The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

And they gave forthe their lottes and the lot fell on Mathias and he was counted with the eleven Apostles.

When the fyftith daye was come they were all with one accorde togeder in one place.

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

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

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

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

When this was noysed aboute the multitude came to gether and were astonyed because that every man hearde the speake his awne tounge.

They wondred all and marveyled sayinge amonge them selves: Beholde are not all these which speake of Galile?

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

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

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

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

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

Other mocked the sayinge: they are full of newe wyne.

But Peter stepped forth with the eleven and lift vp his voyce and sayde vnto them: Ye men of Iewrye and all the that inhabite Ierusalem: be this knowe vnto you and with youre eares heare my wordes.

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

But this is that which was spoken by the Prophete Iohel:

It shalbe in the last dayes sayth God: of my sprete I will powre out vpon all flesshe. And youre sonnes and youre doughters shall prophesy and youre yoge men shall se visions and youre olde me shall dreme dremes.

And on my servauts and on my honde maydens I will powre out of my sprete in those dayes and they shall prophesye.

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

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

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

Ye men of Israel heare these wordes. Iesus of Nazareth a man approved of God amonge you with myracles wondres and signes which God dyd by him in the myddes of you as ye youre selves knowe:

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

whom God hath raysed vp and lowsed the sorowes of deeth because it was vnpossible that he shuld be holden of it.

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.

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

because thou wilt not leve my soul in hell nether wilt suffre thyne holye to se corrupcion.

Thou hast shewed me the wayes of lyfe and shalt make me full of ioye with thy countenaunce.

Men and brethren let me frely speake vnto you of the partriarke David: For he is both deed and buryed and his sepulcre remayneth with vs vnto this daye.

Therfore seinge he was a Prophet and 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)

he sawe before: and spake in the resurreccion of Christ that his soule shulde not be left in hell: nether his flesse shuld se corrupcion.

This Iesus hath God raysyd vp wherof we all are witnesses.

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

For David is not ascendyd into heaven: but he sayde. The Lorde sayde to my Lorde sit on my right honde

vntill I make thy fooes thy fote stole.

So therfore let all the housse of Israel knowe for a suerty that God hath made the same Iesus whom ye have crucified lorde and Christ.

When they hearde this they were pricked in their hertes and sayd vnto Peter and vnto the other Apostles: Ye men and brethren what shall we do?

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

For the promyse was made vnto you and to youre chyldren and to all that are afarre even as many as the Lorde oure God shall call.

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

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

And they continued in the Apostles doctrine and felloushippe and in breakinge of breed and in prayer.

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

And all that beleved kept them selves to gedder and had all thinges commen

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

And they continued dayly with one acorde in the temple and brake breed in every housse and dyd eate their meate to gedder with gladnes and singlenes of hert

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

Peter and Iohn went up togedder into the temple at the nynthe houre of prayer.

And ther was a certayne man halt from his mothers wobe who they brought and layde at the gate of the temple called beutifull to axe almes of them that entred into the temple.

Which same when he sawe Peter and Iohn that they wolde in to the temple desyred to receave an almes.

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

And he gaue hede vnto the trustinge to receave somthinge of them.

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 and walke.

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

And he sprage stode and also walked and entred with them into the temple walkinge and leapinge and laudynge God.

And all the people sawe him walke and laude God.

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

And as the halt which was healed helde Peter and Iohn all the people ranne amased vnto them in Salomons porche.

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?

The God of Abraham Isaac and Iacob the God of oure fathers hath glorified his sonne Iesus whom ye delyvered and denyed in the presence of Pylate when he had iudged him to be lowsed.

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

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

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

And now brethren I wote well that thorow ignoraunce ye did it as dyd also youre heddes.

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

Repent ye therfore and turne that youre synnes maye be done awaye when the tyme of refresshinge commeth which we shall have of the presence of the Lorde

and when God shall sende him which before was preached vnto you that is to wit Iesus Christ

which must receave heaven vntyll the tyme that all thinges which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy Prophetes sence the worlde began be restored agayne.

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.

For the tyme will come that every soule which shall not heare that same Prophet shalbe destroyed from amonge the people.

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

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

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.

As they spake vnto the people the prestes and the rular of the temple and the Saduces came vpon them

takynge it grevously that they taught the pople and preached in Iesus the resurreccion from deeth.

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

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

And it chaunsed on the morowe that their rulars and elders and Scribes

as Annas the chefe Prest and Cayphas and Iohn and Alexander and as many as were of the kynred of the hye prestes gadered to geder at Ierusalem

and set the other before them and axed: by what power or what name have ye done this syrs?

Then Peter full of the holy goost sayd vnto them: ye rulars of the people and elders of Israel

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

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

This is the stone cast a syde of you bylders which is set in the chefe place of the corner.

Nether is ther salvacion in eny other. Nor yet also is ther eny other name geven to men wherin we must be saved.

When they sawe the boldnes of Peter and Iohn and vnderstode that they were vnlerned men and laye people they marveyled and they knew them that they were with Iesu:

and beholdinge also the man which was healed stondinge with the they coulde not saye agaynst it.

But they commaunded them to go a syde out of the counsell and counceled amonge them selves

sayinge: what shall we do to these men? For a manifest signe is done by the and is openly knowen to all them that dwell in Ierusalem and we cannot denye it.

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

And they called them and commaunded them that in no wyse they shuld speake or teache in the name of Iesu.

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

For we cannot but speake that which we have sene and hearde.

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

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

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

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

which by the mouth of thy servaunt David hast sayd: Why dyd the hethen rage and the people immagen vayne thinges.

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