m was
heard in the ears of the church which was at Jerusalem: and they
dispatched Barnabas, to go as far as Antioch. (23)Who, when he arrived
there, and beheld the grace of God, rejoiced, and exhorted them all,
with full purpose of heart to adhere to the Lord. (24)For he was a good
man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and a great multitude was
added to the Lord.

(25)Then went forth Barnabas to Tarsus, in search of Saul: (26)and
having found him, he brought him to Antioch. And it came to pass, that
during a whole year they were jointly employed in that church, and
taught a vast multitude, and they called for the first time in Antioch
the disciples Christians. (27)Now there came down in those days
prophets from Jerusalem to Antioch. (28)And one of them named Agabus,
rising up, signified by the spirit that a great famine was coming upon
the whole habitable globe: which also came in the reign of Claudius
Caesar. (29)Then the disciples, as everyman had ability, determined
every individual of them to send a sum to be distributed among the
brethren who dwelt in Judea: (30)which also they did, sending it off to
the presbyters by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

CHAP. XII.

NOW at that time Herod the king stretched forth his hand to treat
cruelly certain persons belonging to the church. (2)And he slew James
the brother of John with a sword. (3)And seeing how agreeable this was
to the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. (Then were the days of
unleavened bread.) (4)Whom having apprehended, he put him in prison,
delivering him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep guard over him;
intending after the Passover to bring him forth to the people _for
execution_. (5)So then Peter was kept in prison: but fervent prayer was
offered up by the church to God for him. (6)Now when Herod was going to
bring him forth, the same night was Peter fast asleep between the two
soldiers, fastened to them with two chains: and the guards before the
door kept the prison. (7)And, lo! an angel of the Lord stood there, and
light glared through the apartment: then with a stroke on Peter's side,
he roused him up, and said, Arise quickly. And his chains fell from his
hands. (8)And the angel said to him, Gird thyself up, and bind on thy
sandals. And he did so. And he said unto him, Wrap thyself in thy
mantle, and follow me. (9)And going out, he followed him; and knew not
that it was a reality which was done by the angel; but he supposed he
saw a