1   There ^note were also in the Church that was at Antiochia, certaine Prophets and teachers, as Barnabas, and Simeon called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manahen (which had bin brought vp with ^note Herod the Tetrarche) and Saul.

2   Nowe as they ^note ministred to the Lord, and fasted, the holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul, for the worke whereunto I haue ^note called them.

3    ^noteThen fasted they and prayed, and layde their hands on them, and let them goe.

4    ^noteAnd they, after they were sent foorth of the holy Ghost, came downe vnto ^note Seleucia, and from thence they sayled to Cyprus.

5   And when they were at Salamis, they preached the worde of God in the Synagogues of the Iewes: and they had also Iohn to their minister.

6   So when they had gone throughout the yle vnto Paphus, they found a certaine sorcerer, a

Elymas the sorcerer. Pauls sermon at Antiochia. false prophet, being a Iewe, named Bariesus,

7   Which was &wt; the Deputie Sergius Paulus, a prudent man. He called vnto him Barnabas and Saul, and desired to heare the woorde of God.

8    ^noteBut Elymas, þe; sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstoode them, and sought to turne away the Deputie from the faith.

9   Then Saul (which also is called Paul) being full of the holy Ghost, set his eyes on him,

10    ^noteAnd sayde, O full of all subtiltie and all ^note mischiefe, the childe of the deuill, and enemie of all righteousnesse, wilt thou not cease to peruert the straight waies of the Lord?

11   Nowe therefore behold, the ^note hand of the Lorde is vpon thee, and thou shalt be blinde, and not see the sunne for a season. And immediately there fel on him a mist & a darknes; and he went about, seeking some to leade him by the hand.

12   Then the Deputie when he sawe what was done, beleeued, and was astonied at the doctrine of the Lord.

13    ^noteNowe when Paul & they that were with him were departed by shippe from Paphus, they came to Perga a citie of Pamphylia: then Iohn departed from them, and returned to Hierusalem.

14   But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antiochia a citie of ^note Pisidia, & went into the Synagogue on þe; Sabbath day, & sate downe.

15    ^noteAnd after the lecture of the Law & Prophets, the rulers of þe; Synagogue sent vnto them, saying, Ye men & brethren, if ye ^note haue any word of exhortation for the people, say on.

16    ^noteThen Paul stoode vp and beckened with the hand, and sayde, Men of Israel, and yee that feare God, hearken.

17   The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and ^note exalted the people when they dwelt in the land of ^note Egypt, and with an ^{note note} high arme brought them out thereof.

18   And about the time ^note of fourtie yeeres, suffered he their maners in the wildernesse.

19   And he destroied seuen nations in the land of Chanaan, & ^note deuided their l&abar;d to them by lot.

20   Then afterward he gaue vnto them ^note Iudges about ^note foure hundreth and fiftie yeeres, vnto the time of Samuel the Prophet.

21   So after that, they desired a ^note King, & God gaue vnto them ^note Saul, the sonne of Cis, a man of þe; tribe of Beniamin, by the space of ^note fourty yeres.

22   And after he had taken him away, he raised vp ^note Dauid to be their King, of whom he witnessed, saying, I haue found Dauid the sonne of Iesse, a man after mine owne heart, which will doe all things that I will.

23    ^noteOf this mans seede hath God ^note according to his promise raised vp to Israel, þe; Sauiour Iesus:

24   When ^note Iohn had first preached ^note before Pauls sermon at Antiochia. his coming the baptisme of repentance to all the people of Israel.

25   And when Iohn had fulfilled his course, he saide, ^note Whom ye thinke that I am, I am not he: but beholde, there commeth one after me, whose shooe of his feete I am not worthy to loose.

26    ^noteYee men and brethren, children of the generation of Abraham, and whosoeuer among you feareth God, to you is the woorde of this saluation sent.

27    ^noteFor the inhabitants of Hierusalem, and their rulers, because they knewe him not, nor yet the woordes of the Prophets, which are read euery Sabbath day, they haue fulfilled them in condemning him.

28   And though they found no cause of death in him, ^note yet desired they Pilate to kill him.

29   And when they had fulfilled all things that were written of him, they tooke him downe from the tree, and put him in a sepulchre.

30    ^noteBut God ^note raised him vp from the dead.

31   And hee was seene many dayes of them, which came vp with him from Galile to Hierusalem, which are his witnesses vnto the people.

32   And we declare vnto you, that touching the promise made vnto the fathers,

33   God hath fulfilled it vnto vs their children, in that he ^note raised vp Iesus, ^note euen as it is written in the seconde Psalme, ^note Thou art my Sonne: this day haue I begotten thee.

34   Nowe as concerning that he raised him vp from the dead, no more to returne to corruption, he hath said thus, ^note I wil giue you the holy things of Dauid, ^note which are faithfull.

35    ^noteWherefore hee sayeth also in another place, ^note Thou wilt not suffer thine Holy one to see corruption.

36   Howbeit, Dauid after hee had serued his time by the counsell of God, hee ^note slept, and was laid with his fathers, and sawe corruption.

37   But he whom God raised vp, sawe no corruption.

38    ^noteBe it knowen vnto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached vnto you the forgiuenesse of sinnes.

39   And from ^note al things, from which ye could not be iustified by the Law of Moses, by him euery one that beleeueth, is iustified.

40    ^noteBeware therefore lest that come vpon you, which is spoken of in the Prophets,

41    ^noteBehold, ye despisers, and wonder, and vanish away: for I woorke a woorke in your daies, a woorke which yee shall not beleeue, if a man would declare it you.

42   ¶2; ^note And when they were come out of the Synagogue of the Iewes, the Gentiles besought, that they woulde preach these woordes to them the next Sabbath day.

43   Nowe when the congregation was dissolued, many of the Iewes and ^note Proselytes that feared God, followed Paul & Barnabas, which spake to them, and exhorted them to continue in the grace of God.

Ordeined to saluation.

44   And þe; next Sabbath day came almost the whole citie together, to heare the worde of God.

45    ^noteBut when the Iewes saw the people, they were full of enuie, and spake against those things, which were spoken of Paul, contrarying them, and railing on them.

46    ^noteThen Paul and Barnabas spake boldly, and sayde, It was necessarie that the woorde of God shoulde first haue beene spoken vnto you: but seeing yee put it from you, and ^note iudge your selues vnworthie of euerlasting life, loe, we turne to the Gentiles.

47   For so hath the Lord commanded vs, saying, ^note I haue made thee a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be the saluation vnto the end of the world.

48   And when the Gentiles heard it, they were glad, and glorified the woorde of the Lorde: and as many as were ^note ordeined vnto eternall life, beleeued.

49   Thus the worde of the Lord was published throughout the whole countrey.

50    ^noteBut the Iewes stirred certaine ^note deuout & honourable women, and the chiefe men of the citie, and raised persecution against Paul & Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coastes.

51    ^noteBut they ^note shooke off the dust of their feete against them, and came vnto Iconium.

52   And the disciples were filled with ioy, and with the holy Ghost.

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