Blasphemy tified by the law of A. D. 45. Moses. m Is. 29. 14. Ha. 1. 5. spake P against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. week between, or, in the sab 40 Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which ist Gr. in the spoken of in m the prophets; 41 Behold, ye de- bath bespisers, and wonder, tween. and perish: for In ch. 11. 23. work a work in your days, a work which o ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you. 42 And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the P Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them † the next sabbath. 43 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. 44 And the next. sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God. & 14. 22. Ro. 3. 24. & 5. 21. & 11.6. Ga. 5. 4. Ep. 2. 8. Tit. 2. 11. He. 12. 15. 1 Pe. 5.12. ch. 18. 6. 1 Pe. 4. 4. Jude 10. ver. 26. ch. 3. 26. Ma. 10. 6. 46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, a 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. 47 For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth. Lu. 24. 47. Jno. 4. 22. Ro. 1. 16. r Ex. 32. 10. De. 32. 21. Is. 55. 5. 48 And when the Lu. 14. 16. ch. 18. 6. Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: " and as many as were or. dained to eternal life believed. & 28. 28. Ma. 21.43. 24. Jno. 1. 11. Ro. 10. 19. Is. 55. 5. 49 And the word of the Lord was pubt ch. 26. 23. lished throughout all the region. Is. 42. 6. & 49. 6. & 60. 3. Lu. 2. 32. 45 But when theu ch. 2. 47. Jews saw the multi- 2 Th. 2.13. tudes, they were fill-x 2 Ti. 3. 11. ed with envy, and] 50 But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution ACTS XIV. 1 Pe. 1. 8. a ch. 2. 22. & 5. 32. Mar.16.20. He. 2. 4. Lu. 6. 28. 2 Ti. 3. 11. I AND it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both to- b ch. 13. 3. gether into the syna-e gogue of the Jews, and so spake, that ad great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks* believed. 2 But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren. 3 Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in Ma. 10. 23. e ch. 3. 2. Ma. 8. 10. ver. 1- understand, Jewish ex traction, who the Lord, a which persons of man healed. and part with the apostlesb. 5 And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and also of the Jews with their rulers, to use them despitefully, and to stone them, 6 They were ware of it, and d fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about: 7 And there they preached the gospel. 8 And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked : 9 The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and fperceiving that he had faith to be healed, 10 Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked. 11 And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, say tude of the city was heathen an-ing in the speech of sided: and part cestors. with the Jews, Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us 12 And they called i Da. 2. 46. Barnabas, Jupiter;k Ma. 26. 65. and Paul, Mercuriuc, 1 ch. 10. 26. because he was the m Jn. 5. 17. chief speaker. 13 Then the priest n of Jupiter, which was before their brought garlands city, oxen and unto the gates, i and would apostles, Re. 19.10. 1 S. 12. 21. 1 Ki. 16. 13. Je. 14. 22. Am. 2. 4. 1 Co. 8. 4. o1 Th. 1. 9. P Ga. 1. 1. Ps. 33. 6. & 146. 6. Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they k rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out, ye 15 And saying, sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that should turn from thesen vanities unto the living God, which P made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein : 16 a Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways. 17 Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and us rain from gave Re. 14. 7. ch. 17.30. Ps. 81. 12. 1 Pe. 4. 3. r ch. 17. 27. Ro. 1. 20. Le. 26. 4. De. 11. 14. & 28. 12. Job 5. 10. Ps. 65. 10. Je. 14. 22. Ma. 5. 45. ch. 13. 45. a 2 Co.11.25. 2 Ti. 3. 11. x Ma. 28. 19. † Gr. had made many disciples. y ch. 11. 23. & 13. 43. is stoned. they people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them. 19 And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, u having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead. 20 Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up, and came into the city: and the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe. many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and An tioch, 22 Confirming the souls of the disciples, and y exhorting them & 16. 24. to continue in the Lu. 22. 28, faith, and that 29. must through much tribulation enter into 12. the kingdom of God. 23 And when they Ro. 8. 17. 2 Ti. 2, 11, we Dissension about circumcision. cumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. ACTS XV. had a ordained them A. D. 51. elders in every church, and had a Tit. 1. 5. 2 When therefore prayed with fasting, beh. 13. 1. 3. they commended c ch. 15. 40. Paul and Barnabas 2 Co. 1. 12. had no small dissen3 Jno. 6.8.sion and disputation ch. 15. 4. with them, they de12. termined that d Paul and Barnabas, and 1 Co. 3. 5. certain other of them, 9. should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and them to the Lord, on whom they believed. 24 And after they had passed throughout Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia. d & 21. 19. Ro. 15. 18. & 15. 10. the1 Co. 16.9. 25 And when they had preached word in Perga, they went down into Attalia: 26 And thence sailed to Antioch, bfrom whence they had been recommended to the grace of God for the work which they fulfilled. 27 And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, d they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles. 28 And there they abode long time with the disciples. CHAP. XV. Col. 4. 3. elders about this question. a Ga. 2. 12. by the church, they b ver. 5. Jno. 7. 22. 11. 16. Ge. 17. 10. Le. 12. 3. passed through Pheand Samaria, nice declaring the con version of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren. 4 And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were re11.ceived of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them. fch. 14. 27. 20. g ver. 12. ch. 14. 27. 2 Co. 5. 19. † Or, rose 1 And a certain men they, cerwhich came down tain. from Judæa taught h ver. 1. the brethren, and said, Except ye be cir-l Ga. 5. 1. 3. 5 But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees, which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses. 6 And the apostles The apostles' and elders came together for to consider of this matter. 7 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Meni and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe. & 29. 17. Je. 11. 20. Jno. 2. 24. & 21. 17. ch. 10. 44. 17. 8 And God,k which 1 knoweth the hearts, & bare them witness, giving 1 them them Ro. 10. 11. Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us; 1 Co. 1. 2. me: 14 Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. 15 And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written, 16 After this I n ch. 10. 15. will return, and will 28.43. build again the taHe. 9. 13. bernacle of David, 1 Pe. 1. 22. which is fallen down; Ma. 23. 4. and I will build again Ga 5. 1. the ruins thereof, and Ro. 3. 24. I will set it up: 9 m And put no difference between us and them," purifying o their hearts by faith. 10 Now therefore P why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither q our fathers nor we were able to bear? r 11 But p we believe. that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they. 12 Then all the multitude kept si 2 Co. 8. 9. & 3.4, 5. & 21. 19. ch. 12. 17. Lu. 1. 68. 17 That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things. & ver. 7. 78. 18 Known 13. 2 Pe. 1. 1. God are all his works from the beginning of the world. 19 Wherefore "my lence, and gave au- t Am. 9. 11, sentence is, that we dience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring u ver. 28. 12. trouble not them, which from among x are turned to God: what miracles and x 1 Th. 1. 9. the Gentiles wonders God had |