yea, even upon my bondmen and upon my bondwomen in those days will I pour out of my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.

Therefore has my heart rejoiced and my tongue exulted; yea more, my flesh also shall dwell in hope,

for the man on whom this sign of healing had taken place was above forty years old.

And 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;

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

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

*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.

But 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?

Yea, 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.

And he found there a certain man, Aeneas by name, who had been lying for eight years upon a couch, who was paralysed.

And having found [him], he brought him to Antioch. And so it was with them that for a whole year they were gathered together in the assembly and taught a large crowd: and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

and for a time of about forty years he nursed them in the desert.

And after these things he gave [them] judges till Samuel the prophet, [to the end of] about four hundred and fifty years.

And then they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul, son of Kis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, during forty years.

And he remained [there] a year and six months, teaching among them the word of God.

And this took place for two years, so that all that inhabited Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

Wherefore watch, remembering that for three years, night and day, I ceased not admonishing each one [of you] with tears.

But Paul, the governor having beckoned to him to speak, answered, Knowing that for many years thou hast been judge to this nation, I answer readily as to the things which concern myself.

And after a lapse of many years I arrived, bringing alms to my nation, and offerings.

But when two years were completed, Felix was relieved by Porcius Festus as his successor; and Felix, desirous to oblige the Jews, to acquire their favour, left Paul bound.

And he remained two whole years in his own hired lodging, and received all who came to him,