that he said: John
indeed baptized with water but you shall be baptized with the Holy
Ghost.

11:17. If then God gave them the same grace as to us also who believed
in the Lord Jesus Christ: who was I, that could withstand God?

11:18. Having heard these things, they held their peace and glorified
God, saying: God then hath also to the Gentiles given repentance, unto
life.

11:19. Now they who had been dispersed by the persecution that arose on
occasion of Stephen went about as far as Phenice and Cyprus and Antioch,
speaking the word to none, but to the Jews only.

11:20. But some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they
were entered into Antioch, spoke also to the Greeks, preaching the Lord
Jesus.

11:21. And the hand of he Lord was with them: and a great number
believing, were converted to the Lord.

11:22. And the tidings came to the ears of the church that was at
Jerusalem, touching these things: and they sent Barnabas as far as
Antioch.

11:23. Who, when he was come and had seen the grace of God, rejoiced.
And he exhorted them all with purpose of heart to continue in the Lord.

11:24. For he was a good man and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith.
And a great multitude was added to the Lord.

11:25. And Barnabas went to Tarsus to seek Saul: whom, when he had
found, he brought to Antioch.

11:26. And they conversed there in the church a whole year: and they
taught a great multitude, so that at Antioch the disciples were first
named Christians.

11:27. And in these days there came prophets from Jerusalem to Antioch.

11:28. And one of them named Agabus, rising up, signified by the Spirit
that there should be a great famine over the whole world, which came to
pass under Claudius.

11:29. And the disciples, every man according to his ability, purposed
to send relief to the brethren who dwelt in Judea.

11:30. Which also they did, sending it to the ancients, by the hands of
Barnabas and Saul.

Acts Chapter 12

Herod's persecution. Peter's deliverance by an angel. Herod's
punishment.

12:1. And at the same time, Herod the king stretched forth his hands, to
afflict some of the church.

12:2. And he killed James, the brother of John, With the sword.

12:3. And seeing that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to take up Peter
also. Now it was in the days of the Azymes.

Azymes... The festival of the unleavened bread, or the pasch, which
answers to our Easter.

12:4. And when he had app