Book of Common Prayer

¹⁹ and took food, and was comforted.

Then Saul spent some days with the disciples who were at Damascus. ²⁰ And straightaway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he was the Son of God. ²¹ All who heard him were amazed and said, Is this not the man that ravaged those who called on this name in Jerusalem, and came here intending to bring them as prisoners to the high priests?

  ²² But Saul increased in strength, and confounded the Jews who dwelt at Damascus, affirming that Jesus was the very Christ.

²³ And after a good while the Jews took counsel together, to kill him. ²⁴ But Paul knew they were laying in wait. And they watched at the gates day and night, to kill him. ²⁵ Then the disciples took him by night, and put him through the wall and let him down in a basket.

²⁶ And when Saul got to Jerusalem, he tried to join himself with the disciples. But they were all afraid of him, and did not believe that he was a disciple. ²⁷ But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and explained to them how he had seen the Lord on the road and had spoken with him, and how bold he had been at Damascus in the name of Jesus.

²⁸ And Saul had his intercourse with them at Jerusalem, ²⁹ and acquitted himself boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus. And he spoke and disputed with the Greeks, and they went about to kill him. ³⁰ But when the brethren knew of this, they brought him to Caesarea and sent him forth to Tarsus.

³¹ Then the congregations had rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, and were strengthened, and walked in the fear of the Lord, and multiplied by the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

⁴⁴ And it was about the sixth hour. And there came a darkness over all the land until the ninth hour, ⁴⁵ and the sun was darkened. And the veil of the temple did tear, right through the middle. ⁴⁶ And Jesus cried with a great voice and said, Father, into your hands I commit my spirit. And when he had thus spoken, he gave up the spirit.

⁴⁷ When the centurion saw what had happened, he glorified God, saying, Surely this was a just man. ⁴⁸ And all the people who came together to that sight, beholding the things that were done, smote their breasts and returned home. ⁴⁹ And all those who knew him, and the women who had followed him from Galilee, stood afar off beholding these things.

⁵⁰ And there was a man named Joseph, a member of the council, and he was a good man and just. ⁵¹ He had not consented to their counsel and deed. He was from Arimathea, a city of the Jews, and he was also waiting for the kingdom of God. ⁵² He went to Pilate and requested the body of Jesus, ⁵³ and took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid it in a tomb hewn out in stone, in which no man had ever before been laid. ⁵⁴ And that day was the day of preparation; and the Sabbath drew on.

⁵⁵ The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed after, and saw the sepulchre and how his body was laid. ⁵⁶ And they returned and prepared spices and oyntments, but rested on the Sabbath day according to the commandment.