And putting out to sea from Paphos, Paul and his companions came to Perga of Pamphylia; and John  ¹departed from them and returned to Jerusalem.

And they passed through from Perga and arrived at Pisidian Antioch. And they went into the synagogue  ¹on the Sabbath day and sat down.

And after the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue rulers sent word to them, saying,  ¹Men, brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, say it.

And Paul, rising up and motioning with his hand, said,  ¹Men of Israel and  ²those who fear God, listen.

The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and exalted the people during their sojourn in the land of Egypt, and with a  ¹high arm He led them out of it.

And for a time of about forty years  ¹He carried them as a nurse in the wilderness.

And when He had overthrown seven nations in the land of Canaan, He distributed their land as an inheritance.

And after these things, for about  ¹four hundred and fifty years, He gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.

And afterward they asked for a king; and God gave them Saul, the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

And when He had deposed him, He raised up David for them as king, to whom also He testified and said, I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man according to My  ¹heart, who will do all My will.

From this man's seed, God, according to promise, brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus,

After John had proclaimed,  ¹prior to His public entrance, a  ²baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

Now as John was completing his course, he said, What do you  ¹suppose that I am? I am not the Christ. But behold, One is coming after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.

 ¹Men, brothers, sons of the race of Abraham, and  ²those among you who fear God, to us the word of this salvation has been sent forth.

For those dwelling in Jerusalem and their rulers, being ignorant of this One and of the  ¹words of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by  ²judging Him.

And though they did not find one cause of death in Him, they asked of Pilate that He be done away with.

And when they had accomplished all that was written concerning Him, they took Him down from the tree and laid Him in a tomb.

But  ¹God raised Him from the dead.

And for many days He appeared to those who had come up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now His witnesses to the people.

And we announce to you the gospel of the promise made to the fathers,

That God has fully fulfilled this promise to us their children in raising up Jesus, as it is also written in the second Psalm, “You are My Son; this day have I  ¹begotten You.”

And as to His having raised Him up from the dead, no longer to return to corruption, He spoke in this way, “I will give you  ¹the  ²holy things of David, the faithful things.”

Therefore He also says in another place, “You will not  ¹allow Your Holy One to see corruption.”

Now David, having  ¹served his own generation by the counsel of God, did indeed fall asleep and was  ²buried with his fathers and saw corruption;

But He whom  ¹God has raised did not see corruption.

Therefore let it be known to you,  ¹men, brothers, that through this One forgiveness of sins is announced to you;

And from all the things from which you were not able to be justified  ¹by the law of Moses, in this One everyone who believes is  ²justified.

Therefore beware that what is spoken in the prophets does not come upon you:

“Look, you despisers, and marvel, and vanish away; for I am doing a work in your days, a work which you will by no means believe, though someone tells it to you in detail.”

And as Paul and Barnabas were going out, the people begged that these words would be spoken to them on the next Sabbath.

And when the synagogue gathering had been dismissed, many of the Jews and the devout  ¹proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who spoke to them and urged them to continue in the  ²grace of God.

And on the following Sabbath almost all the city gathered together to hear the word of God.

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and contradicted the things being spoken by Paul and blasphemed.

And Paul and Barnabas spoke boldly and said, It was necessary for the word of God to be spoken to you first. Since you thrust it away and do  ¹not judge yourselves worthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

For so the Lord has commanded us, “I have set  ¹you as a light of the Gentiles, that you would be for salvation unto the uttermost part of the earth.”

And the Gentiles, hearing this, rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord; and as many as were  ¹appointed to eternal life believed.

And the word of the Lord was carried through the whole region.

But the Jews incited the women of high standing who worshipped God, and the chief men of the city, and raised up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas and cast them out from their borders.

But they shook off the dust of their feet against them and came to Iconium.

And the disciples were  ¹filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

 ¹Now in the first year of Cyrus the king of Persia, so that the word of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Jehovah  ²stirred up the spirit of  ³Cyrus the king of Persia; and he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and put it also in writing, saying,

Thus says Cyrus the king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth has Jehovah the God of heaven given to me; and He has charged me to build Him a  ¹house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

Whoever there is among you of all His people, may his God be with him; and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and let him build the house of Jehovah the God of Israel — He is God — who is in Jerusalem.

And everyone who is left, in whatever place he sojourns, let the men of his place support him with silver and with gold and with goods and with cattle, besides the freewill offering for the house of God, which is in Jerusalem.

Then the heads of the fathers' houses of Judah and Benjamin and the priests and the Levites rose up, even everyone whose spirit God had stirred up to go up to build the house of Jehovah, which is in Jerusalem.

And all those around them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with cattle and with precious things, besides all that was offered willingly.

Also King Cyrus brought out the  ¹vessels of the house of Jehovah, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought out from Jerusalem and had put in the house of his gods;

And Cyrus the king of Persia had them brought out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer and had them enumerated to  ¹Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah.

And this was their number: thirty gold dishes, one thousand silver dishes, twenty-nine knives,

Thirty gold bowls, four hundred ten silver bowls of a different kind, and one thousand other vessels.

There were five thousand four hundred vessels of gold and silver in all. Sheshbazzar brought up all of them with those of the captivity who were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.

Now these were the children of the province who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each man to his city.

These came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:

The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two.

The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.

The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy-five.

The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred twelve.

The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.

The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty-five.

The children of Zaccai, seven hundred sixty.

The children of Bani, six hundred forty-two.

The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-three.

The children of Azgad, one thousand two hundred twenty-two.

The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty-six.

The children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty-six.

The children of Adin, four hundred fifty-four.

The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.

The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty-three.

The children of Jorah, one hundred twelve.

The children of Hashum, two hundred twenty-three.

The children of Gibbar, ninety-five.

The children of Bethlehem, one hundred twenty-three.

The men of Netophah, fifty-six.

The men of Anathoth, one hundred twenty-eight.

The children of Azmaveth, forty-two.

The children of Kiriath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty-three.

The children of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.

The men of Michmas, one hundred twenty-two.

The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty-three.

The children of Nebo, fifty-two.

The children of Magbish, one hundred fifty-six.

The children of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.

The children of Harim, three hundred twenty.

The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty-five.

The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five.

The children of Senaah, three thousand six hundred thirty.

The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy-three.

The children of Immer, one thousand fifty-two.

The children of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred forty-seven.

The children of Harim, one thousand seventeen.

The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy-four.

The singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred twenty-eight.

The children of the gatekeepers: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all one hundred thirty-nine.

The temple servants: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,

The children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon,

The children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub.

The children of Hagab, the children of Shamlai, the children of Hanan,

The children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah,

The children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam,

The children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai,

The children of Asnah, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephisim,

The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,

The children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,

The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah,

The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.

The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Hassophereth, the children of Peruda,

The children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,

The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the children of Ami.

All the temple servants and the children of Solomon's servants were three hundred ninety-two.

And these were those who went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not give evidence of their fathers' houses nor their descendants, whether they were of Israel:

The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty-two.

And of the children of the priests: the children of Hobaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife from among the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by their name.

These sought their registry among those who were enrolled by genealogy, but they were not found; therefore they were considered defiled and were excluded from the priesthood.

And the governor told them that they should not eat of the most holy things until a priest stood up with Urim and Thummim.

The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,

Besides their male servants and their female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven; and they had two hundred male singers and female singers.

Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, two hundred forty-five;

Their camels, four hundred thirty-five; their donkeys, six thousand seven hundred twenty.

And some of the heads of fathers' houses, when they came to the house of Jehovah, which is in Jerusalem, offered willingly for the house of God to restore it on its foundation.

They gave to the treasury of the work, according to their ability, sixty-one thousand darics of gold and five thousand minas of silver and one hundred priestly garments.

So the priests and the Levites and some of the people and the singers and the gatekeepers and the temple servants and all Israel dwelt in their cities.