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1 There were also in the Church that was at land of Egypt, and with an high arme brought
Antiochia, certaine Prophets and teachers, as them out thereof. 18 And about the time of
Barnabas, and Simeon called Niger, and Lucius of fourtie yeeres, suffered he their maners in the
Cyrene, and Manahen (which had bin brought vp wildernesse. 19 And he destroied seuen nations
with Herod the Tetrarche) and Saul. 2 Nowe as in the land of Chanaan, and deuided their lad to
them by lot.
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Then afterward he gaue vnto them
they ministred to the Lord, and fasted, the holy Iudges about foure hundreth and fiftie yeeres,
Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul, for vnto the time of Samuel the Prophet. 21 So after
the worke whereunto I haue called them. Then
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fasted they and prayed, and layde their hands on that, they desired a King, and God gaue vnto
them, and let them goe. 4 And they, after they them Saul, the sonne of Cis, a man of ye tribe of
were sent foorth of the holy Ghost, came downe Beniamin, by the space of fourty yeres. 22 And
vnto Seleucia, and from thence they sayled to after he had taken him away, he raised vp Dauid
Cyprus. 5 And when they were at Salamis, they to be their King, of whom he witnessed, saying, I
preached the worde of God in the Synagogues of haue found Dauid the sonne of Iesse, a man after
mine owne heart, which will doe all things that
the Iewes: and they had also Iohn to their min- I will. 23 Of this mans seede hath God according
ister. 6 So when they had gone throughout the to his promise raised vp to Israel, ye Sauiour
yle vnto Paphus, they found a certaine sorcerer, Iesus: 24 When Iohn had first preached before
a false prophet, being a Iewe, named Bariesus, his coming the baptisme of repentance to all the
7 Which was with the Deputie Sergius Paulus, a people of Israel. 25 And when Iohn had fulfilled
prudent man. He called vnto him Barnabas and his course, he saide, Whom ye thinke that I am, I
Saul, and desired to heare the woorde of God.
8 But Elymas, ye sorcerer (for so is his name by am not he: but beholde, there commeth one after
me, whose shooe of his feete I am not worthy to
interpretation) withstoode them, and sought to loose. 26 Yee men and brethren, children of the
turne away the Deputie from the faith. 9 Then generation of Abraham, and whosoeuer among
Saul (which also is called Paul) being full of the you feareth God, to you is the woorde of this salu-
holy Ghost, set his eyes on him, 10 And sayde, O ation sent. 27 For the inhabitants of Hierusalem,
full of all subtiltie and all mischiefe, the childe of and their rulers, because they knewe him not,
the deuill, and enemie of all righteousnesse, wilt nor yet the woordes of the Prophets, which are
thounotceasetoperuertthestraightwaiesofthe read euery Sabbath day, they haue fulfilled them
Lord? 11 Nowe therefore behold, the hand of the in condemning him. 28 And though they found
Lord is vpon thee, and thou shalt be blinde, and no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate
not see the sunne for a season. And immediately to kill him. 29 And when they had fulfilled all
there fel on him a mist and a darknes; and things that were written of him, they tooke him
he went about, seeking some to leade him by downe from the tree, and put him in a sepulchre.
the hand. 12 Then the Deputie when he sawe 30 But God raised him vp from the dead. 31 And
what was done, beleeued, and was astonied at
the doctrine of the Lord. 13 Nowe when Paul hee was seene many dayes of them, which came
and they that were with him were departed by vp with him from Galile to Hierusalem, which are
shippe from Paphus, they came to Perga a citie his witnesses vnto the people. 32 And we declare
of Pamphylia: then Iohn departed from them, vnto you, that touching the promise made vnto
and returned to Hierusalem. 14 But when they the fathers, 33 God hath fulfilled it vnto vs their
departed from Perga, they came to Antiochia a children, in that he raised vp Iesus, euen as it
citie of Pisidia, and went into the Synagogue on is written in the seconde Psalme, Thou art my
ye Sabbath day, and sate downe. 15 And after Sonne: this day haue I begotten thee. 34 Nowe
the lecture of the Law and Prophets, the rulers as concerning that he raised him vp from the
of ye Synagogue sent vnto them, saying, Ye men dead, no more to returne to corruption, he hath
and brethren, if ye haue any word of exhortation said thus, I wil giue you the holy things of Dauid,
for the people, say on. 16 Then Paul stoode vp which are faithfull. 35 Wherefore hee sayeth also
and beckened with the hand, and sayde, Men of in another place, Thou wilt not suffer thine Holy
Israel, and yee that feare God, hearken. 17 The one to see corruption. 36 Howbeit, Dauid after
God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, hee had serued his time by the counsell of God,