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Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.

And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.

Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.

Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.

Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;

And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:

But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.

For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:

Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.

God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.

And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,

And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.

But God raised him from the dead:

And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.

And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.

For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.

Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.

And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.

When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

Of this man"s seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:

And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave their testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.

And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.

And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.

And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.

And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.

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 arm brought he them out of it.