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vs gladly. 18 And the next day Paul went in and the souldiers, they left beating of Paul.
with vs vnto Iames: and all the Elders were 33 Then the chiefe Captaine came neere and tooke
there assembled. 19 And when he had embraced him, and commanded him to be bound with two
them, hee tolde by order all things, that God had chaines, and demaunded who he was, and what
wrought among the Gentiles by his ministration. he had done. 34 And one cryed this, another that,
20 So when they heard it, they glorified God, and among the people. So when he could not know
sayd vnto him, Thou seest, brother, how many the certeintie for the tumult, he commanded him
thousand Iewes there are which beleeue, and to be led into the castell. 35 And when hee came
they are all zealous of the Law: 21 Now they are vnto the grieces, it was so that he was borne
informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Iewes, of the souldiers, for the violence of the people.
which are among the Gentiles, to forsake Moses, 36 For the multitude of the people followed after,
and sayest that they ought not to circumcise crying, Away with him. 37 And as Paul should
their sonnes, neither to liue after the customes. haue bene led into the castell, he sayd vnto the
22 What is then to be done? the multitude must chiefe Captaine, May I speake vnto thee? Who
needes come together: for they shall heare that sayd, Canst thou speake Greeke? 38 Art not thou
thou art come. 23 Doe therefore this that we the Egyptian who before these dayes raised a
say to thee. We haue foure men, which haue sedition, and led out into the wildernesse foure
made a vowe, 24 Them take, and purifie thy selfe thousande men that were murtherers? 39 Then
with them, and contribute with them, that they Paul sayde, Doubtlesse, I am a man which am
may shaue their heads: and all shall knowe, that a Iewe, and citizen of Tarsus, a famous citie of
those things, whereof they haue bene informed Cilicia, and I beseech thee, suffer mee to speake
concerning thee, are nothing, but that thou thy vnto the people. 40 And when he had giuen him
selfe also walkest and keepest the Lawe. 25 For licence, Paul stoode on the grieces, and beckened
as touching ye Gentiles, which beleeue, we haue with the hand vnto the people: and when there
written, and determined that they obserue no was made great silence, hee spake vnto them in
such thing, but that they keepe themselues from the Hebrewe tongue, saying,
things offred to idoles, and from blood, and
from that that is strangled, and from fornication. 22
26 Then Paul tooke the men, and the next day was
purified with them, and entred into the Temple, 1 Ye men, brethren and Fathers, heare my
declaring the accomplishment of the dayes of defence nowe towards you. 2 (And when they
the purification, vntill that an offering should be heard that he spake in the Hebrewe tongue to
offered for euery one of them. 27 And when the them, they kept the more silence, and he sayd)
seuen dayes were almost ended, the Iewes which 3 I am verely a man, which am a Iew, borne in
were of Asia (when they sawe him in the Temple) Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought vp in this citie at
moued all the people, and laide hands on him, the feete of Gamaliel, and instructed according
28 Crying, Men of Israel, helpe: this is the man to the perfect maner of the Lawe of the Fathers,
that teacheth all men euery where against the and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this
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people, and the Lawe, and this place: moreouer, day. And I persecuted this way vnto the death,
he hath brought Grecians into the Temple, and binding and deliuering into prison both men and
hath polluted this holy place. 29 For they had women. 5 As also ye chiefe Priest doeth beare
seene before Trophimus an Ephesian with him me witnes, and al the company of the Elders: of
in the citie, whom they supposed that Paul had whom also I receiued letters vnto the brethren,
brought into the Temple. 30 Then all the citie was and went to Damascus to bring them which were
moued, and the people ran together: and they there, bound vnto Hierusalem, that they might
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tooke Paul and drewe him out of the Temple, and be punished. And so it was, as I iourneyed
and was come neere vnto Damascus about noone,
forth with the doores were shut. 31 But as they that suddenly there shone from heauen a great
went about to kill him, tydings came vnto the light round about me. 7 So I fell vnto the earth,
chiefe captaine of the band, that all Hierusalem and heard a voyce, saying vnto me, Saul, Saul,
was on an vproare. 32 Who immediately tooke why persecutest thou mee? 8 Then I answered,
souldiers and Centurions, and ran downe vnto Who art thou, Lord? And he said to me, I am Iesus
them: and when they sawe the chiefe Captaine of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest. Moreouer
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