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and having beckoned to them with the hand to be silent, he declared to them how the Lord brought him out of the prison, and he said, `Declare to James and to the brethren these things;' and having gone forth, he went on to another place.

and presently there smote him a messenger of the Lord, because he did not give the glory to God, and having been eaten of worms, he expired.

and in their ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, `Separate ye to me both Barnabas and Saul to the work to which I have called them,'

said, `O full of all guile, and all profligacy, son of a devil, enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease perverting the right ways of the Lord?

and now, lo, a hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season;' and presently there fell upon him a mist and darkness, and he, going about, was seeking some to lead him by the hand;

then the proconsul having seen what hath come to pass, did believe, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.

and about a period of forty years He did suffer their manners in the wilderness,

and having destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, He did divide by lot to them their land.

`And after these things, about four hundred and fifty years, He gave judges--till Samuel the prophet;

and having removed him, He did raise up to them David for king, to whom also having testified, he said, I found David, the son of Jesse, a man according to My heart, who shall do all My will.

`Of this one's seed God, according to promise, did raise to Israel a Saviour--Jesus,

John having first preached, before his coming, a baptism of reformation to all the people of Israel;

and as John was fulfilling the course, he said, Whom me do ye suppose to be? I am not he , but, lo, he doth come after me, of whom I am not worthy to loose the sandal of his feet.

for those dwelling in Jerusalem, and their chiefs, this one not having known, also the voices of the prophets, which every sabbath are being read--having judged him --did fulfil,

and no cause of death having found, they did ask of Pilate that he should be slain,

and when they did complete all the things written about him, having taken him down from the tree, they laid him in a tomb;

and God did raise him out of the dead,

and he was seen for many days of those who did come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.

God hath in full completed this to us their children, having raised up Jesus, as also in the second Psalm it hath been written, My Son thou art--I to-day have begotten thee.

`And that He did raise him up out of the dead, no more to return to corruption, he hath said thus--I will give to you the faithful kindnesses of David;

wherefore also in another place he saith, Thou shalt not give Thy kind One to see corruption,

but he whom God did raise up, did not see corruption.

`Let it therefore be known to you, men, brethren, that through this one to you is the forgiveness of sins declared,

and from all things from which ye were not able in the law of Moses to be declared righteous, in this one every one who is believing is declared righteous;

for so hath the Lord commanded us: I have set thee for a light of nations--for thy being for salvation unto the end of the earth.'