on thorow one streete, and foorthwith the Angel departed from him.

And when Peter was come to himselfe, hee said, Now I know of a suretie, that the Lord hath sent his Angel, and hath deliuered mee out of the hand of Herode, and from all the expectation of the people of the Iewes.

And they said vnto her, Thou art mad. But she constantly affirmed that it was euen so. Then said they, It it his Angel.

And vpon a set day Herod arayed in royall apparell, sate vpon his throne, and made an Oration vnto them.

But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turne away the deputy from the faith.

Then Saul (who also is called Paul) filled with the holy Ghost, set his eyes on him,

Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and Iohn departing from them, returned to Hierusalem.

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

Of this mans seed hath God, according to his promise, raised vnto Israel a Sauiour, Iesus:

When Iohn had first preached before his coming, the baptisme of repentance to all the people of Israel.

And as Iohn fulfilled his course, he said, Whom thinke ye that I am? I am not he. But behold, there commeth one after me, whose shooes of his feete I am not worthy to loose.

And he was seene many dayes of them which came vp with him from Galilee to Hierusalem, who are his witnesses vnto the people.

For Dauid after he had serued his owne generation by the will of God, fell on sleepe, and was laide vnto his fathers, and saw corruption:

Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gaue testimonie vnto the word of his grace, and granted signes and wonders to be done by their hands.

And there sate a certaine man at Lystra, impotent in his feete, being a creeple from his mothers wombe, who neuer had walked.

Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visite the Gentiles to take out of them a people for his Name.

Knowen vnto God are all his workes fro the beginning of the world.

Then came he to Derbe, and Lystra: and behold, a certaine disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certaine woman which was a Iewesse, and beleeued: but his father was a Greeke: