Peter miraculously angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands. ACTS XII. A. D. 44. 8 And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me. 9 And he went out, and followed him; and wist not that it was true which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision. 10 When they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; g which opened to them of his own accord and they went out, and passed on through one street; and forthwith the angel departed from him. 11 And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that h the Lord hath sent his angel, and i hath delivered me out of the delivered. hand of Herod, and Ge. 45. 26. 2 Co. 12. 1. fch. 10. 3. 17. & 11. 5. g ver. 19. ch. 16. 26. Is. 45. 1. Jno. 20. 19. 26. h Ps. 34. 7. Da. 3. 28. & 6. 22. 12 And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many were gathered together m praying. 13 And as Peter knocked at the door He. 1. 14. of the gate, a damsel i 2 Sa. 22. 1. Job 5. 19. Ps. 33. 18, 19. & 34. 22. 2 Co. 1.10. 2 Pe. 2. 9. k ch. 4. 23. & 16. 40. ch. 15.37. m ver. 5. Ma. 18. 19. 1Jno.5.14. Or, to ask who was there. n Ge. 48.16. o Ma. 18. 10. Lu. 1. 22. & 24. 37. Juo. 13:24. ch. 13. 16. & 19. 33. & 21. 40. came + to hearken, named Rhoda. 14 And when she knew Peter's voice, she opened not the gate for gladness, but ran in, and told how Peter stood before the gate. 15 And they said unto her, Thou art mad. But she constantly affirmed that it was even so. Then said they, a It is his angel. 16 But Peter continued knocking: and when they had opened the door, and saw him, they were astonished. 17 But he, beckoning unto them with the hand to hold their peace, declared unto them how the Lord had brought him out Herod's ACTS XIII. miserable death. of the prison. And A.D. 45. he said, Go shew Or, bare these things unto an hostile James, and to the mind, inbrethren. And he de- tending parted, and went into war. another place. 1 Gr. that was over It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. 23 And immediately the angel of the Lord q smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of Worms, and gave up 11. the ghost. 25 And and Barnabas Saul returned 18 Now as soon as the king's it was day, there was bedchamber. no small stir among p 1 Ki. 5. 9. the soldiers, what was become of Peter. Eze. 27.17. 24 But the word 19 And when He- q 1Sa. 25.38. of God grew rod had sought for 2 Sa.24.17. multiplied. him, and found him r Ps. 115. 1. not, he examined the s ch. 6. 7. keepers, and commanded that they should be put death. And he went down from Judæa to Cæsarea, and there abode. and & 19. 20. to Is. 55. 11. they their from Jerusalem, when had fulfilled ministry, and took t John, with them name was Mark. 1 Now there were in a the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as b Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, ttwhich had been brought up with Herod the te trarch, and Saul. 2 As they minis tered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, d Sepa rate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. Sergius Paulus ACTS XIII. 6 And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sor- was a consicerer, a false prophet, derable port a Jew, whose name on the Mediwas Bar-jesus: terraneau 7 Which was with sea.-Cyprus, an isthe deputy of the land infacountry, Sergius Pau- mous for the lus, a prudent man; worship of who called for Bar- Venus, who nabas and Saul, and was supposed to reside desired to hear the there, and word of God. was therefore 8 But Elymas the styled the sorcerer (for so is his Cyprian goddess.name by interpreta- Salamis, was tion) withstood them, situated on seeking to turn away the eastern the deputy from the part of the faith. island, while 9 Then Sanl, (who on its westPaphos lay also is called Paul,) ern coast. filled with the Holy converted. Ghost, set his eyes on him, 10 And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? 11 And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand. 12 Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord. 13 Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John P departing from them returned to Jerusalem. 14 But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and a went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down. ACTS XIII. Paul preacheth 16 Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience. r ver. 27. Lu. 4. 16. t ch. 12. 17. x De. 7.6,7. z Ex. 6. 6. Nu. 14.33. at Antioch. they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years. 22 And 5 when he had removed him, heh raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom a Ex. 16.35. also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, ka man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil alĺ my will. 17 The God of this perhaps for people of Israel popopopnchose our fathers, ev, bore and exalted the peo as a nurse or fed them, ple y when they dwelt beareth or as strangers in the feedeth her land of Egypt, and child, with an high arm De. 1. 31. brought he them out according of it. about the to the LXX. sostom. 18 And time of forty years b De, 7. 1. suffered the their e Jos. 14. 1. manners in the wilderness. d Ju. 2. 16. 19 And when bhe had destroyed seven f1 Sa. 8. 5. nations in the land of g 1 Sa.15.23. Chanaan, he divided b 1 Sa.16.13. their land to them by i P.. 89. 20. lot. k ch. 7. 46. 20 And after that 1 ch. 2. 30. hed gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and n Ma. 1. 21. fifty years, until o Ma. 3. 1. Samuel the prophet. Ma. 3. 11. 21 fAnd afterward m 2 Sa. 7.12. ac 23 Of this man's seed hath God cording m to his promise raised unto Israel na Saviour, Je sus: 24. When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel. 25 And as John fulfilled his course, he said, pWhom think ye that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there cometh one af ter me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose. 26 Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever amo..g Paul preacheth you feareth God, a to you is the word of this salvation sent. ACTS XIII. A. D. 45. q ver. 46. at Antioch, he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is Ma. 10. 6. also written in the second psalm, fThou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. r ch. 3. 17. s ver. 14, 15. t ch. 26.22. Ma. 27.22. y 27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, t they have fulfilled them in condemning him. 28 u And though a they found no cause of death in him, yet! desired they Pilate that he should be slain. 34 And as concerning that he raised him up from the deed, now no more to return to corruption, z Ma. 27. 59. he said on this wise, ch. 2. 24.18 will give you the sure mercies of Da Jno. 19.28. Ma. 28. 6. b ch. 1. 3. d ch. 1. 11. ch. 1. 8. Ge. 3. 15. 29 And when they f Ps. 2. 7. Ro. 4. 13. had fulfilled all that was written of him, 8 Is. 55. 3. they took him down † Gr. ra from the tree, and, holy, or, laid him in a sepul-which word just things: chre. the LXX. 30 a But God raised both in the him from the dead: place of Is. 55. 3. and 31 And b he was in many seen many days of others, use them which came up for that with him from Gali- which is in lee to Jerusalem, the Hebrew, who d are his witnesses unto the people. mercies. h ch. 2. 31. Or, after his own age 32 And we declare he had in unto you glad tidings, served the how that the pro-will of God, mise which was made ver. 22. unto the fathers, i ch. 2. 29. 33 God hath fulfill-k Je. 31. 34. ed the same unto us 1 1. 53 11. their children, in that vid. 35 Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, h Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. 36 For David, tafter he had served his Own generation by the will of God, i fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption: 37 But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption. 38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: 39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be jus |