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Him hath God exalted with his right hand, to be Prince and Saviour. to give repentance to Israel and remission of sins.

And we are witnesses of these things: and the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to all that obey him.

And calling in the apostles, after they had scourged them, they charged them that they should not speak at all in the name of Jesus. And they dismissed them.

And they indeed went from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were accounted worthy to suffer reproach for the name of Jesus.

And every day they ceased not, in the temple and from house to house, to teach and preach Christ Jesus.

For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place and shall change the traditions which Moses delivered unto us.

And he gave him no inheritance in it: no, not the pace of a foot. But he promised to give it him in possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.

And the nation which they shall serve will I judge (said the Lord): and after these things they shall go out and shall serve me in this place.

And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so he begot Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day: and Isaac begot Jacob: and Jacob, the twelve patriarchs.

And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him, in the desert of mount Sina, an angel in a flame of fire in a bush.

And Moses seeing it wondered at the sight. And as he drew near to view it, the voice of the Lord came unto him, saying:

And the Lord said to him: Loose the shoes from thy feet: for the place wherein thou standest is holy ground.

This Moses, whom they refused, saying: Who hath appointed thee prince and judge? Him God sent to be prince and redeemer, by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the burning bush.

This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel: A prophet shall God raise up to you of your own brethren, as myself. Him shall you hear.

This is he that was in the church in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sina and with our fathers. Who received the words of life to give unto us.

And God turned and gave them up to serve the host of heaven, as it is written in the books of the prophets: Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me for forty years, in the desert, O house of Israel?

The tabernacle of the testimony was with our fathers in the desert, as God ordained for them, speaking to Moses, that he should make it according to the form which he had seen.

But Solomon built him a house,

Yet the most High dwelleth not in houses made by hands, as the prophet saith:

Heaven is my throne and the earth my footstool. What house will you build me (saith the Lord)? Or what is the place of my resting?

Hath not my hand made all these things?

But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looking up steadfastly to heaven, saw the glory of God and Jesus standing on the right hand of God. And he said: Behold, I see the heavens opened and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

And they, crying out with a loud voice, stopped their ears and with one accord ran violently upon him.

And falling on his knees, he cried with a loud voice, saying: Lord, lay not his sin to their charge: And when he had said this, he fell asleep in the Lord. And Saul was consenting to his death.

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.