the temple, and teaching the people.
26 Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared
the people, lest they should have been stoned.
27 And when they had brought them, they set thembefore the council: and the high priest asked
them,
28 Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold,
ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.
29 Then Peter and the otherapostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.
31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand to bea Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance
to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.
32 And we are his witnesses of these things; and so isalso the Holy Ghost, whom God hath
given to them that obey him.
33 When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them.
34 Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had
in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space;
35 And said unto them, Ye men of Israel, take heed to yourselves what ye intend to do as
touching these 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, evenas 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.
1 And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring
of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily
ministration.
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 theirhands 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 synagogue, which is called the synagogueof the Libertines,
and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them 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.
11 Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against
Moses, and againstGod.
12 And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and
caught him, and brought himto 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.
1 Then said the high priest, Are these things so?
2 And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father
Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,
3 And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land
which I shall shew thee.
4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when
his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.
5 And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much asto set his foot on: yet he promised
that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yethe had no
child.
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 themevil 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 Abrahambegat Isaac, and circumcised
him the eighth day; and Isaac begatJacob; and Jacob begatthe twelve patriarchs.
9 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
10 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.
11 Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, 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 timeJoseph 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 bought for a sum
of money of the sons of Emmor the fatherof 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.
19 The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast
out their young children, to the end they might 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.
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 themsuffer 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.
30 And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina
an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
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 amthe 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 off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest
is holy ground.
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 bea 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 withour fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
39 To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust himfrom them, and in their hearts turned
back again into Egypt,
40 Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as forthis 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 days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the
works of their own hands.
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 offorty 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.
44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he 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.