The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

And when the day of Pentecost was come, they were al with one accord in one place.

And suddenly there came a sounde from heauen, as of a russhing and mightie winde, and it filled all the house where they sate.

And there appeared vnto them clouen tongues, like fire, and it sate vpon eche of them.

And they were all filled with the holy Ghost, and began to speake with other tongues, as the Spirit gaue them vtterance.

And there were dwelling at Hierusalem Iewes, men that feared God, of euery nation vnder heauen.

Nowe when this was noised, the multitude came together and were astonied, because that euery man heard them speake his owne language.

And they wondered al, and marueiled, saying among themselues, Beholde, are not all these which speake, of Galile?

How then heare we euery man our owne language, wherein we were borne?

Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the inhabitants of Mesopotamia, and of Iudea, and of Cappadocia, of Pontus, and Asia,

And of Phrygia, and Pamphylia, of Egypt, and of the partes of Libya, which is beside Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, and Iewes, and Proselytes,

Creetes, and Arabians: wee hearde them speake in our owne tongues the wonderful works of God.

They were all then amased, and douted, saying one to another, What may this be?

And others mocked, and saide, They are full of newe wine.

But Peter standing with ye Eleuen, lift vp his voice, and said vnto them, Ye men of Iudea, and ye all that inhabite Hierusalem, be this knowen vnto you, and hearken vnto my woordes.

For these are not drunken, as yee suppose, since it is but the third houre of the day.

But this is that, which was spoken by the Prophet Ioel,

And it shalbe in the last daies, saith God, I wil powre out of my Spirite vpon al flesh, and your sonnes, and your daughters shall prophecie, and your yong men shall see visions, and your old men shall dreame dreames.

And on my seruauntes, and on mine handmaides I will powre out of my Spirite in those daies, and they shall prophecie.

And I wil shew wonders in heauen aboue, and tokens in the earth beneath, blood, and fire, and the vapour of smoke.

The Sunne shalbe turned into darkenesse, and the moone into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come.

And it shalbe, that whosoeuer shall call on the Name of the Lord, shalbe saued.

Yee men of Israel, heare these woordes, JESUS of Nazareth, a man approued of God among you with great workes, and wonders, and signes, which God did by him in the middes of you, as yee your selues also knowe:

Him, I say, being deliuered by the determinate counsell, and foreknowledge of God, after you had taken, with wicked handes you haue crucified and slaine.

Whome God hath raised vp, and loosed the sorrowes of death, because it was vnpossible that he should be holden of it.

For Dauid sayeth concerning him, I beheld the Lord alwaies before me: for hee is at my right hand, that I should not be shaken.

Therefore did mine heart reioyce, and my tongue was glad, and moreouer also my flesh shall rest in hope,

Because thou wilt not leaue my soule in graue, neither wilt suffer thine Holy one to see corruption.

Thou hast shewed me the waies of life, and shalt make me full of ioy with thy countenance.

Men and brethren, I may boldly speake vnto you of the Patriarke Dauid, that hee is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre remaineth with vs vnto this day.

Therefore, seeing hee was a Prophet, and knewe that God had sworne with an othe to him, that of the fruite of his loynes hee woulde raise vp Christ concerning the flesh, to set him vpon his throne,

Hee knowing this before, spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soule shoulde not bee left in graue, neither his flesh shoulde see corruption.

This Iesus hath God raised vp, whereof we all are witnesses.

Since then that he by the right hande of God hath bene exalted, and hath receiued of his Father the promise of the holy Ghost, hee hath shed foorth this which yee nowe see and heare.

For Dauid is not ascended into heauen, but he sayth, The Lord sayd to my Lord, Sit at my right hande,

Vntill I make thine enemies thy footestoole.

Therefore, let all the house of Israel know for a suretie, that God hath made him both Lord, and Christ, this Iesus, I say, whome yee haue crucified.

Now when they heard it, they were pricked in their heartes, and said vnto Peter and the other Apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we doe?

Then Peter said vnto them, Amend your liues, and bee baptized euery one of you in the Name of Iesus Christ for the remission of sinnes: and ye shall receiue the gift of the holy Ghost.

For the promise is made vnto you, and to your children, and to all that are a farre off, euen as many as the Lord our God shall call.

And with many other words he besought and exhorted them, saying, Saue your selues from this froward generation.

Then they that gladly receiued his word, were baptized: and the same day there were added to the Church about three thousand soules.

And they continued in the Apostles doctrine, and fellowship, and breaking of bread, and prayers.

And feare came vpon euery soule: and many wonders and signes were done by ye Apostles.

And all that beleeued, were in one place, and had all things common.

And they sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all me, as euery one had need.

And they continued dayly with one accord in the Temple, and breaking bread at home, did eate their meate together with gladnesse and singlenesse of heart,

Praysing God, and had fauour with all the people: and the Lord added to the Church from day to day, such as should be saued.

Nowe Peter and Iohn went vp together into the Temple, at the ninth houre of prayer.

And a certaine man which was a creeple from his mothers wombe, was caried, whom they layde dayly at the gate of the Temple called Beautifull, to aske almes of them that entred into ye Temple.

Who seeing Peter and Iohn, that they would enter into the Temple, desired to receiue an almes.

And Peter earnestly beholding him with Iohn, said, Looke on vs.

And hee gaue heede vnto them, trusting to receiue some thing of them.

Then said Peter, Siluer and gold haue I none, but such as I haue, that giue I thee: In the Name of Iesus Christ of Nazareth, rise vp and walke.

And hee tooke him by the right hand, and lift him vp, and immediately his feete and ankle bones receiued strength.

And he leaped vp, stoode, and walked, and entred with them into the Temple, walking and leaping, and praysing God.

And all the people sawe him walke, and praysing God.

And they knewe him, that it was he which sate for the almes at the Beautifull gate of the Temple: and they were amased, and sore astonied at that, which was come vnto him.

And as the creeple which was healed, held Peter and Iohn, all the people ranne amased vnto them in the porch which is called Salomons.

So when Peter saw it, he answered vnto the people, Ye me of Israel, why marueile ye at this? or why looke ye so stedfastly on vs, as though by our owne power or godlines, we had made this man go?

The God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Iacob, the God of our fathers hath glorified his Sonne Iesus, whom ye betrayed, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had iudged him to be deliuered.

But ye denied the Holy one and the Iust, and desired a murtherer to be giuen you,

And killed the Lord of life, whome God hath raised from the dead, whereof we are witnesses.

And his Name hath made this man sound, whom ye see, and know, through faith in his Name: and the faith which is by him, hath giuen to him this perfite health of his whole body in the presence of you all.

And now brethren, I know that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your gouernours.

But those thinges which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his Prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath thus fulfilled.

Amend your liues therefore, and turne, that your sinnes may be put away, whe the time of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.

And he shall sende Iesus Christ, which before was preached vnto you,

Whome the heauen must containe vntill the time that all thinges be restored, which God had spoken by the mouth of all his holy Prophets since the world began.

For Moses said vnto the Fathers, The Lord your God shall raise vp vnto you a Prophet, euen of your brethren, like vnto me: ye shall heare him in all things, whatsoeuer he shall say vnto you.

For it shalbe that euery person which shall not heare that Prophet, shall be destroyed out of the people.

Also all the Prophets from Samuel, and thencefoorth as many as haue spoken, haue likewise foretolde of these dayes.

Ye are the children of the Prophets, and of the couenant, which God hath made vnto our fathers, saying to Abraham, Euen in thy seede shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

First vnto you hath God raysed vp his Sonne Iesus, and him hee hath sent to blesse you, in turning euery one of you from your iniquities.

And as they spake vnto the people, the Priestes and the Captaine of the Temple, and the Sadduces came vpon them,

Taking it grieuously that they taught the people, and preached in Iesus Name the resurrection from the dead.

And they layde handes on them, and put them in holde, vntill the next day: for it was now euentide.

Howbeit, many of them which heard the word, beleeued, and the number of the men was about fiue thousand.

And it came to passe on the morow, that their rulers, and Elders, and Scribes, were gathered together at Hierusalem,

And Annas the chiefe Priest, and Caiaphas, and Iohn, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the hie Priestes.

And whe they had set them before them, they asked, By what power, or in what Name haue ye done this?

Then Peter ful of the holy Ghost, said vnto them, Ye rulers of the people, and Elders of Israel,

For as much as we this day are examined of the good deede done to the impotent man, to wit, by what meanes he is made whole,

Be it knowen vnto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye haue crucified, whome God raised againe from the dead, euen by him doth this man stand here before you, whole.

This is the stone cast aside of you builders which is become the head of the corner.

Neither is there saluation in any other: for among men there is giuen none other Name vnder heauen, whereby we must be saued.

Now when they sawe the boldnes of Peter and Iohn, and vnderstoode that they were vnlearned men and without knowledge, they marueiled, and knew them, that they had bin with Iesus:

And beholding also the man which was healed standing with them, they had nothing to say against it.

Then they commanded them to goe aside out of the Council, and conferred among themselues,

Saying, What shall we doe to these men? for surely a manifest signe is done by them, and it is openly knowen to all them that dwell in Hierusalem: and we cannot denie it.

But that it be noysed no farther among the people, let vs threaten and charge them, that they speake hencefoorth to no man in this Name.

So they called them, and commanded them, that in no wise they should speake or teach in the Name of Iesus.

But Peter and Iohn answered vnto them, and said, Whether it be right in the sight of God, to obey you rather then God, iudge ye.

For we cannot but speake the things which we haue seene and heard.

So they threatened them, and let them goe, and found nothing how to punish them, because of the people: for all men praised God for that which was done.

For the man was aboue fourtie yeeres olde, on whome this miracle of healing was shewed.

Then assoone as they were let goe, they came to their fellowes, and shewed all that the hie Priestes and Elders had said vnto them.

And when they heard it, they lift vp their voyces to God with one accord, and said, O Lord, thou art the God which hast made the heaue, and the earth, the sea, and all things that are in them,

Which by the mouth of thy seruant Dauid hast saide, Why did the Gentiles rage, and the people imagine vaine things?

The Kings of the earth assembled, and the rulers came together against the Lord, and against his Christ.

For doutlesse, against thine holy Sonne Iesus, whome thou haddest anoynted, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel gathered themselues together,