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Mysia, they assayed to go into God, which shew unto us the way Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered

them not.

8 And they passing by Mysia, came down to Troas.

of salvation.

m 18 And this did she many days. But Paul being grieved, turned and said to the Spirit, I command d 9 And a vision appeared to Paul thee in the name of Jesus Christ in the night: There stood a man to come out of her. And he came of Macedonia, and prayed him, out the same hour.

saying, Come over into Macedo-c 19 T And when her masters saw nia, and help us. that the hope of their gains was

10 And after he had seen the gone, they caught Paul and Silas, vision, immediately we endeavour- and drew them into the marketed to go into Macedonia, assuredly place unto the rulers, gathering, that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them.

g 11 Therefore loosing from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia, and the next day to Neapolis;

and we

20 And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,

21 And teach customs which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans. g 12 And from thence to Philippi, 22 And the multitude rose up which is the chief city of that together against them: and the part of Macedonia, and a colony: magistrates rent off their clothes, were in that city abiding and commanded to beat them. certain days. d 13 And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither.

23 And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely.

24 Who having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in

t 14 T And a certain woman na- the stocks. med Lydia, a seller of purple, of d 25 T And at midnight Paul and the city of Thyatira, which wor- Silas prayed, and sang praises unshipped God, heard us: whose to God and the prisoners heard heart the Lord opened, that she them.

attended unto the things which m 26 And suddenly there was a were spoken of Paul. great earthquake, so that the found 15 And when she was baptized, dations of the prison were shaken : and her household, she besought and immediately all the doors were us, saying, If ye have judged me opened, and every one's bands to be faithful to the Lord, come were loosed. into my house, and abide there : And she constrained us.

27 And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing ƒ16 And it came to pass as we the prison-doors open, he drew out went to prayer, a certain damsel his sword, and would have killed possessed with a spirit of divina- himself, supposing that the prisontion, met us, which brought her ers had been fled.

masters much gain by soothsay-e 28 But Paul cried with a loud
ing:
voice, saying, Do thyself no harm:
for we are all here.

c 17 The same followed Paul and
us, and cried, saying, These men
are the servants of the most high and

29 Then he called for a light, sprang in, and came trem

bling, and fell down before and Silas;

Paul d 2 And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sab bath-days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,

d 30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

d 31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

32 And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.

t3 Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.

c 4 And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas: d 33 And he took them the same and of the devout Greeks a great hour of the night, and washed multitude, and of the chief women their stripes; and was baptized, not a few. he and all his, straightway.

c5 But the Jews which belierd 34 And when he had brought ed not, moved with envy, took un them into his house, he set meat to them certain lewd fellows di before them, and rejoiced, believ- the baser sort, and gathered a ing in God with all his house. f35 And when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, Let those men go.

36 And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore depart, and go in peace.

37 But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.

38 And the sergeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared when they heard that they were Romans.

39 And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city.

f40 And they went out of the prison, and entered into the house of Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and departed.

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CHAP. XVII.

company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

6 And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certais brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have tuined the world upside down, are come hither also;

7 Whom Jason hath received and these all do contrary to the decrees of Cesar, saying, that there is another king, one Jesus.

8 And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things.

9 And when they had taken se curity of Jason and of the other, they let them go.

f10 T And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither, went into the synagogue of the Jews.

d* 11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readi ness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

TOW when they had passed through Amphipolis, and 12 Therefore many of them beApollonia, they came to Thessalo-lieved; also of honourable women nica, where was a synagogue of which were Greeks, and of mea the Jews. not a few.

g 13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people.

THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. t 24 God that made the world, and all things therein, seeing that 14 And then immediately the he is Lord of heaven and earth, brethren sent away Paul, to go as dwelleth not in temples made with it were to the sea: but Silas and hands; Timotheus abode there still. b 25 Neither is worshipped with g 15 And they that conducted men's hands, as though he needed Paul brought him unto Athens: any thing, seeing he giveth to all and receiving a commandment life, and breath and all things; unto Silas and Timotheus for tot 26 And hath made of one blood come to him with all speed, they all nations of men for to dwell on departed.

f16 T Now, while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.

17 Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.

all the face of the earth, and hath
determined the times before ap-
pointed, and the bounds of their
habitation;

d 27 That they should seek the
Lord, if haply they might feel after
him, and find him, though he be
not far from every one of us :
b 28 For in him we live, and move,
and have our being; as certain
also of your own poets have said,
For we are also his offspring.

# 18 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. And some said, e 29 Forasmuch then as we are What will this babbler say? other sume, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.

19 And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears; we would know therefore what these things mean.

21 (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)

g 22 T Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars-hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.

the offspring of God, we ought not
to think that the Godhead is like
unto gold, or silver, or stone, gra-
ven by art and man's device.
d 30 And the times of this igno
rance God winked at; but now
commandeth all men every where
to repent:

t 31 Because he hath appointed a
day, in the which he will judge
the world in righteousness, by that
man whom he hath ordained:
whereof he hath given assurance
unto all men, in that he hath raised
him from the dead.

ƒ 32 ¶ And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.

33 So Paul departed from among them.

34 Howbeit, certain men clave. unto him, and believed: among 23 For as I passed by, and be- the which was Dionysius the Areheld your devotions, I found an opagite, and a woman named Da altar with this inscription, TO maris, and others with them.

CHAP. XVIII.

13 Saying, This fellow persub

AFTER these things, and dehmen to worship God contrary

departed from Athens, and

came to Corinth;

g 2 And found a certain Jew na-
med Aquila, born in Pontus, late-
ly come from Italy, with his wife
Priscilla, (because that Claudius
had commanded all Jews to depart
from Rome) and came unto them.
3 And because he was of the
same craft, he abode with them,
and wrought, (for by their occupa-
tion they were tent-makers.)
d 4 And he reasoned in the syna-
gogue every sabbath, and persua-
ded the Jews and the Greeks.

t 5 And when Silas and Timotheus
were come from Macedonia, Paul
was pressed in the spirit, and tes-
tified to the Jews, that Jesus was
Christ.

c 6 And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.

7 And he departed thence, and entered into a certain man's house, named Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue.

to the law.

14 And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong, or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:

15 But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it: for I will be no judge of such matters.

16 And he drave them from the judgment-seat.

17 Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment-seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things. f 18 ¶ And Paul, after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla, and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea : for he had a vow.

g 19 And he came to Ephesus and left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.

20 When they desired him t tarry longer time with them, he d 8 And Crispus, the chief ruler consented not:

of the synagogue, believed on the d 21 But bade them farewell, say. Lord with all his house: and many ing, I must by all means keep this of the Corinthians hearing, believ-feast that cometh in Jerusalem: ed, and were baptized. but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from

9 Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not Ephesus. afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace:

t 10 For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee, to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city. f11 And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

g 12 And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment-seat,

g 22 And when he had landed at Cesarea, and gone up and saluted the church, he went down to Antioch.

ƒ 23 And after he had spent some time there, he departed and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.

g 24 ¶ And a certain Jew, named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.

c25 This man was instructed in space of three months, disputing the way of the Lord: and being and persuading the things confervent in the spirit, he spake and cerning the kingdom of God. taught diligently the things of the c 9 But when divers were hardLord, knowing only the baptism ened, and believed not, but spake of John. evil of that way before the multi26 And he began to speak bold-tude, he departed from them, and ly in the synagogue: Whom, when separated the disciples, disputing Aquila and Priscilla had heard, daily in the school of one Tyrannus. they took him unto them, and ex- 10 And this continued by the pounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.

space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

m 11 And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul :

t 27 And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which 12 So that from his body were had believed through grace. brought unto the sick handker28 For he mightily convinced chiefs, or aprons, and the diseases the Jews, and that publicly, shew-departed from them, and the evil ing by the scriptures, that Jesus spirits went out of them. was Christ.

CHAP. XIX.

t 13 T Then certain of the vaga. bond Jews, exorcists, took upon

AND it came to pass, that while them to call over them which had

Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts, came to Ephesus; and finding certain disciples,

t 2 He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.

3 And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism.

4 Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.

f5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

t 6 And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.

7 And all the men were about twelve.

f 8 And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the

evil spirits, the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.

14 And there were seven sons of one Sceva a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so. t 15 And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?

16 And the man in whom the evil spirit was, leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

17 And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus: and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

d 18 And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.

19 Many also of them which used curious arts, brought their books together, and burned them before all men; and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.

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