Acts 7-8 (Darby Translation)

Acts 7

 ¹And the high priest said, Are these things then so?

 ²And he said, Brethren and fathers, hearken. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,

 ³and said to him, Go out of thy land and out of thy kindred, and come into the land which I will shew thee.

 ⁴Then going out of the land of the Chaldeans he dwelt in Charran, and thence, after his father died, he removed him into this land in which *ye* now dwell.

 ⁵And he did not give him an inheritance in it, not even what his foot could stand on; and promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he had no child.

 ⁶And God spoke thus: His seed shall be a sojourner in a strange land, and they shall enslave them and evil entreat [them] four hundred years;

 ⁷and the nation to which they shall be in bondage will *I* judge, said God; and after these things they shall come forth and serve me in this place.

 ⁸And he gave to him [the] covenant of circumcision; and thus he begat Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.

 ⁹And the patriarchs, envying Joseph, sold him away into Egypt. And God was with him,

 ¹⁰and delivered him out of all his tribulations, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he appointed him chief over Egypt and all his house.

 ¹¹But a famine came upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great distress, and our fathers found no food.

 ¹²But Jacob, having heard of there being corn in Egypt, sent out our fathers first;

 ¹³and the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren, and the family of Joseph became known to Pharaoh.

 ¹⁴And Joseph sent and called down to him his father Jacob and all [his] kindred, seventy-five souls.

 ¹⁵And Jacob went down into Egypt and died, he and our fathers,

 ¹⁶and were carried over to Sychem and placed in the sepulchre which Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the [father] of Sychem.

 ¹⁷But as the time of promise drew near which God had promised to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

 ¹⁸until another king over Egypt arose who did not know Joseph.

 ¹⁹*He* dealt subtilly with our race, and evil entreated the fathers, casting out their infants that they might not live.

 ²⁰In which time Moses was born, and was exceedingly lovely, who was nourished three months in the house of his father.

 ²¹And when he was cast out, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and brought him up for herself [to be] for a son.

 ²²And Moses was instructed in all [the] wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.

 ²³And when a period of forty years was fulfilled to him, it came into his heart to look upon his brethren, the sons of Israel;

 ²⁴and seeing a certain one wronged, he defended [him], and avenged him that was being oppressed, smiting the Egyptian.

 ²⁵For he thought that his brethren would understand that God by his hand was giving them deliverance. But they understood not.

 ²⁶And on the morrow he shewed himself to them as they were contending, and compelled them to peace, saying, *Ye* are brethren, why do ye wrong one another?

 ²⁷But he that was wronging his neighbour thrust him away, saying, Who established thee ruler and judge over us?

 ²⁸Dost *thou* wish to kill me as thou killedst the Egyptian yesterday?

 ²⁹And Moses fled at this saying, and became a sojourner in the land of Madiam, where he begat two sons.

 ³⁰And when forty years were fulfilled, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai, in a flame of fire of a bush.

 ³¹And Moses seeing it wondered at the vision; and as he went up to consider it, there was a voice of [the] Lord,

 ³²*I* am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob. And Moses trembled, and durst not consider [it].

 ³³And the Lord said to him, Loose the sandal of thy feet, for the place on which thou standest is holy ground.

 ³⁴I have surely seen the ill treatment of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groan, and have come down to take them out of it; and now, come, I will send thee to Egypt.

 ³⁵This Moses, whom they refused, saying, Who made thee ruler and judge? him did God send [to be] a ruler and deliverer with the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

 ³⁶*He* led them out, having wrought wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

 ³⁷This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, A prophet shall God raise up to you out of your brethren like me [him shall ye hear].

 ³⁸This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received living oracles to give to us;

 ³⁹to whom our fathers would not be subject, but thrust [him] from them, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,

 ⁴⁰saying to Aaron, Make us gods who shall go before us; for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has happened to him.

 ⁴¹And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

 ⁴²But God turned and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in [the] book of the prophets, Have ye offered me victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

 ⁴³Yea, ye took up the tent of Moloch, and the star of [your] god Remphan, the forms which ye made to do homage to them; and I will transport you beyond Babylon.

 ⁴⁴Our fathers had the tent of the testimony in the wilderness, as he that spoke to Moses commanded to make it according to the model which he had seen;

 ⁴⁵which also our fathers, receiving from their predecessors, brought in with Joshua when they entered into possession of [the lands of] the nations, whom God drove out from [the] face of our fathers, until the days of David;

 ⁴⁶who found favour before God, and asked to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob;

 ⁴⁷but Solomon built him a house.

 ⁴⁸But the Most High dwells not in [places] made with hands; as says the prophet,

 ⁴⁹The heaven [is] my throne and the earth the footstool of my feet: what house will ye build me? saith [the] Lord, or where [is the] place of my rest?

 ⁵⁰has not my hand made all these things?

 ⁵¹O stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, *ye* do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers, *ye* also.

 ⁵²Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain those who announced beforehand concerning the coming of the Just One, of whom *ye* have now become deliverers up and murderers!

 ⁵³who have received the law as ordained by [the] ministry of angels, and have not kept [it].

 ⁵⁴And hearing these things they were cut to the heart, and gnashed their teeth against him.

 ⁵⁵But being full of [the] Holy Spirit, having fixed his eyes on heaven, he saw [the] glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God,

 ⁵⁶and said, Lo, I behold the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God.

 ⁵⁷And they cried out with a loud voice, and held their ears, and rushed upon him with one accord;

 ⁵⁸and having cast [him] out of the city, they stoned [him]. And the witnesses laid aside their clothes at the feet of a young man called Saul.

 ⁵⁹And they stoned Stephen, praying, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

 ⁶⁰And kneeling down, he cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And having said this, he fell asleep.

Acts 8

 ¹And Saul was consenting to his being killed. And on that day there arose a great persecution against the assembly which was in Jerusalem, and all were scattered into the countries of Judaea and Samaria except the apostles.

 ²And pious men buried Stephen and made great lamentation over him.

 ³But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into the houses one after another, and dragging off both men and women delivered them up to prison.

 ⁴Those then that had been scattered went through [the countries] announcing the glad tidings of the word.

 ⁵And Philip, going down to a city of Samaria, preached the Christ to them;

 ⁶and the crowds with one accord gave heed to the things spoken by Philip, when they heard [him] and saw the signs which he wrought.

 ⁷For from many who had unclean spirits they went out, crying with a loud voice; and many that were paralysed and lame were healed.

 ⁸And there was great joy in that city.

 ⁹But a certain man, by name Simon, had been before in the city, using magic arts, and astonishing the nation of Samaria, saying that himself was some great one.

 ¹⁰To whom they had all given heed, from small to great, saying, This is the power of God which is called great.

 ¹¹And they gave heed to him, because that for a long time he had astonished them by his magic arts.

 ¹²But when they believed Philip announcing the glad tidings concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptised, both men and women.

 ¹³And Simon also himself believed; and, having been baptised, continued constantly with Philip; and, beholding the signs and great works of power which took place, was astonished.

 ¹⁴And the apostles who were in Jerusalem, having heard that Samaria had received the word of God, sent to them Peter and John;

 ¹⁵who, having come down, prayed for them that they might receive [the] Holy Spirit;

 ¹⁶for he was not yet fallen upon any of them, only they were baptised to the name of the Lord Jesus.

 ¹⁷Then they laid their hands upon them, and they received [the] Holy Spirit.

 ¹⁸But Simon, having seen that by the laying on of the hands of the apostles the [Holy] Spirit was given, offered them money,

 ¹⁹saying, Give to me also this power, in order that on whomsoever I may lay hands he may receive [the] Holy Spirit.

 ²⁰And Peter said to him, Thy money go with thee to destruction, because thou hast thought that the gift of God can be obtained by money.

 ²¹Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter, for thy heart is not upright before God.

 ²²Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and supplicate the Lord, if indeed the thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee;

 ²³for I see thee to be in the gall of bitterness, and bond of unrighteousness.

 ²⁴And Simon answering said, Supplicate *ye* for me to the Lord, so that nothing may come upon me of the things of which ye have spoken.

 ²⁵They therefore, having testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and announced the glad tidings to many villages of the Samaritans.

 ²⁶But [the] angel of [the] Lord spoke to Philip, saying, Rise up and go southward on the way which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza: the same is desert.

 ²⁷And he rose up and went. And lo, an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a man in power under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to worship at Jerusalem,

 ²⁸was returning and sitting in his chariot: and he was reading the prophet Esaias.

 ²⁹And the Spirit said to Philip, Approach and join this chariot.

 ³⁰And Philip, running up, heard him reading the prophet Esaias, and said, Dost thou then know what thou art reading of?

 ³¹And he said, How should I then be able unless some one guide me? And he begged Philip to come up and sit with him.

 ³²And the passage of the scripture which he read was this: He was led as a sheep to slaughter, and as a lamb is dumb in presence of him that shears him, thus he opens not his mouth.

 ³³In his humiliation his judgment has been taken away, and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.

 ³⁴And the eunuch answering Philip said, I pray thee, concerning whom does the prophet say this? of himself or of some other?

 ³⁵And Philip, opening his mouth and beginning from that scripture, announced the glad tidings of Jesus to him.

 ³⁶And as they went along the way, they came upon a certain water, and the eunuch says, Behold water; what hinders my being baptised?

 ³⁸And he commanded the chariot to stop. And they went down both to the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptised him.

 ³⁹But when they came up out of the water [the] Spirit of [the] Lord caught away Philip, and the eunuch saw him no longer, for he went on his way rejoicing.

 ⁴⁰And Philip was found at Azotus, and passing through he announced the glad tidings to all the cities till he came to Caesarea.