A   Paul behelde the counsell ∧ said: men and brethren. I haue liued in al good c&obar;sci&ebar;ce before God vntyll thys day. The hye priest Ananias commaunded th&ebar; that stode by, to smyte hym on the mouth. Then sayde Paul to hym: God smite the thou paynted wall. Sittest thou and iudgest me after the lawe, and commaundest me to be smyten contrarye to the lawe? ^noteAnd they that stode by, sayde: reuylest thou Gods hye priest? Then sayde Paule: I wyste not brethren that he was the hye priest. For it is writen: thou shalt not cursse the ruler of thy people.

B    ^{note note}When Paule perceyued that the one part were Saduces, and the other Pharyses: he cryed oute in the counsell: Men and brethren, I am a Pharisey, the sonne of a Pharysey. Of the hope and resurreccyon from death. I am iudged. And when he had so sayde, there arose a debate betwene the Pharyseis and the Saduces, and the multytude was deuyded: For the Saduces saye, that there is no resurreccyon, neyther aungell, nor spirite. ^noteBut the Pharyseis graunte both. And there arose a great crye, and the Scrybes whiche were of the Phariseys parte arose and stroue, saiyng: we fynde none euyll in thys man. Thoughe a spirite or an angell haue appeared to hym, let vs not stryue agaynst God.

C   And when there arose great debate, the captayne fearynge lest Paule shoulde haue bene plucked a sundre of them, commaunded the souldyers to go doune, and to take hym from among them, and to bryng hym into the castle. The nyght folowynge, God stode by hym and sayed: be of good cheare Paule: for as thou haste testifyed of me in Ierusal&ebar;, so must thou beare wytnes at Rome.

D   &rhand; When daye was come, certayne of the Iewes gathered them selues together, ∧ made a vowe, saiynge, that they woulde neyther eate nor drynke, tyll they had kylled Paul. They were about .xl. which had made thus conspiracyon. And they came to the chiefe priestes and elders, and sayde: we haue bounde our selues with a vowe, that we wyll eate nothynge vntyll we haue slayne Paule. Nowe therfore geue ye knoweledge to the vpper captayne ∧ to the counsell, that he brynge hym forthe vnto vs to morowe as thoughe we woulde knowe some thynge more perfectlye of hym: But we, E   or euer he come neare, are readye in the meane season to kyll hym. When Paules systers sonne heard of theyr laiyng awayt: he went ∧ entred into the castle, and tolde Paul.

And Paul called one of the vnder captaynes to hym, and sayde: brynge thys yongemen to the hye captayne, for he hathe a certayne thinge to shewe hym. And he toke hym, ∧ led hym to the hygh captayne, ∧ sayde: Paul the prysoner called me vnto hym, and prayed me to brynge thys yonge man vnto the whiche hath a certayne matter to shewe the.

&rhand; The hye captayne toke him by the hande, and wente aparte with hym oute of the way, and axed hym, what haste thou to saye vnto me? And he sayde: the Iewes are determyned to desyre the that thou wouldest brynge forthe Paule to morowe into the counsell, as though they woulde enquyre some what of him more perfectely. But folowe not theyr myndes: for there lye in wayte for hym of them, moo then xl. men, which haue bounde them selues with a vowe, that they wyll neyther eate nor drinke tyll they haue kylled hym. F   And now are they readye, and loke for thy promes. The vpper captayne let the yonge m&abar; departe, ∧ charged hym: se thou tel it out to no man that thou hast shewed these thynges to me. And he called vnto hym two vnder captaynes, saiynge: make readye two hundred souldyers to go to Cesarea, and horsm&ebar; thre score and ten, and speare men two hondred at the thyrde houre of the nyght. And delyuer th&ebar; beastes that they may put Paule on, and bryng hym safe vnto Felix the hye debitie, and wrote a letter in thys maner.

Claudius Lisias to the moste myghtye rular Felix sendeth gretynges. Thys m&abar; was taken of the Iewes, and shoulde haue ben kylled of them. Then came I with souldiers and reserued hym, and perceyued that he was a Romayne. And when I woulde haue know&ebar; þe; cause, wherfor they accused him, I brought hym forth into theyr counsell: there perceyued I that he was accused of questyons of theyr lawe: but was not gyltye of any thynge worthy of death or of boundes. Afterward when it was shewed me, how that the Iewes layde wayte for the man, I sent him strayght waye to the, and gaue commaundement to hys accusars, yf they had oughte agaynste hym to tell it vnto the. Fare well.

G   Then the souldyours as it was commaunded them, toke Paule and broughte hym by nyght to Antipatras. On the morowe they lefte the horsmen to go with hym and returned vnto the castle. Whiche when they came to Cesarea, they delyuered the Epistle to the debitie, and presented Paul before hym. Wh&ebar; the debitie had redde þe; letter, he axed of what countreye he was: and when he vnderstode þt; he was of Cicill, I wyll heare the (sayde he) when thyne accusars are come also: and commaunded hym to be kepte in Herodes Pallayce.

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