a doctor of the law, had in reputation CHAPTER VI. among all the people, and command- AND in those days, when the ed to put the apostles forth a little number of the disciples was multispace; |plied, there arose a murmuring of the 35 And said unto them, Ye men of Grecians against the Hebrews, beIsrael, take heed to yourselves what cause their widows were neglected in ye intend to do as touching these the daily ministration. men, 36 For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought. 37 After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the taxing, and drew away much people after him: he also perished; and all, even as many as obeyed him, were dispersed. 38 And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: 39 But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God. 40 And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. 41 And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. 42 And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ. 2 Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables. 3 Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. 4 But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word. 5 And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch: 6 Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them. 7 And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith. 8 And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people. 9 Then there arose certain of the 34 SVA to put the men forth 36 A some great one 37 SVA* drew away people after him 38 S om. unto you 39 SVA ye cannot (SV ye will not be able to) overthrow them 40 SVA and let them go 41 SVA for the name 42 SVA Christ Jesus 6,3 SV But brethren, A Now brethren; S full of the spirit of wisdom 7 of the priests: S of the Jews 8 SVA full of grace and power synagogue, which is called the syna- of thy country, and from thy kindred, gogue of the Libertines, and Cyreni- and come into the land which I shall ans, and Alexandrians, and of them shew thee. of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen. 10 And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake. 4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldæans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell. II Then they suborned men, which 5 And he gave him none inheritsaid, We have heard him speak blas-ance in it, no, not so much as to set phemous words against Moses, and his foot on: yet he promised that he against God. would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child. 12 And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council, 13 And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law: 14 For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us. 15 And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel. 6 And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years. 7 And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place. 8 And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs. 9 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him, IO And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house. II Now there came a dearth over 3 And said unto him, Get thee out all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, 9 SA of the synagogue of those who are called the Libertines; A om. and of Asia II SV men, saying; S speak words of blasphemy against 12 S om. and came upon him; A and brought him 13 S witnesses, saying; SVA to speak words against the holy place 15 S looking at him stedfastly 7,6 S spake unto him, Thy seed shall and they shall bring it and entreat it evil 8 S the seventh day 10 SA and over all his house II SVA over all Egypt and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance. 12 But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first. 13 And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph's kindred was made known unto Pharaoh. 14 Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls. 15 So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers, 16 And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham brought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem. 17 But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, 18 Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph. 23 And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel. 24 And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian: 25 For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not. 26 And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another? 27 But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? 28 Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday? 29 Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons. 19 The same dealt subtilly with our 30 And when forty years were exkindred, and evil entreated our fa-pired, there appeared to him in the thers, so that they cast out their wilderness of mount Sina an angel of young children, to the end they might the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush. not live. 20 In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months: 21 And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son. 22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds. 31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the Lord came unto him, 32 Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold. 33 Then said the Lord to him, Put 16 SVA of 19 SV the 25 SV the 13 SA and his kindred 14 SVA and all his kindred 15 V om. into Egypt Emmor in Sychem 17 SVA which God had promised 18 SVA arose over Egypt fathers 20 SVA in his father's house 22 SVA in his words and deeds brethren 30 SVA om. of the Lord; A in a flaming fire 31 A om. at the sight; SVA a voice from the Lord came (om. unto him) 32 SVA and of Isaac and of Jacob off thy shoes from thy feet: for the days, and offered sacrifice unto the place where thou standest is holy idol, and rejoiced in the works of ground. their own hands. 34 I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt. 35 This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush. 36 He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years. 37 ¶ This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear. 38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us: 39 To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt, 40 Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. 41 And they made a calf in those 42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness? 43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon. of witness in the wilderness, as he 44 Our fathers had the tabernacle had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen. 45 Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David; 46 Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob. 47 But Solomon built him an house. 48 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet, 49 Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest? 50 Hath not my hand made all these things? 35 S and a judge over us; S and a judge instead of and a deliverer; VA with the hand 37 SA shall God raise; S of your brethren; SVA cm. him shall ye hear 38 S with your fathers; V who had chosen the; S unto you 40 S Moses the man which brought us 42 V* om. in the wilderness 43 S Romphan, V Rompha, A Rephan 44 A Your fathers 46 SV for the house of Jacob 48 SVA dwelleth not in what is made with hands 51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircum CHAPTER VIII. cised in heart and ears, ye do always AND Saul was consenting unto his resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers death. And at that time there was a did, so do ye. great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, 52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of except the apostles. whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: 53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it. 54 ¶ When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth. 2 And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him. 3 As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison. 4 Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preach55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into hea-ing the word. ven, and saw the glory of God, and 5 Then Philip went down to the Jesus standing on the right hand of city of Samaria, and preached Christ God, 56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. 57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, 58 And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul. 59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. 60 And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep. unto them. 6 And the people with one accord Philip spake, hearing and seeing the gave heed unto those things which miracles which he did. 7 For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed. 8 And there was great joy in that city. 9 But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one: 10 To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God. II And to him they had regard, 51 VA in hearts, S in your hearts 54 S When they heard 55 the Holy Ghost 58 A and cast him out 60 S om. with a loud voice they 4S om. every where 6 SVA Now the people 8 SVA Now 10 SVA is the power of God which is called great S full of faith and of 8,1 S om. and before there was much joy |