Acts — The Tyndale New Testament (1534)

The Acts of the Apostles in Tyndale's revised New Testament of 1534, translated from the Greek; the printed title names Luke as present at the deeds he records. It is printed here from the copy in the British Library as keyed by the Text Creation Partnership, in the spelling of 1534; the margin notes are given as footnotes, and the crosses ✚ and ⊢ mark where the lessons read in church begin and end.

Chapter 1

¶ The Fyrst Chapter.

1 IN the former treatise [A] (Deare frende Theophilus) I have written of all that Iesus beganne to do & teache /

2 vntyll the daye in the which he was taken vp / after that he thorowe the holy goost / had geven commaundementes vnto the Apostles / which he had chosen:

3 to whom also he shewed him selfe alyve / after his passion by many tokens / apperynge vnto them fourty dayes / & speakynge of the kyngdome of god /

4 & gaddered them togeder / and commaunded¹ thē / that they shuld not departe from Ierusalem: but to wayte for yᵉ promys of the father / wherof ye have herde of me.

5 For Iohn baptised wᵗ water: but ye shalbe baptised with the holy goost / & that with in this feawe dayes.

6 When they were come togeder / they axed of him sayinge: Lorde wilt thou at this tyme restore agayne yᵉ kyngdome to Israel?

7 And he sayde vnto them: It is not for you to knowe the tymes / or the seasons which yᵉ father hath put in his awne power:

8 but ye shall receave power of the holy goost which shall come on you. And ye shall be witnesses vnto me in Ierusalem / & in all Iewrye and in Samary / and even vnto the worldes ende.

9 And when he had spoken these thinges / [B] whyll they behelde / he was takē vp / & a cloude receaved him vp out of their sight.

10 And while they looked stedfastly vp to heaven as he went / beholde two men stode by them in white apparell /

11 which also sayde: ye men of Galile / why stonde ye gasinge vp into heavē? This same Iesus which is taken vp frō you in to heaven / shall so come / even as ye haue sene him goo into heaven. ⊢

12 Then returned they vnto Ierusalem from² mount olivete / which is nye to Ierusalem / cōteyninge a Saboth dayes iorney.

13 And when they were come in / they went vp into a parler / where abode both Peter & Iames / Iohn & Andrew / Philip & Thomas / Bartlemew & Mathew / Iames the sonne of Alpheus / & Simō zelotes / & Iudas Iames sonne.

14 These all cōtinued with one acorde in prayer & supplicacion with the wemen and Mary the mother of Iesu / and with his brethren.

15 ✚ And in those dayes Peter stode vp in the [C] myddes of the disciples & sayde (the noumbre of names that were to gether / were aboute an hondred & twenty)

16 Ye men and brethren / this scripture must have nede ben fulfilled which the holy goost thorow yᵉ mouth of David spake before of Iudas / which was gyde to them³ that tooke Iesus.

17 For he was noūbred with vs & had obtayned fellouship in this ministracion.

18 And the same hath now possessed a plot of grounde with the rewarde of iniquite / and when he was hanged / brast a sondre in yᵉ myddes / & all his bowels gusshed oute.

19 And it is knowē vnto all the inhabiters of Ierusalem: in so moche that that felde is called in their mother tonge / Acheldama / that is to saye / the bloud felde.

20 It is written in the boke of Psalmes: his [D]⁴ habitaciō be voyde / and no man be dwellinge therin: and his bisshoprycke let another take.⁵

21 Wherfore of these mē which have cōpanyed with vs / all y[ᵉ] tyme that the Lorde Iesus wēt in & out amonge vs /

22 begynninge at the baptyme of Iohn vnto that same daye that he was taken vp from vs / must one be ordeyned to be are witnes with vs of his resurreccion.

23 And they appoynted two / Ioseph called Barsabas (whose syr name was Iustus) and Mathias.

24 And they prayed sayinge: thou Lorde which knowest the hertes of all mē / shewe whether of these two thou hast chosen

25 that the one maye take the roume of this ministracion / and apostleshippe from the which Iudas by transgression fell / that he myght go to his awne place.

26 And they gave forthe their lottes / and the lot fell on Mathias / and he was⁶ counted with the eleven Apostles. ⊢

Notes to Chapter 1

Chapter 2

¶ The Seconde Chapter. ✚

1 VVhē the fyftith daye was come / they [A] were all with one accorde togeder in one place.

2 And sodenly ther cam a sounde from heaven / as it had bene the comminge of a myghty wynde / & it filled all the housse where they sate.

3 And ther appered vnto them cloven tonges / lyke as they had bene⁷ fyre / and it sate vpon eache of them:

4 and they were all filled with the holy goost / and beganne to speake with other tonges / even as the sprete gave them vtteraunce.

5 And ther were dwellinge at Ierusalem Iewes / devoute men / which were of all nacions vnder heaven.

6 When this was noysed aboute / the multitude came to gether & were astonyed / because that every man hearde thē speake his awne toūge.

7 They wondred all & marveyled sayinge amōge them selves: Beholde / are not all these which speake / of Galile?

8 And how heare we every man his awne toūge wherein we were boren?

9 Parthians / Medes and Elamytes / and the inhabiters of Mesopotamia / of Iury / and of Capadocia / of Ponthus and Asia /

10 Phrigia / Pamphilia / and of Egypte / and of the parties of Libia which is besyde Syrene / and straungers of Rome / Iewes &⁸ convertes /

11 Grekes and Arabians: we have herde them speake with oure awne tonges the greate workes of God.

12 ✚ They were all amased / and wondred sayinge one to another: what meaneth this?

13 Other mocked thē sayinge: they are full of newe wyne.

14 ✚ But Peter stepped forth with the elevē / & lift vp his voyce / and sayde vnto them: Ye men of Iewrye / & all ye that inhabite Ierusalem: be this knowē vnto you / and with youre eares heare my wordes.

15 These are not dronken / as ye suppose: for it is yet but the thyrde houre of yᵉ daye.

16 But this is that which was spoken by y[ᵉ] Prophete ⟨illegible⟩ohel:

17 It shalbe in the [C]⁹ last dayes sayth God: of my sprete I will powre out vpon all flesshe. And youre sonnes & youre doughters shall prophesy / & youre yōge men shall se visions / & youre olde mē shall dreme dremes.

18 And on my servaūts / & on my honde maydens I will powre out of my sprete in those dayes / & they shall prophesye.

19 And I will shewe wonders in heaven a bove / & tokens in the erth benethe / bloud and fyre / and the vapour of smoke.

20 The sunne shalbe turned into darknes / & the mone into bloud before that greate & notable daye of the Lorde come.

21 And it shalbe / that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lorde shalbe saved. ⊢

22 ✚ Ye men of Israel heare these wordes. Iesus¹⁰ of Nazareth / a mā approved of God amōge you with myracles / wondres and signes which God dyd by him in yᵉ myddes of you / as ye youre selves knowe:

23 him have ye taken by the hondes of vnrightewes persones / after he was delivered by the determinat counsell & foreknoweledge of God / & have crucified & slayne:

24 whom God hath raysed vp & lowsed [D]¹¹ the sorowes of deeth / because it was vnpossible that he shuld be holden of it.

25 For David speaketh of him: Afore honde I sawe God alwayes before me: For he is on my ryght honde / that I shuld not be moved.

26 Therfore dyd my hert reioyce / & my tonge was glad. Moreover / also my flesshe shall rest in hope /

27 because¹² thou wilt not leve my soul in hell / nether wilt suffre thyne holye to se corrupciō.

28 Thou hast shewed me the wayes of lyfe / & shalt make me full of ioye with thy countenaunce. ⊢

29 Men & brethren / let me frely speake vnto [E]¹³ you of the patriarke David: For he is both deed & buryed / & his sepulcre remayneth with vs vnto this daye.

30 Therfore seinge he was a Prophet / & knewe that God had sworne with an othe to him / that the frute of his loynes shuld sit on his seat (in that Christ shulde ryse agayne in the flesshe)

31 he sawe before: and spake in the resurreccion of Christ / that his soule▪ shulde not be left in hell: nether his fles se shuld se corrupciō.

32 This Iesus hath God raysyd vp / wher of we all are witnesses.

33 Sence now that he by the right honde of God exalted is / & hath receaved of the father the promyse of the holy goost / he hath sheed forthe that which ye nowe se and heare.

34 For David is not ascendyd into heavē: but he sayde. The Lorde sayde to my Lorde sit on my [F]¹⁴ right honde /

35 vntill I make thy fooes thy fote stole.

36 So therfore let all the housse of Israel knowe for a suerty / yᵗ God hath made y[ᵉ] same Iesus whom ye have crucified lorde & Christ.

37 When they hearde this / they were pricked in their hertes / & sayd vnto Peter & vnto the other Apostles: Ye men & brethrē / what shall we do?

38 Peter sayde vnto them: repent & be baptised every one of you in the name of Iesus Christ / for the remission of synnes / & ye shall receave the gyfte of the holy goost.

39 For y[ᵉ] promyse was made vnto you & to youre chyldrē / & to all that are afarre / even as many as yᵉ Lorde oure God shall call.

40 And with many other wordes bare he witnes & exhorted them sayinge: Save youre selves from this vntowarde generacion.

41 Then they that gladly receaved his preachynge / were baptised: and the same daye / ther were added vnto them aboute thre thousande soules.

42 [D] And they continued in the Apostles doctrine & felloushippe / & in breakinge of breed / & in prayer.

43 And feare came over every soule. And many wondres & signes were shewed by the Apostles.

44 And all that beleved kept them selves to gedder / & had all thinges cōmen /

45 and solde their possessions and goodes / & departed them to all men / as every man had nede.

46 And¹⁵ they continued dayly with one acorde in the tēple / & brake breed in every heu⟨illegible⟩se / & dyd eate their meate to gedder / with gladnes & singlenes of hert

47 praysinge God / and had faveour with all the people. And the▪ Lorde added to yᵉ congregacion dayly soche as shuld be saved.

Notes to Chapter 2

Chapter 3

¶ The .iii. Chapter.

1 PEter & Iohn went vp togedder into [A] the tēple at the nynthe houre of prayer.

2 And ther was a certayne man halt¹⁶ from his mothers wōbe / whō they brought and layde at the gate of the temple called beutifull / to axe almes of them that entred into the temple.

3 Which same when he sawe Peter & Iohn / that they wolde in to the tēple / desyred to receave an almes.

4 And Peter fastened his eyes on him with Iohn and sayde: looke on vs.

5 And he gaue hede vnto thē / trustinge to receave somthinge of them.

6 Then sayd Peter: Silver and golde have I none / suche as I have / geve I the. In the name of Iesu Christ of Nazareth / ryse vp & walke.

7 And he toke him by the right honde / & lifte him vp. And immediatly his fete & ancle bones receaved strenght.

8 And he sprāge / stode & also walked / & entred with them into the temple / walkinge / and leapinge and laudynge God.

9 And all the people sawe him walke & laude God.

10 And they knewe him / that it was he which sate and begged at the beutifull gate of the temple. And they wondred & were sore astonnyed at that which had happened vnto him.

11 And as y[ᵉ] halt which was healed / helde Peter and Iohn / all the people ranne amased vnto them in Salomons porche.

12 [C] When Peter sawe that / he answered vnto the people. ✚ Ye men of Israel / why marvayle ye at this / or why looke ye so stedfastly on vs / as though by oure awne power or holynes / we had made this man goo?

13 The God of Abraham / Isaac & Iacob / the God of oure fathers hath glorified his sonne Iesus / whom ye delyvered / & denyed in the presence of Pylate¹⁷ / whē he had iudged him to be lowsed.

14 But ye denyed the holy & iust / and desyred a mortherar to be geven you /

15 and kylled the Lorde of lyfe / whom God hath raysed from deeth / of the which we are wytnesses.

16 And his name thorow the fayth of his name / hath made this man sound / whom ye se & knowe. And the fayth which is by him / hath geven to him this health in the presence of you all.

17 And now brethrē I wote well that thorow ignoraūce ye did it / as dyd also youre heddes.

18 But those thinges which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his Prophetes / how yᵗ Christ shuld suffre / he hath thus wyse fulfilled.

19 Repent ye therfore & turne / yᵗ youre [D] synnes maye be done awaye ✚ / when the tyme of refresshinge commeth / which we shall have of the presence of the Lorde /

20 and when God shall sende him / which before was preached vnto you / that is to wit Iesus Christ⟨illegible⟩

21 which must receave heavē vntyll the tyme y[ᵗ] all thinges / which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy Prophetes sence the worlde began be restored agayne.¹⁸

22 For Moses sayd vnto the fathers: A Prophet shall the Lorde youre God rayse vp vnto you / even of youre brethren / lyke vnto me: him shall ye heare in all thinges whatsoever he shall saye vnto you.

23 For the tyme will come / y[ᵗ] every soule which shall not heare that same Prophet / shalbe destroyed from amonge the people.

24 Also all the Prophetes from Samuel and thence forth / as many as have spoken / have in lykwyse tolde of these dayes.

25 Ye are the chyldren of the Prophetes / & of the covenaunt which God hath made vnto oure fathers sayinge to Abraham: Evē in thy seede shall all the kinredes of the erth be blessed.

26 Fyrst vnto you hath God raysed vp his sonne Iesus / and him he hath sent to blysse you / that every one of you shuld turne from youre wickednes.

Notes to Chapter 3

Chapter 4

¶ The .iiii. Chapter

1 AS they spake vnto the people / the prestes [A] & the rular of the tēple / & the Saduces¹⁹ came vpon them /

2 takynge it grevously that they taught y[ᵉ] pople & preached in Iesus the resurreccion frō deeth.

3 And they layde hondes on them / and put them in holde vntill the nexte daye: for it was now even tyde.

4 How be it many of them which hearde the wordes / beleved / and the noumbre of the men was aboute fyve thousande.

5 And it chaunsed on the morowe that their rulars & elders & Scribes /

6 as Annas the chefe Prest & Cayphas & Iohn & Alexander / and as many as were of y[ᵉ] kynred of the hye prestes gadered to geder at Ierusalem /

7 & sit the other before them / & axed: by what power or what name have ye done this syrs?

8 ✚ Then [B] Peter full of y[ᵉ] holy goost sayd vnto them: ye²⁰ rulars of the people / & elders of Israel /

9 yf we this daye are examined of the good dede done to the sycke man / by what meanes he is made whoale:

10 be yt knowen vnto you all / and to the people of Israel / that in the name of Iesus Christ of Nazareth / who n ye crucified / and whom God raysed agayne from deeth:²¹ even by him doth this man stonde here present before you whoale.

11 This is yᵉ stone cast a syde of you bylders which is set in the ⟨illegible⟩he⟨illegible⟩ fe place of the corner.

12 Nether is ther ⟨illegible⟩²² in eny other. Nor yet also is ther eny other name²³ geven to men wherin we must be saved.

13 ✚ [C] When they sawe the boldnes of Peter & Iohn / & vnderstode that they were vnlerned men & laye people / they marveyled / and they knew them / that they were with Iesu:

14 & beholdinge also the mā which was healed stondinge with thē / they coulde not saye agaynst it.

15 But they cōmaunded them to go a syde out of the counsell / & counceled amōge them selves

16 sayinge: what shall we do to these men? For a manifest signe is done by thē / & is openly knowen to all them that dwell in Ierusalem / & we cānot denye it.

17 But that it be noysed no farther amōge the people / let vs threaten / and charge them that they speake hence forth to no man in this name.

18 [D] And they called them / & cōmaunded them that in no wyse they shuld speake or teache in the name of Iesu.

19 But Peter and Iohn answered vnto them & sayde: whether it be right in the syght of God to obeye you moare then²⁴ God / iudge ye.

20 For we cānot but speake that which we have sene and hearde.

21 So threatened they them and let them goo / and founde no thinge how to punysshe them / because of the people. For all mē lauded God for the myracle which was done:

22 for the man was above fourty yeare olde / on whom this myracle of healinge was shewed.

23 [E] Assone as they were let goo / they came to their felowes / and shewed all that the hye prestes and elders had sayde to them.

24 And when they hearde that / they lyfte vp their voyces to God with one accorde / & sayde: Lorde / thou arte God which hast made heaven & erth / the see & all that in them is /

25 which by the mouth of thy servaunt David hast sayd: Why dyd the hethen rage / & the people immagen vayne²⁵ thinges.

26 The kynges of the erth stode vp & the rulars came to gedder / agaynst the Lorde and agaynst his Christ.

27 For of a trueth / agaynst thy holy chylde Iesus [F] whom thou hast annoynted / bothe Herode and also Poncius Pylate / with the Gentils and the people of Israel / gaddered them selves to gedder /

28 forto do whatsoever thy honde and thy counsell determined before to be done.

29 And now Lorde / beholde their threatenynges / & graunte vnto thy servauntes with all confidence to speake thy worde.

30 So that thou stretche forth thy honde / that healynge and signes and wonders be done by the name of thy holy chylde Iesus.

31 And assone as they had prayed / the place moved wheare they were assembled to gedder / and they were all filled with the holy goost / and they spake the worde of God boldely.

32 [G] ✚ And the multitude of them that beleved / were of one hert / and of one soule. Also none of them sayde / that eny of the thinges which he possessed / was his awne: but had all thinges commen.

33 And with greate power gave²⁶ the Apostles witnes of the resurreccion of the Lorde Iesu. And greate grace was with them all.

34 Nether was ther eny amonge them / that lacked. For as many as were possessers of londes or housses / solde them and brought²⁷ the pryce of the thinges that were solde /

35 and layed yt doune at the Apostles fete. And distribucion was made vnto every man accordinge as he had nede. ⊢

36 And Ioses which was also called of the Apostles Barnabas (that is to saye the son. ne of consolacion) beynge a Levite / and of the countre of Cipers /

37 had londe / and solde it. and layde the pryce doune at the Apostles fete.

Notes to Chapter 4

Chapter 5

¶ The .v. Chapter.

1 A Certayne man named Ananias with [A]²⁸ Saphira his wyfe solde a possession /

2 & kepte awaye parte of the pryce (his wyfe also beynge of counsell) & brought a certayne parte / & layde it doune at the Apostles fete.

3 Then sayd Peter: Ananias / how is it that Satan hath filled thyne hert / that thou shuldest lye vnto the holy goost / and kepe awaye parte of the pryce of the lyvelod:

4 Pertayned it not vnto the only / and after it was solde / was not the pryce in thyne awne power? How is it that thou hast cōceaved this thinge in thyne herte? Thou hast not lyed vnto men / but vnto God.

5 When Ananias herde these wordes. he fell doune & gave vp the goost. And great feare came on all thē that these thinges hearde.

6 And the yonge men roose vp / and put him a parte / & caryed him out / and buryed him.

7 And it fortuned as it were aboute the space of .iii. houres afte[r] / that his wyfe came in / ignoraunt of that which was done.

8 And Peter sayde vnto her: Tell me / gave ye the londe for so moche? And she sayde: ye for so moche

9 Then Peter sayde vnto her: why have ye agreed to gether / to tēpt the sprete of the Lorde? Beholde the fete of them which have buryed thy husbande / are at the dore / and shall cary the out.

10 Then she fell doune strayght waye at his fete & yelded vp the goost. And the yonge men came in / & founde her ded / and caryed her out and buryed her by her husbande.

11 And great feare came on all the congregacion / and on as many as hearde it.

12 By the hondes of the Apostles were many [C] signes & wondres shewed amōge the people. And they were all together with one acorde in Salomons porche.

13 And of other durst no man ioyne him selfe to them: neverth⟨illegible⟩later the people magnyfied them.

14 The noumbre of them that beleved in the Lorde bothe of men & wemen / grewe moare & moare:

15 in so moche that they brought the sicke into the strettes / & layde them on beddes & palette / that at the lest waye the shadowe of Peter when he²⁹ came by / myght shadowe some of them.

16 There came also a multitude out of y[ᵉ] cities roūd about / vnto Ierusalem / bringynge sicke folkes / & them which were vexed with vnclene spretes. And they were h⟨illegible⟩aled every one.

17 Then yᵉ chefe preste rose vp & all they that³⁰ were with him (which is the secte of the Saduces) [D] & were full of indignacion /

18 and layde hondes on the Apostles / & put them in the cōmen preson.

19 But the angell of the Lorde by nyght openned the preson dores / & brought them forthe / & sayde:

20 goo / steppe forthe / & speake in the temple to the people all the wordes of this lyfe.

21 When they hearde that / they entred into the temple erly in the morninge and taught. The chefe prest came & they that were with him / & called a counsell to gedder / & all the elders [E] of the chyldren of Israel / and sent to the preson to fet them.

22 When the ministres came and founde them not in the preson / they returned and tolde

23 sayinge: the preson founde we shut as sure as was possible / and the kepers stondynge with out before yᵉ dores. But whē we had opened / we founde no man with in.

24 When the chefe prest of all and the ruler of the temple and the hye prestes hearde these thinges / they douted of them / whervnto this wolde growe.

25 Then came one & shewed them: beholde y[ᵉ] men y[ᵗ] ye put in preson / stonde in the tēple / & teache the people.

26 Then went the ruler of the tēple with ministe[r]s / & brought thē with out violence. For they feared the people / lest they shuld have bene stoned.

27 And when they had brought them / they set them before the counsell. And y[ᵉ] chefe presteaxed thē

28 sayinge: dyd not we straytely cōmaunde you that ye shuld not teache in this name? And beholde ye have filled Ierusalem with youre doctrine / & ye [F] intende to brynge this mans bloud vpon vs.³¹

29 Peter and the other Apostles answered & sayde: We ought moare to obey God then men.

30 The God of oure fathers raysed vp I⟨illegible⟩ Iesus / whom ye slewe and hanged on tre.

31 Him hath god lifte vp with his right hand / to be a ruler and a savioure / for to geve repētaūce to Israell & forgevenes of synnes.

32 And we are his recordes concernynge these thingꝭ & also the holy goost whom God hath gevē to them y[ᵗ] obey him.

33 When they hearde yᵗ / they clave asunder: & sought meanes to slee them.

34 Then stode ther vp one in yᵉ counsell / a Pharisey named Gamali⟨illegible⟩l / a doctoure of lawe /³² had in auctorite amōge all the people / & commaunded to put the Apostles a syde a lytell space /

35 & sayde vnto them: Men of Israel take hede to youre selves what ye entende to do as touchinge these men.

36 Before these dayes rose³³ vp one Theudas bostinge him selfe / to whom resorted a nombre of men / about a f⟨illegible⟩ure hondred / which was slayn / & they all which beleved him were scatred a broode & brought to nought.

37 After this man arose ther vp one Iudas³⁴ of Galile / in the tyme when tribute began / & drewe awaye moche people after him. [G] He also perisshed: & all even as many as harkened to him / are scattered abrood.

38 And now I saye vnto you: refrayne youre selves from these men / let them alone. For yf yᵉ coūsell or this worke be of men / it will come to nought.

39 But & yf it be of God / ye cannot destroye it / lest haply ye be founde to stryve agaynst God.

40 And to him they agreed / and called the Apostles / and bet them / & cōmaunded that they shuld not speake in y[ᵉ] name of Iesu / and let them goo.

41 And they departed from the counsell / reioy synge yᵗ they were counted worthy to soffre rebuke for his name.

42 And dayly in the tēple and in every housse they ceased not / teachinge and preachinge Iesus Christ.

Notes to Chapter 5

Chapter 6

¶ The .vi. Chapter.

1 IN those dayes as the nombre of the disciples [A] grewe / ther arose a grudge amonge the Grekes agaynste the Ebrues / because their wyddowes were despysed in the dayly mynystracion.

2 Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples to gether & sayde: it is not mete that we shuld leave the worde of God & serve at the tables.

3 Wherfore³⁵ brethren / loke ye out amōge you seven men of honest reporte / & full of the holy goost & wysdome / which we maye apoynte to this nedfull busynes.

4 But we will geve oureselves cōtinually [B] to prayer / & to the ministracion of yᵉ worde.

5 And the sayinge pleased the whoale multitude. And they chose Steven a man full of fayth & of the holy goost / & Philip / & Prochorus / and Nichanor / and Timon / and Permenas / and Nicholas a converte of Antioche.

6 Which they set before the Apostles / and they prayed and layde their hondes on them.

7 And the worde of God encreased / & the noūbre [C] of the disciples multiplied in Ierusalem greatly / and a great company of the prestes were obedient to the faythe.

8 ✚ And Steven³⁶ full of faythe and power / dyd great wondres & myracles amōge yᵉ people.

9 Then ther arose certayne of the synagoge / which are called Lybertines & Syrenites / & of Alexandria / and of Cilicia / and Asia / and disputed with Steven.

10 And they coulde not resist the wysdome / & the sprete / with which he spake.

11 Then sent they in men / which sayd: we have hearde him speake blasphemous wordes agaynst Moses / & agaynst God.

12 And they moved yᵉ people & the elders & the scribes: and came apon him and caught him / and brought him to the counsell /

13 & brought forth falce witnesses which sayde. This mā ceasith not to speake blasphemous [D] wordes agaynst this holy place & the lawe:

14 for we hearde him saye: this Iesus of Nazareth shall destroye this place / & shall chaunge the ordinaunces which Moses gave vs.

15 And all that sate in yᵉ counsell loked sted fastly on him / & sawe his face as it had bene the face of an angell.

Notes to Chapter 6

Chapter 7

¶ The .vii. Chapter.

1 THen sayde yᵉ chefe prest: is it even so?

2 [A] And he sayde: ye men / brethren and fathers / harken to. The God of glory appered vnto oure father Abrahā whyll he was³⁷ yet in Mesopotamia / before he dwelt in Charran /

3 & sayd vnto him: come out of thy contre / and from thy kynred / & come into the londe / which I shall shewe the.

4 Then came he out of the londe of Chaldey / & dwelt in Charran. And after that / assone as his father was deed /³⁸ he brought him into this lande / in which ye now dwell /

5 & he gave him none inheritaunce in it / no not the bredeth of a fote: but promised yᵗ he wolde geve it to him to possesse & to his seed after him / when as yet he had no chylde.

6 God verely spake on this wyse that his seade shulde be a dweller in a straunge londe and that they shulde kepe them in bondage and entreate them evyll .iiii. C. yeares.

7 But the nacion to whom they shalbe in bondage will I³⁹ iudge / sayde God. And after that shall they come forthe and serve me in this place.

8 And he gave him the covenaunt of circumcision. And he begat Isaac / and circumcised him the viii. daye / and Isaac begat Iacob / and Iacob the twelve patriarkes.

9 And the patriarkes havinge indignaciō solde Ioseph into Egipte. And God was with [B]⁴⁰ him

10 and delivered him out of all his adversities. And gave him faveour and wisdome in the sight of Pharao kynge of Egipte which made him governer over Egipte / and over all his housholde.

11 Then came ther a derth over all the londe of Egipt & Canaan / & great affliccion / that our fathers founde no sustenaūce.

12 But when Iacob hearde that ther was corne in Egipte / he sent oure fathers fyrst /

13 and at the seconde tyme / Ioseph was knowen of his brethren / and⁴¹ Iosephs kynred was made knowne vnto Pharao.

14 Then sent Ioseph & caused his father to be brought and all his kynne / thre score and xv. soules.

15 And Iacob descended into Egipte and dyed bothe he and oure fathers /

16 and were⁴² translated into Sichem / ond were put in yᵉ sepulere that Abraham bought for money of the sonnes of Emor / at Sichem.

17 When yᵉ tyme of yᵉ promes drue nye (which⁴³ God had sworme to Abraham) the people grewe [C] and multiplied in Egipte /

18 till another kynge arose which knewe not of Ioseph.

19 The same dealte suttelly with oure kynred / & evyll intreated oure fathers / and made them to cast oute their younge chyldren / that they shuld⁴⁴ not remayne alyve.

20 The same tyme was Moses borne / and was a proper childe in yᵉ sight of God / which was norisshed vp in his fathers housse thre monethes.

21 When he was cast out / Pharoes doughter toke him vp / and norisshed him vp for her awne sonne.

22 And Moses was learned in all maner wisdome of the Egipcians / and was mighty in dedes & in wordes.

23 And when he was full forty yeare olde / it came into his hert to visit his brethren / the chyldren of Israhel.

24 And when he sawe one of them suffre wronge / he defended him / and avenged his quarell that had the harme done to him / and smote the Egypcian.

25 For he supposed hys brethren wolde have vnderstonde how yᵗ God by his hondes shuld save them But they vnderstode not.

26 And the next daye he shewed him selfe vnto [D] thē as they strove / and wolde have set thē⁴⁵ at one agayne sayinge: Syrs / ye are brethren / why hurte ye one another?

27 But he that dyd his neghbour wronge / thrust him awaye sayinge: who made yᵉ a rular & a iudge amonge vs?

28 What / wilt thou kyll me / as thou dyddest the Egyptian yester daye?

29 Then fleed Moses at that sayenge / & was a stranger in the londe of Madian / where he begat two sonnes.

30 And when .xl. yeares were expired / ther appered⁴⁶ to him in the wyldernes of mounte Syna an angell of the Lorde in a flamme of fyre in a busshe.

31 When Moses sawe it / he wondred at the syght. And as he drue neare to beholde / the voyce of the Lorde came vnto him:

32 I am y[ᵉ] God of thy fathers / the God of Abraham / the God of Isaac / & the God of Iacob. Moses trembled & durst not beholde.

33 Then sayde y[ᵉ] Lorde to him: Put of thy showes from thy fete / for the place where thou stondest / is holy grounde.

34 I have perfectly sene the affliccion of my people which is in Egypte / and I have hearde their gronynge / and am come doune to delyver them. And now come and I will sende the into Egypte.

35 [E] This Moses whom they forsoke sayinge: who made the a ruelar and a iudge: the same God sent bothe a ruler & delyverer / / by y[ᵉ] hondes of the angell which appered to him in the⁴⁷ busshe.

36 And the same brought them out shewynge wonders & signes in Egypte / & in the reed see & in the wyldernes .xl. yeares.

37 This is that Moses which sayde vnto the chyldrē of Israel: A Prophet shall the Lorde youre⁴⁸ God rayse vp vnto you of youre brethren lyke⁴⁹ vnto me / him shall ye heare.

38 This is he that was in y[ᵉ] congregacion / in the wyldernes with the angell which spake to him in y[ᵉ] moūte Syna / & with oure fathers. This man receaved the worde of lyfe to geve vnto vs /

39 to whō oure fathers wolde not obeye but cast it from them / & in their hertes turned backe agayne into Egypte /

40 sayinge vnto Aaron:⁵⁰ Make vs goddes to goo before vs. For this Moses that brought vs out of the londe of Egypte / we wote not what is become of him.

41 And they made a calfe in those dayes / & offered sacrifice vnto the ymage / and reioysed in the workes of their awne hondes.

42 Then God turned him selfe / & gave them vp / that they shuld worship the starres of the skye / as it is written in the boke of the prophetes.⁵¹ O ye of y[ᵉ] housse of Israel gave ye to me sacrefices & meate offerynges / by the space of xl. yeares in the wildernes▪

43 And ye toke vnto you the tabernacle of Moloch / and the starre of youre god Remphan / figures which ye made to worshippe them. And I will translate you beyonde Babylon.

44 [F] Oure fathers had the tabernacle of witnes in y[ᵉ] wyldernes / as he had apoynted thē speakynge⁵² vnto Moses / that he shuld make it acordynge to the fassion that he had sene.

45 Which tabernacle oure fathers receaved / & brought it in with Iosue into the possession of the gentyls which God drave out before the face of⁵³ oure fathers vnto the tyme of David /

46 which founde favour before God / & desyred that he myght fynde a tabernacle for the God of Iacob.

47 But Salomon bylt him an housse.

48 How be it he that is h yest of all / dwelleth not in tēple⁵⁴ made with hondes / as saith the Prophete:

49 Heven is my seate / and erth is my fote stole / what housse will ye bylde for me sayth the Lorde? or what place is it that I shuld rest in?

50 hath not my honde made all these thinges?

51 Ye stiffenecked & of vncircumcised hertes and eares: ye have all wayes resisted the holy goost: as youre fathers dyd / so do ye.

52 Which of the prophetes have not youre fathers persecuted? And they have slayne them / which shewed before of the commynge of that iust / whom ye have now betrayed and mordred.

53 And ye also have receaved a lawe by the ordinaunce of angels / and have not kept it.

54 [G] When they hearde these thinges / their hertes clave a sunder / and they gnasshed on him with their tethe.

55 But he beynge full of the holy goost / loked vp stedfastlye with his eyes into heven & sawe the glorie of God / & Iesus stondynge on the ryght honde of God /

56 & sayde: beholde / I se the hevens open / & the sonne of man stondynge on the ryght honde of god.

57 Then they gave a shute with a loude voyce / and stopped their eares and ranne apon him all at once /

58 and caste him out of the cite / & stoned him. And the witnesses layde doune their clothes at a yonge mannes fete named Saul.⁵⁵

59 And they stoned steven callynge on and sayinge: Lorde Iesu receave my sprete.

60 And he kneled doune and cryed with a loude voyce: Lorde laye not this synne to their charge. And when he had thus spoken / he fell a slepe.▪

Notes to Chapter 7

Chapter 8

¶ The .viii. Chapter.

1 SAul had pleasure in his deeth. And at [A] yᵗ tyme there was a great persecucion⁵⁶ agaynst the congregacion which was at Ierusalem / & they were all scattered abroade thorowout the regions of Iury and Samaria / except the Apostles.

2 Then devout men dressed Steven / and made great lamentacion over him.

3 But Saul made havocke of the congregacion entrynge into every housse / & drewe out bothe man & woman / & thrust thē into preson.

4 They that were scattered abroade / went every where preachyng the worde.

5 Then came Philip into a cite of Samaria & preached⁵⁷ Christ vnto them.

6 And the people gave hede vnto those thinges which Philip spake / with one acorde / in that they hearde and sawe the miracles which he dyd.

7 For vnclene spretes cryinge with loude voyce / came out of many that were possessed of them. And manye taken [B] with palsies / and many yᵗ halted / were healed

8 And ther was great ioye in that cite.

9 And ther⁵⁸ was a certayne man called Simon / which before tyme in the same cite / vsed witche crafte & bewitched the people of Samarie / sayinge / that he was a man yᵗ coulde do greate thingꝭ.

10 Whom they regarded / from y[ᵉ] lest to the greatest / sayinge: this felow is the great power of God.

11 And him they set moche by / because of longe tyme with sorcery he had mocked thē.

12 But assone as they beleved Philippes preachynge of the kyngdome of God & of the name of Iesu Christ / they were baptised bothe men and wemen.

13 Then Simon himselfe beleved also / and was baptised / and cōtinued with Phillip / and wondered beholdynge the miracles and signes / which were shewed.

14 ✚ When y[ᵉ] Apostles which were at Ierusalem [C] hearde saye that Samaria had receaved y[ᵉ] worde of God: they sent vnto thē / Peter and Iohn /

15 which when they were come / prayed for thē / that they myght receave y[ᵉ] holy goost

16 For as yet he was come on none of them: But they were baptised only in the name of Christ Iesu.

17 Then layde they their hondes on them / & they receaved the holy goost. ⊢

18 When Simō sawe / that thorowe layinge⁵⁹ on of the Apostles hondes on them / the holy goost was geven: he offered thē money sayinge:

19 Geve me also this power / that on whom soever I put the hondes / he maye receave the holy goost.

20 Then sayde Peter vnto him: thy monye perysh with the / because thou wenest that the gifte of God maye be obteyned wᵗ money.

21 Thou hast nether parte nor felloushippe in this busines. For thy hert is not ryght in the syght of God.

22 Repent therfore of this thy wickednes / & praye God that y[ᵉ] thought of thyne hert maye be forgeven the.

23 For I perceave that thou arte full of bitter gall / and wrapped in iniquite.

24 Then answered Simon & sayde: Praye ye to the lorde for me y[ᵗ] none of these thinges whiche ye have spoken / fall on me.

25 And they / whē they had testified & preached the worde of the lorde / returned toward Ierusalem / & preached the gospellin many cities of the Samaritās.

26 ✚ Then the angell of the lorde spake vnto Phillip sayinge: aryse & goo towardes mydde daye vnto y[ᵉ] waye y⟨illegible⟩ goeth doune frō Ierusalem vnto Gaza which is in y[ᵉ] desert.

27 And he arose & wēt on. And beholde a man of Ethiopia which was a chāberlayne / & of grete auctorite wᵗ Cādace quene of y[ᵉ] Ethiopiās / & had y[ᵉ] rule of all her treasure / came to Ierusalem forto praye.

28 And as he returned home agayne sittynge in his charet / he rede Esay y[ᵉ] prophet

29 Then y[ᵉ] sprete sayde vnto Phillip: Goo neare & ioyne thy selfe to yonder charet.

30 And Philip ranne to him / & hearde him rede y[ᵉ] prophet Esayas and sayde: Understondest thou what thou redest?

31 And he sayd: how can I / except I had a gyde? And he desyred Philip that he wold come vp & sit wᵗ him.

32 The tenoure of y[ᵉ] scripture which he redde / was this. He was ledde as a shepe to be slayne: & lyke a lambe dōme before his sherer / so opened he not his mouth.⁶⁰

33 Because of his humblenes / he was not estemed: who shall declare his generaciō? for his lyfe is taken frō the erthe.

34 The chamber layne answered Philip and sayde: I praye the / of whom speaketh the Prophet this? of him selfe / or of some other man?

35 And Philip opened his mouth / & beganne [F] at yᵉ same scripture / & preached vnto him Iesus.

36 And as they went on their waye / they came vnto a certayne water / & the chamberlayne sayde: Se here is water / what shall let me to be baptised?

37 Philip sayde vnto him: Yf thou beleve with all thyne hert thou mayst. He answered and sayde: I beleve that Iesus Christe is the sonne of God.

38 And he cōmaunded the charet to stonde still. And they went doune bothe into the water: bothe Philip & also the chamberlayne / and he baptised him.

39 And assone as they were come out of the water / the sprete of the lorde caught awaye Philip / yᵗ the chamberlayne sawe him no moore. And he wēt on his waye reioysinge:

40 but Philip was founde at Azotus. And he walked thorow out y[ᵉ] countre preachynge in their cities / tyll he came to Cesarea. ✚.

Notes to Chapter 8

Chapter 9

¶ The .ix. Cha. ✚

1 ANd Saul yet brethynge oute threatnynges & slaughter agaynst y[ᵉ] disciples of [A] the lorde / went vnto y[ᵉ] hye preste /

2 & desyred⁶¹ of him letters to Damasco / to y[ᵉ] synagoges: that yf he founde eny of this waye / whether they were men or wemen / he myght bringe them bounde vnto Ierusalem.

3 But as he went on his iorney / it fortuned y[ᵗ] he drue nye to Damasco / and sodenly ther shyned rounde about him a lyght frō heven.

4 And he fell to y[ᵉ] erth / & hearde a voyce sayinge to him: Saul /⁶² Saul / why persecutest thou me?

5 And he sayde / what arte thou lorde? And the lorde sayd / I am Iesus whom thou persecutest / it shalbe harde for y[ᵉ] to kycke agaynst y[ᵉ] pricke.

6 And he⁶³ bothe tremblynge and astonyed sayde: Lorde what wilt thou have me to do? And y[ᵉ] Lorde sayde vnto him: aryse and goo into the cite / and it shalbe tolde the what thou shalt do.

7 [B] The men which iornayed with him / stode amased / for they herde a voyce / but sawe no man.

8 And Saul arose from the erth / and opened his eyes / but sawe no man. Then ledde they him by the honde / and brought him into Damasco.

9 And he was .iii. dayes with out syght / & nether ate nor dranke.

10 And ther was a certayne disciple at Damasco named Ananias / & to him sayde the lorde in a vision: Ananias.⁶⁴ And he sayde: beholde I am here lorde.

11 And the lorde sayde to him: aryse & goo into the strete which is called strayght and seke in the housse of Iudas / after one called Saul of Tharsus. For beholde he prayeth /

12 & hath sene in a vision a man named Ananias comynge in to him / & puttynge his hondes on him / that he myght receave his syght.

13 Then Ananias answered: Lorde I have hearde [C] by many of this man / how moche evell he hath done to thy sainctes at Ierusalem /

14 & here he hath auct orite of the hye prestes to bynde all that call on thy name.

15 The lorde sayde vnto him: Goo thy wayes: for he is a chosen vessell vnto me / to beare my name before the gentyls & kynges / & the chyldren of Israel.

16 For I will shewe him how great thinges he must suffre for my names sake.

17 Ananias went his waye and entryd into y[ᵉ] housse and put his hondes on him and sayde: brother Saul / the lorde that apperyd vnto the in the waye as thou camst / hath sent me / that thou myghtest receave thy syght & besilled with the holy goost.

18 And immediatly ther fell from his eyes as it had bene scales / and he receaved syght / and arose and was baptised / /

19 and receaved meate and was comforted. Then was Saul a certayne daye wᵗ the disciples [D] which were at Damasco.

20 And streyght waye he preached Christ in the synagoges / how⁶⁵ that he was the sonne of God.

21 All that hearde him / were amased & sayde: is not this he that spoyled thē which called on this name in Ierusalem / & came hyther for y[ᵉ] entent that he shuld bringe thē bounde vnto the hye prestes?

22 But Saul encreased in strēgth / & confounded the Iewes which dwelte at Oamasco / affirminge that this was very Christ. ⊢

23 And after a good whyle / y[ᵉ] Iewes toke counsell to gether / to kyll him.

24 But their layinge⁶⁶ awayte was knowen of Saul. And they watched at the gates daye and nyght to kyll him.

25 Then y[ᵉ] disciples toke him by night & put him thorow the wall & let him doune in a basket.⁶⁷

26 And when Saul was come to Ierusalem / he [E] assayde to cople him silfe with y[ᵉ] discyples and they were all afrayde of hym and beleued not that he was a disciple.

27 But Bernabas toke hym & brought hym to y[ᵉ] apostles & declared to thē how he had sene y[ᵉ] Lorde in y[ᵉ] waye & had spokē wyth hym: and how he had done boldely at damasco in the name of Iesu.

28 And he had his conuersacion with them at Ierusalem /

29 and quit hym silfe boldly in the name of the lorde Iesu. And he spake and disputed wyth the grekes: and they went aboute to slee hym.

30 But when the brethren knew of that / they brought hym to cesarea / and sent hym forth to Tharsus.

31 Then had y[ᵉ] congregaciōs rest thorowoute all Iewry and galile and Samary / and were edified / and walked in the feare of the lorde / and multiplied by the comforte of the holy gost.

32 And it chaunsed y[ᵗ] as Peter walked throughoute [F] all quarters / he cā to y[ᵉ] saynctes which dwelt at Lydda

33 and there he foūde a certayne mā namyd Eneas / whych had kepte hys bed⁶⁸ viii. yere sicke of the palsie.

34 Then sayde Peter vnto hym: Eneas Iesus Christ make y[ᵉ] whole. Aryse and make thy beed. And he arose immedyatly.

35 And all that dwelt at lydda & assaron / sawe hym / and tourned to the lorde.

36 Ther was at Ioppe a certayne womā (whiche⁶⁹ was a disciple named Tabitha / which by interpretacion is called dorcas) the same was full of good workes and almes dedes / which she did.

37 And it chaunsed in those dayes that she was sicke and dyed. When they had wesshed her and layd her in a chamber:

38 Because Lydda was nye to Ioppa / & the disciples had hearde that Peter was there / they sent vnto hym / desyrynge him that he wolde not be greved to come vnto them.

39 Peter arose and came with them & when he was come / they brought him in to y[ᵉ] chamber. [G] And all y[ᵉ] wydowes stode roūde aboute hym wepynge & shewynge the cotes & garmentes which Dorcas made whill she was with thē.

40 And Peter put thē all forth & kneled doune & prayde & turned him to y[ᵉ] body / & sayde: Tabitha aryse. And she opened her eyes / & whē she sawe Peter she sat vp.

41 And he gave her y[ᵉ] honde and lyft her vp / and called the sainctes & wydowes / and shewed her alyve.

42 And it was knowne throwout all Ioppa / and many beleved on the Lorde.

43 And it fortuned that he taryed many dayes in Ioppa with one Simon a tanner.

Notes to Chapter 9

Chapter 10

¶ The .x. Chapter.

1 THer was a certayne man in Cesarea called Cornelius / a captayne of y[ᵉ] soudiers [A]⁷⁰ of Italy /

2 a devoute man / & one yᵗ feared God wᵗ all his housholde / which gave moche almes to the people / & prayde God alwaye.

3 The same man sawe in a vision evydētly aboute y[ᵉ] nynthe houre of y[ᵉ] daye an angell of god comynge into him / & sayinge vnto him: Cornelius.

4 When he looked on him / he was afrayde / & sayde: what is it lorde? He sayde vnto him. Thy prayers and thy almeses ar come vp into remembraunce before God.

5 And now sende men to Ioppa / & call for one Simon named also Peter.

6 He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner / whose housse is by y[ᵉ] see syde. He shall tell the / what thou oughtest to doo.

7 When the angell which spake vnto Cornelius was departed / he called two of his housholde servauntes / and a devoute soudier of them that wayted on him /

8 and tolde them all the mater / and sent them to Ioppa.

9 On the morowe as they wēt on their iorney [B] & drewe nye vnto the cite / Peter went vp into the toppe of y[ᵉ] housse to praye / aboute the .vi. houre.

10 Then wexed he an hongred / & wolde have eatē. But whyll they made redy. He fell into a traūce /

11 & sawe heven opened and a certayne vessell come doune vnto him / as it had⁷¹ bene a greate shete / knyt at the .iiii. corners / and was let doune to the erth /

12 where in wer all maner of .iiii. foted beastes of the erth & vermen and wormes / & foules of the ayer.

13 [C] And ther came a voyce to him: ryse Peter / kyll & eate.

14 But Peter sayde: God forbyd Lorde / for I have never eaten eny thinge that is comen or vnclene.

15 And the voyce spake vnto him agayne the seconde tyme: what God hath clensed / that make thou not comen.

16 This was done thryse / and the vessell was receaved vp agayne into heven.

17 Whyle Peter mused in him selfe what this vision which he had sene meant / beholde / the men which were sent from Cornelius / had made inquirance for Simons housse / and stode before the dore.

18 And called out won & axed whether Simon which was also called Peter were lodged there.

19 Whyll Peter thought on this vision / the sprete sayde vnto him: Beholde / men seke the:

20 aryse therfore / get the doune / and goo with them / & doute not. For I have sent them.

21 Peter went doune to y[ᵉ] men which were sent vnto him from Cornelius / & sayde / Beholde / I am he whom ye seke / what is the [D] cause wherfore ye are come?

22 And they sayde vnto him: Cornelius the captayne a iust man / and won that feareth God / and of good reporte amonge all the people of the Iewes was warned by an holy angell / to sende for the into his housse / and to heare wordes of the.

23 Then called he them in / and lodged them. And on y[ᵉ] morowe Peter wēt awaye with them / and certayne brethren from Ioppa accompanyed [D] hym.

24 And the thyrd daye entred they into Cesaria. And Cornelius wayted for them / and had called to gether his kynsmen / and speciall frendes.

25 And as it chaunsed Peter to come in / Cornelius met hym / & fell doune at his fete / and worshipped hym.

26 But Peter toke him vp sayinge: stonde vp: for evyn I my silfe am a mā.

27 And as he talked with him he cam in / and founde many that were come to gether.

28 And hesayde vnto them: Ye dokno we how that yt ys an vnlaw full thynge for a man that is a Iewe / to company or come vnto an alient: But god hath shewed me that I shuld not call eny man commen or vnclene:

29 therfore came I vnto you with oute sayēge na ye assone as I was sent for. I axe therfore / for what intent have ye sent for me?

30 And Cornelius sayde: This daye now .iiii. dayes I fasted / & at the nynthe houre I pray de in my housse: and beholde / a man stode. before [E] me in bright clothynge / and sayde:

31 Cornelius / thy prayer is hearde / and thyne almes dedes are had in remembraunce in the sight of God.

32 Sende therfore to Ioppa / and call for Simon which is also called Peter. He is lodged in the housse of one Simon a tanner by the see syde / y[ᵉ] wich assone as he is come / shall speake vnto y[ᵉ].

33 Then sent I for y[ᵉ] immediatly and thou hast well done for to come. Now are we all here present before god / to heare all thynges y[ᵗ] are commaunded vnto the of God.

34 Then Peter opened his mouth & sayde: Of⁷² a trueth I perseave / that God is not parciall /

35 but in all people he that feareth him & worketh rightewesnes / is accepted with him.

36 Ye knowe the preachynge that God sent [F] vnto the chyldren of Israel / preachinge peace by Iesus Christe (which is Lorde over all thinges:

37 ✚ Which preachinge was publisshed thorow oute all Iewrye / & begāne in Galile / after the baptyme which Iohn preached /

38 how God had annoynted Iesus of Nazareth with the holy goost / & with power / which Iesus went aboute doinge good / and healynge all y[ᵗ] were oppressed of the develles / for God was with him.

39 And we are witnesses of all thinges which he dyd in the londe of the Iewes & at Ierusalem / whom they slew / & honge on tree.

40 Him God reysed vp y[ᵉ] thyrde daye / & shewed him openly /

41 not to all the people / but vnto vs witnesses chosyn before of God / which ate & dronke with him / after he arose [G] from deeth.

42 ✚ And he cōmaunded vs to preache vnto the people and testifie / that it is he that is ordened of God a iudge of quycke and deed.

43 To him geve all the Prophetes witnes / that thorowe his name shall receave remission of synnes all that⁷³ beleve in him. ⊢

44 Whyle Peter yet spake these wordes / the holy gost fell on all them which hearde the preachinge.

45 And they of y[ᵉ] circūcision which beleved / were astonyed / as many as came wᵗ Peter / because that on the Gentyls also was sheed oute y[ᵉ] gyfte of the * holy gost.

46 For they hearde them speake with tonges & magnify God. Then answered Peter:

47 can eny man forbyd water that these shuld not be baptised / which have receaved the holy goost as well as we?

48 And he cōmaunded them to be bapty sed in the name of the Lorde. ✚ Then prayde they him / to tary a feawe dayes.

Notes to Chapter 10

Chapter 11

¶ The .xi. Chapter.

1 ANd the Apostles / & the brethren that [A] were thorowout Iewry / harde saye that⁷⁴ the hethen had also receaved the worde of God.

2 And when Peter was come vp to Ierusalem / they of the circumcision reasoned wyth him

3 sayinge: Thou wentest in to men vncircumcised / and atest with them.

4 Then Peter began and expounded y[ᵉ] thinge in order to thē sayinge:

5 I was in the cyte of Ioppa prayinge / and in a traunce I sawe a vision / a certen vessell descende / as it had bene a large lynnyn clothe / let doune from he vin by the fower corners / and it cam to me.

6 Into the which when I had fastened myn eyes / I consydered and sawe fowerfoted beastes of y[ᵉ] erth / and vermen and wormes / and foules of the ayer.

7 And I herde a voyce sayinge vnto me: aryse Peter / sley & eate.

8 And I sayd: God forbyd lorde / for nothinge comen or vnclene / hath at eny tyme entred into my mouth.

9 But the voyce answered me agayne from heven / [B] coūt not thou those thinges comē / which god hath clensed.

10 And this was done thre tymes. And all were takin vp agayne into heven.

11 And beholde immediatly ther were thre men come vnto the housse where I was / sent from Cesarea vnto me.

12 And the sprete sayde vnto me / that I shuld go with them / with out doutinge. Morover the sixe brethren accompanyed me: and we entred into the mās housse.

13 And he shewed vs / how he had sene an angell in his housse / which stod & sayde to him: Send men to Ioppa / and call for Symon / named also Peter:

14 he shall tell the wordes / wher by both thou and all thyne housse shalbe saved.

15 [C] And as I begāne to preach / y[ᵉ] holy goost fell on them / as he dyd on vs at the begynninge.

16 Then came to my remembraūce y[ᵉ] wordes of the Lorde / how he sayde: Iohn baptised with water / but ye shalbe baptysed with the holy goost.

17 For as moche then as God gave thē lyke gyftes / as he dyd vnto vs / when we beleved on the Lorde Iesus Christ: what was I that I shuld havewith stonde God?

18 when they hearde this / they helde their peace & gloryfied God / sayinge: then hath God also to [D] the gentyls graunted repentaunce vnto lyfe.

19 They which were scattryd abroade thorow the affliccion that arose aboute Steven / walked thorow oute tyll they came vnto Phenices & Cypers & Antioche / preachynge y[ᵉ] worde to no man / but vnto the Iewes only.

20 Some of them were men of Cypers and Syrene / which when they were come into Antioche / spake vnto the Grekes / and preched the Lorde Iesus.

21 And the honde of the Lorde was with them / and a greate nombre beleved and turned vnto the Lorde.

22 Tydinges of these thinges came vnto y[ᵉ] eares⁷⁵ of the congregacion / which was in Ierusalem. [D] And they sente forth Barnabas that he shuld go vnto Antioche.

23 Which when he was come / & had sene the grace of God / was glad / & exhorted them all / that with purpose of hert they wolde continually cleave vnto y[ᵉ] Lorde.

24 For he was a good man / & full of the holy goost & of faythe: & moche people was added vnto the Lorde.

25 Then departed Barnabas⁷⁶ to Tarsus / for to seke Saul.

26 And when he had founde him / he brought him vnto Antioche. And it chaunsed y[ᵗ] a whole yere they had their conversacion with the congregaciō there / & taught moche people: in somoche that the disciples of Antioche were the fyrst that were called Christen.

27 In those dayes came Prophete frō Ierusalem vnto Antioche.

28 And ther stode vp one of them / named Agabus / & signified by the sprete / that ther shuld be great derth throughoute all the worlde / which came to passe in y[ᵉ] Emproure Claudius dayes.

29 Then the disciples every man accordinge to his abilite / purposed to sende socoure vnto the brethren which dwelt in Iewry.

30 Which thinge they also dyd / & sent it to the elders / by the hondes of Barnabas & Saul.

Notes to Chapter 11

Chapter 12

¶ The .xii. Chapter. ▪

1 IN that tyme Herode the kynge stretched⁷⁷ for the his handes to vexe certayne [A] of the congregacion.

2 And he kylled Iames the brother of Iohn with the swerde:

3 and because he sawe that it pleased y[ᵉ] Iewes / he proceded forther / & toke Peter also. Then⁷⁸ were the dayes of swete breed.

4 And when he had caught him / he put him in preson / and delyvered him to .iiii.⁷⁹ quaterniōs of soudiers to bekepte / entendynge afterester to brynge him forth to the people.

5 Then was Peter kepte in preson. But prayer was made with out ceasynge of the congregacion vnto God for him.

6 And when Herode wolde have brought him oute vnto the people / the same nyght slepte Peter bitwene two soudiers / bounde with two chaynes / and the kepers before the dore kepte the preson.

7 And beholde the angell of y[ᵉ] Lorde was there⁸⁰ present / & a lyght shyned in the lodge. And [B] smote Peter on the syde / & steryd him vp sayinge: aryse vp quyckly. And his cheynes fell of frō his hondes.

8 And the angell sayd vnto him: gyrde thy selfe & bynde on thy⁸¹ sandales. And so he dyd. And he sayde vnto him: cast thy mantle aboute the / & folowe me.

9 And he came oute & folowed him / & wist not / that it was truthe which was done by the angell▪ but thought he had sene a vision.

10 When they were past y[ᵉ] fyrst & y[ᵉ] seconde watche / they came vnto yᵗ yron gate / yᵗ ledeth vnto the cyte / which opened to them by his awne accorde. And they went out and passed thorowe one strete / & by & by the angell departed frō him.

11 And when Peter was come to him selfe / he sayde: now I knowe of a surety / that the Lorde hath sent his angell / & hath delyvered me out of the honde of Herode / and from all the waytynge for of the people of y[ᵉ] Iewes.

12 And [C] as he consydred the thinge / he cam to y[ᵉ] housse of Mary the mother of one⁸² Iohn / which was called Marke also / where many were gaddered to gedder in prayer.

13 As Peter knocked at the entry dore / a damsell cam forth to herken / named Rhoda.

14 And whenshe knew Peters voyce / she opened not the entrey for gladnes / but ran in and told how Peter stode before the entrey.

15 And they sayde vnto her: thou arte mad. And she bare them doune yᵗ it was even so. Then sayde they: it is his angell.

16 Peter cōtynued knockinge. When they had opened the dore / & sawe him / they were astonyed.

17 And he beckened vnto them with y[ᵉ] honde to holde their peace / & tolde them by what meanes yᵉ Lorde had brought him oute of the preson. And sayde: goo shew these thinges vnto Iames and to the brethren. And he departed and went into another place.

18 Assone as it was daye ther was no lyttell [D] a doo amōge the soudyers / what was becum of Peter.

19 When Herode had called for him / and founde him not / he examined the kepers / and comaunded to departe. And he descended from Iewry to Cesarea / and ther abode.

20 Herode was displeased with them of Tyre and Sydon. And they came all at once / and made intercession vnto Blastus the kynges chamberlen / and desyred peace / because their countrey was norysshed by the kynges londe.

21 And vpon a daye appoynted Herode arayed him in royall apparell / and set him in his seate / & made an oraycon vnto them.

22 And the people gave a shoute / sayinge: it is y[ᵉ] voyce of a God and not of a man.

23 And immediatly the angell of y[ᵉ] Lorde⁸³ smote him / because he gave not God the honoure / & he was eatyn of wormes / and gave vp the goost.

24 And yᵉ worde of God grewe & multiplied.

25 And Barnabas and Paul returned to Ierusalem / when they had fulfilled their office / & toke with them⁸⁴ Iohn / which was also called Marcus.

Notes to Chapter 12

Chapter 13

¶ The .xiii. Chapter.

1 THere were at Antioche / in the congregacion certayne Prophetes & teachers: as Barnabas & Simon called Niger / & Lucius of Cerene / & Manahen Herode the [A] Tetrarkes norsfelowe / & Saul.

2 As they mynistred to the Lorde & fasted / the holy goost sayde: separate me Barnabas & Saul / for y[ᵉ] worke⁸⁵ where vnto I have called them.

3 Then fasted they and prayed / and put their hondes on them / and let them goo.

4 And they after they were sent of the holy goost / came vnto Seleutia / & from thence they. sayled to Cyprus.

5 And when they were come to Salamine / they shewed y[ᵉ] worde of God in y[ᵉ] synagoges / of ⟨illegible⟩ Iewes. And they had⁸⁶ Iohn to their minister.

6 When they had gone thorowout y[ᵉ] yle vnto [B] y[ᵉ] cite of Paphos / they foūde a certayne sor serer / a falce prophet

7 which was a Iewe / named Bariesu which was with y[ᵉ] ruler of the countre won Sergius Paulus a prudēt man.⁸⁷ The same ruler called vnto him Barnabas & Saul / & desyred to heare the worde of God.

8 But Elemas the sorcerar (for so was his name⁸⁸ by interpretacion) wᵗ stode them / & sought to turne awaye the ruler frō the fayth.

9 Then Saul which also is called Paul beinge full of⁸⁹ the holy goost / set his eyes on him /

10 & sayde: O full of all sutteltie & disseytfulnes / the chylde of the devyll / & yᵉ enemye of all righteousnes / thou ceasest not to pervert the strayght wayes of the Lorde.

11 And now beholde the honde of the Lorde is vpon the / & thou shalt be blinde & not se the sunne for a season. And immediatly ther fell on him▪ a myste & a darcknes / & he went aboute sekinge them that shuld leade him by the honde.

12 Then the rular when he sawe what had happened / beleved / & wōdred at the doctryne of the Lorde.

13 When they that were with Paule / were departed⁹⁰ by shyppe frō Paphꝰ / they cam to Perga a cite of Pamphilia: & there Iohn departed from them / and returned to Ierusalem.

14 But they wandred thorowe the countres / frō Perga to Antioche a cite of the coūtre of Pisidia / & wēt in to the synagoge on the saboth daye / & sate doune.

15 And after the lawe & yᵉ Prophetes were redde / yᵉ rulers of the synagoge sent vnto them sayinge: Ye men & brethren / yf ye have eny sermō to exhorte yᵉ people / saye on.

16 Then Paul stode vp & beckened with the honde / & sayde: Men of Israel / & ye that feare [C] God / geve audiēce.

17 The God of this people⁹¹ chose oure fathers / & exalted the people whē they dwelt as straūgers in yᵉ londe of Egypt / & with a mighty arme brought them oute of it /

18 and aboute the tyme of▪ xl. yeares suffred⁹² he their maners in the wyldernes.

19 And he destroyed .vii. naciōs in the londe of Canaan / & devided their londe to them by lot.

20 And after⁹³ warde he gave vnto them iudges aboute the space of .iiii. C. & .l. yeres vnto the tyme of Sa muel y⟨illegible⟩ Prophet.

21 And after that they desyred a kinge / & God gave vnto them Saul the sonne of Cis / a man of the tribe of Beniamin / by⁹⁴ the space of .xl. yeres.

22 And after he had put [D] him doune / he set vp David to be their kynge / of whome he reported sayinge: I have founde David the sonne of Iesse / a man after myne awne hert / he shall fulfill all my will.

23 Of this mānes seed hath God (accordinge⁹⁵ to his promes) brought forth to the people of Israel a saviour / one Iesus /

24 when Iohn had fyrst preached before his cōminge the baptyme⁹⁶ of repentaūce to Isràel.

25 And when Iohn had fulfylled his course / he sayde: whome ye thinke that I am / the same am I not. But beholde ther cometh one after me / whose shewes of his fete I am not worthy to lowse.

26 ✚ Ye men & brethren / chyldren of the gene racion of Abraham / & whosoever amōge you feareth God / to you is this worde of salvaciō [E] sent.

27 The inhabiters of Ierusalem & their rulers / because they knewe him not / nor yet the voyces of the Prophetes which are redde every Saboth daye / they have fulfilled them in condēpninge him.

28 And when they founde no cause of deeth in him / yet desyred they Pylate⁹⁷ t⟨illegible⟩ kyll him.

29 And when they had fulfilled all that were written of him / they toke him doune from the tree and put him in a sepulcre.

30 But God raysed him agayne from deeth /

31 and⁹⁸ he was sene many dayes of them which came wᵗ him frō Galile to Ierusalem. Which are his witnesses vnto the people.

32 And we declare vnto you / how that y[ᵉ] promes made vnto the fathers /

33 God hath fulfillid vnto vs their chyldrē / in that he reysed vp Iesus agayne ✚ evē as it is written in the fyrste⁹⁹ psalme: Thou arte my sonne / this same daye begat I the.

34 As concernynge that he reysed him vp from deeth / now no more to returne to corrupcion / he sayde on this wyse: The holy promyses made to David I will geve them faithfully to you.

35 Wherfore he saith also in another place: Thou shalt not soffre thyne¹⁰⁰ holye to se corrupcion.

36 Howbe it David after he had in his tyme fulfilled the will of God / he slepte / and was layde with his fathers / & sawe corrupcion.

37 But he whom God reysed agayne / sawe no corrupcion.

38 Be it knowne vnto you therfore ye men & [F] brethrē / that thorow this man is preached vn to you the forgevenes of synnes /

39 & y[ᵗ] by him are all yᵗ beleve¹⁰¹ iustified frō all thinges frō the which ye coulde not be iustified by yᵉ lawe of Moses.

40 Beware therfore lest that fall on you / which is spoken of in the Prophets:

41 Be holde ye despisers and wonder / & perishe ye: for I do aworke in youre dayes / which ye shall not beleve / yf a mā wolde declare it you.

42 When they were come out of the Synagoge of the Iewes / the gētyls besought yᵗ they wolde preache the worde to them bitwene the Saboth dayes.

43 When the congregacion was broken vp / many of the Iewes & verteous cōvertes folowed Paul & Barnabas / which spake to them & exhorted them to cōtinue in the grace of God.

44 And y[ᵉ] nexte Saboth daye / came almoste the whole cite to gether / to heare the worde of God.

45 When y[ᵉ] Iewes sawe the people / they were full of indignacion & spake agaynst those thinges which were spoken of Paul / spekinge agaynst it / and raylinge on it.

46 Then Paul & Barnabas wexed bolde / & sayde: it was mete that the worde of God shulde fyrst have bene preached to you. But seinge ye put it from you / & thinke youre selfes onworthy of everlastinge lyfe: lo / we turne to [G] the gentyls.

47 For so hath the Lorde cōmannded vs: I have made y[ᵉ] a light to the gētyls / y[ᵗ] thou be salvaciō vnto y[ᵉ] ende of y[ᵉ] worlde.¹⁰²

48 The gētyls hearde & were glad & glorified the worde of y[ᵉ] Lorde / & beleved: evē as many as were ordeyned vnto eternall lyfe.

49 And y[ᵉ] worde of the Lorde was publisshed thorowe oute all the region.

50 But the Iewes moved y[ᵉ] worshypfull & honorable wemen / and the chefe men of the cyte / & reysed persecuciō agaynst¹⁰³ Paul and Barnabas / & expelled them oute of their costes.

51 And they shouke of y[ᵉ] duste of their fete agaynst them / & came vnto Iconiū.

52 And the disciples were filled with ioye and with the holy goost. ⊢

Notes to Chapter 13

Chapter 14

¶ The .xiiii. Chapter.

1 ANd it fortuned in Iconium that they went both to gether into the synagoge [A] of yᵉ Iewes / & so spake / that a gret multitude both of yᵉ Iewes & also of the Brekes beleved.

2 But the vnbelevinge Iewes / steryd vp & vnquyeted the myndes of the Gentyls agaynste the brethrē.

3 Longe tyme a bode they there & quyt them selves boldly with the helpe of the Lorde / the which gave testimony vnto yᵉ worde of his grace / & caused signes and wondres to be done by their hondes.

4 The people of the cyte were devided: & parte helde with the Iewes / & parte with the Apostles.

5 When ther was a saute made both of the [B] gentyls and also of the Iewes with their rulers / to put them to shame & to stone thē /

6 they were ware of it / & fled vnto Listra & Derba / cities of Licaonia / & vnto the region that lyeth round aboute /

7 and there preached the gospell.

8 And ther sate a certayne man at Listra weake in his fete / beinge creple from his mothers wombe / and never walkyd.

9 The same hearde¹⁰⁴ Paul preache. Which behelde him and perceaved that he had fayth to be whole /

10 and sayd with a loude voyce: stond vp right on thy fete. And he stert vp / and walked.

11 And when the people sawe what Paul had done / they lifte vp their voyces / sayinge in the speache of Lycaonia: Goddes are come doune to vs in the lyknes of men.

12 And they called Barnabas¹⁰⁵ Iupiter / & Paul Mercurius / because he was the preacher.

13 Then Iupiters Preste / which dwelt before their cite / brought oxē & garlondes vnto the churche porche / and wolde have done sacrifise with the people.

14 But when the Apostles / Barnabas & Paul herde that / they rent their clothes / and ran in amonge the people / cryinge

15 & sayinge: syrs / [C] why do ye this? We are mortall men lyke vnto you / & preache vnto you / that ye shuld turne from these vanyties vnto yᵉ lyvinge God /¹⁰⁶ which made heaven & erth & the see & all that in them is:

16 the which in tymes past suffred all nacions to walke in their awne wayes.

17 Neverthelesse he lefte not him selfe with outen witnes / in that he shewed his benefites / in gevinge vs rayne from heaven & frutefull ceasons / fyllinge oure hertes with fode and gladnes.

18 And with these sayinges / scase refrayned they the people / that they had not done sacrifice vnto them.

19 Thither came certayne Iewes frō Antioche and Iconium / and optayned the peoples consent¹⁰⁷ and stoned Paul / and drewe him oute of the cyte / supposynge he had bene deed.

20 How be it as the disciples stode rounde about him / he arose vp & cam into the cyte. And the nexte daye he departed with Barnabas to Derba.

21 [D] After they had preached to that cite & had taught many / they returned agayne to Listra / and to Iconium and Antioche /

22 & strengthed the disciples soules / exhortinge them to continue in the faith / affyrminge y[ᵗ] we must thorowe moche tribulacion entre into the kyngdome¹⁰⁸ of God.

23 And when they had ordened them elders by eleccion in every congregaciō ⟨illegible⟩ after they had yrayde & fasted / they comended¹⁰⁹ them to God on whom they beleved.

24 And they went thorow out Pisidia & came into Pāphilia /

25 & when they had preached the worde of God in Perga / they descended in to Attalia /

26 & thence departed by shippe to Antioche / frō whence they were delivered vnto the grace of God / to the worke which they had fulfilled.

27 When they were come & had gaddered the congregacion to gedder / they rehersed all that God had done by them / & how he had opened the dore of faith vnto the gētyls.

28 And ther they abode longe tyme with the disciples.

Notes to Chapter 14

Chapter 15

¶ ¶ The .xv. Chapter.

1 THen cam certayne from Iewrie / and taught the brethren: excepte ye be circumcysed [A] after the maner of Moses / ye cannot be saved.

2 And when ther was rysen¹¹⁰ dissencion & disputinge not alitle vnto Paul & Barnabas agaynst them. They determined that Paul and Barnabas & certayne other of them shuld ascende to Ierusalem vnto the Apostles & elders aboute this question.

3 And after they were brought on their waye by the congregacion / they passed over Phenices and Samaria / declarynge the conuersion of the gētyls / & they brought great ioye vnto all y[ᵉ] brethren.

4 And when they were come to Ierusalem / they were receaved of the congregacion & of the Apostles & elders. And they declared what thinges God had done by them.

5 Then arose ther vp certayne that were of the secte of the Pharises & dyd beleve sayinge / that it was nedfull to circūcise them & to enioyne thē to kepe y[ᵉ] lawe of Moses.

6 And y[ᵉ] Apostles &¹¹¹ elders came to geder to reason of this matter.

7 And when ther was moche disputinge / Peter rose vp & sayde vnto them: Ye men & brethren / ye [B] knowe how that a good whyle agoo / God chose amōge vs that the gētyls by my mouth shuld heare the worde of the gospell & beleve.

8 And God which knoweth the herte / bare them witnes / and gave vnto them the holy goost / evē as he dyd vnto vs /

9 and he put no difference bitwene them and vs / but with fayth¹¹² purified their hertes.

10 Now therfore why tempte ye God / that ye wolde put a yoke on the disciples neckes / which nether oure fathers nor we were able to beare.

11 But we beleve that thorowe the¹¹³ grace of the Lorde Iesu Christ we shalbe saved / as they doo.

12 Then all the multitude was peased and gave audience to Barnabas & Paul / which tolde what signes and wondres God had shewed amonge the gentyls / by them.

13 And when they helde their peace / Iames answered [C] sayinge: Men & brethren herken vnto me.

14 Simeon tolde how God at the begynnynge dyd visit the gentyls / & receaved of them / people vnto his name.

15 And to this agreith y[ᵉ] wordes of y[ᵉ] Prophete / as it is written.

16 After¹¹⁴ this I will returne / & wyll bylde agayne the tabernacle of David which is fallen doune / & that which is fallen in dekey of it / will I bilde agayne / & I will set it vp /

17 that the residue of men might seke after the Lorde / & also the gentyls vpō whom my name is named saith y[ᵉ] Lorde / which doth all these thinges:

18 knowne vnto God are all his workes from the begynninge of the worlde.

19 Wherfore my sentēce [D] is / yᵗ we trouble not them which frō amonge the gentyls / are turned to God:

20 but yᵗ we write vnto them yᵗ they abstayne them selves frō filthynes of ymages / frō fornicaciō / from¹¹⁵ strāglyd & frō bloude.

21 For Moses of olde tyme hath in every cite that preache him / and he is rede in the sy⟨illegible⟩agoge every saboth daye.

22 Then pleased it the Apostles & elders wᵗ the whole congregaciō / to sende chosyn men of their owne cōpany to Antioche with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Iudas called also Barsabas and Silas / which were chefe men amonge the brethrē /

23 and gave them lettres in their hondes after this maner. The Apostles / elders & brethren send gretynges vnto the brethrē which are of the gentyls [E] in Antioche / Siria & Celicia.

24 For as moche as we have hearde yᵗ certayne which departed frō vs / have troubled you with worde / & combred youre myndes sayinge: Ye must be circumcised & kepe the lawe / to whom we gave no soche cōmaundemēt.

25 It semed therfore to vs a good thinge / when we were come to gedder with one accorde / to sende chosyn men vnto you / with oure beloved Barnabas and Paul /

26 men that have ieoperded their lyves for the name of oure Lorde Iesus Christ.

27 We have sent therfore Iudas and Sylas / which shall also tell you the same thinge by mouth.

28 For it semed good to the holy gost and to vs / to put no grevous thinge to you more then these necessary thinges: that is to saye /

29 that ye abstayne from thinges offered to ymages / from bloud / from strangled and fornicacion. From which yf ye kepe youre selves / ye shall do well. So fare ye well.

30 [F] When they were departed / they came to Antioche & gaddred the multitude to geder & delyvered y[ᵉ] pistle.

31 When they had redde it / they reioysed of that consolacion.

32 And Iudas & Sylas beinge¹¹⁶ prophetes / exhorted the brethren with moche preachynge▪& strengthed them.

33 And after they had taryed there a space / they were let goo in peace of the brethren vnto the Apostles.

34 Not with stondynge it pleasyd Sylas to abyde there still.

35 Paul & Barnabas continued in Antioche teachynge and preachynge the worde of the Lorde with other many.

36 But after a certayne space / Paul fayde vnto [G] Barnabas: Let vs goo agayne and visite oure brethren in every cite where we have shewed the worde of the Lorde / and se how they do.

37 And Barnabas gave counfell to take wᵗ them Iohn / called also Marke.

38 But Paul thought¹¹⁷ it not mete to take him vnto their company whiche departed from them at Pamphylia / & went not with them to the worke.

39 And the dissencion was so sharpe bitwene them / that they departed a sunder one from the other: so that Barnabas toke Marke and sayled vnto Cypers.

40 And Paul chose Sylas & departed delyvered of yᵉ brethren vnto the grace of god.

41 And he went thorowe all Cyria and Cilicia / stablisshynge the congregacions.

Notes to Chapter 15

Chapter 16

¶ The .xvi. Chapter.

1 THen came he to Derba and to Lystra. [A] And beholde a certayne disciple was¹¹⁸ there named Timotheus / a womans sonne which was a Iewas and beleved: but his father was a Greke.

2 Of whom reported well / the brethren of Lystra and of Iconium.

3 The same Paul wolde yᵗ he shuld goo forth with him / & toke and circumcised him because of the Iewes which were in those quarters: for they knewe all that his father was a Greke.

4 As they went thorow yᵉ cities / they delyvered thē the decrees for to kepe / ordeyned of the Apostles & elders which were at Ierusalem.

5 And so were the congregacions stablisshed in the fayth / and encreased in noumbre dayly.

6 [B] When they had goone thorow out Phrigia / & the region of Galacia / & were forbyddē of the holy gost to preach the worde in Asia /

7 they came to Misia / & sought to goo into Bethinia. But the sprete soffered thē not.

8 Then they went over Misia / & cam doune to Troada.

9 And a vision appered to Paul in yᵉ nyght. There stode a man of Macedonia and prayed him sayinge: come into Macedonia & helpe vs.

10 After he had sene yᵉ vision / immediatly we prepared to goo into Macedonia / certified y[ᵗ] the lorde had called vs for to preache the gospell vnto them.

11 Then lowsed we forth from Troada / & with a strayght course came to Samothracia / and the nexte daye to Neapolim /

12 & from thence to Philippos / which is the chefest citie in yᵉ parte of Macedonia / & a fre cite. We were in that cite abydynge a certayne dayes.

13 And on the saboth dayes we went out [C] of the cite besydes a ryver where men were wont to praye / & we sate doune and spake vnto the wemen which resorted thyther▪

14 And a certayne woman named Lydia / a seller of purple / of the cite of Thiatira / which worshipped¹¹⁹ God / gave vs audience. Whose hert the Lorde opened that she attended vnto the thinges which Paul spake.

15 When she was baptised and her housholde / she besought vs sayinge: Yf ye thinke that I beleve on the Lorde / come into my housse / and abyde there. And she constrayned vs.

16 And it fortuned as we went to prayer / a certayn [D] damsell possessed with a sprete that prophesied¹²⁰ / met vs / which brought her master and mastres moche vauntage with prophesyinge.

17 The same folowed Paul and vs and cryed sayinge: these men are the servauntes of the most hye God / which shewe vnto vs the waye of salvacion.

18 And this dyd she many dayes. But Paul not cōtent / turned about and sayd to the sprete: I commaunde the in the name of Iesu Christ / that thou come out of her. And he came out the same houre.

19 And when her master & mastres sawe yᵗ the¹²¹ hope of their gaynes was gone / they caught Paul & Sylas / & drue thē into the market place vnto the rulars /

20 & brought them to the officers sayinge: These men trouble oure cite / which are Iewes

21 and preache ordinaunces / which are not laufull for vs to receave / nether [E] to observe / seinge we are Romayns.

22 And the people ranne on them / and the officers rent their clothes / and cōmaunded them to be beaten with roddes.

23 And when they had beaten¹²² them sore / they cast them into preson / cōmaun dynge the iayler to kepe them surely.

24 Which iayler when he had receaved suche cōmaundment / thrust them into the ynner preson / & made their fete fast in the stockes.

25 At mydnyght Paul & Sylas prayed / & lauded God. And the presoners hearde them.

26 And sodenly ther was a greate erth quake / so that yᵉ fonndacion of the preson was shaken / and by and by all the dores opened / & every mannes bondes were lowsed.

27 When the kepe[r] [F] of yᵉ preson waked out of his slepe & sawe the preson dores open / he drue out his swearde and wolde have▪ kylled him selfe / supposynge the presoners had bene fledde.

28 But Paul cryed with a lowde voyce sayinge: Do thy selfe no harme / for we are all heare.

29 Then he called for a lyght and sprange in / and came tremblynge / and fell doune before Paul and Sylas /

30 & brought them out & sayde: Syrs / what must I do to be saved?

31 And they sayde▪ beleve on the Lorde Iesus / & thou shalt be saved and thy housholde.

32 And they preached vnto him the worde of the Lorde / and to all that were in his housse.

33 And he toke them the same houre of the nyght & wasshed their woundes / & was baptised with all that belonged vnto him strayght waye.

34 Whē he had brought them into his housse / he set meate before them / and ioyed that he with all his housholde / boleved on God.

35 And when it was daye / the officers sent the [G] ministres sayinge: Let those men goo.

36 The keper of y[ᵉ] preson tolde this sayinge to Paul the officiers have sent worde to lowse you. Now therfore get you hence & goo in peace.

37 Then sayde Paul vnto them: they have beaten vs openly vncomdempned / for all yᵗ we are Romayns / & have cast vs into preson: and now wolde they sende vs awaye prevely? Naye not so / but let them come thē selves & [s]et vs out.

38 When the ministres tolde these wordes vnto the officers / they feared when they hearde that they were Romayns /

39 & came & besought them / & brought them out / & desyred them to departe out of the cite.

40 And they wēt out of y[ᵉ] preson & entred into the housse of Lidia / & whē they had sene the brethren / they comforted them & departed.

Notes to Chapter 16

Chapter 17

¶ The .xvii. Chapter.

1 AS they made their iorney thorow Amphipolis / and [A] Appolonia / they came to Thessalonica where was a synagoge of the Iewes.

2 And Paul as his maner was / went in vnto them / & thre saboth doyes declared oute of the scripture vnto them /

3 openynge & allegynge that Christ must nedes have suffred & rysen agayne from deeth / and that this Iesus was Christ / whom (sayde he) I preache to you.

4 And some of them beleved and came and companyed with Paul and Sylas: also of the honourable Grekes a greate mu[l]titude / and of the chefe wemen / not a feawe.

5 [B] But the Iewes which beleved not / havynge indignaciō / toke vnto thē evyll men which were vagabondes / and gad⟨illegible⟩red a company / and set all the cite on a [r]oore / and made a saute vnto the housse of Iason / & sought to bringe thē out to the people.

6 But when they founde them not / they drue Iason and certayne brethren vnto the heedes of the cite cryinge: these that trouble the worlde / are come hydder also /

7 which Iason hath receaved prevely. And these all do contrary to the elders of Cesar / affirmynge another kynge / one Iesus.

8 And they troubled the people and the officers of the cite when they hearde these thinges.

9 And when they were sufficiently answered of Iason / & of the other / they let thē goo.

10 And the brethren immediatly sent awaye Paul & Sylas by nyght vnto Berrea. Which when they were come thyther / they entred into [C] yᵉ synagoge of the Iewes.

11 These were the noblest of byrthe amonge thē of Thessalonia which receaved the worde wᵗ all diligence of mynde / & searched¹²³ yᵉ scriptures dayly whether those thingꝭ were even so.

12 And many of thē beleved: also of worshipfull wemē which were Grekes / & of men not afeawe.

13 When the Iewes of Thessalonia had knowledge that y[ᵉ] worde of God was preached of Paul at Berrea / they came there and moved the people.

14 And then by & by yᵉ brethrē sent awaye Paul to goo as it were to yᵉ see: but Sylas & Timotheus abode there still.

15 And they that gyded Paul / brought him vnto Attens / & receaved a cōmaundment vnto Sylas & Timoth⟨illegible⟩us for [D] to come to him atonce / and came their waye.

16 Whyll Paul wayted for them at Attens / his sprete was moved in him / to se the cite geven¹²⁴ to worshippinge of ymages.

17 Then he disputed in the synagoge wᵗ the Iewes / & with the devout persones / and in the market dayly with thē that came vnto him.

18 Certayne philosophers of y[ᵉ] Epicures & of y[ᵉ] stoyckes / disputed with him. And some ther were which sayde: what will this babler saye. Other sayd: he s[e]meth to be a tydynges bringer of newe devyls / because he preached vnto them Iesus and the resurreccion.

19 And they toke him / and [E] brought him into Marsestrete sayinge: maye we not knowe what this newe doctrine wherof thou speakest / is?

20 For thou bringest straunge tydynges to oure eares. We wolde knowe therfore what these thinges meane.

21 For all the Attenians & straungers which were there / gave thē selves to nothinge els / but ether to tell or to heare newe tydynges.

22 Paul stode in the myddes of Marse strete [F] & sayde: ye men of Attens / I perceave that in all thinges ye are to supersticious.

23 For as I passed by and behelde the maner how ye worship youre godde / I founde an aultre wher in was written: vnto y[ᵉ] vnknowen god. Whom¹²⁵ ye then ignor⟨illegible⟩tly worship / him shewe I vnto you.

24 God that made the worlde & all that are in it / seynge that he is Lorde of heven & erth / he dwelleth not in temples made with hondes /

25 nether¹²⁶ is worshipped with mennes hondes / as though he neded of eny thinge / seinge he him selfe geveth lyfe and breeth to all men every where /

26 and hath made of one bloud all nacions of men / for to dwell on all the face of the erthe / and hath assigned / before how longe tyme / and also the endes of their inhabitacion /

27 that they shuld seke God / yf they myght fele and fynde him / though he be not farre from every one of vs.

28 For in him we lyve / move and have oure beynge / as certayne of youre ⟨illegible⟩wne Poetes sayde. For we are also his generacion.

29 For as moche then as we are the generacion of God / we ought not to thynke that the godhed is lyke vnto golde / silver or stone / graven by crafte and ymaginacion of man.

30 And the tyme of this ignoraunce God regarded [G] not: but now he byddeth all men every where repent /

31 because he hath apoynted a daye / in the which he will iudge the worlde acordynge to ryghtewesses / by that man whom he hath apoynted / and hath offered faith¹²⁷ to all men / after that he had raysed him from deeth.

32 When they hearde of yᵉ resurreccion from deeth / some mocked / and other sayde: we will heare the agayne of this matter.

33 So Paul departed from amonge them.

34 Howbeit certayne men clave vnto Paul and beleved / amonge¹²⁸ the which was Dionysius a senatour / and a woman named Damaris / & other with them.

Notes to Chapter 17

Chapter 18

¶ The .xviii. Chapter.

1 AFter that / Paul departed from Attens /¹²⁹ & came to Corinthū /

2 & founde a certayne Iewe named Aquila / borne in Ponthus / latly come from Italie wᵗ his wyfe Priscilla [A] (because that the Emperour Claudius had cōmaunded all Iewes to departe frō Rome) and he drewe vnto them.

3 And because he was of the same crafte / he abode with them & wrought: their crafte was to make tentes.¹³⁰

4 And he preached in yᵉ synagoge every saboth daye / & exhorted the Iewes and the gentyls.

5 When Sylas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia / Paul was constrayned by [B] the sprete to testifie to the Iewes that Iesus was very Christ.

6 And whē they sayde cōtrary¹³¹ & blasphemed / he shoke his rayment & sayde vnto thē: youre bloud apon youre awne heeddes / & frō hence forth I go⟨illegible⟩ blamelesse vnto yᵉ gentyls.

7 And he departed thence / & entred into a certayne mānes housse named Iustus a worshiper of god / whose housse ioyned harde to yᵉ synagoge.

8 How be it one [C]rispus yᵉ chefe rular of the synagoge beleved on yᵉ lorde with all his housholde / & many of the Corinthiās gave audience and beleved & were baptised.

9 Then spake the lorde to Paul in the nyght [C] by a vision: be not afrayde / but speake / & holde not thy peace:

10 for I am with the / and no man shall invade the that shall hurte the. For I have moche people in this cite.

11 And he continued there a yeare and sixe monethes / and taught them the worde of God.

12 When Gallio was rular of the countre of Acaia / the Iewes made insurreccion with one accorde agaynst Paul / & brought him to the [D] iudgement seate

13 saying: this felow counceleth men to worship God contrary to yᵉ lawe.

14 And as Paul was about to open his mouth / Gallio sayde vnto y[ᵉ] Iewes: yf it were a matter of wronge / or an evyll dede (o ye Iewes) reason wolde that I shuld heare you:

15 but yf it be a question of wordes / or of names / or of youre lawe / loke ye to it youre selves. For I wilbe no iudge in soche maters /

16 and he drave them from the seate.

17 Then toke all the Grekes Sostenes the chefe rular of the synagoge and smote him before the iudges seate. And Gallio cared for none of tho thinges.

18 Paul after this / taryed there yet a good whyle / & then toke his leave of the brethren / & sayled [E] thence into Ciria / Priscilla and Aquila accompanyinge him. And he shore his heed in Cenchrea / for he had a vowe.

19 And he came to¹³² Ephesus and lefte them there: but he him selfe entred into the synagoge / and reasoned with the Iewes.

20 When they desyred him to tary longer tyme with thē / he consented not /

21 but bad thē fare well sayinge. I must nedes at this feast that cometh / be in Ierusalem: but I will returne agayne vnto you yf God will. And he departed from Ephesus

22 & came vnto Cesarea: & ascended and saluted the congregacion / &¹³³ departed vnto Antioche /

23 & when he had taryed there a whyle / he departed. And went over all the countre of Galacia and Phrigia by order / strengthynge all the disciples.

24 And a certayne Iewe named Apollos / borne¹³⁴ at Alexandria / came to Ephesus / an eloquent man / & myghty in the scriptures.

25 The same was informed in the waye of the Lorde / and he spake fervently in the sprete / & taught [F] diligently the thinges of the Lorde / & knewe but the baptim of Iohn only.

26 And the same began to speake boldely in the synagoge. And when Aquila and Priscilla had hearde him: they toke him vnto them / and expounded vnto him the waye of God more perfectly.

27 And when he was disposed to goo into Acaia / the brethren wrote exhortynge the disciples to receave him. After he was come thyther / he holpe them moche which had beleved thorowe grace.

28 And myghtely he overcame the Iewes / and that openly / shewynge by the scriptures that Iesus was Christ.

Notes to Chapter 18

Chapter 19

¶ The .xix. Chapter. ✚

1 IT fortuned / whyll Appollo was at Corinthum / that Paul passed thorow the¹³⁵ vpper costes & came to Ephesus / & foūde [A] certayne disciples

2 and sayd vnto them: have ye receaved the holy gost sence ye beleved? And they sayde vnto him: no we have not hearde whether ther be eny holy goost or no.

3 And he sayd vnto them: wher wᵗ were ye then baptised? And they sayd: with Iohns baptim¹³⁶

4 Then sayde Paul: Iohn verely bapiised with the baptim of repentaunce / sayinge vnto the people that they shuld beleve on him which shuld come after him: that is on Christ Iesus.

5 When they hearde that / they were baptised in the name of the lorde Iesu.

6 And Paul¹³⁷ layde his hondes apon them / & the holy gost came on them / and they spake with tonges / & prophesied /

7 & all the men were aboute .xii.

8 And he went into the synagoge / & behaved [B] him selfe boldely for the space of thre monethes / disputynge and gevynge them exhortacions of the kyngdome of God.

9 ✚ When dyvers weyed harde herted and beleved not / but spake evyll of the waye / and that before the multitude: he departed from them / and seperated the disciples. And disputed dayly in y[ᵉ] scole of one called Tyrānus.

10 And this contynued by the space of two yeares: so yᵗ all they which dwelt in Asia / hearde the worde of the lorde Iesu / bothe Iewes & Grekes.

11 And god wrought no finall miracles by the hondes of¹³⁸ Paul:

12 so that from his body / were brought vnto the sicke / napkyns or partlettes / and the diseases departed from thē / and the evyll spretes went out of them.

13 Then certayne of the vagabounde Iewes [C] exorcistes / toke apon them to call over them which had evyll spretes / the name of the lorde Iesus sayinge: We adiure you by Iesu whō Paul preacheth.

14 And ther were seven sonnes of one Sceva a Iewe & chefe of the prestes which dyd so.

15 And the evyll sprete answered & sayde: Iesus I knowe / & Paul I knowe: but who are ye?

16 And y[ᵉ] man in whō the evyll sprete was / ranne on thē / and overcame thē / & prevayled agaynst them / so that they fledde out of that housse naked & woūded.

17 And this was knowen to all y[ᵉ] Iewes & Grekes also / which dwelt at Ephesus / & feare came on them all / & they magnified the name of y[ᵉ] lorde Iesus.

18 And many y[ᵗ] beleved / came & confessed & shewed their workes.

19 Many of thē which vsed [D] curious craftes / brought their bokes & burned thē before all men / & they counted the price of thē & foūde it fifty thousande¹³⁹ silverlynges.

20 So myghtely grewe y[ᵉ] worde of god / & prevayled.

21 After these thinges were ended / Paul purposed in the sprete / to passe over Macedonia & Achaia / & to goo to Ierusalem saying: After I have bene there / I must also se Rome.

22 So sent he into Macedonia two of thē that ministred vnto him Timotheus and Erastus: but he him selfe remayned in Asia for a season.

23 The same tyme ther arose no lytell a do [E] aboute that waye.

24 For a certayne man named Demetrius / a silvermyth / which made silver¹⁴⁰ schrynes for Diana / was not a lytell beneficiall vnto the craftes men.

25 Which he called to geder with the worke men of lyke occupacion / and sayd: Syrs / ye knowe that by this crafte we have vauntage.

26 Moreover ye se and heare that not alone at Ephesus / but almost thorowe oute all Asia / this Paul hath persuaded & turned awaye moche people / saying y[ᵗ] they be not goddes which are made wᵗ hondes.

27 So that not only this oure crafte cometh into parell to be set at nought: but also that y[ᵉ] temple of y[ᵉ] greate goddas Diana shuld be despysed / & her magnificence shuld be destroyed which all Asia / and the worlde worshippeth.

28 When they hearde these sayinges / they were full of wrathe / & cryed out saying: Greate is Diana of the Ephesians.

29 And all the cite was on a roore / & they russhed in to the comen [F] hall with one assent / & caught Gayus & Aristarcus / men of Macedonia / Pauls companiōs.

30 When Paul wolde have entred in vnto the people / y[ᵉ] disciples suffered him not.

31 Certayne also of y[ᵉ] chefe of Asia which were his frendes / sent vnto him / desyrynge him that he wolde not preace into the comen hall.

32 Some cryed one thinge & some another / & the congregacion was all out of quiet / & yᵉ moare parte knewe not wherfore they were come togeder.

33 Some of the company drue forth Alexander / the Iewes thrustynge him forwardes. [G] Alexander beckened with the honde / & wolde have geven y[ᵉ] people an answer.

34 When they knewe y[ᵗ] he was a Iewe / ther arose a shoute almost for the space of two houres / of all men cryinge / greate is Diana of the Ephesians.

35 When the toune clarcke had ceased the people / he sayd: ye men of Ephesus / what man is it that knoweth not how that the cite of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddas Diana / & of y[ᵉ] ymage which came frō heven:

36 Seinge then yᵗ no man sayth here agaynst / ye ought to be content / & to do nothinge rasshly:

37 For ye have brought hyther these mē whiche are nether robbers of churches / nor yet despisers of youre goddes.

38 Wherfore yf Demetrius and the craftes men which are wᵗ him / have eny sayinge to eny man / the lawe is open / and ther are ruelars / let thē accuse one another.

39 Yf ye goo about eny other thinge / it maye be determined in a lawfull cōgregacion

40 For we are in ieoperdy to be accused of this dayes busines: for as moche as ther is no cause wherby we maye geve a rekenynge of this concourse of people.

41 And when he had thus spoken / he let the congregacion departe.

Notes to Chapter 19

Chapter 20

¶ The .xx. Chapter.

1 AFter the rage was ceased / Paul called the disciples vnto him / & toke his leave [A] of them / & departed for to goo into Macedonia.

2 And when he had gone over those parties / and geven them large exhortacions / he came into Grece /

3 and there abode .iii. mone thes. And when the Iewes layde wayte for him as he was about to sayle into Syria / he purposed to returne thorowe Macedonia.

4 Ther acompanied him into Asia / Sopater of Berrea / and of Thessalonia Aristarcus & Secundus / & Gayus of Derba / & Timotheus: and out of Asia Tychicus and Trophimos.

5 These went before / and taryed vs at Troas.

6 And we sayled awaye frō Philippos after the ester holydayes / & came vnto them to Troas in five dayes / where we abode seven dayes.

7 And on the morowe after the saboth daye the disciples came to geder for to breake breed [B] and Paul preached vnto them (redy to departe on the morowe) & cōtinued the preachynge vnto mydnyght.

8 And there were many lyghtes in the chamber where thy were gaddered to geder /

9 and there sate in a wyndowe a certayne yonge man named Eutichos / fallen into¹⁴¹ a depe slepe. And as Paul declared / he was the moare overcome with slepe / & fell doune from the thyrde lofte / and was taken vp deed.

10 Paul went doune and fell on him / and embrased him / and sayde: make nothinge a do / for his lyfe is in him.

11 When he was come vp agayne / he brake breed / and tasted / and comened [C] a longewhyle even tyll the mornynge / and so departed.

12 And they brought the yoūge man a lyve / and were not alytell comforted.

13 And we went a fore to shippe and lowsed vnto Asson / these to receave Paul. For so had he apoynted / and wolde him selfe goo a fote.

14 When he was come to vs vnto Asson / we toke him in / & came to Mytelenes.

15 And we sayled thence / and came the nexte daye over agaynst Chios. And the nexte daye we aryved at Samos / and taryed at Trogilion. The nexte daye we came to Myleton:

16 for Paul had determined to leave Ephesus as they sayled / because he wolde not spende yᵉ tyme in Asia. For he hasted to be (yf he coulde possible) at Ierusalem at the daye of pentecoste.

17 Wherfore from Myleton he sent to Ephesus / & called the elders of the cōgregacion.

18 And when they were come to him / he sayde vnto thē: Ye knowe frō the fyrst daye yᵗ I came vnto Asia / after [D] what maner. I have bene wᵗ you at all crasons /

19 servynge the lorde with all humblenes¹⁴² of mynde / & with many teares / & temptacions which happened vnto me by the layinges awayte of the Ieues /

20 & how I kept backe no thinge that was profitable: but that I have shewed you & taught you openly and at home in youre houses /

21 witnessinge bothe to the Iewes / & also to the Grekes / the repentaunce toward¹⁴³ God / & faith towarde oure Lorde Iesu.

22 And now beholde I goo bounde in the sprete [E] vnto Ierusalem / & knowe not what shall come on me thers /

23 but that the holy goost witnesseth in every cite sayinge: y[ᵗ] bondes & trouble abyde me.

24 But none of tho thinges move me: nether is my lyfe dere vnto my selfe / that I myght fulfill my course wᵗ ioye / & the ministraciō which I have receaved of yᵉ Lorde Iesu / to testify the gospell of y[ᵉ] grace of god.

25 And now beholde / I am sure yᵗ hence forth [F] ye all (thorow whō I have gone preachinge yᵉ kyngdome of God) shall se my face no moore.

26 Wherfore I take you to recorde this same daye / that I am pure frō the bloude of all mē.

27 For I have kepte nothinge backe: but have shewed you all the counsell of God.

28 Take hede therfore vnto youre selves / & to all the flocke / wherof the holy goost hath made you oversears / to rule the congregacion of God / which he hathpurchased with hisbloud.

29 For I am sure of this / that after my departynge¹⁴⁴ shall greveous wolves entre in amonge you / which will not spare the flocke.

30 Moreover of youre awne selves shall men aryse speakinge perverse thingꝭ / to drawe disciples after thē.

31 [G] Therfore awake & remember / that by the space of .iii. yeares I ceased not to warne every one of you / both nyght and daye with teares.

32 And now brethren I cōmende you to God and to the worde of his grace / which is able [G] to bylde further / & to geve you an inheritaunce amōge all them which are sanctified.

33 I have¹⁴⁵ desyred no mās silver / golde / or vesture.

34 Ye knowe well y[ᵗ] these hondes have ministred vnto my necessities / and to them that were wᵗ me.

35 I have shewed you all thingꝭ / how that so laborynge ye ought to receave the weake / & to remember the wordes of the Lorde Iesu / howe that he sayde: It is more blessed to geve / then to receave.

36 When he had thus spoken / he kneled doune / and prayed with them all.

37 And they wept all aboundantly / and fell on Pauls necke / & kissed him /

38 sorowinge most of all for the wordes which he spake / that they shuld se his face no moore. And they acompanyed him vnto the shyppe.

Notes to Chapter 20

Chapter 21

¶ The .xxi. Chapter.

1 ANd it chaunsed that assone as we had [A] launched forth / & were departed from them / we came with a strayght course vnto Choon / and the daye folowinge vnto the Rhodes / & from thence vnto Patara.

2 And we founde a shippe redy to sayle vnto Phenices / and went a borde & set forthe.

3 Then appered vnto vs Cyprus / and we lefte it on the lefte honde / and sayled vnto Syria / and came vnto Tyre. For there the shyppe vnladed her burthen.

4 And when we had founde brethren / we taryed there .vii. dayes. And they tolde Paul thorowe yᵉ sprete: that he shuld not goo vp to Ierusalem.

5 And when the dayes were ended / we departed & went ⟨illegible⟩ure wayes / and they all brought vs on oure waye / wᵗ their wyves and chyldren / tyll we were come out of the cyte. And we kneled doune in the shore & prayde.

6 And when we had taken oure leave one of another / we toke shyppe / and they returned home agayne.

7 [B] When we had full ended the course frō Tyre / we aryved at Ptolomaida / & saluted the brethren / & abode with thē one daye.

8 The nexte daye / we that were of Pauls cōpany / departed & came vnto Cesarea. And we entred into the housse of Philip y[ᵉ] Evāgelist / which was¹⁴⁶ one of the sevē deacones / & abode with him.

9 The same man had fower doughters virgēs / which dyd prophesy.

10 And as we taried there a good many dayes / there came a certayne prophete from Iurie / named Agabus.

11 When he¹⁴⁷ was come vnto vs / he toke Pauls gerdell / & bounde his hondes & fete / & sayde: thus saith the holy goost: so shall y[ᵉ] Iewes at Ierusalem bynde the man yᵗ oweth this gerdell / & shall delyver him into the hondes of the gentyls.

12 When we hearde this / both we & other of [C] the same place / be sought him / that he wolde not goo vp to Ierusalem.

13 Then Paul answered & sayde: what do ye wepynge & breakinge myne hert? I am redy not to be bound only / but also to dye at Ierusalem for yᵉ name of y[ᵉ] Lorde Iesu.

14 When we coulde not turne his mynde / we ceased sayinge: the will of y[ᵉ] Lorde be fulfilled.

15 After those dayes we made oure selfes redy / & went vp to Ierusalem.

16 There went with vs also certayne of his disciples of Cesarea / & brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus / an olde disciple with whom we shuld lodge.

17 And when we were come to Ierusalem / the brethren receaved vs gladly.

18 And on the morowe Paul wēt in with vs vn to Iames. And all the elders came to geder.

19 And when he had saluted them / he tolde by [D] order all thingꝭ that God had wrought amōge the gētyls by his ministracion.

20 And when they hearde it / they glorified the Lorde / & sayde vnto him: thou seist brother / how many thousande Iewes ther are which beleve / and they are all zelous over y[ᵉ] lawe.

21 And they are informed of the / that thou teachest all the Iewes which are amōge the gentyls / to forsake Moses / & sayst that they ought not to circumcise their chyldren / nether to live after the customes.

22 What is it therfore? The multitude must nedes come togeder. For they shall heare that thou arte come.

23 Do therfore this that we saye to the. We have .iiii. men / which have a vowe on [E]¹⁴⁸ them.

24 Them take / and purifye thy selfe with them / & do cost on them / that they maye shave their heeddes / & all shall knowe yᵗ tho thingꝭ which they have hearde concerninge the / are nothinge: but that thou thy selfe also walkest & kepest the lawe.

25 For as touchinge the gentyls which beleve / we have written & concluded / y[ᵗ] they observe no soche thinges: but that they kepe them selves from thinges offred to ydoles / from bloud / frō strangled & frō fornicacion.

26 Then the nexte daye Paul toke the men / & purified him selfe with them / & entred into the tēple / declaringe that he observed the dayes of y[ᵉ] purificaciō / vntyll that an offeringe shuld be offred for every one of them.

27 And as the seven dayes shuld have bene ended / y[ᵉ] Iewes which were of Asia when they sawe him in the tēple / they moved all the people / & layde hondes on him

28 cryinge: men of Israel helpe. This is the man that teacheth all men every where agaynst the people / & the lawe / and this place. Moreover also he hath brought Grekes into the tēple / & hath polluted this holy place.

29 For they sawe one Trophimus an Ephesian with him in the cyte. Him they supposed Paul had brought into the tēple.

30 And all the cyte was moved / & the people swarmed to geder. And they toke Paul & drue him out of the tēple / & forthwith the dores were shut to.

31 As they went about to kyll him / tydinges came vnto the hye captayne of the soudiers / that [F] all Ierusalem was moved.

32 Which immediatly toke soudiers & vndercaptaynes / & ranne doune vnto them. When they sawe y[ᵉ] vpper captayne & the soudiers / they lefte smytinge of Paul.

33 Then the captayne came neare & toke him / & cōmaunded him to be bounde with two chaynes / & demaunded what he was / & what he had done.

34 And one cryed this / another that amōge the people. And whē he coulde not knowe the certayntie for y[ᵉ] rage / he cōmaunded him to be caryed into the castle.

35 And whē he came vnto a grece / it fortuned that he was borne of the soudiers of the violence of the people.

36 For the multitude of the people folowed after cryinge: awaye wᵗ him.

37 And as Paul shuld have bene caryed into [G] the castle / he sayde vnto the hye Captayne: maye I speake vnto the? Which sayde: canst thou speake Greke?

38 Arte not thou that Egypcian which before these dayes made an vp roure & ledde out into the wildernes .iiii. thou sande men that were mortherers?

39 But Paul sayde: I am a mā which am a Iewe of Tha⟨illegible⟩ sus a cite in Cicill a Citesyn of no vyle cite / ⟨illegible⟩ beseche yᵉ soffre me to speake vnto yᵉ people.

40 When he had gevē him licēce / Paul stode on yᵉ steppes & beckned with the honde vnto the people / & ther was made a greate silence. And he spake vnto thē in yᵉ Ebrue tonge sayinge:

Notes to Chapter 21

Chapter 22

¶ The .xxii. Chapter.

1 YE men / brethrē & fathers / heare myne [A] answere which I make vnto you.

2 Whē they hearde that he spake in yᵉ Ebrue tonge to them / they kept the moore silence. And he sayde:

3 I am verely aman which am a Iewe / borne in Tharsus / a cite in Cicill: neverthelesse yet brought vp in this cite / at y[ᵉ] fete of Gamaliel and informed diligently in the lawe of the fathers / and was fervent mynded to Godwarde / as ye all are this same daye /

4 and I persecuted this waye vnto the deeth byndynge and delyveringe into preson bothe men and wemen /

5 as the chefe prest doth beare me witnes / and all the elders: of whom also I receaved letters vnto the brethren / & wēt to Damasco to bringe them which were there / bounde vnto Ierusalem for to be punysshed.

6 And it fortuned / as I made my iorney and was come nye vnto Damasco aboute none / yᵗ [B] sodenly ther shone frō heaven a greate lyght rounde aboute me /

7 and I fell vnto the erth / & hearde a voyce sayinge vnto me: Saul / Saul / why persecutest thou me?

8 And I answered: what arte thou Lorde? And he sayd vnto me: I am Iesus of Nazareth / whom thou persecutest.

9 And they that were with me / sawe verely alyght & were a frayde: but they hearde not the voyce of him that spake with me.

10 And I sayde: what shall I do Lorde? And the Lorde sayde vnto me: Aryse & goo into Damasco & there it shalbe tolde the of all thinges which are apoynted for the to do.

11 And when I sawe nothynge for the brightnes of that light / I was ledde by the honde of them that were with me / and came into Damasco.

12 And one Ananias a perfect man / & as pertayninge [C] to the lawe / havinge good reporte of all the Iewes which there dwelt /

13 came vnto me / & stode & sayd vnto me: Brother Saul / loke vp. And that same houre I receaved my sight and sawe him.

14 And he sayde / the God of oure fathers hath ordeyned the before / that thou shuldest knowe his will / and shuldest se that which is rightfull / & shuldest heare the voyce of his mouth:

15 for thou shalt be his witnes vnto all men of tho thinges which thou thouhast sene & hearde.

16 And now: why tariest thou? Aryse & be baptised / and wesshe awaye [D]¹⁴⁹ thy synnes / in callinge on y[ᵉ] name of y[ᵉ] Lorde.

17 And it fortuned / when I was come agayne to Ierusalem & prayde in the tēple / yᵗ I was in a traūce /

18 & sawe him sayinge vnto me. Make haste / & get the quickly out of Ierusalem: for they will not receave thy witnes yᵉ thou bearest of me.

19 And I sayde: Lorde they knowe that I presoned / & bet in every synagoge them that beleved on the▪

20 And when the bloud of thy witnes Steven was sheed / I also stode by / and consented vnto his deeth / and kept the rayment of them that slewe him.

21 And he sayde vnto me: departe / for I will sende the a farre hence vnto the Gentyls.

22 They gave him audience vnto this worde / [E] & then lifte vp their voyces & sayde: a waye wᵗ soche a felowe frō the erth: yt is pitie that he shuld live.

23 And as they cryed & cast of their clothes / & thrue dust into y[ᵉ] ayer /

24 y[ᵉ] captayne bade him to be brought into the castle / & commaunded him to be scourged / & to be examined / that he myght knowe wherfore they cryed on him.

25 And as they bounde him with thōges / Paul sayde vnto the Centurion that stode by: Ys it laufull for you to scourge a man that is a Romain & vncondempned?

26 When the Centurion hearde that / he went / and tolde the vpper captayne sayinge: What intendest thou to do? This man is a Romayne.

27 Then the vpper captayne came / & sayde to [F] him: tell me / art thou a Romayne? He sayde: Yee.

28 And the captayne answered: with a greate some obtayned I this fredome. And Paul sayde: I was fre borne.

29 Then strayght waye departed from him / they which shuld have examyned him. And the hye captayne also was a frayde / after he knewe that he was a [G] Romayne: because he had bounde him.

30 On the morowe because he wolde have knowen the certayntie wherfore he was accused of the Iewes / he lowsed him from his bondes / & commaunded the hye Prestes & all the counsell to come together / and brought Paul / and set him before them.

Notes to Chapter 22

Chapter 23

¶ The .xxiii. Chapter.

1 PAul behelde the counsell & sayde: men & brethrē / I have lived in all good cōscience before God vntill this daye.

2 [A] The hye prest Ananias cōmaunded thē that stode by to smyte him on the mouth.

3 Then sayde Paul to him: God smyte the thou payntyd wall. Sittest thou & iudgest me after the lawe: & commaundest me to be smytten contrary to the lawe?

4 And they that stode by / sayde: revylest thou Goddes hye preste?

5 Then sayd Paul: I wist not brethren / that he was¹⁵⁰ the hye preste. For it is writtē / thou shalt not curse the rular of thy people.

6 When Paul perceaved that the one parte¹⁵¹ were Saduces / & the other Pharises: he cryed [B] oute in the counsell. Men & brethren / I am a Pharisaye / the sonne of a Pharisaye. Of the¹⁵² hope / & resurreccion frō deeth / I am iudged.

7 And when he had so sayde / ther arose a debate betwene the Pharisayes & y[ᵉ] Saduces / & the multitude was devided.

8 For y[ᵉ] Saduces saye¹⁵³ that ther is no resurrecciō / nether angell / nor sprete. But the Pharisayes graunt bothe.

9 And ther arose a great crye / and the Scribes which were of the Pharisayes parte / arose & strove sayinge: we fynde none evyll in this man. Though a sprete or an angell hath apered to him / let vs not stryve agaynst God.

10 And when ther arose greate debate / the captayne [C] fearynge lest Paul shuld have bene pluckt asondre of them / cōmaunded the soudiers to goo doune / & to take him from amonge them / and to bringe him into the castle.

11 The nyght folowyng / God stode by him and sayde: Be of good cheare Paul: for as thou hast testified of me in Ierusalem / so must thou beare witnes at Rome.

12 When daye was come / certayne of the Iewes gaddered them selves to geder / & made a vowe / sayinge that they wolde nether eate [D] nor drinke till they had killed Paul.

13 They were aboute .xl. which had made this conspiraciō.

14 And they cam to y[ᵉ] chefe prestes & elders / & sayde: we have boūde oure selves with a vowe / that we will eate nothinge vntill we have slayne Paul.

15 Now therfore geve ye knowlege to the vpper captayne & to the counsell / that he bringe him forth vnto vs to morow / as though we wolde knowe some thingꝭ more perfectly of him. But we (or ever he come neare) are redy in y[ᵉ] meane season to kill him.

16 [E] When Pauls sisters sonne hearde of their layinge awayte / he wēt & entred into the castle / & tolde Paul.

17 And Paul called one of y[ᵉ] vnder captaynes vnto him / & sayde: bringe this younge man vnto yᵉ hye captayne: for he hath a certayne thinge to shewe him.

18 And he toke him / & sayd: Paul y[ᵉ] presoner called me vnto him & prayed me to brige this yoūge mā vnto y[ᵉ] / which hath a certayne matter to shewe y[ᵉ].

19 The hye captayne toke him by the hond / & wēt a parte with him out of the waye: & a ⟨illegible⟩ed him: what hast thou to saye vnto me?

20 And he sayd: the Iewes are determined to desyre the y[ᵗ] thou woldest brynge forth Paul to morowe into the counsell / as though they wolde enquyre somwhat of him more parfectly.

21 But folowe not their mindes: for ther lye⟨illegible⟩ wayte for him of thē / moo then .xl. men / which have boūde thē selves wᵗ a vowe / that they will nether eate ner drinke till they have killed him. And now are they redy / & loke for thy promes.

22 The vpper captayne let y[ᵉ] yōge man departe & charged: se thou tell it out to no man that [F] thou hast shewed these thingꝭ to me.

23 And he called vnto him two vnder captaynes / sayinge: make redy two hondred soudiers to goo to Cesarea / and horsmen threscore and ten / & speare men two houndred / at the thyrde houre of the nyght.

24 And delyvre them beastes that they maye put Paul on / and bringe him safe vnto Felix the hye debite /

25 and wrote a letter in this maner.

26 Claudius Lisias vnto y[ᵉ] most mighty rular Felix / sendeth gretinge.

27 This man was takē of the Iewes / and shuld have bene killed of them. Then cam I with soudiers / & rescued him / and perceaved that he was a Romayne.

28 And when I wolde have knowen the cause / wherfore they accused him / I brought him forth into their coūsell.

29 There perceaved I y[ᵗ] he was accused of questiōs of their lawe: but was not giltye of eny thinge worthy of deeth or of bondes.

30 Afterwarde when it was shewed me how that y[ᵉ] Iewes layde wayte for y[ᵉ] man / I sent him strayght waye to the / & gave commaundmēt to his accusars / yf they had [G] ought agaynst him / to tell it vnto y[ᵉ]: fare well.

31 Then y[ᵉ] soudiers as it was cōmaunded thē / toke Paul / & brought him by nyght to Antipatras.

32 On the morowe they lefte horsmen to goo with him / and returned vnto the castle.

33 Which when they cam to Cesarea / they delivered the epistle to the debite / and presented Paul before him.

34 When the debite had redde the letter / he axed of what countre he was / & when he vnderstode that he was of Cicill /

35 I will heare the (sayde he) whē thyne accusars are come also: & commaunded him to be kepte in Herodes pallys.

Notes to Chapter 23

Chapter 24

¶ The .xxiiii. Chap.

1 AFter .v. dayes / Ananias the hye preste [A] descended / with elders & with a certayne Oratour named Tartullus / & enformed the ruelar of Paul.

2 When Paul was called forth / Tartullus beganne to accuse him saying: Seynge y[ᵗ] we live in great quyetnes by the meanes of the / & that many good thinges are done vnto this nacion thorow thy providence:

3 that alowe we ever & in all places / most myghty Felix with all thankes.

4 Notwithstondinge / that I be not tedeous vnto the / I praye the / that thou woldest heare vs of thy curtesy a feawe wordes.

5 We have founde this mā a pestilent felowe / and [B] a mover of debate vnto all the Iewes thorowe out the worlde / & a mayntayner of y[ᵉ] secte of the Nazarites /

6 & hath also enforsed to pollute the temple. Whom we toke & wolde have iudged acordinge to oure lawe:

7 but the hye captayne Lisias came vpon vs / and with great violence toke him awaye out of oure hōdes /

8 cōmaundinge his accusars to come vnto the. Of whō thou mayst (yf thou wilt enquyre) knowe the certayne of all these thinges where of we accuse him.

9 The Iewes lyke wyse affermed / sayinge that it was even so.

10 Then Paul (after that the rular him selfe [C] had beckened vnto him that he shuld speake) answered: I shall with a moare quvet minde answere for my selfe / for as moche as I vnderstonde y[ᵗ] thou hast bene of many yeares a iudge vnto this people /

11 because that thou mayst knowe y[ᵗ] there are yet .xii. dayes sence I went vp to Ierusalem for to praye /

12 & that they nether founde me in the tēple disputinge with eny man / other raysinge vp the people / nether in the Synagoges / nor in the cite.

13 Nether can they prove y[ᵉ] thinge wher of they accuse me.

14 But this I confesse vnto y[ᵉ] / that after that waye (which they call heresy) so worshippe I the God of my fathers / belevinge all thinges which are writtē in the lawe & y[ᵉ] Prophetes /

15 & have hope towardes God / that y[ᵉ] same resurreccion from deeth (which they them selves loke for also) shalbe / both of iust & vniust.

16 And therfore stody I to have a cleare consciēce towarde God / and toward man also.

17 [E] But after many yeres I came & brought almes to my people & offeringes / in the which they founde me purified in the tēple / nether with multitude / nor yet wᵗ vnquyetnes

18 How beit there were certayne Iewes out of Asia

19 which ought to be here present before the / & accuse me / yf they had ought agaynst me:

20 or els let these same here saye / if they have founde eny evell doinge in me / whill I stonde here in y[ᵉ] counsell:

21 except it be for this one voyce / y[ᵗ] I cryed stondinge amōge thē / of the resutreccion frō deeth am I iudged of you this daye.

22 [F] When Felix hearde these thinges he deferde them / for he knowe very well of yᵗ waye & sayde: when Lisias the captayne is come / I will know the vtmost of youre matters.

23 And he commaunded an vnder captayne to kepe Paul / and that he shuld have rest / and that he shuld forbyd none of his aquayntaūce▪ to minister vnto him / or to come vnto him.

24 And after a certayne dayes / cā Felix & his wyfe Drusilla which was a Iewas / & called [G] forth Paul / & hearde him of the fayth which is toward Christ.

25 And as he preached of righteousnes / temperaūce & iudgement to come / Felix trembled & answered: thou hast dóne ynough at this tyme / departe / when I have a conveniēt tyme / I will sende for the.

26 He hoped also that money shuld have bene geven him of Paul / that he myght lowse him: wherfore he called him y[ᵉ] oftēner & cōmened with him.

27 But after two yeare / Festus Poreius came into Felix roume. And Felix willinge to shewe y[ᵉ] Iewes a pleasure / lefte Paul in preson bounde.

Chapter 25

¶ The .xxv. Chapter.

[A]¹⁵⁴

1 VVhen Festus was come into the province / after thre dayes / he ascended frō Cesarea vnto Ierusalem.

2 Then enformed him the hye prestes & the chefe of the Iewes of Paul. And they be sought him /

3 & desired faveour agaynst him / that he wold sende for him to Ierusalem: & layde awayte for him in the waye to kill him.

4 Festus answered / that Paul shuld be kept at Cesarea: but that he him selfe wold shortly departe thither.

5 Let thē therfore (sayd he) which amōge you are able to do it / come doune with vs and accuse him / if ther be eny faute in the man.

6 When he had taried there moare then ten [B] dayes / he departed vnto Cesarea / & the nexte daye sate doune in the iudgemēt seate / & commaunded Paul to be brought.

7 When he was come / the Iewes which were come frō Ierusalem / came aboute him & layde many & greveous complayntes agaynst Paul / which they coulde not prove

8 as longe as he answered for him selfe / that he had nether agaynst the lawe of the Iewes / nether agaynst the temple / nor yet agaynst Cesar offended eny thinge at all.

9 Festus willinge to do the Iewes a pleasure / answered Paul & sayde: wilt thou goo to [C] Ierusalem / and there be iudged of these thinges before me?

10 Then sayd Paul: I stonde at Cesars iudgemēt seate / where I ought to be iudged. To yᵉ Iewes have I no harme done / as thou verely well knowest.

11 If I have hurte them / or cōmitted eny thinge worthy of deeth I refuse not to dye. Yf none of these thinges are / where of they accuse me / no man owght¹⁵⁵ to delyver me to them. I appeale vnto Cesar.

12 Then spake Festus with deliberacion / & answered. Thou hast appealed vnto Cesar: vnto Cesar shalt thou goo.

13 After a certayne dayes / kinge Agrippa and¹⁵⁶ Bernice came vnto Cesarea to salute Festus.

14 And when they had bene there a good [D] ceason / Festus rehersed Paules cause vnto y[ᵉ] kynge sayinge: ther is a certayne man left in preson of Felix /

15 about whom when I came to Ierusalem / the hye prestes & elders of the Iewes enformed me / & desyred to have iudgement agaynst him.

16 To whom I answered: It is not the maner of the Romayns to delyver eny man / that he shuld perisshe / before that he which is accused / have the accusars before him / and have licence to answer for him selfe / conserninge y[ᵉ] cryme layde agaynst him:

17 whē [E] they were come hidder / wᵗ out delaye on the morowe I sate to geve iudgement / & cōmaunded y[ᵉ] mā to be brought forthe.

18 Agaynst whō when y[ᵉ] accusers stode vp / they brought none accusacion of soche thingꝭ as I supposed:

19 but had certayne questions agaynst him of their awne supersticion / & of one Iesus which was ded: whom Paul affirmed to be alyve.

20 And because I douted of soche maner questions / I ayed him whyther he wolde goo to Ierusalem / & there be iudged of these matters.

21 Then when Paul had appealed to be kept vnto the knowledge of Cesar / I commaunded him to be kept / tyll I myght sende him to Cesar.

22 Agrippa sayd vnto Festus: I wolde also [F] heare yᵉ man my selfe. To morowe (sayde he) thou shalt heare him.

23 And on yᵉ morowe when Agrippa was come and Bernice with greate pompe / & were entred into the counsell housse with the captaynes & chefe men of the cite / at Festus commaundement Paul was brought forth.

24 And Festus sayde: kynge Agrippa / & all men which are heare present wᵗ vs: ye se this man about whom all the multitude of the Iewes have bene with me both at Ierusalem and also here / cryinge that he ought not to lyve eny lenger.

25 Yet founde I nothinge worthy [G] of deeth that he had cōmitted. Neverthelesse seinge that he hath appealed to Cesar / I have determined to sende him.

26 Of whom I have no certayne thinge to wryte vnto my lorde. Wherfore I have brought him vnto you / and specially vnto the / kynge Agrippa / that after examinacion had / I myght have sumwhat to wryte.

27 For me thynketh it vnreasonable / for to sende a presoner / and not to shewe the causes which are layde agaynst him.

Notes to Chapter 25

Chapter 26

¶ The .xxvi. Chapter.

1 AGrippa sayde vnto Paul: thou arte permitted to speake for thy selfe. Then [A] Paul stretched forth the honde / & answered for him selfe.

2 I thynke my selfe happy kynge Agrippa / because I shall answere this daye before the / of all the thinges wherof I am accused of y[ᵉ] Iewes /

3 namely because thou arte experte in all customes and questions / which are amonge the Iewes. Wherfore I beseche the to heare me paciently.

4 My lyvynge of a chylde / which was at the fyrst amōge myne awne nacion at Ierusalem [B] knowe all the Iewes

5 which knew me from yᵉ beginnynge / yf they wolde testifie it. For after the most straytest secte of oure laye / lyved I a pharisaye.

6 And now I stond & am iudged for the hope of the promes made of God vnto oure fathers:

7 vnto which promes / oure .xii. tribes instantly servynge God daye & nyght / hope to come. For which hopes sake / kynge Agrippa / am I accused of the Iewes.

8 Why shuld it be thought a thinge vncredible vnto [C] you / that god shuld rayse agayne the deed?

9 I also verely thought in my selfe / that I ought to do many cōtrary thinges / clene agaynst the name of Iesus of Nazareth:

10 which thinge I also dyd in Ierusalem. Where many of the sainctes I shut vp in preson / & had receaved auctorite of y[ᵉ] hye prestes. And whē they were put to deeth / I give the sentence.

11 And I punysshed them ofte in every synagoge / and compelled them to blaspheme: & was yet more mad apon them / and persecuted thē / even vnto straunge cities.

12 About the which thinges as I went to Damasco with auctorite and licence of the hye Prestes /

13 even at myddaye (o kynge) I sawe in yᵉ waye a lyght from heven / above the brightnes of the sunne / shyne rounde about me and them which iorneyed with me.

14 When we were all fallen to the erth / I hearde a voyce speakynge vnto me / & sayinge in yᵉ [D] Hebrue tonge: Saul / Saul / why persecutest thou me? It is harde for the to kicke agaynste the pricke.

15 And I sayde: Who arte thou lorde? And he sayde I am Iesus whom thou persecutest.

16 But ryse & stond vp on thy fete. For I have apered vnto the for this purpose / to make the a minister & a witnes / both of tho thinges which thou hast sene / and of tho thinges in the which I will appere vnto the /

17 delyverynge the from the people / and from y[ᵉ] gentyls vnto which nowe I sende the /

18 to open their eyes that they myght turne from darcknes vnto lyght / & from the power of Satan vnto God / that they maye receave forgevenes¹⁵⁷ of synnes and inheritaūce amonge thē which are sanctified byfayth in me.

19 Wherfore kynge Agrippa / I was not disobedient [E] vnto the hevenly vision:

20 but shewed fyrst vnto them of Damasco / and at Ierusalem / and thorow out all the costes of Iewry / and to the gentyls / that they shuld repent / & turne to God / and do the ryght workes of repentaunce.

21 For this cause the Iewes caught me in the temple / and went about to kyll me.

22 Neverthelesse I obtayned helpe of God / & cōtynew vnto this daye witnessyng bothe to small and to greate saying none other thinges / then those which the prophetes and Moses dyd saye shuld come /

23 that Christ shulde suffre / & that he shuld be the fyrst that shulde ryse from deeth / and shuld shewe lyght vnto the people / and the gentyls.

24 As he thus answered for him selfe: Festus sayde with a lowde voyce: Paul / thou arte besides thy selfe. Moche learnynge hath made the mad.

25 And Paul sayde: I am not mad most dere Festus: but speake the wordes of trueth & sobernes.

26 The kynge knoweth of these thinges / before whom I speke frely: nether thynke I that eny of these thinges are hydden frō him. For this thinge was not done in a corner.

27 Kynge Agrippa belevest thou yᵉ prophetes? I wote well thou belevest.

28 Agrippa sayde vnto Paul: Sumwhat thou bringest me in mynde for to be come a Christen.

29 And Paul sayd: I wolde to God that not only thou: but also all that heare me to daye / were / not sumwhat only / but altogeder soche as I am / except these bonde.

30 And when he had thus spoken / the kynge rose vp / & the debite / and Bernice / and they that sate with them.

31 And when they were gone aparte / they talked betwene them selves sayinge: This man doeth nothinge worthy of deeth / nor of bondes.

32 Then sayde Agrippa vnto Festus: This man myght have bene lowsed / yf he had not appealed vnto Cesar.

Notes to Chapter 26

Chapter 27

¶ The .xxvii. Chapter.

1 VVhen it was cōcluded that we shuld¹⁵⁸ sayle into Italy / they delivered Paul & certayne other presoners vnto one named Iulius / an vnder captayne of Cesars soudiars.

2 And we entred into a ship of Adramicium / & lowfed from lond / apoynted to sayle by the costes of Asia / one Aristarcus out of Macedonia / of the contre of Thessalia / beinge with vs.

3 And the nexte daye we came to Sidon. And Iulius courteously entreated Paul / & gave him liberte to goo vnto his frendes / & to refresshe him selfe.

4 And from thence lanched we / and sayled harde by Cypers / because the wyndes were contrarye.

5 Then sayled we over the see of Cilicia / and Pamphylia / and came to Myra a cite in Lycia.

6 [B] And there y[ᵉ] vnder captayne founde a shippe of Alexanderredy to sayle into Italy & put vs therin.

7 And when we had sayled slowly many dayes / & scace were come over agaynst Gnydon (because the wynde with stode vs) we sayled harde by the costes of Candy / over agaynste Salmo /

8 and with moche worke sayled beyonde yt / and came vnto a place called good porte. Nye whervnto was a citie called Lasea.

9 When moche tyme was spent and saylinge was now ieoperdeous / because also that we had overlonge fasted / Paul put them in remembraunce /

10 and sayde vnto them [C] Syrs / I perceave that this vyage wilbe with hurte and moche domage / not of the ladynge and ship only: but also of oure lyves.

11 Neverthelather the vndercaptayne beleved the governer and the master / better then tho thinges which were spoken of Paul.

12 And because the haven was not cōmodius to wynter in / many toke counsell to departe thence / yf by eny meanes they myght attayne to Phenices and there to wynter / which is an haven of Candy / and servith to the southwest and northwest wynde.

13 When the south wynde blewe / they supposynge to obtayne their purpose / lowsed vnto Asson / and sayled paste all Candy.

14 But anone after ther arose agaynste their [D] purpose / a flawe of wynde out of the northeeste.

15 And when the ship was caught / & coulde not resist the wynde / we let her goo & drave with the wether.

16 And we came vnto an yle named Clauda / & had moche worke to come by abote /

17 which they toke vp and vsed helpe / vndergerdynge the shippe / fearynge lest we shuld have fallen into Syrtes / and we let doune a vessell & so were caryed.

18 The nexte daye when we were tossed wᵗ an exceadynge tempest / they lyghtened y[ᵉ] ship /

19 & the thyrde daye we cast out with oure awne hondes / the tacklynge of the shippe.

20 When at the last nether sunne nor starre in many dayes appered / & no small tempest laye apon vs / all hope that we shuld be saved / was then taken awaye.

21 Then after longe abstinence / Paul stode [E] forth in the myddes of them & sayde: Syrs ye shulde have harkened to me / & not have lowsed from Candy / nether to have brought vnto vs this harme and losse.

22 And nowe I exhorte you to be of good chere. For ther shalbe no losse of eny mās lyfe amonge you / save of the ship only.

23 For ther stode by me this nyght the angell of God / whose I am / and whom I serve /

24 sayinge: feare not Paul / for thou must be brought before Cesar. And lo / God hath geven vnto the all that sayle with y[ᵉ].

25 Wherfore Syrs be of good chere: for I beleve God / that so it shalbe even as it was tolde me.

26 How be it we must be cast into a certayne ylonde.

27 But when yᵉ fourtēthe nyght was come / as [F] we were caryed in Adria about mydnyght / the shipmen demed that ther appered some countre vnto thē:

28 and sounded / & founde it .xx. feddoms. And when they had gone a lytell further / they sounded agayne / & founde .xv. feddoms.

29 Then fearinge lest they shuld have fallen on some Rocke / they cast .jiii. ancres out of the sterne / & wysshed for y[ᵉ] daye.

30 As the shipmen were about to fle out of the ship / and had let doune the bote into the see / vnder a coloure as though they wolde have cast ancres out of the for shippe:

31 Paul sayd vnto y[ᵉ] vnder captayne & the soudiers: excepte these abyde in the ship / ye cannot be safe.

32 Then the soudiers cut of the rope of the bote / and let it fall awaye.

33 And in y[ᵉ] meane tyme betwixt that & daye Paul besought them all to take meate / sayinge: [G] this is y[ᵉ] fourtenthe daye that ye have taried and continued fastynge / receavinge nothinge at all.

34 Wherfore I praye you to take meate: for this no dout is for youre helth: for ther shall not an heere fall frō the heed of eny of you.

35 And when he had thus spokē / he toke breed and gave thankes to God in presence of thē all / and brake it / & begāne to eate.

36 Then were they all of good cheare / & they also toke meate.

37 We were all together in y[ᵉ] ship / two [G] hundred thre score & sixtene soules.

38 And whē they had catē ynougth / they lightened y[ᵉ] ship and cast out the wheate into the see.

39 Whē yt was daye / they knew not y[ᵉ] lande but they spied a certayne haven with a banke into yᵉ which they were mynded (yf yt were possible) to thrust in the ship.

40 And when they had taken vp the ancres / they cōmytted them selves vnto the see / & lowsed the rudder bondes & hoysed vp y[ᵉ] mayne sayle to the wynde & drue to londe.

41 But they chaunsed on a place / which had the see on bothe the sydes / and thrust in the ship. And the foore parte stucke fast and moved not / but yᵉ hynder brake with the violence of the waves.

42 The soudears counsell was to kyll y[ᵉ] presoners / lest eny of them / when he had swome out / shulde fle awaye.

43 But the vndercaptayne willinge to save Paul / kept thē from their purpose / & commaunded that they yᵗ could swyme / shulde cast thē selves first in to y[ᵉ] see / and scape to londe.

44 And the other he cōmaunded to goo / some an bordes / and some on broken peces of the ship. And so it came to passe / that they came all safe to londe.

Notes to Chapter 27

Chapter 28

The .xxxiii. Chapter.

1 [A] ANd when they were scaped / then they knewe that the yle was called Milete.

2 And the people of the countre shewed vs no lytell kyndnes: for they kyndled a fyre and receaved vs every one / because of the present rayne / & because of colde.

3 And when Paul had gaddered a boundle of stickes / & put them into the fyre / ther came a viper out of the heet and lept on his honde.

4 When the men of the contre sawe the worme hange on his honde / they sayde amonge thē selves: this man must nedes be a mortherer. Whome (though he have escaped the see) yet vengeaunce suffreth not to lyve.

5 But he shouke of the vermen into the fyre / and felt no harme.

6 Howbeit they wayted when he shuld have swolne / or fallen doune deed sodenly. But after they had loked a greate whyle / and sawe no harme come to him / they chaunged their myndes / and sayde that he was a God.

7 In the same quarters / the chefe man of the [B] yle whose name was Publius / had a lordship pe: the same receaved vs / and lodged vs thre dayes courteously.

8 And it fortuned that the father of Publius laye sicke of a fiever / and of a bluddy flixe. To whō Paul entred in & prayde / & layde his hondes on him & healed him.

9 When this was done / other also which had¹⁵⁹ diseases in the yle / came and were healed.

10 And they dyd vs gret honoure. And when we departed / they laded vs with thinges necessary.

11 After thre monethes we departed in a ship of Alexandry / which had wyntred in the yle / whose badge was Castor & Pollux.

12 And whē we came to Cyracusa / we taryed there .iii. dayes.

13 And from thence we fet a compasse & came to Regium. And after one daye the south wynde blowe / and we came the next daye to Putiolus:

14 where we founde brethren / & were desyred to tary with them seven dayes / and so came to Rome.

15 And from thence / when y[ᵉ] brethren [D] hearde of vs / they came agaynst vs to Apiphorum / & to y[ᵉ] thre taverns. When Paul sawe thē / he thanked God / and wexed bolde.

16 And when he came to Rome / y[ᵉ] vnder captayne delyvered yᵉ presoners to y[ᵉ] chefe captayne of yᵉ host: but Paul was suffered to dwell by him selfe with one soudier that kept him.

17 And it fortuned after thre dayes / that Paul [E] called yᵉ chefe of y[ᵉ] Iewes together. And whē they were come / he sayde vnto thē: Men & brethren / though I have cōmitted nothinge agaynst the people or lawes of oure fathers: yet was I delyvered presoner from Ierusalem in to the hondes of yᵉ Romayns.

18 Which when they had examined me / wolde have let me goo / because they founde no cause of deeth in me.

19 But when y[ᵉ] Iewes cryed cōtrary / I was constrayned to appeale vnto Cesar: not because I had ought to accuse my people of.

20 For this cause have I called for you / evē to se you & to speake with you: because that for the hope of Israel / I am bounde with this chayne.

21 And they sayde vnto him: We nether receaved letters out of Iewry pertayninge vnto yᵉ / nether came eny of the brethren that shewed [F] or spake eny harme of the.

22 But we will heare of the what thou thynkest. For we have hearde of this secte / that every wheare it is spoken agaynst.

23 And when they had apoynted him a daye / ther came many vnto him into his lodgynge. To whom he expounded & testifyed the kyngdome of God / and preached vnto thē of Iesu: both out of the lawe of Moses and also out of the prophetes / even from mornynge to nyght.

24 And some beleved yᵉ thinges which were spoken / & some beleved not.

25 When they agreed not amonge thē selves / they departed / after that Paul had spoken one worde. Well spake the holy goost by Esay yᵉ¹⁶⁰ prophet vnto oure fathers /

26 sayinge: Goo vn to this people & saye: with youre eares shall ye heare / and shall not vnderstonde: and with¹⁶¹ youre eyes shall ye se and shall not perceave.

27 For the hert of this people is wexed grosse / and their eares were thycke of hearynge / [G] & their eyes have they closed: lest they shuld se with their eyes / and heare with their eares / and vnderstonde with their hertes / and shuld be converted / and I shulde heale them.

28 Be it knowen therfore vnto you / that this salvacion of God is sent to the gentyls / and they shall heare it.

29 And when he had sayde that / the Iewes departed / and had grete despiciōs amonge them selves.

30 And Paul dwelt two yeares full in his lodgynge / and receaved all that came to him /

31 preachyng the kyngdome of God / and teachynge those thinges which concerned the lorde Iesus / with all confidence / vnforboden.

¶ Here endeth the Actes of the Apostles.

Notes to Chapter 28

Colophon

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