["[Event happened on 2024-01-01 The user is reading a book]\n<User> ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. CHAPTER I. CHRIST'S ASCENSION, AND THE ELECTION OF AN APOSTLE IN THE PLACE OF JUDAS. 1 [1:1]I WROTE my first account, O Theophilus, of all things which\nJesus did and taught, [1:2]till the day that having given charge to the\napostles whom he chose by the Holy Spirit he was taken up; [1:3]to whom\nalso he presented himself living after his suffering, by many proofs,\nbeing seen by them during forty days, and speaking things relating to\nthe kingdom of God. [1:4]And assembling them, he charged them not to\ndepart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which\n[says he] you have heard from me; [1:5]that John baptized indeed with\nwater, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit after a few days. 2 [1:6]They therefore having come together asked him, saying, Lord,\nwill you at this time restore the kingdom of Israel? [1:7]And he said\nto them, It is not your [province] to know the times or seasons which\nthe Father has appointed by his own authority; [1:8]but you shall\nreceive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and shall be my\nwitnesses both in Jerusalem, and all Judea, and Samaria, and to the end\nof the earth. [1:9]And having said these words, as they were looking on\nhe was taken up, and a cloud received him from their sight. [1:10]And\nas they looked steadily to heaven while he went, behold, two men stood\nby them in white clothing; [1:11]and they said, Men of Galilee, why do\nyou stand looking at heaven? This Jesus taken up from you to heaven\nshall so come in the manner in which you have seen him go to heaven. 3 [1:12]Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called [the\nMount] of Olives, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath day's journey\n[distant]. [1:13]And when they came, they went up into the upper room\nwhere staid Peter and John, and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas,\nBartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alpheus and Simon the Zealot,\nand Judas the [brother] of James. [1:14]All these continued with one\naccord in prayer, with the women, and with Mary the mother of Jesus,\nand his brothers. 4 [1:15]And in those days Peter standing up in the midst of the\nbrothers, said--the multitude together was about a hundred and twenty--\n[1:16]Men and brothers, it was necessary that the Scripture should be\nfulfilled which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David,\nconcerning Judas who became a guide to them that apprehended Jesus;\n[1:17]For he was numbered with us, and obtained the inheritance of this\nservice. [1:18]This man therefore purchased a field with the price of\nthe wickedness, and falling headlong burst in the middle and all his\nbowels were poured out; [1:19]and this became known to all who lived at\nJerusalem, so that that field was called in their language Aceldamach,\nwhich is Field of blood. [1:20]For it is written in the book of Psalms,\nLet his dwelling be desolate and let no one dwell in it, and his\nsuperintendency let another take. [1:21]It is necessary therefore that\none of the men who have gone with us all the time in which the Lord\nJesus went in and out among us, [1:22]beginning from the baptism of\nJohn till the day on which he was taken up from us, should be made with\nus a witness of his resurrection. 5 [1:23]And they proposed two; Joseph called Barsabbas, who was also\ncalled Justus, and Matthias. [1:24]And praying, they said, Do thou,\nLord, the searcher of all hearts, show which of these two thou hast\nchosen [1:25]to take the place of this service and apostleship from\nwhich Judas fell by transgression to go to his place. [1:26]And they\ncast their lots, and the lot fell to Matthias, and he was numbered with\nthe eleven apostles. CHAPTER II. THE DAY OF PENTECOST AND ITS BLESSINGS. 1 [2:1]AND when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one\nmind together. [2:2]And suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of a\nviolent wind borne along, and it filled all the house where they were\nsitting; [2:3]and there appeared to them divided tongues as of fire,\nand [one] sat on each one of them; [2:4]and they were all filled with\nthe Holy Spirit, and began to speak with tongues as the Spirit gave\nthem utterance. 2 [2:5]And there were Jews living at Jerusalem, pious men, of every\nnation under heaven; [2:6]and when this sound was [heard], the\nmultitude came together and were astonished, for they each one heard\nthem speaking in his own language. [2:7]And they were astonished and\nwondered, saying, Are not all these that speak Galileans? [2:8]And how\ndo we hear each one in our own language in which we were born,\n[2:9]Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and those who live in\nMesopotamia, Judea, and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, [2:10]Phrygia and\nPamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Lybia about Cyrene, and the Roman\nstrangers, both Jews and proselytes, [2:11]Cretes and Arabs, do we hear\nthem speak in our tongues of the great works of God. [2:12]And they\nwere all astonished and perplexed, saying one to another, What does\nthis mean? [2:13]But others mocking said, They are full of sweet wine. 3 [2:14]But Peter standing up with the eleven lifted up his voice and\nsaid to them, Men of Judea, and all who live at Jerusalem, be this\nknown to you, and attend to my words. [2:15]For these are not drunk as\nyou suppose, for it is the third hour of the day [9 A.M.], [2:16]but\nthis is what was said by the prophet; [2:17]In the last days, says God,\nI will pour out of my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your\ndaughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and\nyour old men shall dream dreams; [2:18]and upon my male servants and\nupon my female servants in those days will I pour out of my Spirit, and\nthey shall prophesy. [2:19]And I will show prodigies in heaven above\nand signs on the earth below, blood and fire and a cloud of smoke. [2:20]The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood,\nbefore the great and illustrious day of the Lord comes. [2:21]And\nwhoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. 4 [2:22]Men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus the Nazoraean, a man\napproved by God to you by mighty works and prodigies and miracles,\nwhich God performed by him in the midst of you, as you yourselves know,\n[2:23]this man, delivered up by the determinate counsel and\nforeknowledge of God, you have affixed to the cross, and killed by the\nhand of the wicked, [2:24]him has God raised up, having loosed the\npains of death, as it was not possible that he should be held by it. [2:25]For David says of him, I saw the Lord always before me, he is on\nmy right hand that I should not be moved; [2:26]therefore my heart\nrejoiced and my tongue was glad, and my flesh, moreover, shall also\nlive in hope; [2:27]for thou wilt not leave my soul in hades, nor\nsuffer thy Holy One to see destruction. [2:28]Thou hast made me know\nthe ways of life, thou wilt fill me with joy with thy presence. 5 [2:29]Men and brothers, let me speak to you freely of the patriarch\nDavid, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to\nthis day. [2:30] Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God swore\nwith an oath to him to set a descendant of his on his throne,\n[2:31]foreseeing he spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that he was\nnot left in hades neither did his flesh see destruction. [2:32]This\nJesus has God raised up, whose witnesses we all are.\n\n<System> Please remember what the user reads on 2024-01-01, save the details within the book, and retain a summary of the book the user has read so far.", "[Event happened on 2024-01-03 The user is reading a book]\n<User> [2:33]Being\ntherefore exalted on the right hand of God, and receiving the promise\nof the Holy Spirit from the Father, he has poured this out which you\nboth see and hear. [2:34]For David ascended not to heaven, but he\nsays, The Lord said to my lord, Sit on my right hand [2:35]till I make\nyour enemies your footstool. [2:36]Let all the house of Israel\ntherefore know certainly, that God has made this Jesus whom you\ncrucified both Lord and Christ. 6 [2:37]And hearing [this] they were distressed in mind, and said to\nPeter and the rest of the apostles, Men and brothers, what shall we do? [2:38]And Peter said to them, Change your minds, and be baptized every\none of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and\nyou shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. [2:39]For the promise is\nto you and your children, and to all that are afar off, as many as the\nLord our God shall call. [2:40]And with many other words he testified\nand exhorted, saying, Save yourselves from this perverse generation. 7 [2:41]Then those that received his word were baptized, and there were\nadded on that day about three thousand souls; [2:42]and they attended\nconstantly to the teaching and companionship of the apostles, the\nbreaking of bread and the prayers. [2:43]And fear was on every soul,\nand many prodigies and miracles were performed by the apostles. [2:44]And all who believed were together and had all things common;\n[2:45]and they sold their possessions and estates, and distributed them\nto all as any one had need; [2:46]and continuing day by day with one\naccord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they\npartook of food with gladness and simplicity of mind, [2:47]praising\nGod, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added the\nsaved, day by day, to the assembly [church]. CHAPTER III. THE IMPRISONMENT OF PETER AND JOHN. 1 [3:1]AND Peter and John went up together to the temple at the hour of\nprayer, which is the ninth hour. [3:2]And a certain man lame from his\nbirth was carried and placed daily at the gate of the temple which is\ncalled Beautiful, to ask charity of those going into the temple;\n[3:3]who seeing Peter and John about to enter into the temple, asked to\nreceive a charity. [3:4]But Peter looking steadily at him with John,\nsaid, Look on us. [3:5]And he gave his attention to them, expecting to\nreceive something from them. [3:6]But Peter said, Silver and gold have\nI none; but what I have, this I give you; in the name of Jesus Christ\nthe Nazoraean, walk. [3:7]And taking him by the right hand he raised\nhim up; and immediately his feet and ankles were strengthened, [3:8]and\nleaping up he stood and walked and entered with them into the temple,\nwalking and leaping, praising God. [3:9]And all the people saw him\nwalking and praising God; [3:10] and they knew him, that he was the one\nwho sat for charity at the beautiful gate of the temple, and they were\nfilled with wonder and astonishment at what had happened to him. 2 [3:11]And as he held Peter and John, all the people ran to them in\nthe porch which is called Solomon's, greatly wondering. [3:12]And\nPeter seeing it answered the people, Men of Israel, why do you wonder\nat this? or why do you look intently at us as if by our power or piety\nwe had made him walk? [3:13]The God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob,\nthe God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered\nup and denied before Pilate when he decided to release him; [3:14]but\nyou denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked a murderer to be given\nyou, [3:15]but killed the Prince of life, whom God has raised from the\ndead, whose witnesses we are. [3:16]And by the faith of his name, his\nname has made strong this man whom you behold and know, and the faith\nwhich is by him has given him this entire soundness before you all. [3:17]And now, brothers, I know that you did it without knowledge, as\ndid also your rulers; [3:18]but what God had before declared by the\nmouth of all the prophets that his Anointed should suffer, he has so\naccomplished. [3:19]Change your minds, therefore, and turn yourselves,\nthat your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come\nfrom the presence of the Lord, [3:20]and he send to you Jesus Christ\nbefore appointed, [3:21]whom heaven must receive till the times of the\nrestoration of all things of which God has spoken by the mouth of his\nholy prophets since the world began. [3:22]Moses indeed said, A prophet\nshall the Lord your God raise up to you, of your brothers, like me; him\nshall you hear in all things which he shall speak to you; [3:23]and\nevery soul which will not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from the\npeople. [3:24]And all the prophets, from Samuel and those following him\nin order, who have spoken, have also announced these days. [3:25]You\nare the children of the prophets, and of the promise which God promised\nto our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in your offspring shall all the\nfamilies of the earth be blessed. [3:26]God having raised up his\nservant has sent him to you first, to bless you by turning each [one of\nyou] from your evil ways. 3 [4:1]And while they were speaking to the people, the priests, and the\ncommander of the temple, and the Sadducees came upon them, [4:2]being\ndispleased because they taught the people and declared by Jesus the\nresurrection of the dead; [4:3]and they laid hands on them and put them\nin prison till the next day; for it was now evening. [4:4]But many of\nthose that heard the word believed, and the number of the men became\nabout five thousand. 4 [4:5]And on the next day the rulers, and elders, and scribes\n[4:6]assembled at Jerusalem, and Annas the chief priest, and Caiaphas,\nand John, and Alexander, and all that were of the family of the chief\npriesthood, [4:7]and placing them in the midst, asked, By what power,\nor by what name, have you done this? [4:8] Then Peter, full of the\nHoly Spirit, said to them, Rulers of the people and elders of Israel,\n[4:9]if we are to-day examined concerning the good work done to the\nsick man, by what means he has been cured, [4:10]be it known to you\nall, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ\nthe Nazoraean, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by\nhim has this man stood before you sound. [4:11]This is the stone\nrejected by you builders, which has become the head of a corner. [4:12]And there is salvation in no other; for there is no other name\ngiven under heaven among men, by which we can be saved. 5 [4:13]And seeing the boldness of Peter and John, and supposing that\nthey were illiterate and common men, they wondered, and perceived that\nthey had been with Jesus; [4:14]and seeing the man standing with them\ncured, they could not dispute it. [4:15]And commanding them to withdraw\nfrom the Sanhedrim, they conferred one with another, [4:16]saying, What\nshall we do to these men? for that a notable miracle has been\nperformed by them is manifest to all that live at Jerusalem, and we\ncannot deny it; [4:17]but that it spread no further among the people,\nlet us threaten them severely, [and charge them] to speak no more to\nany man in this name. [4:18]And calling them, they charged them not to\nspeak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. [4:19]But Peter and John\nanswered and said to them, Whether it is right in the sight of God to\nobey you rather than God, judge; [4:20]for we cannot but tell what we\nhave seen and heard.\n\n<System> Please remember what the user reads on 2024-01-03, save the details within the book, and retain a summary of the book the user has read so far.", "[Event happened on 2024-01-04 The user is reading a book]\n<User> [4:21]And threatening them still further, they\ndismissed them, not being able to punish them, on account of the\npeople, because all glorified God for what was done; [4:22]for the man\nwas more than forty years old on whom this miracle of the cure was\nperformed. 6 [4:23]And being dismissed they came to their friends, and related to\nthem what the chief priests and elders said to them. [4:24]And when\nthey heard it they lifted up their voice with one consent to God, and\nsaid, Master, thou who hast made heaven, and the earth, the sea, and\nall things in them, [4:25]who by the mouth of thy servant David hast\nsaid, Why did the nations rage and the peoples devise vain things? [4:26]the kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were assembled\ntogether against the Lord, and against his anointed. [4:27]For of a\ntruth, in this city, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the gentiles\nand people of Israel, were assembled together against thy holy servant\nJesus whom thou hast anointed, [4:28]to do what thy hand and counsel\nbefore appointed to be done. [4:29]And now, Lord, look down upon their\nthreatenings, and grant to thy servants with all boldness to speak thy\nword, [4:30]by stretching out thy hand, that cures and miracles and\nprodigies may be performed by the name of thy holy servant Jesus. [4:31]And when they had prayed the place was shaken in which they were\nassembled, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and spoke the\nword of God with boldness. CHAPTER IV. THE LIBERALITY OF THE FIRST CHRISTIANS, ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA, FURTHER PERSECUTION. 1 [4:32]AND the multitude that believed had one heart and one soul, and\nnone said that anything of his possessions was his; but they had all\nthings common. [4:33]And the apostles delivered the testimony of the\nresurrection of the Lord Jesus with great power, and great favor was\ntowards them all. [4:34]For no one among them was needy; for those who\npossessed lands or houses sold and brought the prices of the things\nsold, [4:35]and laid them at the apostles' feet; and distribution was\nmade to each as any one had need. [4:36]And Joseph, called Barnabas by\nthe apostles, which is interpreted, A son of consolation, a Levite, a\nCyprian by birth, [4:37]having land, sold it, and brought the money and\nlaid it at the feet of the apostles. 2 [5:1]And one Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife, sold a\npossession, [5:2]and he kept back a part of the price, his wife also\nbeing privy to it, and bringing a certain part laid it at the apostles'\nfeet. [5:3]But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart\nthat you should lie to the Holy Spirit, and that you should keep back a\npart of the price of the land? [5:4]Continuing unsold was it not\nyours, and when it was sold was it not at your disposal? Why did you\npropose this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God. [5:5]And Ananias hearing these words fell down and expired; and great\nfear was upon all who heard. [5:6]And the young men arose and laid him\nout, and having carried him out buried him. 3 [5:7]And after an interval of about three hours, his wife, not\nknowing what had happened, came in. [5:8]And Peter answered her, Tell\nme whether you sold the field for so much? And she said, Yes; for so\nmuch. [5:9]And Peter said to her, Why have you agreed together to try\nthe Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those that buried your\nhusband are at the door, and they shall carry you out. [5:10]And she\nfell down immediately at his feet, and expired; and the young men\ncoming in found her dead, and carried her out, and buried her by her\nhusband. [5:11]And great fear was on all the assembly [church], and on\nall that heard of these things. 4 [5:12]And many miracles and prodigies were performed among the people\nby the hands of the apostles; and they were all of one accord in\nSolomon's porch; [5:13]and no one of the rest dared to join them, but\nthe people magnified them; [5:14]and believers were added the more to\nthe Lord, multitudes both of men and women; [5:15]so that they brought\nthe sick into the streets and placed them on little beds and couches,\nthat as Peter passed along even his shadow might overshadow some of\nthem. [5:16]And the multitude came together from the cities about\nJerusalem, bringing the sick and those troubled by impure spirits, all\nof whom were cured. 5 [5:17]And the chief priest arose, and all those with him, being the\nsect of the Sadducees, and were filled with wrath, [5:18]and laid hands\non the apostles, and put them in the public prison. [5:19]But an angel\nof the Lord opening the prison doors by night led them out and said,\n[5:20]Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of\nthis life. [5:21]And hearing this they entered into the temple early in\nthe morning and taught. And the chief priest coming, and those with\nhim, called the Sanhedrim together, and all the eldership of the\nchildren of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought. 6 [5:22]But the officers going did not find them in the prison; and\nreturning they reported, [5:23]saying, The prison found we shut with\nall safety, and the guards standing before the doors, but opening we\nfound no one within. [5:24]And when they heard these words, both the\npriest and the commander of the temple and the chief priests doubted\nconcerning them, what this could mean. [5:25]But some one came and\ntold them, Behold, the men whom you put in prison are standing in the\ntemple, and teaching the people. 7 [5:26]Then the commander going away with the officers brought them\nwithout violence, for they feared the people, lest they should be\nstoned; [5:27]and having brought them they placed them before the\nSanhedrim. And the chief priest asked them, [5:28]saying, We charged\nyou strictly not to teach in this name, and behold, you have filled\nJerusalem with your teaching, and wish to bring this man's blood on us. [5:29]And Peter answering, and the apostles, said, It is necessary to\nobey God rather than man. [5:30]The God of our fathers raised up Jesus,\nwhom you took and hung on a cross; [5:31]him has God exalted, a Prince\nand Saviour at his right hand, to give a change of mind to Israel and\nthe forgiveness of sins. [5:32]And we are his witnesses of these\nthings, and also the Holy Spirit which God has given to those that obey\nhim. 8 [5:33]And when they heard this they were highly offended, and took\ncounsel to kill them. [5:34]But a certain Pharisee in the Sanhedrim, by\nthe name of Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, in honor with all the\npeople, standing up requested them to put the men out a little while;\n[5:35]and he said to them, Men of Israel, take heed to yourselves what\nyou are about to do to these men. [5:36]For before these days Theudas\narose, saying that he was somebody, to whom a number of men, about four\nhundred, adhered, who was destroyed, and all who obeyed him passed away\nand came to nothing. 9 [5:37]After him arose Judas the Galilean, in the days of the census,\nand drew away people after him; and he was destroyed, and all who\nobeyed him were dispersed. [5:38]And now I tell you, abstain from these\nmen, and let them alone; because if this design, or this work, is from\nmen, it will be destroyed; [5:39]but if it is from God, you cannot\ndestroy them; lest you be found at some time to be fighting against\nGod.\n\n<System> Please remember what the user reads on 2024-01-04, save the details within the book, and retain a summary of the book the user has read so far.", "[Event happened on 2024-01-06 The user is reading a book]\n<User> [5:40]And they were persuaded by him, and calling the apostles and\nscourging them, they charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus,\nand dismissed them. [5:41]They went therefore from the presence of the\nSanhedrim, rejoicing that they were accounted worthy to suffer shame\nfor the name of [Christ]; [5:42]and every day in the temple, and from\nhouse to house, they ceased not teaching and preaching the good news of\nChrist Jesus. CHAPTER V. THE APPOINTMENT OF SEVEN DEACONS, THE SERMON AND MARTYRDOM OF STEPHEN, AND A GENERAL PERSECUTION. 1 [6:1]AND in those days the disciples being multiplied, there was a\ncomplaint of the Hellenists against the Hebrews, that their widows were\nneglected in the daily service. [6:2]And the twelve calling the\nmultitude of the disciples, said, It is not desirable that we should\nleave the word of God to serve tables. [6:3]Look out therefore,\nbrothers, from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Holy\nSpirit, and of wisdom, whom we may set over this business; [6:4]but we\nwill attend continually to prayer, and the ministry of the word. 2 [6:5]And the proposition pleased all the multitude, and they elected\nStephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip and\nProchorus, and Nicanor and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus a\nproselyte of Antioch, [6:6]and set them before the Apostles; and they\nhaving prayed imposed hands on them. [6:7]And the word of God\nincreased, and the number of the disciples was greatly multiplied at\nJerusalem, and a great multitude of the priests obeyed the faith. 3 [6:8]And Stephen, full of grace and power, performed prodigies and\ngreat miracles among the people. [6:9]But some members of the synagogue\ncalled that of the Libertines and Cyrenians and Alexandrians and of\nthose from Cilicia and Asia, arose and disputed with Stephen, [6:10]and\nwere not able to resist the wisdom and spirit with which he spoke. [6:11]Then they bribed men who said, We heard him speak blasphemous\nwords against Moses and God. [6:12]And they stirred up both the people,\nand the elders, and the scribes, and coming suddenly they seized him\nand led him to the Sanhedrim, [6:13]and brought forward false witnesses\nwho said, This man speaks incessantly against this holy place, and the\nlaw; [6:14]for we have heard him say, that Jesus this Nazoraean will\ndestroy this place and change the customs which Moses gave us. [6:15]And all who sat in the Sanhedrin looking steadily at him saw his\nface like the face of an angel. 4 [7:1]And the chief priest said, Are these things then so? [7:2]And\nhe said, Men, brothers, and fathers, hear. The God of glory appeared to\nour father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in\nHaran, [7:3]and said to him, Go out from your country and your kindred,\nand come to a land which I will show you. [7:4]Then going out from the\nland of the Chaldeans, he lived in Haran. And thence, after the death\nof his father, he removed into this land in which you now live. [7:5]And [God] gave him no inheritance in it, not the breadth of a\nfoot, and promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his\nposterity after him, when as yet he had no son. [7:6]And God said thus;\nthat his posterity should be a stranger in a foreign land, and they\nshall enslave it and treat it injuriously four hundred years; [7:7]and\nthe nation which they shall serve will I judge, said God, and after\nthat they shall come forth and serve me in this place. 5 [7:8]And he gave him the ordinance of circumcision; and so he begat\nIsaac and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac, Jacob, and\nJacob the twelve patriarchs. [7:9]And the patriarchs envying Joseph\nsold him into Egypt; and God was with him [7:10]and delivered him from\nall his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of\nPharaoh king of Egypt, and [he] made him governor over Egypt and all\nhis house. 6 [7:11]And there came a famine on all the land of Egypt and Canaan,\nand great affliction, and our fathers found no provisions. [7:12]But\nJacob hearing that there was grain in Egypt, sent our fathers the first\ntime; [7:13]and the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers,\nand Joseph's family was made known to Pharaoh. [7:14]And Joseph sent\nand called for his father Jacob, and all the family of seventy-five\nsouls. [7:15]And Jacob went down to Egypt, and died, he and our\nfathers; [7:16]and they carried him back to Shechem and buried him in\nthe tomb which Abraham bought for money of the sons of Hamor the father\nof Shechem. 7 [7:17]But when the time of the promise which God made with an oath to\nAbraham was at hand, the people increased and became numerous in Egypt,\n[7:18]till another king arose who knew not Joseph. [7:19]This [king]\ndealt deceitfully with our race, and treated injuriously our fathers,\ncausing their infants to be exposed that they might not be preserved\nalive. 8 [7:20]At that time Moses was born, and was beautiful in the sight of\nGod, and was nourished three months in his father's house; [7:21]but\nbeing exposed, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up and nourished him as\nher own son. [7:22]And Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the\nEgyptians, and was mighty in his words and works. [7:23]And when he was\nforty years old, it came into his mind to visit his brothers, the\nchildren of Israel. [7:24]And seeing one injured he defended him, and\nexecuted judgment for the oppressed, smiting the Egyptian. [7:25]And he\nthought his brothers would understand that God would give them\nsalvation by his hand; but they understood not. 9 [7:26]On the following day also he showed himself to them as they\ncontended, and urged them to peace, saying, Men, you are brothers; why\ndo you injure one another? [7:27]But he that injured his neighbor\nrepelled him, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? [7:28]Will you kill me as you did the Egyptian, yesterday? [7:29]And\nMoses fled at that saying, and lived a stranger in the land of Midian,\nwhere he begat two sons. 10 [7:30]And forty years being completed there appeared to him in the\nwilderness of Mount Sinai, an angel in a flame of fire, in a bush. [7:31]And Moses seeing it, wondered at the sight; and coming near to\nlook at it, there was a voice of the Lord, [7:32]I am the God of your\nfathers, the God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob. And Moses being\nafraid dared not look at it. [7:33]And the Lord said to him, Put off\nyour shoes from your feet; for the place on which you stand is holy\nground. [7:34]I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt, and\nhave heard their groaning, and have come down to deliver them; and now\ncome, I will send you to Egypt. 11 [7:35]This is the Moses whom they denied, saying, Who made you a\nruler and a judge? Him did God send to be a ruler and a redeemer by the\nhand of the angel that appeared to him in the bush. [7:36]This man\nbrought them out, having performed prodigies and miracles in Egypt, and\nat the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years. [7:37]This is the\nMoses who said to the children of Israel, A prophet shall God raise up\nfor you, of your brothers, like me.\n\n<System> Please remember what the user reads on 2024-01-06, save the details within the book, and retain a summary of the book the user has read so far.", "[Event happened on 2024-01-08 The user is reading a book]\n<User> [7:38] This is he that was with the\nassembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount\nSinai, and with our fathers, who received the living oracles to give\nus, [7:39]whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him away and\nturned back in their hearts to Egypt, [7:40]saying to Aaron, Make us\ngods to go before us; for this Moses who led us up out of Egypt, we\nknow not what has happened to him. 12 [7:41]And they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to\nthe idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands. [7:42]And God\nturned and gave them up to serve the host of heaven, as it is written\nin the book of the prophets; Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me\nforty years in the wilderness, house of Israel, [7:43]and take up the\ntabernacle of Moloch, and the star of the god Rephan, figures which you\nmade to worship? I will even remove you beyond Babylon. 13 [7:44]Our fathers in the wilderness received the tabernacle of the\ntestimony, as he that spoke to Moses charged him to make it according\nto the pattern which he had seen; [7:45]which also our fathers\nreceiving it in succession brought with Joshua into the possession of\nthe nations, whom God expelled before the face of our fathers till the\ndays of David; [7:46]who found favor with God and desired to find a\ndwelling for the God of Jacob. [7:47]And Solomon built him a house. [7:48]But the Most High dwells not in [temples] made with hands, as the\nprophet says; [7:49]Heaven is my throne, and the earth my footstool;\nwhat house will you build me, says the Lord, or what is the place of my\nrest? [7:50]has not my hand made all these things? [7:51]Stiff necked,\nand uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always fight against the Holy\nSpirit; as your fathers did, you also do. [7:52]Which of the prophets\ndid not your fathers persecute? And they killed those who foretold the\ncoming of the Righteous One, of whom you now have become betrayers and\nmurderers, [7:53]who have received the law by orders of angels and have\nnot kept it. 14 [7:54]And when they heard these things they were enraged in their\nminds and gnashed their teeth upon him. [7:55]But he being full of the\nHoly Spirit, looking steadily to heaven saw the glory of God and Jesus\nstanding on the right hand of God, [7:56]and said, Behold, I see the\nheavens opened and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. [7:57]And crying with a loud voice they stopped their ears and rushed\nupon him with one accord, [7:58]and casting him out of the city, stoned\nhim. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young\nman called Saul, [7:59]and they stoned Stephen, calling and saying,\nLord Jesus, receive my spirit. [7:60]And kneeling down he cried with a\nloud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And having said\nthis he fell asleep. [8:1]And Saul consented to his death. 15 And at that time there was a great persecution of the church at\nJerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad through the regions of\nJudea and Samaria, except the apostles. [8:2]And pious men buried\nStephen and made a great lamentation for him. [8:3]But Saul persecuted\nthe church, and going from house to house, seizing men and women,\ncommitted them to prison. CHAPTER VI. THE EARLY MINISTRY OF PHILIP THE DEACON, THE CONVERSION OF THE SAMARITANS, THE ETHIOPIAN EUNUCH. 1 [8:4]Being scattered abroad, therefore, they went everywhere\npreaching the good news of the word; [8:5]and Philip going down to a\ncity of Samaria preached Christ to them. [8:6]And the multitudes\nattended with one accord to the things said by Philip, when they heard\nhim and saw the miracles which he performed. [8:7]For impure spirits\ncame out of many who had them, crying with a loud voice; and many\nparalytics and lame persons were cured; [8:8]and there was great joy in\nthat city. 2 [8:9]And there was a man by the name of Simon who formerly practised\nmagic in that city, and astonished the nation of Samaria, saying that\nhe was some great person, [8:10]to whom all from the least to the\ngreatest attended, saying, This is the power of God which is called\ngreat. [8:11]And they attended to him because for a long time he had\nastonished them with his magic arts. [8:12]But because they believed\nPhilip preaching the good news of the kingdom of God and the name of\nJesus Christ, they were baptized both men and women. [8:13]And Simon\nalso himself believed, and being baptized attended constantly on\nPhilip; and beholding the mighty works and miracles that were\nperformed, he was astonished. 3 [8:14]And the apostles at Jerusalem hearing that Samaria had received\nthe word of God, sent to them Peter and John, [8:15]who came down and\nprayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit; [8:16]for it\nhad not yet fallen on any of them, only they were baptized in the name\nof the Lord Jesus. [8:17] Then they laid hands on them and they\nreceived the Holy Spirit. [8:18]And Simon seeing that the Holy Spirit\nwas given by the imposition of the hands of the apostles, offered them\nmoney, [8:19]saying, Give me this power, that on whomsoever I lay my\nhand he may receive the Holy Spirit. [8:20]But Peter said to him, Your\nmoney go to perdition with you; because you have thought to purchase\nthe gift of God with money. [8:21]You have no part nor inheritance in\nthis work; for your heart is not right before God. [8:22]Turn your mind\ntherefore from this your wickedness, and pray the Lord if perhaps the\nthought of your mind may be forgiven you; [8:23]for I see you are in\nthe gall of bitterness and bond of wickedness. [8:24]And Simon\nanswered and said, Pray to the Lord for me, that none of the things\nwhich you have said may come upon me. 4 [8:25]They then having fully testified and spoken the word of the\nLord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the good news to many\nvillages of the Samaritans. [8:26]And an angel of the Lord spoke to\nPhilip, saying, Arise and go to the south, by the way that leads from\nJerusalem to Gaza; this is a wilderness. [8:27]And he arose and went. And behold a man, an Ethiopian eunuch, an officer of Candace queen of\nthe Ethiopians, who was over all her treasures, who had come to\nJerusalem to worship, [8:28]and he was returning and sitting in his\nchariot reading the prophet Isaiah. 5 [8:29]And the Spirit said to Philip, Go forward and join yourself to\nhis chariot. [8:30]And Philip running forward heard him reading the\nprophet Isaiah, and he said, Do you really understand what you read? [8:31]And he said [No]; for how can I unless some one teaches me? And\nhe invited Philip to come up and sit with him. [8:32]And the passage of\nScripture which he was reading, was this; As a sheep is led to\nslaughter, and as a lamb before one that shears him is dumb, so he\nopened not his mouth. [8:33]In his humiliation his judgment was taken\naway; and who will tell of his generation? for his life was taken from\nthe earth. 6 [8:34]And the eunuch answered and said to Philip, Of whom I pray you\ndoes the prophet say this? of himself or of some other one? [8:35]And\nPhilip opening his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached\nto him the good news of Jesus. [8:36]And as they went on the way they\ncame to a certain water, and the eunuch said, Behold water; what\nhinders me from being baptized?\n\n<System> Please remember what the user reads on 2024-01-08, save the details within the book, and retain a summary of the book the user has read so far.", "[Event happened on 2024-01-11 The user is reading a book]\n<User> [8:38]And he commanded the chariot to\nstop, and they both went down to the water, both Philip and the eunuch,\nand he baptized him. [8:39]And when they went up from the water the\nSpirit of the Lord caught away Philip, and the eunuch saw him no more;\nfor he went his way rejoicing. [8:40]But Philip was found at Azotus,\nand passing through he preached the good news to all the cities till he\ncame to Caesarea. CHAPTER VII. THE CONVERSION OF SAUL, PETER CURING AENEAS, AND RAISING DORCAS FROM THE DEAD. 1 [9:1]BUT Saul, yet breathing out threatening and slaughter against\nthe disciples of the Lord, went to the chief priest [9:2]and asked of\nhim letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of that\nway, he might bring them bound, men and women, to Jerusalem. [9:3]And\nhe was going and had come nigh to Damascus, and suddenly a light shone\naround him from heaven, [9:4]and falling on the earth he heard a voice\nsaying to him, Saul, Saul, Why do you persecute me? [9:5]And he said,\nWho are you, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom you persecute. [9:6]But\narise and enter into the city, and it shall be told you what you must\ndo. [9:7]And the men travelling with him stood amazed, hearing indeed\nthe voice, but beholding no one. [9:8]And Saul arose from the earth,\nand his eyes being opened he saw nothing; and leading him by the hand\nthey conducted him to Damascus. [9:9]And he was three days without\nsight, and neither eat nor drank. 2 [9:10]And there was a certain disciple at Damascus by the name of\nAnanias, and the Lord said to him in a vision, Ananias. And he said,\nBehold, I am here, Lord. [9:11]And the Lord said to him, Arise and go\nto the street called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas for [a\nman] by the name of Saul of Tarsus; for behold, he prays, [9:12]and has\nseen a man by the name of Ananias coming and putting a hand on him,\nthat he might receive his sight. [9:13]And Ananias answered, Lord, I\nhave heard by many of this man, how much evil he has done to your\nsaints at Jerusalem; [9:14]and here he has power from the chief priests\nto bind all that call on your name. [9:15]But the Lord said to him, Go,\nfor he is a chosen vessel to me, to bear my name both before nations\nand kings, and the children of Israel; [9:16]for I will show him how\ngreat things he must suffer for my name. 3 [9:17]And Ananias went and entered into the house, and laying hands\non him said, Brother Saul, the Lord has sent me, Jesus who appeared to\nyou on the way which you came, that you may receive sight and be filled\nwith the Holy Spirit. [9:18]And immediately there fell from his eyes as\nit were scales, and he received his sight, and rising up was baptized,\n[9:19]and having received food was strengthened. 4 And he was with the disciples at Damascus some days; [9:20]and\nimmediately in the synagogues he preached Jesus, that this is the Son\nof God. [9:21]And all that heard him were astonished and said, Is not\nthis he that destroyed those who called on this name at Jerusalem, and\nhas come here for this purpose, that he might lead them bound to the\nchief priests? [9:22]But Saul increased in power and confounded the\nJews living at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ. 5 [9:23]And when some days had passed, the Jews took counsel to kill\nhim; [9:24]and their design was made known to Saul. And they watched\nthe gates day and night to kill him; [9:25]but the disciples took him\nby night and sent him away by the wall, letting him down in a\nstore-basket. 6 [9:26]And going to Jerusalem he endeavored to join the disciples; and\nthey all feared him, not believing that he was a disciple. [9:27]But\nBarnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and related to them\nhow he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and\nhow he had spoken boldly in Damascus in the name of Jesus. [9:28]And he\nwas with them, entering in and going out at Jerusalem, [9:29]and\nspeaking boldly in the name of the Lord; and he spoke and disputed with\nthe Hellenists; and they undertook to kill him; [9:30]but the brothers\nknowing it led him away to Caesarea and sent him to Tarsus. 7 [9:31]Then had the church peace in all Judea and Galilee and Samaria,\nand being built up, and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the\ncomfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied. [9:32]And Peter\npassing through all places, went down also to the saints living at\nLydda. [9:33]And he found there a certain man by the name of AEneas,\nwho had lain on a bed for eight years, and was a paralytic. [9:34]And\nPeter said to him, AEneas, Jesus Christ cures you; arise and make your\nbed for yourself. And he immediately arose; [9:35]and all those who\nlived at Lydda and Sharon saw him, and turned to the Lord. 8 [9:36]And there was at Joppa a certain female disciple called\nTabitha, which being interpreted is called, Dorcas; she was full of\ngood works and charities which she bestowed. [9:37]And in those days\nshe was sick and died; and having washed they put her in an upper room. [9:38]But Lydda being nigh to Joppa, the disciples hearing that Peter\nwas there sent two men to him requesting, Do not delay to come to us. [9:39]And Peter arose and came with them; and when he had come they led\nhim into the upper room, and all the widows stood by weeping and\nshowing the coats and garments which Dorcas made while she was with\nthem. [9:40] And Peter putting them all out knelt down and prayed, and\nturning to the body he said, Tabitha, arise! And she opened her eyes,\nand seeing Peter sat up. [9:41] And giving her his hand he raised her\nup, and calling the saints and widows presented her living. [9:42]And\nthis was known in all Joppa, and many believed on the Lord. [9:43]And\nPeter continued many days at Joppa with one Simon a tanner. CHAPTER VIII. THE CONVERSION OF CORNELIUS, AND OTHER GENTILES. 1 [10:1]AND a certain man at Caesarea, named Cornelius, a centurion of\nthe cohort which was called the Italian, [10:2]a pious man, and one\nfearing God with all his house, and bestowing many charities on the\npeople, and praying to God always, [10:3]saw clearly in a vision, about\nthe ninth hour of the day, an angel of God coming to him, and saying to\nhim, Cornelius. [10:4]And looking steadily at him and being afraid, he\nsaid, What is wanted, Lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and\ncharities have come up as a memorial before God. [10:5] And now send\nmen to Joppa and call for a certain Simon who is called Peter; [10:6]he\nlodges with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea. [10:7]And\nwhen the angel who spoke to him had departed, he called two of the\nhouse servants, and a pious soldier of those that attended constantly\non him, [10:8] and having related all things to them sent them to Joppa. 2 [10:9]And on the next day, as they were pursuing their journey and\nhad come nigh to the city, Peter went upon the house to pray, about the\nsixth hour. [10:10]And he was hungry and wished to eat; and while they\nwere preparing a trance came upon him, [10:11]and he beheld heaven\nopened, and a certain vessel like a great sheet descending, let down by\nfour corners to the earth, [10:12]in which were all the quadrupeds and\nreptiles of the earth, and birds of heaven.\n\n<System> Please remember what the user reads on 2024-01-11, save the details within the book, and retain a summary of the book the user has read so far.", "[Event happened on 2024-01-13 The user is reading a book]\n<User> [10:13]And a voice came to\nhim, Arise, Peter, kill and eat. [10:14]But Peter said, By no means,\nLord, for I have never eaten any thing common and impure. [10:15]And a\nvoice came to him again, a second time, What God has purified, regard\nnot common. [10:16]And this was done thrice, and immediately the vessel\nwas taken up to heaven. 3 [10:17]And while Peter doubted with himself what the vision which he\nhad seen meant, behold, even [then] the men sent by Cornelius, having\ninquired for the house of Simon, stood at the gate, [10:18]and calling\naloud asked if Simon who was called Peter lodged there. [10:19]And\nwhile Peter was considering of the vision, the Spirit said to him,\nBehold, men seek you; [10:20]arise and go down and go with them without\nhesitation, for I have sent them. [10:21]And Peter went down to the men\nand said, Behold, I am the man whom you seek; what is the cause for\nwhich you have come? [10:22]And they said, Cornelius a centurion, a\nrighteous man, and one that fears God, and esteemed by all the nation\nof the Jews, was divinely instructed by a holy angel to send for you to\nhis house and hear words from you. [10:23]Then he called them in and\nentertained them. 4 And the next day he arose and went with them, and some of the\nbrothers from Joppa went with him. [10:24]And on the day following they\ncame to Caesarea; and Cornelius was expecting them, and had called\ntogether his relations and particular friends. [10:25]And when Peter\ncame in Cornelius met him, and falling down at his feet worshipped him. [10:26]But Peter raised him up saying, Arise, I also am a man. [10:27]And conversing with him he went in, and found many come\ntogether; [10:28]and he said to them, You know that it is not lawful\nfor a Jew to associate with a man of another nation, or come into his\nhouse; and God has taught me not to call any man common or impure;\n[10:29]wherefore, being sent for I also came without objecting. I ask\ntherefore for what reason you have sent for me? [10:30]And Cornelius\nsaid, From the fourth hour of the day I fasted till this hour, and at\nthe ninth hour I was praying in my house, and behold, a man stood\nbefore me in splendid clothing, [10:31]and said, Cornelius, your prayer\nis heard and your charities are remembered before God. [10:32]Send\ntherefore to Joppa and call Simon who is called Peter; he lodges at the\nhouse of Simon a tanner, by the sea, who when he has come will speak to\nyou. [10:33] Immediately therefore I sent to you, and you have done\nwell to come. Now therefore we are all present before God to hear all\nthings which God has commanded you. 5 [10:34]And Peter opening his mouth said, Of a truth I perceive that\nGod is not a respecter of persons, [10:35]but in every nation he that\nfears him and does righteousness is acceptable to him. [10:36]The word\nwhich he sent to the children of Israel, preaching the good news of\npeace by Jesus Christ,--he is Lord of all,-- [10:37]you know; the word\nwhich was [preached] through all Judea, beginning in Galilee after the\nbaptism which John preached, [10:38]Jesus from Nazareth, how God\nanointed him with the Holy Spirit and power, who went about doing good\nand curing all that were subjugated by the devil, for God was with him;\n[10:39]and we are witnesses of all things which he did, both in the\nland of Judea, and at Jerusalem, whom also they killed, hanging him on\na cross. [10:40]This [man] did God raise up on the third day, and\npermitted him to be made manifest, [10:41]not to all the people, but to\nwitnesses chosen before by God, to us, who eat and drank with him after\nhe rose from the dead; [10:42]and he commanded us to preach to the\npeople and testify fully that he is appointed by God the judge of\nliving and dead. [10:43]To him all the prophets bear witness, that\nevery one who believes in him has forgiveness of sins through his name. 6 [10:44]While Peter was yet speaking these words the Holy Spirit fell\non all who heard the word. [10:45]And those of the circumcision who\ncame with Peter were astonished, that on the gentiles also the gift of\nthe Holy Spirit was poured out; [10:46]for they heard them speaking\nwith tongues and magnifying God. Then Peter answered, [10:47]Can any\nforbid water that these should be baptized, who have received the Holy\nSpirit as we also have? [10:48]And he commanded that they should be\nbaptized in the name of the Lord. Then they desired him to remain some\ndays. CHAPTER IX. PETER CALLED TO ACCOUNT FOR ASSOCIATING WITH GENTILES, AND JUSTIFIED; PREACHING TO THE GENTILES CONTINUED. 1 [11:1]AND the apostles and brothers who were in Judea heard that the\ngentiles received the word of God. [11:2]And when Peter went up to\nJerusalem, those of the circumcision contended with him, [11:3]saying,\nYou went in to men that were uncircumcised, and eat with them. [11:4]And Peter began and related to them in order, saying, [11:5]I was\nin the city of Joppa praying, and I saw a vision in a trance, a vessel\nlike a great sheet descending, let down by the four corners from\nheaven, and it came to me; [11:6]and looking into it attentively I\nperceived and saw the quadrupeds of the earth and wild beasts and\nreptiles and birds of heaven. [11:7]And I heard a voice saying to me,\nArise, Peter, kill and eat. [11:8]And I said, By no means, Lord, for\nnothing common or impure has ever entered into my mouth. [11:9]And a\nvoice answered from heaven a second time, What God has purified do not\nyou regard common. [11:10]And this was done thrice, and again all were\ntaken up to heaven. 2 [11:11]And behold, immediately three men came to the house in which I\nwas, being sent for me from Caesarea. [11:12]And the Spirit told me to\ngo with them. And these six brothers also went with me, and we entered\ninto the house of the man. [11:13]And he told us how he had seen the\nangel in his house standing and saying to him, Send to Joppa and call\nSimon who is called Peter, [11:14]who will speak words to you by which\nyou shall be saved and all your house. [11:15] And when I began to\nspeak the Holy Spirit fell on them as also on us in the beginning. [11:16]And I remembered the word of the Lord how he said, John indeed\nbaptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit. [11:17]If therefore God gave the gift equally to them and to us, who\nbelieved on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I should be able to\nforbid God? [11:18] And hearing these things they were silent, and\nglorified God, saying, Then to the gentiles also has God indeed given\nthe change of mind to life. 3 [11:19]And those scattered abroad by the affliction which commenced\nwith Stephen, went even to Phenicia, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking\nthe word to no one but Jews only. [11:20]But some of them, Cyprians and\nCyrenians, who came to Antioch, spoke to the Greeks preaching the good\nnews of the Lord Jesus. [11:21] And the hand of the Lord was with them,\nand a great number believed and turned to the Lord. [11:22]And a report\nconcerning them was brought to the ears of the church at Jerusalem, and\nthey sent Barnabas to go as far as Antioch; [11:23]who having come and\nseen the grace of God rejoiced, and exhorted all to adhere to the Lord\nwith the purpose of the heart; [11:24]for he was a good man and full of\nthe Holy Spirit and of faith.\n\n<System> Please remember what the user reads on 2024-01-13, save the details within the book, and retain a summary of the book the user has read so far.", "[Event happened on 2024-01-15 The user is reading a book]\n<User> And a great multitude were added to the\nLord. 4 [11:25]And he went to Tarsus to seek for Saul, [11:26]and found and\nbrought him to Antioch. And he was with them, and they met a whole year\nwith the church and taught a great multitude; and the disciples first\ntook the name of Christians at Antioch. 5 [11:27]And in those days prophets came down from Jerusalem to\nAntioch; [11:28]and one of them, by the name of Agabus, standing up\nsignified by the spirit that a great famine was about to come on all\nthe world; which also came under Claudius Caesar. [11:29]And each of\nthe disciples, according to his ability, determined to send help to the\nbrethren living in Judea; [11:30]which they also did, sending to the\nelders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul. CHAPTER X. PERSECUTION BY HEROD AGRIPPA, HIS DEATH.--A.D. 44. 1 [12:1]AND at that time Herod the king put forth his hands to injure\nsome of the church. [12:2]And he killed James the brother of John with\nthe sword. [12:3]And seeing that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to\napprehend Peter also,--and it was during the days of unleavened\nbread,-- [12:4]and having seized he put him in prison, committing him\nto four companies of four soldiers each to guard him, wishing after the\npassover to bring him before the people. [12:5]Peter therefore was kept\nby the guard; but prayer was made incessantly by the church to God for\nhim. [12:6]And when Herod was about to bring him forward, on that\nnight Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains,\nand guards kept watch before the door. [12:7]And behold, an angel of\nthe Lord came, and a light shone in the building; and striking Peter on\nthe side he awoke him saying, Arise quickly. And his chains fell off\nfrom his hands. [12:8]And the angel said to him, Gird yourself, and tie\non your sandals. And he did so. And he said to him, Put your cloak\nabout you, and follow me. [12:9]And going out he followed him, and\nknew not that it was real which was done by the angel, but thought he\nsaw a vision. [12:10]And passing through the first guard, and the\nsecond, they came to the iron gate leading into the city, which opened\nto them of itself, and going out they went forward one street, and\nimmediately the angel left him. [12:11]And Peter coming to himself\nsaid, Now I know that the Lord has really sent his angel and delivered\nme from the hand of Herod and all the expectation of the Jews. 2 [12:12]And considering within himself he came to the house of Mary\nthe mother of John called Mark, where a great number were assembled\ntogether and praying. [12:13]And knocking at the door of the gate, a\nfemale servant, called Rhoda, came to listen, [12:14]and knowing the\nvoice of Peter she did not open the gate from joy, but ran in and told\nthat Peter stood before the gate. [12:15]But they said to her, You are\nmad. But she asserted strongly that it was so. And they said, It is his\nangel. [12:16]But Peter continued knocking; and having opened they saw\nhim, and were astonished. [12:17]And making signs to them with his hand\nto be silent, he related how the Lord had conducted him out of the\nprison, and said, Tell these things to James and the brothers. And\ngoing out he departed to another place. 3 [12:18]And when it was day there was no small stir among the soldiers\nas to what had become of Peter. [12:19]And Herod seeking and not\nfinding him, examined the guards, and commanded them to be put to\ndeath, and going down from Judea to Caesarea remained [there]. 4 [12:20]And he was displeased with the Tyrians and Sidonians; but they\ncame with one accord to him, and having persuaded Blastus who was over\nthe king's bedchamber, desired peace, because their country was\nnourished by the king's. [12:21]And on an appointed day Herod having\nput on his royal apparel, and sitting on the tribunal, made a speech to\nthem; [12:22]and the people shouted, It is the voice of a god, and not\nof a man. [12:23]And an angel of the Lord instantly smote him because\nhe gave not glory to God, and being eaten with worms he expired. [12:24]And the word of God grew and was increased. CHAPTER XI. THE FIRST MISSION OF PAUL AND BARNABAS TO CYPRUS AND ASIA MINOR.--A.D. 46-49. 1 [12:25]AND Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, having\nperformed the service, taking with them also John who was called Mark. [13:1]And there were prophets and teachers in the church at Antioch;\nBarnabas and Simeon called Niger [the black], and Lucius the Cyrenian,\nand Manaen the foster brother of Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul. [13:2]And while they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said,\nSeparate me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them. [13:3]Then having fasted and prayed and imposed hands on them, they\nsent them forth. [13:4]They, therefore, being sent forth by the Holy\nSpirit went down to Seleucia, and thence sailed to Cyprus; [13:5]and\ncoming to Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of\nthe Jews; and they also had John for a servant. 2 [13:6]And having gone through the whole island to Paphos, they found\na certain magian, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus,\n[13:7]who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man having called for Barnabas and Saul desired to hear the word\nof God; [13:8]but Elymas the magian, for so his name is interpreted,\nopposed them, seeking to turn away the proconsul from the faith. [13:9]But Saul, [called] also Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit,\nlooking steadily at him [13:10]said, O full of all deceit and all\ncraft, son of a devil, enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease\nto pervert the right ways of the Lord? [13:11]And now, behold, the hand\nof the Lord is upon you, and you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for\na season. And immediately there fell upon him a mist and darkness, and\ngoing about he sought guides. [13:12]Then the proconsul seeing what was\ndone believed, and was astonished at the teaching of the Lord. 3 [13:13]And those with Paul, sailing from Paphos, went to Perga in\nPamphylia; but John left them and returned to Jerusalem. [13:14]And\npassing on from Perga, they went to Antioch in Pisidia, and going into\nthe synagogue on the Sabbath they sat down. [13:15]And after the\nreading of the law and the prophets, the synagogue rulers sent to them,\nsaying, Men and brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the\npeople, speak. 4 [13:16]And Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand, said, Men of\nIsrael, and you that fear God, hear. [13:17]The God of this people\nchose our fathers, and raised up the people in the exile in the land of\nEgypt, and brought them out of it with a high arm. [13:18]And when he\nhad borne with their conduct forty years in the wilderness, [13:19]and\nhad destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he distributed their\nland to them by lot. [13:20]And after this he gave judges four hundred\nand fifty years till Samuel the prophet. [13:21]And then they asked for\na king, and God gave them Saul the son Kish, a man of the tribe of\nBenjamin, forty years; [13:22]and removing him, he raised up for them\nDavid for a king, of whom also he said and testified, I have found\nDavid, the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.\n\n<System> Please remember what the user reads on 2024-01-15, save the details within the book, and retain a summary of the book the user has read so far.", "[Event happened on 2024-01-18 The user is reading a book]\n<User> 5 [13:23]Of the posterity of this man, according to his promise, has\nGod raised up to Israel a Saviour, Jesus; [13:24]John having preached\nbefore his coming the baptism of a change of mind to all the people of\nIsrael. [13:25]And when John completed his course, he said, Who do you\nsuppose I am? I am not [the Christ]; but behold, there comes after me\none the sandal of whose feet I am not worthy to untie. 6 [13:26]Men and brothers, children of the race of Abraham, and you\nthat fear God, the word of this salvation is sent to you. [13:27]For\nthose living at Jerusalem, and their rulers, not knowing him and the\nwords of the prophets which are read every sabbath, fulfilled them by\ncondemning [him]; [13:28]and [although] they found no cause of death\n[in him], they requested of Pilate that he might be destroyed;\n[13:29]and when they had performed all things written of him, they took\nhim down from the cross and placed him in a tomb. [13:30]But God raised\nhim from the dead, [13:31]and he appeared many days to those who went\nup with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the\npeople. [13:32]And we declare to you the good news of the promise made\nto the fathers, [13:33]that God has fulfilled this to us their children\nin raising up Jesus, as it is written also in the first psalm, You are\nmy son, to-day have I begotten you. [13:34]And that he raised him from\nthe dead never more to return to destruction, he said thus; I will give\nyou the sure promises of David. [13:35] Wherefore also in another place\nhe says, Thou wilt not suffer thy holy one to see destruction. [13:36]For David, having in his generation served the will of God, fell\nasleep, and was gathered to his fathers and saw destruction; [13:37]\nbut he whom God raised up saw not destruction. [13:38]Be it known to\nyou therefore, men and brothers, that through this man is preached to\nyou the forgiveness of sins, [13:39]and every one who believes is\njustified by him from all things from which you could not be justified\nby the law of Moses. [13:40] See then that what is said by the prophets\ndoes not come upon you; [13:41] Behold, despisers, and wonder and\nperish, for I perform a work in your days, a work which you shall by no\nmeans believe even if one declares it to you. 7 [13:42]And when they had gone out, [the people] requested that these\nwords might be spoken to them on the next sabbath. [13:43]And the\ncongregation being dismissed, many of the Jews and pious proselytes\nfollowed Paul and Barnabas, who gave them additional instructions, and\npersuaded them to continue in the grace of God. [13:44]And on the\nfollowing sabbath almost all the city came together to hear the word of\nthe Lord. [13:45]And the Jews seeing the multitudes were filled with\nenvy, and contradicted the things said by Paul, disputing and\nblaspheming. [13:46]And both Paul and Barnabas speaking boldly said,\nIt was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you;\nbut since you cast it away, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal\nlife, behold, we turn to the gentiles. [13:47]For thus has the Lord\ncommanded us; I have set you for a light of nations, that you should be\na salvation even to the end of the earth. [13:48] And the gentiles\nhearing this rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and as many\nas were appointed to eternal life believed; [13:49]and the word of the\nLord was spread through all the country. [13:50]But the Jews excited\nthe pious and honorable women, and the first men of the city, and\nraised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out from\ntheir limits. [13:51]And shaking off the dust of their feet against\nthem, they went to Iconium; [13:52] and the disciples were filled with\njoy and the Holy Spirit. 8 [14:1]And at Iconium they went together into the synagogue of the\nJews, and so spoke that a great multitude of the Jews and Greeks\nbelieved. [14:2]But the unbelieving Jews excited the minds of the\ngentiles against the brothers, and made them ill-disposed. [14:3]Then\nthey spent a long time in speaking boldly for the Lord, who testified\nto the word of his grace by granting miracles and prodigies to be\nperformed by their hands. [14:4]And the multitude of the city were\ndivided; some were with the Jews, and some with the apostles. [14:5]And\nwhen a design was formed by the gentiles and Jews with their rulers to\ntreat them injuriously, and stone them, [14:6]knowing it, they fled to\nthe cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the surrounding country,\n[14:7]and preached the good news there. 9 [14:8]And there sat a certain man at Lystra, infirm in his feet, lame\nfrom his birth, who had never walked. [14:9]This man heard Paul\nspeaking, who, looking steadily at him and seeing that he had faith to\nbe cured, [14:10]said with a loud voice, Stand up erect on your feet. And he leaped, and walked. [14:11]And the multitude seeing what Paul\ndid, lifted up their voice in the language of Lycaonia, saying, The\ngods have come down to us in the likeness of men; [14:12]and they\ncalled Barnabas, Jupiter, and Paul, Mercury, because he was a master of\neloquence. [14:13]And the priest of the Jupiter which was before the\ncity brought bulls and garlands to the gates, and wished to offer\nsacrifices with the multitudes. [14:14]But the apostles Barnabas and\nPaul hearing of it, rending their clothes ran among the multitude,\ncrying [14:15]and saying, Men, why do you do these things? We are also\nmen subject to like sufferings with you, preaching that you should turn\nfrom these vain [services] to the living God, who made heaven and\nearth, and the sea, and all things in them, [14:16]who in past\ngenerations permitted all nations to walk in their own ways;\n[14:17]although indeed he left not himself without a witness, doing\ngood, giving rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts\nwith food and gladness. [14:18]And saying these things they with\ndifficulty restrained the multitudes from sacrificing to them. 10 [14:19]But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded\nthe multitudes, and having stoned Paul, they dragged him out of the\ncity, supposing that he was dead. [14:20]But while the disciples stood\naround him, he arose and entered into the city. And on the next day he\nwent away with Barnabas to Derbe. [14:21]And having preached the good\nnews to that city, and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra,\nand Iconium, and Antioch, [14:22]confirming the souls of the disciples,\nand exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many\nafflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God. [14:23]And having\nappointed them elders in every church, and having prayed with fasting,\nthey commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed. 11 [14:24]And passing through Pisidia they came to Pamphylia,\n[14:25]and having spoken the word in Perga they went down to Attalia,\n[14:26]and thence sailed to Antioch, whence they had been commended to\nthe favor of God for the work which they performed. [14:27]And having\narrived, and assembled the church, they reported what God had done with\nthem, and that he had opened the door of faith to the gentiles. [14:28]And they remained there not a little time with the disciples. CHAPTER XII. THE COUNCIL AT JERUSALEM ON CIRCUMCISION.--A.D. 50. 1 [15:1]AND certain persons having come down from Judea taught the\nbrothers, If you are not circumcised according to the custom of Moses\nyou cannot be saved.\n\n<System> Please remember what the user reads on 2024-01-18, save the details within the book, and retain a summary of the book the user has read so far.", "[Event happened on 2024-01-20 The user is reading a book]\n<User> [15:2]There being therefore no little dissension\nand disputation of Paul and Barnabas with them, they determined that\nPaul and Barnabas and some others of them should go up to the apostles\nand elders at Jerusalem, concerning this question. [15:3]They,\ntherefore, being sent forward by the church, went to Phenicia and\nSamaria, relating the conversion of the gentiles, and caused great joy\nto all the brothers. [15:4]And when they came to Jerusalem they were\nreceived by the church, and the apostles, and the elders, and related\nwhat things God had done with them. [15:5]But some of those of the sect\nof the Pharisees who had believed, rose and said, that it is necessary\nto circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses. 2 [15:6]And the apostles and elders were assembled together to see\nabout this matter. [15:7]And after there had been much debate, Peter\nrose and said to them, Men and brothers, you know that in former days\nGod chose among you that the gentiles should hear by my mouth the word\nof the gospel and believe. [15:8] And the heart-searching God testified\nto them, giving to them the Holy Spirit even as to us, [15:9]and made\nno difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by the faith. [15:10]Now, therefore, why do you try God, to put on the necks of the\ndisciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we could bear? [15:11]But we believe that we shall be saved through the grace of the\nLord Jesus in the same manner as they. 3 [15:12]And all the multitude was silent, and heard Barnabas and Paul\nrelate what miracles and prodigies God performed among the gentiles\nthrough them. [15:13]And after they were silent, James answered,\nsaying, Men and brothers, hear me. [15:14]Simeon has related how God\nfirst visited the gentiles to take a people for his name. [15:15]And\nwith this agree the words of the prophets, as it is written,\n[15:16]After this will I return and build up the tabernacle of David\nwhich had fallen down, and rebuild its ruins, and set it up,\n[15:17]that the rest of men may seek the Lord, even all the nations on\nwhom my name has been called, says the Lord who does these things,\n[15:18]known from eternity. [15:19]Wherefore I judge that we ought not\nto trouble those who turned to God from the gentiles, [15:20]but to\nsend to them to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and\nfornication, and things strangled, and blood. [15:21]For Moses from\nancient times has those who preach him in every city, being read in the\nsynagogues every sabbath. 4 [15:22]Then it seemed good to the apostles and elders, with all the\nassembly [the church], to send delegates from themselves to Antioch\nwith Paul and Barnabas, Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men\namong the brothers, [15:23]writing by their hand, The apostles and\nelders and brothers, to the brothers in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia,\nwho are of the gentiles, greeting. [15:24]Since we heard that some\ngoing out from us have troubled you with words subverting your souls,\nto whom we gave no charge, [15:25]it seemed good to us, being of one\nopinion, to send delegates to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,\n[15:26]men who have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus\nChrist. [15:27]We have sent, therefore, Judas and Silas, and they will\ntell you the same things by word. [15:28]For it seemed good to the Holy\nSpirit, and to us, to put no greater burden upon you except these\nnecessary things; [15:29] that you should abstain from things\nsacrificed to idols, and blood, and things strangled, and fornication,\nfrom which if you keep yourselves you will do well. Farewell. 5 [15:30]They, therefore, being dismissed went to Antioch, and\nassembling the multitude delivered the epistle. [15:31]And reading it\nthey rejoiced at the exhortation. [15:32]And Judas and Silas being\nthemselves also prophets, exhorted the brothers with much argument, and\nconfirmed them. [15:33]And having staid [some] time, they were\ndismissed in peace by the brothers to those that sent them. [15:35]But\nPaul and Barnabas remained at Antioch, teaching and preaching with many\nothers the word of the Lord. CHAPTER XIII. PAUL'S SECOND MISSION TO ASIA MINOR.--A.D. 51-52. 1 [15:36]AND after some days Paul said to Barnabas, Let us return and\nvisit the brothers in every city in which we preached the word of the\nLord, [and see] how they do. [15:37]And Barnabas wished to take with\nthem John called Mark; [15:38] but Paul thought not best to take with\nthem one who deserted them at Pamphylia and did not go with them to the\nwork. [15:39]And there was a sharp contention, so that they separated\nfrom each other; and Barnabas taking Mark sailed to Cyprus. 2 [15:40]But Paul choosing Silas went out, commended to the favor of\nthe Lord by the brothers. [15:41]And he passed through Syria and\nCilicia confirming the churches. [16:1]And he went to Derbe and Lystra. And behold, there was a certain disciple there by the name of Timothy,\na son of a Jewish woman, a believer, but of a Greek father, [16:2]who\nwas commended by the brothers in Lystra and Iconium. [16:3]Him Paul\nwished to have go with him; and he took and circumcised him on account\nof the Jews who were in those places; for all knew that his father was\na Greek. 3 [16:4]And when he went through the cities he gave them the ordinances\nto observe which had been determined by the apostles and elders at\nJerusalem. 4 [16:5]Then the churches were strengthened in the faith, and increased\nin number daily. [16:6]And passing through Phrygia and the country of\nGalatia, being forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia,\n[16:7]coming by Mysia they endeavored to go into Bithynia; and the\nSpirit of Jesus did not permit them; [16:8]and passing by Mysia they\nwent down to Troas. [16:9]And a vision appeared by night to Paul; a\ncertain man of Macedonia standing, asking him, and saying, Come over\ninto Macedonia and help us. [16:10]And when he saw the vision we\nimmediately sought to go into Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had\ncalled us to preach the good news to them. CHAPTER XIV. PAUL AND HIS COMPANY AT PHILIPPI ON THEIR FIRST MISSION TO EUROPE.--A.D. 52-53. 1 [16:11]AND sailing from Troas we came in a direct course to\nSamothracia, and on the next day to Neapolis, [16:12]and thence to\nPhilippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, [and] a\ncolony. And we spent some days in that city. [16:13]And on the sabbath\nwe went out of the gate, by the river, where the proseuche [place of\nprayer] usually was, and sitting down we spoke to the women who came\ntogether. [16:14]And a certain woman by the name of Lydia, a dealer in\npurple, of the city of Thyatira, who worshipped God, heard, whose heart\nthe Lord opened to attend to the [words] spoken by Paul. 2 [16:15]And when she was baptized, and her house, she requested\nsaying, If you have judged me faithful to the Lord, come into my house\nand stay; and she constrained us. 3 [16:16]And when we went to the proseuche, a certain female servant\nhaving a spirit, a diviner, met us, who brought her masters much gain\nby divining. [16:17]She following Paul and us, cried, saying, These men\nare servants of the Most High God, who declare to us the way of\nsalvation; [16:18]and this she did for many days. And Paul being\ngrieved turned around and said to the spirit, I command you, in the\nname of Jesus Christ, to come out of her. And it came out of her in\nthat hour.\n\n<System> Please remember what the user reads on 2024-01-20, save the details within the book, and retain a summary of the book the user has read so far.", "[Event happened on 2024-01-21 The user is reading a book]\n<User> [16:19]And her masters seeing that the hope of their gain\nwas gone, seizing Paul and Silas dragged them to the market, to the\nrulers, [16:20] and bringing them before the prefects said, These men,\nbeing Jews, greatly trouble the city, [16:21]and preach customs which\nit is not lawful for us, being Romans, to receive or observe. [16:22]And the multitude came together against them, and the prefects\ntearing off their clothes gave orders to beat them with rods,\n[16:23]and having inflicted many blows on them cast them into prison,\ncharging the jailer to keep them safely; [16:24]who, having received\nsuch a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and made their feet\nfast in the stocks. 4 [16:25]But at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sung praises to God,\nand the prisoners heard them. [16:26]And suddenly there was a great\nearthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and all\nthe doors were immediately opened, and the bands of all were removed. [16:27]And the jailer awaking from sleep and seeing the doors of the\nprison opened, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing\nthat the prisoners had escaped. [16:28]But Paul cried with a loud\nvoice, saying, Do yourself no harm, for we are all here. [16:29]And\nasking for a light he sprang in, and fell down trembling before Paul\nand Silas, [16:30]and bringing them out said, Sirs, what must I do to\nbe saved? [16:31] And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you\nshall be saved, and your house. [16:32]And they spoke the word of the\nLord to him and all those in his house. 5 [16:33]And taking them that hour of the night, he washed them from\ntheir stripes, and was baptized, he and all his, immediately,\n[16:34]and conducting them up into his house he set a table, and\nrejoiced with all his house, having believed in God. [16:35]And when\nit was day the prefects sent the lictors, saying, Let those men go. [16:36]And the jailer told these words to Paul; The prefects have sent\nto let you go; now, therefore, go, and depart in peace. 6 [16:37]But Paul said to him, They have beaten us publicly\nuncondemned, being Romans, and cast us into prison; and now do they\nprivately cast us out? No, indeed: but let them come themselves and\nconduct us out. [16:38]And the lictors told these words to the\nprefects, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans;\n[16:39]and they came and besought them, and conducting them out desired\nthem to leave the city. [16:40]And going out of the prison they entered\ninto the house of Lydia, and having seen the brothers they exhorted\nthem, and departed. CHAPTER XV. PAUL AND HIS COMPANY AT THESSALONICA, BEREA, AND ATHENS.--A.D. 53. 1 [17:1]AND travelling through Amphipolis and Apollonia they came to\nThessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. [17:2]And\naccording to his custom Paul went in to them, and reasoned with them\nthree sabbaths from the Scriptures, [17:3]explaining and asserting that\nthe Christ ought to suffer and to rise from the dead; and that this\nJesus whom I preach to you is the Christ. [17:4]And some of them\nbelieved and adhered to Paul and Silas; of the pious Greeks a great\nmultitude, and of the chief women not a few. [17:5]But the unbelieving\nJews taking certain base men of those about the markets, and exciting a\nmob, disturbed the city; and coming to the house of Jason sought to\nbring them out to the people; [17:6]but not finding them, they dragged\nJason and some brothers to the rulers of the city, crying, These men\nwho have turned the world upside down have come here also, [17:7]and\nJason has received them; and they all do things contrary to the\nordinances of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus. [17:8]And they excited the multitude and the rulers of the city hearing\nthese things, [17:9]and taking security of Jason and the rest they let\nthem go. 2 [17:10]And the brothers immediately, by night, sent away Paul and\nSilas to Berea; and when they came they went into the synagogue of the\nJews; [17:11]but these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, for\nthey received the word with all readiness, examining the Scriptures\ndaily [to see] if these things were so. [17:12]Many of them therefore\nbelieved, both of honorable Grecian women, and of men not a few. [17:13]And when the Jews in Thessalonica knew that the word of God was\npreached by Paul at Berea, they came there exciting the multitudes. 3 [17:14]Then the brothers immediately sent Paul away, as if to go by\nsea; but Silas and Timothy remained there. [17:15]And those conducting\nPaul brought him to Athens, and receiving a charge to Silas and Timothy\nto come to him as soon as possible, they departed. 4 [17:16]And while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was moved\nwithin him as he saw the city wholly devoted to idolatry. [17:17]Then\nhe reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and those that were pious,\nand in the market every day with those he met. [17:18]And some of the\nEpicurean and Stoic philosophers disputed with him, and some said, What\ndoes this trifler mean to say? And others, He seems to be a preacher of\nstrange demons; because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection. [17:19]And laying hold of him they brought him to the Areopagus,\nsaying, May we know what this new teaching is which is taught by you? [17:20]for you bring certain strange things to our ears; we wish\ntherefore to know what these things mean. [17:21]And all the Athenians\nand the strangers living there spend their leisure in nothing else but\ntelling or hearing something new. 5 [17:22]And Paul standing in the midst of the Areopagus said, Men of\nAthens, I perceive that in all things you are extremely devoted to the\nworship of demons. [17:23]For as I passed through, and observed your\nobjects of worship, I found also an altar on which was inscribed, TO AN\nUNKNOWN GOD. What therefore you worship as unknown, this I declare to\nyou. [17:24]The God who made the world and all things in it, this [God]\nbeing Lord of heaven and earth dwells not in temples made with hands,\n[17:25]neither is he served by the hands of men as needing any thing,\nsince he gives to all life, and breath, and all things; [17:26]and he\nmade of one blood every nation of men to live on all the face of the\nearth, determining their appointed times and the bounds of their\nhabitation, [17:27]that they should seek God, if perhaps they might\nfeel after and find him, and indeed he is not far from every one of us. [17:28]For in him we live, and move, and are; as some also of your own\npoets have said, For we are his offspring. [17:29]Being therefore an\noffspring of God, we ought not to think the Deity to be like gold or\nsilver or stone, a work of art and human device. 6 [17:30]Overlooking therefore the times of ignorance, God now commands\nall men everywhere to change their minds, [17:31]because he has\nappointed a day in which he is about to judge the world in\nrighteousness, by the man whom he has appointed, giving assurance to\nall by raising him from the dead. [17:32]But when they heard of a\nresurrection of the dead, some scoffed; but others said, We will hear\nyou again of this. [17:33]So Paul went out from the midst of them;\n[17:34]but certain men adhering to him believed, among whom were\nDionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with\nthem. CHAPTER XVI. PAUL AND HIS COMPANY AT CORINTH, HIS VISIT TO SYRIA AND ASIA MINOR.--A.D. 53-55. 1 [18:1]AND after this Paul left Athens and came to Corinth.\n\n<System> Please remember what the user reads on 2024-01-21, save the details within the book, and retain a summary of the book the user has read so far.", "[Event happened on 2024-01-22 The user is reading a book]\n<User> [18:2]And\nfinding a certain Jew by the name of Aquila, a native of Pontus, who\nhad recently come from Italy, and his wife Priscilla, because Claudius\nhad ordered all the Jews to leave Rome, he went to them, [18:3]and\nbecause he was of the same trade continued and labored with them; for\nthey were tent makers. [18:4]And he reasoned in the synagogue every\nsabbath, and persuaded both Jews and Greeks. 2 [18:5]And when Silas and Timothy came from Macedonia, Paul gave\nhimself wholly to preaching the word, testifying to the Jews Christ\nJesus. [18:6]But when they disputed and blasphemed, shaking his\ngarments he said to them, Your blood be upon your heads; I, pure, from\nthis time will go to the gentiles. 3 [18:7]And departing thence he came into the house of a man called\nJustus, who worshipped God, and whose house adjoined the synagogue. [18:8]And Crispus the synagogue ruler believed in the Lord, with all\nhis house; and many of the Corinthians who heard believed and were\nbaptized. [18:9]And the Lord said to Paul, in a vision by night, Fear\nnot, but speak and be not silent, [18:10]for I am with you; and no one\nshall attack you to hurt you, for I have many people in this city. [18:11]And he remained there a year and six months, teaching among them\nthe word of God. 4 [18:12]And when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews rose with\none consent against Paul and brought him to the tribunal,\n[18:13]saying, This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the\nlaw. [18:14]And when Paul was about to open his mouth Gallio said to\nthe Jews, If there was any injustice or evil imposition, O Jews, I\nwould bear with you in a reasonable manner; [18:15] but if it is a\nquestion of doctrine, and of names, and of your law, look to it\nyourselves; for I will not be a judge of these things. [18:16]And he\ndrove them from the tribunal. [18:17]And they all took Sosthenes the\nsynagogue-ruler and beat him before the tribunal; and Gallio cared for\nnone of these things. 5 [18:18]And Paul having remained yet many days took leave of the\nbrothers, and sailed to Syria; and Priscilla was with him, and Aquila,\nhaving shaved his head at Cenchrea; for he had a vow. [18:19]And they\ncame to Ephesus, and he left them there, and entering himself into the\nsynagogue reasoned with the Jews. [18:20]And they asking him to stay a\nlonger time with them he did not consent, [18:21]but taking leave of\nthem and saying, I will return to you again, if God will, he sailed\nfrom, Ephesus, [18:22]and coming down to Caesarea, and going up and\nsaluting the church, he went down to Antioch; [18:23]and having spent\nsome time there he went away, passing in order through the country of\nGalatia and Phrygia, confirming all the disciples. CHAPTER XVII. PAUL AT EPHESUS.--A.D. 55-58. 1 [18:24]AND a certain Jew by the name of Apollos, an Alexandrian by\nbirth, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus, being powerful in the\nScriptures. [18:25]This man was instructed in the way of the Lord, and\nbeing fervent in spirit spoke and taught correctly the doctrines\nconcerning Jesus, knowing only the baptism of John; [18:26]and this man\nbegan to speak boldly in the synagogue, and Priscilla and Aquila\nhearing him took him and taught him more accurately the way. [18:27]\nAnd he wishing to go into Achaia, the brothers sent him, and wrote to\nthe disciples to receive him. And when he came he helped those much who\nhad believed through the grace; [18:28]for he argued powerfully against\nthe Jews, publicly showing by the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ. 2 [19:1]And when Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, passing through the\nhigher portions of the country, came to Ephesus, and found certain\ndisciples; [19:2] and he said to them, Have you received the Holy\nSpirit since you believed? And they said to him, We have not heard that\nthere is a Holy Spirit. [19:3]And he said to them, With what then were\nyou baptized? And they said, With John's baptism. [19:4]Paul said, John\nindeed baptized [administered] the baptism of a change of mind, telling\nthe people to believe on him that was to come after him, that is, on\nJesus. [19:5]And hearing this they were baptized in the name of the\nLord Jesus: [19:6]and Paul putting his hands on them, the Holy Spirit\ncame on them, and they spoke with tongues and prophesied. [19:7]And all\nthe men were about twelve. 3 [19:8]And going into the synagogue he spoke boldly, for three months,\nreasoning and persuading in favor of the kingdom of God. [19:9]But\nwhen some were hardened and believed not, speaking evil of the way\nbefore the multitude, he left them and separated the disciples from\nthem, and reasoned day by day in the school of one Tyrannus. [19:10]And\nthis was done for two years, so that all who lived in Asia heard the\nword of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks. 4 [19:11]And God performed unusual miracles by the hands of Paul,\n[19:12]so that napkins and aprons were brought from him to the sick,\nand their diseases left them, and the evil spirits went out of them. [19:13]And some of the travelling Jewish exorcists undertook to call\nover those that had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, I\nadjure you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches. [19:14]And there were some\nseven sons of Sceva, a Jew, a chief priest, who did this. [19:15]But\nthe evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but\nwho are you? [19:16]And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped\nupon them, and overcome them, and prevailed against them, so that they\nescaped from his house, naked and wounded. [19:17]And this was known\nboth to all the Jews and Greeks who lived at Ephesus, and fear fell on\nthem all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified; [19:18]and many\nof those who believed came and confessed, and showed their practices. [19:19]And many of those who practised secret arts brought their books,\nand burnt them before all; and they computed the price of them, and\nfound it to be fifty thousand [didrachmas] of silver [$8,333]. [19:20]So the word of the Lord increased powerfully and prevailed. 6 [19:21]And when these things were accomplished, Paul was disposed by\nthe Spirit, passing through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem,\nsaying, After I have been there I must see Rome. [19:22]And sending\ntwo that served him into Macedonia, Timothy and Erastus, he continued a\ntime in Asia. 7 [19:23]And there was at that time no small tumult about the way [of\nthe Lord]. [19:24]For a certain Demetrius by name, a silversmith, who\nmade silver temples of Diana, and afforded his artisans no small gain,\n[19:25]assembling them together and laborers of like employments, said,\nMen, you know that our prosperity is derived from this employment,\n[19:26]and you see and hear, that not only at Ephesus, but in almost\nall Asia, this Paul has led away a great multitude by persuasion,\nsaying that things which are made by hands are not gods. [19:27]And not\nonly this work of ours is in danger of coming into contempt, but even\nthe temple of the great goddess Diana of being set at nought, and her\nmajesty also which all Asia and the world worships, of being destroyed. 8 [19:28]And hearing this they were full of wrath, and cried, saying,\nGreat is Diana of the Ephesians! [19:29]And the whole city was full of\nconfusion; and they rushed with one accord to the theatre, taking Gaius\nand Aristarchus, Macedonians, fellow travellers of Paul.\n\n<System> Please remember what the user reads on 2024-01-22, save the details within the book, and retain a summary of the book the user has read so far.", "[Event happened on 2024-01-24 The user is reading a book]\n<User> [19:30]And\nPaul wishing to go in to the people, the disciples did not permit him;\n[19:31]and some of the rulers of Asia also, who were friendly to him,\nsending to him, besought him not to expose himself in the theatre. [19:32]Some therefore cried one thing, and some another; for the\nassembly was confused, and the greater part knew not for what reason\nthey had come together. [19:33]And they advanced Alexander from the\nmultitude, the Jews putting him forward; and Alexander motioning with\nhis hand, wished to defend himself before the people. [19:34]But\nknowing that he was a Jew, there was one voice from all, for about two\nhours, crying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians. 9 [19:35]And the clerk having stilled the multitude, said, Men of\nEphesus, what man is there who does not know that the city of the\nEphesians is a worshipper of the great Diana, and of the Jove descended\n[image]? [19:36]These things therefore being indisputable, it is best\nto be quiet, and do nothing rashly. [19:37]For you have brought these\nmen here, who are neither temple-robbers nor blasphemers of your\ngoddess. [19:38]If, therefore, Demetrius and the artisans with him have\na charge against any, court days are held, and there are pro-consuls;\nlet them accuse one another. [19:39]And if you desire any thing of\nother matters, let it be determined in a lawful assembly. [19:40]For\nwe are in danger of being called to account for the tumult of to-day,\nthere being no cause by which we can excuse this concourse. [19:41]And\nhaving said these words he dismissed the assembly. CHAPTER XVIII. PAUL'S VISIT TO GREECE AND MACEDONIA AND HIS RETURN TO MILETUS.--A.D. 58, 59. 1 [20:1]AFTER the tumult was allayed, Paul calling the disciples and\nembracing them departed to go into Macedonia. [20:2]And going through\nthose parts, and exhorting them with many words, he went into Greece;\n[20:3]and when he had staid there three months, and a conspiracy was\nformed against him by the Jews as he was about to sail to Syria, he\ndetermined to return through Macedonia. [20:4] And there followed him\nto Asia, Sopater the son of Pyrrhus of Berea, and of those of\nThessalonica, Aristarchus and Secundus, and Gaius of Derbe, and\nTimothy, and those of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus; [20:5]these going\nbefore waited for us at Troas. [20:6]And we sailed from Philippi,\nafter the days of unleavened bread, and came to those at Troas in five\ndays, where we staid seven days. 2 [20:7]And on the first day of the week, we being assembled to break\nbread, Paul preached to them, being about to depart on the next day,\nand continued his discourse till midnight; [20:8]and there were many\nlamps in the upper room where we were assembled. [20:9]And a young man\nby the name of Eutychus sitting in a window, falling into a deep sleep\nwhile Paul preached long, and being overcome by sleep, fell from the\nthird story down, and was taken up dead. [20:10]But Paul going down\nfell on him, and embracing him, said, Be not troubled, for his life is\nin him. [20:11]And going up and breaking bread, and tasting it, and\nconversing a long time till the break of day, he departed. [20:12]And\nthey brought away the child alive, and were not a little comforted. 3 [20:13]And we going before by ship sailed to Assos, being about to take\nin Paul at that place; for so had he appointed, being about to go on\nfoot himself. [20:14]And when he met us at Assos, we took him in and\ncame to Mitylene, [20:15]and sailing thence, on the next day we came\nopposite to Chios, and in another day we touched at Samos, and stopping\nat Trogylium, on the day following we came to Miletus. [20:16]For Paul\nhad determined to sail by Ephesus, that it might not be necessary for\nhim to spend a long time in Asia; for he hastened, if it was possible\nfor him, to be at Jerusalem at the day of Pentecost. 4 [20:17]And from Miletus sending to Ephesus he called for the elders\nof the church. [20:18]And when they had come to him, he said to them,\nYou know from the first day that I came into Asia, how I was with you\nat all times, [20:19] serving the Lord with all humility, and tears and\ntrials that befell me by the conspiracies of the Jews, [20:20]how I\nkept not back from declaring to you and teaching you publicly and from\nhouse to house any thing that was profitable, [20:21]testifying both to\nJews and Greeks the change of mind to God, and the faith in our Lord\nJesus. [20:22]And behold now, I go constrained by the Spirit to\nJerusalem, not knowing the things which shall befall me there,\n[20:23]except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city,\nsaying, That bonds and afflictions await me. [20:24]But life precious\nto myself, I make of no account that I may finish my course and the\nservice which I received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of\nthe grace of God. 5 [20:25]And now, behold, I know that you all among whom I have gone\npreaching the kingdom shall see my face no more. [20:26]Wherefore I\ncall you to witness this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men;\n[20:27]for I have not kept back from declaring to you all the counsel\nof God. [20:28]Take heed to yourselves, therefore, and to all the flock\nin which the Holy Spirit has made you bishops, to feed the church of\nthe Lord which he has purchased with his blood. [20:29]For I know that\nafter my departure grievous wolves will come among you, not sparing the\nflock, [20:30]and of yourselves men will arise speaking perverse\nthings, to draw away disciples after them. [20:31]Wherefore watch,\nremembering that for three years, night and day, I ceased not to\nadmonish every one of you with tears. [20:32]And now I commend you to\nGod, and the word of his grace, who is able to build you up and to give\nyou an inheritance with all the sanctified. [20:33]I have coveted no\nman's silver or gold or clothing; [20:34]you yourselves know that these\nhands have served my necessities and those with me. [20:35]I have\nshowed you all things, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and\nto remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he said, It is more\nblessed to give than to receive. 6 [20:36]And having said these words he kneeled down, and prayed with\nthem all. [20:37]And they all wept much, and fell on Paul's neck and\nkissed him, [20:38] grieving most of all for the word which he said,\nthat they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the\nship. CHAPTER XIX. PAUL AND HIS COMPANY PURSUING THEIR JOURNEY TO CAESAREA AND JERUSALEM, ETC.--A.D. 59. 1 [21:1]AND when we had torn ourselves from them we set sail, and going\nin a straight course came to Cos, and on the next day to Rhodes, and\nthence to Patara. [21:2]And finding a ship crossing to Phenicia, going\non board we set sail. [21:3]And observing Cyprus, and leaving it on the\nleft, we sailed to Syria, and landed at Tyre; for there the ship was to\ndischarge her cargo. [21:4] And finding the disciples we continued\nthere seven days; and they told Paul, by the Spirit, not to go on to\nJerusalem. [21:5]And when we had completed the days we went out and\nproceeded on our journey, they all attending us with their wives and\nchildren till without the city, and kneeling down on the shore we\nprayed, [21:6]and having saluted each other we went to the ship, and\nthey returned to their homes.\n\n<System> Please remember what the user reads on 2024-01-24, save the details within the book, and retain a summary of the book the user has read so far.", "[Event happened on 2024-01-27 The user is reading a book]\n<User> 2 [21:7]Having completed our voyage from Tyre we went to Ptolemais, and\nhaving saluted the brothers continued with them one day. [21:8]And\ndeparting on the next day we came to Caesarea, and going to the house\nof Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, we staid with him. [21:9]This man had four virgin daughters who prophesied. [21:10]And\nhaving continued there many days, there came down a certain prophet\nfrom Judea by the name of Agabus, [21:11]and coming to us, and taking\nPaul's girdle, and binding his hands and feet, he said, These things,\nsays the Holy Spirit; Thus will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that\nowns this girdle, and deliver him into the hands of the gentiles. [21:12]And when we heard these things, we and the people of the place\nbesought him not to go up to Jerusalem. [21:13]But Paul answered, What\ndo you do, to weep and break my heart? For I am ready not only to be\nbound, but also to die at Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus. [21:14]And he not being persuaded, we were silent, saying, The will of\nthe Lord be done. 3 [21:15]And after these days, having made preparation, we went up to\nJerusalem; [21:16]and some of the disciples from Caesarea went up with\nus, conducting [us] to Mnason a Cyprian, an early disciple with whom we\nlodged. 4 [21:17]And when we arrived at Jerusalem the brothers received us\ngladly. [21:18]And on the following day Paul went with us to James, and\nall the elders were present. [21:19]And having saluted them, he related\nparticularly what God had done among the gentiles by his ministry;\n[21:20]and having heard, they glorified God, and said to him, You see,\nbrother, how many ten thousands there are of those who have believed,\namong the Jews, and all are zealots of the law; [21:21]and they have\nbeen informed of you, that you teach all the Jews among the gentiles to\napostatize from Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children,\nnor to walk according to the customs. [21:22]What then is [to be done]? They will hear everywhere that you have come. [21:23]Do this,\ntherefore, which we tell you. We have four men having a vow upon them;\n[21:24]take them and be purified with them, and pay their expenses,\nthat they may shave their heads, and all will know that the information\nwhich they have of you is not correct, but that you walk also yourself\nkeeping the law. [21:25]But concerning the gentiles who have believed,\nwe have sent, judging that they should avoid things offered to idols,\nand blood, and things strangled, and fornication. [21:26]Then Paul\ntaking the men, on the following day being purified with them went into\nthe temple, announcing the completion of the days of purification till\nan offering should be offered for each one of them. CHAPTER XX. PAUL'S APPREHENSION BY THE JEWS, HIS RESCUE BY THE ROMANS, HIS ADDRESS, ETC.--A.D. 59. 1 [21:27]AND when the seven days were nearly completed, the Jews from\nAsia seeing him in the temple excited all the multitude, and laid hands\non him, [21:28]crying, Men of Israel, help; this is the man who teaches\nall men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place, and\nbesides he has brought Greeks into the temple, and defiled this holy\nplace. [21:29]For they had before seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the\ncity with him, and supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple. [21:30]And all the city was moved, and there was a concourse of the\npeople, and taking hold of Paul they dragged him without the temple,\nand immediately the gates were shut. 2 [21:31]And while they were seeking to kill him, a report went up to\nthe chiliarch of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in commotion;\n[21:32]who immediately taking soldiers and centurions ran down upon\nthem; and seeing the chiliarch and the soldiers, they ceased beating\nPaul. [21:33]Then the chiliarch approaching took him, and commanded him\nto be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had\ndone. [21:34]But some cried one thing, and some another, in the\nmultitude, and not being able to learn the truth, on account of the\ntumult, he commanded him to be carried into the fortress. [21:35] And\nwhen he was on the steps, it happened that he was borne by the\nsoldiers, on account of the violence of the multitude; [21:36]for the\nmultitude of the people followed, crying, Take him away. 3 [21:37]And being about to be carried into the fortress, Paul said to\nthe chiliarch, May I have permission to speak to you? And he said, Do\nyou understand Greek? [21:38]Are you not the Egyptian who before these\ndays excited a sedition, and led out into the wilderness the four\nthousand men who were murderers? [21:39]And Paul said, I am a Jew, of\nTarsus of Cilicia, a citizen of a not undistinguished city, I beg of\nyou, permit me to speak to the people. [21:40]And he giving him\npermission, Paul stood up on the steps, and motioned with his hand to\nthe people; and when there was great silence, he spoke in the Hebrew\nlanguage, and said, [22:1]Men, brothers and fathers, hear my present\ndefense before you. [22:2]And hearing that he spoke to them in the\nHebrew language, they kept the greater silence. 5 [22:3]And he said, I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought\nup in this city, instructed at the feet of Gamaliel in the accurate\ninterpretation of the law of our fathers, and am a zealous worshipper\nof God as you all are to-day; [22:4]and I persecuted this way to death,\nbinding and committing to prison both men and women, [22:5]as the chief\npriest also bears me witness, and all the eldership, from whom also\nreceiving letters to the brothers I went to Damascus, to bring those\nwho were there bound to Jerusalem to be punished. 6 [22:6]And when I was on the way and had come nigh to Damascus, about\nnoon suddenly a great light from heaven shone around me, [22:7]and I\nfell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why do\nyou persecute me? [22:8]And I answered, Who are you, Lord? And he said\nto me, I am Jesus the Nazoraean, whom you persecute. [22:9]And those\nthat were with me saw the light, but they heard not the voice of him\nthat spoke to me. [22:10]And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the\nLord said to me, Arise, and go to Damascus, and there it shall be told\nyou of all things which are appointed for you to do. 7 [22:11]And when I could not see from the brightness of that light,\nbeing led by the hand by those with me, I came to Damascus. [22:12]And\na certain Ananias, a man [living] according to the law, approved by all\nthe Jews living [there], [22:13]coming and standing by, said to me,\nBrother Saul, Receive your sight. And in that hour I looked upon him. [22:14]And he said, The God of our fathers chose you to know his will,\nand to see the Righteous One, and hear the voice of his mouth,\n[22:15]for you shall be a witness for him to all men of what you have\nseen and heard. [22:16]And now, why do you delay? Arising, baptize and\nwash away your sins, calling on his name. 8 [22:17]And when I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the\ntemple, I was in a trance, [22:18]and saw him [Christ], saying to me,\nHasten and depart immediately from Jerusalem, for they will not receive\nyour testimony of me. [22:19]And I said, Lord, they know that I\nimprisoned and beat in the synagogues those who believed on you;\n[22:20]and when the blood of your martyr Stephen was poured out, I also\nstood by and consented, and kept the clothes of those that killed him.\n\n<System> Please remember what the user reads on 2024-01-27, save the details within the book, and retain a summary of the book the user has read so far.", "[Event happened on 2024-01-29 The user is reading a book]\n<User> [22:21]And he said to me, Go, for I will send you to nations far away. 9 [22:22]And they heard him to this word, and lifted up their voice\nsaying, Take away such a man from the earth; it is not fit that he\nshould live. [22:23] And as they cried and rent their clothes and cast\ndust in the air, [22:24]the chiliarch commanded him to be brought into\nthe fortress, ordering that he should be examined with scourges, that\nhe might know for what reason they cried so against him. [22:25]But\nwhen they extended him with cords, he said to the centurion standing\nby, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man, a Roman, and uncondemned? [22:26]And the centurion hearing this, went and told the chiliarch,\nsaying, What are you about to do? for this man is a Roman. [22:27] And\nthe chiliarch came to him and said, Tell me, are you a Roman? And he\nsaid, Yes. [22:28]And the chiliarch answered, I acquired this\ncitizenship for a great price. But Paul said, I am indeed, and was also\nborn [one]. [22:29]Then those about to examine him immediately withdrew\nfrom him; and the chiliarch was afraid, knowing that he was a Roman,\nand because he had bound him. CHAPTER XXI. PAUL BEFORE THE SANHEDRIM, AND SENT TO CAESAREA FOR SAFE KEEPING.--A.D. 59. 1 [22:30]AND on the next day, wishing to know the truth in respect to\nwhat he was accused of by the Jews, [the chiliarch] released him, and\ncommanded the chief priests and all the Sanhedrim to come together; and\nbringing Paul down he set him before them. [23:1]And Paul looking\nsteadily at the Sanhedrim, said, Men and brothers, I have lived before\nGod in all good conscience to this day. [23:2]And the chief priest\nAnanias commanded those standing by to strike him on the mouth. [23:3]Then Paul said to him, God is about to strike you, whitewashed\nwall; and do you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me\nto be struck contrary to the law? [23:4]And those standing by said, Do\nyou revile God's chief priest? [23:5]And Paul said, I knew not\nbrothers that he was a chief priest; for it is written, You shall not\nspeak evil of the ruler of your people. 2 [23:6]And Paul knowing that one part were Sadducees and the other\nPharisees, cried in the Sanhedrim, Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee\nand the son of Pharisees; for the hope and resurrection of the dead am\nI under trial. [23:7] And having said this, there was a dissension\nbetween the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the multitude were divided. [23:8]For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither\nangel, nor spirit, but the Pharisees confess both. [23:9]And there was\na great cry, and the scribes of the party of the Pharisees rising up\ncontended, saying, We find no evil in this man; but [what] if a spirit\nor an angel has spoken to him? [23:10]And there being a great\ndissension, the chiliarch, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by\nthem, commanded the troops to come down and take him by force from the\nmidst of them, and conduct him to the fortress. 3 [23:11]And on the following night the Lord stood by him and said, Be\nof good courage, for as you have testified of me at Jerusalem, so you\nmust also testify at Rome. [23:12]And when it was day, the Jews formed\na conspiracy and bound themselves by an oath, saying that they would\nnot eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. [23:13]And there were more\nthan forty who took this oath, [23:14] who came to the chief priests\nand elders and said, We have bound ourselves under a curse to taste\nnothing till we kill Paul. [23:15]Now, therefore, speak to the\nchiliarch, with the Sanhedrim, to bring him down to you tomorrow, as if\nyou were about to investigate his case more accurately, and we, before\nhe comes nigh, are ready to kill him. 4 [23:16]But a son of Paul's sister hearing of this lying in wait, went\nand entering into the fortress told Paul. [23:17]And Paul calling one\nof the centurions, said, Lead this young man to the chiliarch, for he\nhas something to tell him. [23:18]He therefore took him and led him to\nthe chiliarch, and said, Paul the prisoner called me and asked me to\nlead this young man to you, who has something to tell you. [23:19]And\nthe chiliarch taking him by the hand and leading him aside, inquired,\nWhat is it that you have to tell me? [23:20]And he said, The Jews have\nentered into a compact to ask you to bring down Paul to the Sanhedrim\nto-morrow, as if about to learn more accurately of something concerning\nhim. [23:21]But do not therefore be persuaded by them; for more than\nforty men of them lie in wait, who have taken an oath not to eat nor\ndrink till they have killed him, and now they are ready, awaiting an\nanswer from you. [23:22]Then the chiliarch dismissed the young man,\ncharging him, Tell no one that you have informed me of these things. 5 [23:23]And calling two of the centurions he said, Prepare two hundred\nsoldiers to go to Caesarea, and seventy horsemen and two hundred light\narmed troops, after the third hour of the night. [23:24]And provide\nanimals to put Paul on, and take him safely to Felix the procurator. [23:25]And he wrote a letter having this form; [23:26]Claudius Lysias\nto the most excellent procurator Felix, greeting. [23:27]I went with\nthe soldiery and rescued this man, when he was seized by the Jews, and\nabout to be killed by them, having learned that he is a Roman;\n[23:28]and wishing to know the cause for which they accuse him, I took\nhim down to their Sanhedrim, [23:29]and found him criminated in respect\nto questions of their law, but charged with nothing worthy of death or\nbonds. [23:30]Being informed that a conspiracy was about to be formed\nagainst the man, I immediately sent to you, commanding also his\naccusers to speak before you. 6 [23:31]The soldiers therefore took Paul as they were commanded and\nbrought him by night to Antipatris, [23:32]and the next day leaving the\nhorsemen to go with him, they returned to the fortress. [23:33]And when\nthey came to Caesarea, and had delivered the letter to the procurator,\nthey also presented Paul to him. [23:34]And having read, he asked of\nwhat province he was; and learning that he was of Cilicia, [23:35]I\nwill hear you, he said, when your accusers have come; and he commanded\nhim to be kept in the Praetorium of Herod. CHAPTER XXII. PAUL'S TRIAL BEFORE FELIX THE PROCURATOR.--A.D. 59, 60. 1 [24:1]AND after five days the chief priest Ananias, with the elders,\nand a certain orator, Tertullus, went down and gave information to the\nprocurator against Paul. [24:2]And he being called, Tertullus began to\naccuse him, saying, Having obtained great peace by you, and things\nbeing happily arranged for this nation by your oversight in all things\nand in all places [24:3]we accept [it] most excellent Felix, with all\nthankfulness. [24:4]But that I may not further weary you, I beg you to\nhear us briefly, with your clemency. [24:5]For finding this man a\npestilence and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the\nworld, and a chief of the sect of the Nazoraeans, [24:6]who also\nendeavored to profane the temple, whom we also took, [24:8]from whom\nyou will be able to learn by examination of all these things of which\nwe accuse him. [24:9]And the Jews also assented, saying, These things\nare so.\n\n<System> Please remember what the user reads on 2024-01-29, save the details within the book, and retain a summary of the book the user has read so far.", "[Event happened on 2024-01-31 The user is reading a book]\n<User> 2 [24:10]And the procurator making a sign to him to speak, Paul\nanswered, Knowing that you have been for many years a judge of this\nnation, I shall defend myself cheerfully, [24:11]you being able to know\nthat it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at\nJerusalem. [24:12]And they did not find me in the temple disputing with\nany one, or making a disturbance of the multitude, neither in the\nsynagogues nor in the city; [24:13]neither can they prove the things of\nwhich they now accuse me. 3 [24:14]But this I confess to you, that in the way which they call a\nheresy, so worship I the God of my fathers; believing all things\nwritten in the law and the prophets, [24:15]having a hope in God which\nthey also hold, that there will be a resurrection both of the righteous\nand wicked. [24:16]And in this also I endeavor always to have a\nconscience without offense towards God and man. 4 [24:17]But after many years I came to bring charities and offerings\nto my nation, [24:18]in which certain Jews from Asia found me purified\nin the temple, not with a multitude, nor with a tumult, [24:19]who\nought to be present and accuse me before you, if they have any thing\nagainst me. [24:20]Or let them say whether they found any\nunrighteousness in me when I stood before the Sanhedrim, [24:21]except\nin this one statement which I made, as I stood among them, that I am\nunder trial by you to-day concerning the resurrection of the dead. 5 [24:22]But Felix put them off, saying, Having learned more accurately\nof this way, when Lysias the chiliarch comes down I will decide\nconcerning your matters, [24:23]and he commanded the centurion that\nPaul should be kept, and be freed from bonds, and that he should forbid\nnone of his friends to serve him. 6 [24:24]And after some days Felix coming with Drusilla his wife, who\nwas a Jewess, sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in\nChrist. [24:25]And as he discoursed of righteousness, and temperance,\nand the judgment about to come, Felix being terrified answered, Go for\nthe present; but when I have time I will call you. [24:26]At the same\ntime also he hoped that money would be given him by Paul; and on this\naccount sent for him the oftener, and conversed with him. [24:27]But\nafter two years had passed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus; and\nwishing to gratify the Jews, Felix left Paul bound. CHAPTER XXIII. PAUL'S TRIAL BEFORE FESTUS, HIS APPEAL TO CAESAR, AND HIS SUBSEQUENT DEFENSE BEFORE AGRIPPA.--A.D. 61. 1 [25:1]FESTUS therefore coming into the province, after three days\nwent up from Caesarea to Jerusalem. [25:2]And the chief priests and the\nfirst men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and besought him,\n[25:3]asking favor against him, that he would send for him to\nJerusalem, having provided an ambuscade to kill him on the way. [25:4]Then Festus answered that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and\nthat he would go down there shortly; [25:5]and then, he said, the\nprincipal men among you may go down with me; if there is any thing\nagainst this man they may prosecute him. [25:6]And staying with them\nnot more than eight or ten days, he went down to Caesarea, and on the\nnext day, sitting on the tribunal, commanded Paul to be brought. 2 [25:7]And when he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem\nstood around him, bringing many and weighty accusations which they\ncould not prove, [25:8]while Paul maintained in his defense, Neither\nagainst the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against\nCaesar, have I done any wrong. 3 [25:9]But Festus wishing to gratify the Jews, answered Paul and said,\nAre you willing to go up to Jerusalem, and there be tried by me for\nthese things? [25:10]And Paul said, I stand at the tribunal of Caesar,\nwhere I ought to be tried. I have not injured the Jews, as you also\nknow very well. [25:11]If indeed I have done wrong or committed any\nthing worthy of death, I refuse not to die; but if those things of\nwhich they accuse me are nothing, no man may give me up to them; I\nappeal to Caesar. [25:12]Then Festus having conferred with the council\nanswered, You have appealed to Caesar; to Caesar you shall go. 4 [25:13]But after some days king Agrippa and Bernice came down to\nCaesarea to salute Festus. [25:14]And when they had staid there many\ndays, Festus proposed the case of Paul to the king, saying, There is a\ncertain man left a prisoner by Felix, [25:15]concerning whom when I was\nat Jerusalem the chief priests and elders of the Jews gave me\ninformation, asking judgment against him; [25:16]to whom I answered, It\nis not the custom of the Romans to give up any man before the accused\nhas the accusers face to face, and is allowed an opportunity to defend\nhimself against the accusation. 5 [25:17]When therefore, they came here, making no delay, the next day\nI sat on the tribunal, and ordered the man to be brought;\n[25:18]concerning whom his accusers standing up brought no charge of\nsuch things as I supposed, [25:19]but had certain questions with him\nconcerning their religion, and concerning one Jesus that was dead, who\nPaul said was alive. [25:20]Being in doubt on the question concerning\nthese things, I asked if he was willing to go to Jerusalem and be tried\nby me there on these charges. [25:21]But Paul appealing, to be kept for\nthe hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I could send\nhim to Caesar. [25:22]And Agrippa [said] to Festus, I should like to\nhear the man also myself. And he said, To-morrow you shall hear him. 6 [25:23]On the next day, therefore, Agrippa and Bernice coming with\ngreat pomp, and entering into the place of hearing with chiliarchs and\nmen of distinction in the city, at the command of Festus Paul was\nbrought. [25:24]And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all the men present\nwith us, you see this man, of whom all the multitude of the Jews\nbesought me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying out that he ought no\nlonger to live. [25:25]But finding that he had done nothing deserving\ndeath, and he having appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send\nhim. [25:26]But I have nothing certain to write to the sovereign\nconcerning him, wherefore I have brought him before you, and especially\nbefore you, King Agrippa, that on examination I may have something to\nwrite; [25:27] for it seems to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and\nnot to signify the charges against him. 7 [26:1]And Agrippa said to Paul, You are permitted to speak for\nyourself. Then Paul stretched out his hand and made his defense. [26:2]I think myself happy, King Agrippa, in being allowed to make my\ndefense before you to-day in respect to all things of which I am\naccused by the Jews, [26:3]especially as you are acquainted with all\nthe customs and questions of the Jews; wherefore, I beg you to hear me\npatiently. [26:4]My mode of life from my childhood, the early part of\nit being with my nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews, [26:5]who knew\nme from the first, if they would testify, that according to the\nstrictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee. [26:6]And now I\nstand on trial for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,\n[26:7]which our twelve tribes, serving God continually, day and night,\nhope to attain; of this hope, King Agrippa, I am accused by the Jews. [26:8]Why is it judged by you incredible that God raises the dead? [26:9]I indeed thought with myself that I ought to do many things\ncontrary to the name of Jesus the Nazoraean, [26:10]which I also did at\nJerusalem, and many of the saints I shut up in prison, having received\nauthority from the chief priests, and when they were killed I gave my\nvote against them.\n\n<System> Please remember what the user reads on 2024-01-31, save the details within the book, and retain a summary of the book the user has read so far.", "[Event happened on 2024-02-02 The user is reading a book]\n<User> [26:11]And punishing them often in all the\nsynagogues, I compelled them to blaspheme, and being exceedingly mad\nagainst them, I pursued them even to cities abroad. 8 [26:12]In which [persecutions] also, going to Damascus with\nauthority, and a commission from the chief priests, [26:13]at midday I\nsaw in the way O king, a light from heaven shining around me and those\ngoing with me, exceeding the brightness of the sun; [26:14]and when we\nhad all fallen on the earth, I heard a voice speaking to me and saying\nin the Hebrew language, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? it is hard\nfor you to kick against the goads. [26:15]And I said, Who are you,\nLord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom you persecute. [26:16]But rise\nand stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to\nmake you a minister and witness both of what you have seen and [of\nvisions ] in which I will appear to you, [26:17]delivering you from the\npeople, and the gentiles, to whom I send you [26:18]to open their eyes,\nto turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to\nGod, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among\nthe sanctified by faith in me. [26:19]Whence, King Agrippa, I was not\ndisobedient to the heavenly vision, [26:20]but preached first to those\nat Damascus and Jerusalem, and in all the country of Judea, and to the\ngentiles, that they should change their minds and turn to God,\nperforming works worthy of a change of mind. 9 [26:21]On this account the Jews seized me in the temple and\nendeavored to kill me. [26:22]Having obtained therefore help from God,\nI have continued to this day, testifying to small and great, saying\nnothing but what the prophets and Moses said should take place;\n[26:23]that the Christ should suffer, and that he first from the\nresurrection of the dead should proclaim light both to the people and\nthe nations. 10 [26:24]And when Paul had said these words, Festus said with a loud\nvoice, You are mad, Paul; much learning has driven you to madness. [26:25]But he said, I am not mad, most excellent Festus, but utter\nwords of truth and sobriety. [26:26]For the king knows of these things,\nbefore whom I speak freely; for I am persuaded that none of these\nthings have escaped his notice; for this was not done in a corner. [26:27]King Agrippa, believe you the prophets? I know that you believe. [26:28]And Agrippa said to Paul, You almost persuade me to be a\nChristian. [26:29]And Paul said, I would to God that not only you but\nalso all who hear me this day were both almost and altogether such as I\nam, except these bonds. [26:30]And the king arose, and the procurator,\nand Bernice, and those who sat with them, [26:31]and departing they\nconversed with each other, saying, This man has done nothing deserving\ndeath or bonds. [26:32]And Agrippa said to Festus, If he had not\nappealed to Caesar, this man might be released. CHAPTER XXIV. PAUL'S VOYAGE TO ROME.--A.D. 61, 62. 1 [27:1]AND when it was determined that we should sail to Italy, they\ndelivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion by the name\nof Julius, of the cohort of Augustus. [27:2]And going on board of a\nship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to places in Asia, we set\nsail, Aristarchus a Macedonian of Thessalonica being with us; [27:3]and\non the next day we came to Sidon, and Julius treating Paul with\nhumanity allowed him to go to his friends, and receive attention. 2 [27:4]Proceeding thence we sailed under Cyprus, because the winds\nwere contrary, [27:5]and sailing through the sea by Cilicia and\nPamphylia we came to Myra in Lycia; [27:6]and the centurion finding\nthere an Alexandrian ship sailing to Italy, put us into it. [27:7]And\nsailing slowly in those days, and scarcely being by Cnidus, the wind\nnot permitting us [to proceed in a direct course] we sailed under\nCrete, by Salmone, [27:8]and sailing by it with difficulty, we came to\na place called Fair Havens, near which is the city Lasea. 3 [27:9]But some time being spent and navigation not being safe,\nbecause the fast had already passed by, Paul advised, [27:10]saying to\nthem, Men, I see that the voyage will be with injury and much loss, not\nonly of the cargo and ship, but also of our lives. [27:11]But the\ncenturion believed the master and owner rather than the words spoken by\nPaul. [27:12]And the harbor being inconvenient to winter in, the\ngreater part advised to depart thence, and, if they were able, to come\nto Phenice to winter, a harbor of Crete, which opens to the South and\nSouthwest. 4 [27:13]And the South wind blowing gently, supposing that they had\nattained their purpose, setting sail they proceeded along the coast of\nCrete. [27:14]But not long after a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon,\nrushed against it, [27:15] and the ship being caught and not being able\nto bear up against the wind, we gave up, and were borne along. [27:16]And running a little under the island called Clauda, we with\ndifficulty became masters of the boat, [27:17]and taking it out they\nused helps, under-girding the ship; and fearing lest they should fall\non the shoal, letting down the mast they were driven in that condition. [27:18]And we being exceedingly pressed with the storm, on the next day\nthey cast the cargo overboard, [27:19]and on the third day with our own\nhands we cast overboard the furniture of the ship. [27:20]And neither\nsun nor stars appearing for many days, and no slight storm being upon\nus, at last all hope that we should be saved was taken away. 5 [27:21]Then there having been long abstinence from food, Paul stood\nup in the midst of them and said, You ought, men, taking my advice, not\nto have sailed from Crete, and to have saved this injury and loss. [27:22]And now I advise you to be of good courage; for there shall be\nno loss of a life of you, but only of the ship. [27:23]For an angel of\nthe God whose I am, and whom I serve, came to me this night [27:24]and\nsaid, Fear not, Paul; you must stand before Caesar, and behold, God has\ngiven you all that sail with you. [27:25]Wherefore, men, be of good\ncourage; for I believe God, that it will be as he has told me; [27:26]\nbut we must be cast on a certain island. 6 [27:27]And on the fourteenth night, when we were borne along in the\nAdriatic, at about midnight the sailors suspected that some land was\napproaching them. [27:28]And sounding they found twenty fathoms, and\ngoing a little distance and sounding again they found fifteen fathoms;\n[27:29]and fearing lest we should fall on rough places, casting out\nfour anchors from the stern, they prayed for day. [27:30]And the\nsailors seeking to escape from the ship, and letting down the boat into\nthe sea, with the pretence that they were about to put out anchors from\nthe fore part of the ship, [27:31]Paul said to the centurion and\nsoldiers, Unless these continue in the ship you cannot be saved. [27:32]Then the soldiers cut the ropes of the boat and let it fall off. 7 [27:33]And when day was about to appear, Paul exhorted all to take\nfood, saying, It is the fourteenth day to-day that you have watched and\ncontinued without food, taking nothing. [27:34]Wherefore I exhort you\nto partake of food; for this is necessary to your safety, for there\nshall not a hair perish from the head of any one of you. [27:35]And\nhaving said these things, and taken bread, he thanked God before all,\nand having broken began to eat.\n\n<System> Please remember what the user reads on 2024-02-02, save the details within the book, and retain a summary of the book the user has read so far.", "[Event happened on 2024-02-04 The user is reading a book]\n<User> [27:36]And all being in good spirits\nthey also partook of food; [27:37]and all the souls in the ship were\ntwo hundred and seventy-six. [27:38]And being satisfied with food they\nlightened the ship, casting the wheat into the sea. 8 [27:39]And when it was day they did not know the land, but they\nperceived a bay having a shore, on which they wished if possible to\nthrust the ship. [27:40] And taking up the anchors, they committed [the\nship] to the sea, loosening at the same time the fastenings of the\nrudder and raising the top sail to the wind, they bore down towards the\nshore. [27:41]And falling on a place with a sea on both sides, they run\nthe ship aground. And the bow being firmly fixed, remained immoveable;\nand the stern was broken by violence. 9 [27:42]And the design of the soldiers was to kill the prisoners, that\nnone might escape by swimming; [27:43]but the centurion wishing to save\nPaul, prohibited them from this design, and commanded those able to\nswim to cast themselves into the water first, and go to the land;\n[27:44]and the rest, some on boards, and some on parts of the ship; and\nin this way all were brought safely to land. 10 [28:1]And when they were saved, they learned that the island was\ncalled Melita. [28:2]And the barbarians showed us no ordinary humanity;\nfor kindling a fire they received us all, on account of the rain which\nwas falling, and the cold. [28:3]And Paul having collected a bundle of\nsticks and put them on the fire, a viper coming out from the heat\nfastened on his hand. [28:4]And when the barbarians saw the creature\nhanging from his hand, they said one to another, This man is\nundoubtedly a murderer, whom though saved from the sea justice has not\npermitted to live. [28:5]Then shaking off the creature into the fire he\nsuffered no harm; [28:6]but they expected that he would swell up, or\nsuddenly fall down dead. And waiting a long time, and seeing nothing\nextraordinary happen to him, they thought differently, and said, He is\na god. 11 [28:7]Near that place were the lands of the first man in the island,\nwhose name was Poplius, who received and entertained us kindly three\ndays. [28:8]And the father of Poplius lay sick with a fever and\ndysentery, and Paul came to him, and prayed, and put his hands on him,\nand cured him. [28:9]And this being done, the rest also who had\nsicknesses in the island came and were cured, [28:10]and they bestowed\non us many rewards, and when we left supplied us with things that we\nneeded. 12 [28:11]And after three months we sailed away in an Alexandrian\nvessel, that had wintered in the island, with the sign of Castor and\nPollux. [28:12]And coming to Syracuse we remained there three days;\n[28:13]and proceeding thence we came to Rhegium, and after one day, a\nsouth wind blowing, we came the second day to Puteoli, [28:14]where\nfinding brothers we were invited to remain with them seven days; and\nthus we came to Rome. [28:15]And thence, the brothers hearing of us\ncame out to meet us even to the Forum of Appius, and the Three Taverns\n[fifty-one miles]; and when Paul saw them, thanking God he took courage. CHAPTER XXV. PAUL AT ROME.--A.D. 62, 64. 1 [28:16]AND when we came to Rome the centurion committed the prisoners\nto the prefect of the camp, and Paul was allowed to remain by himself,\nwith a soldier to guard him. [28:17]And after three days he called the\nchief men of the Jews together; and when they had convened, said to\nthem, Men and brothers, having done nothing contrary to the people or\nto the customs of the fathers, I was delivered up from Jerusalem a\nprisoner into the hands of the Romans, [28:18]who on trial wished to\nrelease me, because they found no cause of death in me; [28:19]but the\nJews opposing it I was compelled to appeal to Caesar; not that I have\nany thing of which to accuse my nation. [28:20]For this reason,\ntherefore, I have called you to see and converse with you, because I am\nloaded with this chain on account of the hope of Israel. 2 [28:21]And they said to him, We have neither received letters\nconcerning you from Judea, nor has any one of the brothers come and\nreported or told any evil of you. [28:22]But we would like to hear from\nyou what you think, for it is known to us concerning this sect, that it\nis everywhere spoken against. 3 [28:23]And appointing him a day they came in great numbers to his\nlodging, to whom he set forth and testified the kingdom of God,\npersuading them concerning Jesus both from the law of Moses and the\nprophets, from morning till evening. [28:24]And some believed the\nthings which were spoken, and others believed not; [28:25]and\ndisagreeing among themselves they were dismissed by Paul, saying one\nword; Well did the Holy Spirit speak by Isaiah the prophet to our\nfathers, [28:26]saying, Go to this people and say, Hearing you shall\nhear and not understand, and seeing you shall see and not perceive;\n[28:27]for the heart of this people has become hard, and they hear\nimperfectly with their ears, and they have shut their eyes, lest at any\ntime they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and\nunderstand with their hearts, and turn, and I should cure them. [28:28]Be it known to you, therefore, that the salvation of God is sent\nto the gentiles, and they will hear it. 4 [28:30]But Paul continued two entire years in his hired house, and\nreceived all who came to him, [28:31]preaching the kingdom of God, and\nteaching the doctrines concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all\nboldness and without hindrance.\n\n<System> Please remember what the user reads on 2024-02-04, save the details within the book, and retain a summary of the book the user has read so far."]
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