^{Rev 08:02} και ϊδον τουc επτα αγγελουc οι ενωπιον του θυ εcτηκαcιν και εδοθηcα αυτοιc επτα cαλπιγγεc
^{Rev 08:03} και αλλοc αγγελοc ηλθεν και εcταθη επι του θυcιαcτηριου εχων λιβανωτον χρυcου και εδοθη αυτω θυμιαματα πολλα ϊνα δωcει ταιc προcευχαιc των αγιω παντων επι το θυcιαcτηριον το χρυcουν ενωπιον του θρονου
^{Rev 08:04} και αναβη καπνοc των θυμιαματων ταιc προcευχαιc των αγιων εκ χιροc του αγγελου ενωπιον του θυ
^{Rev 08:05} και ειληφεν ο αγγελοc το λιβανωτον και εγεμιcεν αυτον εκ του πυροc του θυcιαcτηριου και εβαλεν ειc την γη και εγενοντο βροται και φωναι και αcτραπαι και cειcμοc
^{Rev 08:06} και οι επτα αγγελοι εχοντεc ταc επτα cαλπιγγαc ητοιμαcαν αυτουc ϊνα cαλπιcωcιν

^{Rev 08:02} and I saw the seven angels who before God have stood, and there were given to them seven trumpets.

^{Rev 08:03} And another angel did come, and he stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given to him much perfume, that he may give [it] to the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar that [is] before the throne, ^{Rev 08:04} and go up did the smoke of the perfumes to the prayers of the saints out of the hand of the angel, before God; ^{Rev 08:05} and the angel took the censer, and did fill it out of the fire of the altar, and did cast [it] to the earth, and there came voices, and thunders, and lightnings, and an earthquake.

^{Rev 08:06} And the seven angels who are having the seven trumpets did prepare themselves that they may sound.

(James Niceta writes:)
^{Rev 08:02} and I saw the seven angels who before God have stood, and there were given to them seven trumpets.

^{Rev 08:03} And another angel did come, and he stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given to him much perfume, that he may give [it] to the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar that [is] before the throne, ^{Rev 08:04} and go up did the smoke of the perfumes to the prayers of the saints out of the hand of the angel, before God; ^{Rev 08:05} and the angel took the censer, and did fill it out of the fire of the altar, and did cast [it] to the earth, and there came voices, and thunders, and lightnings, and an earthquake.

^{Rev 08:06} And the seventh angel who, having the seven trumpets, did prepare themselves that they may sound.

This was the year 2 BC and the angel was Simeon the Essene, who was the same angel who in 8 BC announced to Mary that she would have a son, is predicting that there would be seven times seven year periods before God would bring the Restoration predicted by Daniel. Each seventh year would be announced by a trumpet. The period between 2 BC and 5 AD was the zero point.
(For the importance of 2 BC - See Qumran World Ages.)

^{Rev 08:07} and the first did sound, and there came hail and fire, mingled with blood, and it was cast to the land, and the third of the trees was burnt up, and all the green grass was burnt up.

(James Niceta writes:)
^{Rev 08:07a} and the first did sound,

This is the first of seven angels introducing sets of seven years. Translators make a bad assumption to add the word angel because it specifically left out. Judas the Galilean, although he seemed like an angel at the time, ended up bringing false hope and the eventual destruction of the Temple in his creation of the Zealots. He took over the abandoned Essence monastery of Qumran and re-consecrated it under less strict Essene rules. It would be a place where funds for the campaigns could be kept. His revolt in 6 AD was specifically against the census and taxes of Cyrenius, but was meant to overthrow the rule by the Romans with God's promised help. (See Jesus' Bar Mitzvah in 6 AD)

^{Rev 08:07b}and there came hail and fire, mingled with blood,

'Hail and fire mingled with blood' refers to the first and seventh plague of Moses against Pharaoh (Exodus chapters 7 to 12) and was part of a strategy of secret disruption by all the Jews in the Roman Empire. (See plague chart above.) It began in 2 BC with the dissatisfaction with Archelaus, who inherited Judea from his father Herod the Great, up until the fall of Jerusalem and Masada and then was reinstituted in 97 AD for the events leading up to the Bar Kokhba Revolt of 132 AD–136 AD.

The misguided belief of the Jews that God would deal with the Romans as He had with Pharaoh caused them to copy the first seven plagues rather than the total of ten so that they could have repeating sevens and they put them in sets of four seasons beginning in the Spring. These charts like the one above give support for the correct dating of Revelation by finding the word 'plague' and the words such as 'blood' and 'hail'. It also explains the strange appearance of these words. (Kudos to Dr. Barbara Thiering for discovering this.)

^{Rev 08:07c}and it was cast to the land, and the third of the trees was burnt up, and all the green grass was burnt up.

The Zealot revolt caused Herod Archelaus the Ethnarch (the land) to be dethroned and the High Priest Joazar Boethus ('the trees') to be replaced by the Sadducee Ananus the Elder (the real first angel - angel is the Essene title for leader). He was High Priest from 6 to 15 AD. From the image of the 'green grass' we learn that Judas excluded the Gentiles ('the green grass') who were previously allowed a pseudo-Jewish identity under Herod the Great in the Diaspora (Jews living in foreign lands).

The following was made as a reference by Gamaliel, but presented out of context with Theudas' crossing of the Jordan River:
^{Acts 05:37} 'After this one rose up, Judas the Galilean, in the days of the enrollment, and drew away much people after him, and that one perished, and all, as many as were obeying him, were scattered;

^{Rev 12:01} And a great sign was seen in the heaven, a woman arrayed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars, ^{Rev 12:02} and being with child she does cry out, travailing and pained to bring forth. (the twelve tribes of Israel under her husband as the descendant of King David) ^{Rev 12:03} And there was seen another sign in the heaven, and, lo, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his head seven diadems, ^{Rev 12:04} and his tail does draw the third of the stars of the heaven, and he did cast them to the earth; and the dragon did stand before the woman who is about to bring forth, that when she may bring forth, her child he may devour; ^{Rev 12:05} and she brought forth a male child, who is about to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, and caught away was her child unto God and His throne, ^{Rev 12:06} and the woman did flee to the wilderness, where she has a place made ready from God, that there they may nourish her -- days a thousand, two hundred, sixty.

(This section, assigned to John Aquila, beginning here at Rev 12:01 Jesus' Bar Mitzvah in 6 AD and ending at Rev 14:05 with the time Just prior to the Ascension in 33 AD. should have been the first section of Revelation, but instead Revelation starts with the year 48 AD with the Letters to the Seven Churches and the Canonizing the Gospels.)

(John Aquila writes:)
^{Rev 12:01} And a great sign was seen in the heaven (the church platform constructed at the Queen's house south of Qumran),

a woman arrayed with the sun (having the blessing of the presiding council),

and the moon under her feet (like Luna (Helena) Mary is female member of the council of thirty for the cycle of the moon being the one half as a female (29 and one half days See Triacontad),

and upon her head a crown of twelve stars (the twelve tribes of Israel under her husband as the descendant of King David),

James and John revered Mary as she was their Mother Superior because as Gentiles they were linked in status to females.
(Gospel of Philip GPhil 6) "When we were Hebrews, we were orphans and had only our mother, but when we became Christians, we had both father and mother."

^{Rev 12:02} and being with child she does cry out, travailing and pained to bring forth. (a metaphoric image for Jesus' Bar Mitzvah) ^{Rev 12:03} And there was seen another sign in the heaven, and, lo, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his head seven diadems,

The High Priest Joazar Boethus still opposes Jesus as illegitimate. He is the head of the seven leaders based on the seven days in the week. He is also in charge of the ten provinces of the Diaspora.

^{Rev 12:04} and his tail does draw the third of the stars of the heaven, and he did cast them to the earth (His subordinate has been instructed by him not recognize the status of the celibate Gentiles.);

and the dragon did stand before the woman who is about to bring forth, that when she may bring forth, her child he may devour (excommunicate); ^{Rev 12:05} and she brought forth a male child, who is about to rule all the nations with a rod of iron (an assured heredity: Isaiah 11:1-5),

and caught away was her child unto God and His throne,

Boethus is deposed and Ananus, the Sadducee is made High Priest - Sadducee title is 'God'. He recognizes Jesus as legitimate.

^{Rev 12:06} and the woman did flee to the wilderness, where she has a place made ready from God (Mary rushes to return to her convent at Mird before dark),

that there they may nourish her -- days a thousand, two hundred, sixty.

(The three and half years of Daniel: 3.5 years*360 (12 months of 30 day months) or 42 months. This is an expression to say that, as in the time of the Maccabean revolt, God will bring the for the restoration of the Jewish Kingdom.)

And Judea; Concerning Judas of Galilee, and Concerning the Sects that were among the Jews: "Moreover, Cyrenius came himself into Judea, which was now added to the province of Syria, to take an account of their substance, and to dispose of Archelaus's money; but the Jews, although at the beginning they took the report of a taxation heinously, yet did they leave off any further opposition to it, by the persuasion of Joazar, who was the son of Boethus, and high priest Joazar Boethus; so they, being over-persuaded by Joazar's words, gave an account of their estates, without any dispute about it. Yet was there one Judas, a Gaulonite (Judas the Galilean), a Pharisee, became zealous to draw them to a revolt, who both said that this taxation was no better than an introduction to slavery, and exhorted the nation to assert their liberty; ... All sorts of misfortunes also sprang from these men, and the nation was infected with this doctrine to an incredible degree; one violent war came upon us after another, and we lost our friends which used to alleviate our pains; there were also very great robberies and murder of our principal men. Such were the consequences of this, that the customs of our fathers were altered, and such a change was made, as added a mighty weight toward bringing all to destruction, which these men occasioned by their thus conspiring together; for Judas and Zadok (Theudas), who excited a fourth philosophic sect (1. Pharisees, 2. Sadducees, 3. Essenes, 4. Zealots) among us, and had a great many followers ..."

Actually there was another sect called the Therapeuts, who were the "shepherds" of the Bethlehem story as they lived a nomadic life, using the imagery of Moses and Joshua. Zadok (Theudas) who joined with Judas the Galilean and is listed as the disciple Thaddeus was their leader. (Judas Iscariot replaced Judas the Galilean when he was killed.) Their center was in Alexandria, Egypt and so they called their area around Mird and Jordan "Egypt". This is where Joseph and Mary fled to, not the real Egypt. They looked forward to the day when God would bring the Restoration and that they would again be able to cross the River Jordan into the Promised Land. They introduced song and mystery plays into their services. See Philo: the Essenes and Therapeuts. The Christian Church modeled their abbey system on the Therapeuts and their monastic system on the Essenes.

The Sadducees, having set themselves up as priests and calling themselves "God" (similar to today's "Father"), were quite rich and learned. Early on, they found that it was much more profitable to align themselves with the Hasmonean kings and the Romans after them. It was their relaxed policy on the rules of the Torah and their emphasis on peace with Rome that placed them in cooperation with Jesus. Although Jesus believed that, as the David king, he could replace them as priests, it was really not until the Destruction of the Temple that they were eliminated from the Christian Church. At the Crucifixion, Jesus had to submit to the will of his superior, Jonathan Annas, a Sadducee, "saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but Thine, be done" (Luke 22:42) at the Garden of Gethsemane. Jonathan is listed as one of the disciples: James son of Alphaeus (son of the High Priest Annas) and in Acts is known as Stephen (stephanos is Greek for crown), he believing himself to be priest and king for which he was stoned (excommunicated) in 37AD. He was so popular that Christmas is also called the Feast of St. Stephen. With his real name James, he is often confused with James the younger brother of Jesus, who became the Bishop of Jerusalem in 40 AD. He is also the Nathanael in John 21:2 contrary to the consensus view. (Nathanael means "God has given" which is similar to Jonathan "gift of God". )

^{Rev 12:07} And there came war in the heaven; Michael and his angels did war against the dragon, and the dragon did war, and his angels, ^{Rev 12:08} and they did not prevail, nor was their place found any more in the heaven;

^{Rev 12:09} and the great dragon was cast forth -- the old serpent, who is called "Devil," and "the Satan,"who is leading astray the whole world -- he was cast forth to the earth, and his angels were cast forth with him.

^{Rev 12:10} And I heard a great voice saying in the heaven, 'Now did come the salvation, and the power, and the reign, of our God, and the authority of His Christ, because cast down was the accuser of our brethren, who is accusing them before our God day and night; ^{Rev 12:11} and they did overcome him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life -- unto death; ^{Rev 12:12} because of this be glad, you heavens, and those in them who do tabernacle; woe to those inhabiting the land and the sea, because the Devil did go down unto you, having great wrath, having known that he has little time.'

^{Rev 12:13} And when the dragon saw that he was cast forth to the earth, he pursued the woman who did bring forth the male, ^{Rev 12:14} and there were given to the woman two wings of the great eagle, that she may fly to the wilderness, to her place, where she is nourished a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent; ^{Rev 12:15} and the serpent did cast forth after the woman, out of his mouth, water as a river, that he may cause her to be carried away by the river, ^{Rev 12:16} and the land did help the woman, and the land did open its mouth and did swallow up the river, that the dragon did cast forth out of his mouth; ^{Rev 12:17} and the dragon was angry against the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, those keeping the commands of God, and having the testimony of Jesus Christ.

(John Aquila writes:)
^{Rev 12:07} And there came war in the heaven; Michael and his angels (Essenes were known as angels and the top position was 'Michael')

did war against the dragon (Joazar Boethus), and the dragon did war, and his angels, ^{Rev 12:08} and they did not prevail, nor was their place found any more in the heaven;

^{Rev 12:09} and the great dragon was cast forth -- the old serpent, who is called "Devil," and "the Satan,"who is leading astray the whole world -- he was cast forth to the earth, and his angels were cast forth with him.

^{Rev 12:10} And I heard a great voice saying in the heaven, 'Now did come the salvation, and the power, and the reign, of our God, and the authority of His Christ, because cast down was the accuser of our brethren, who is accusing them before our God day and night; ^{Rev 12:11} and they did overcome him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life -- unto death;

Michael and his angels represent the Essenes who made war with the Pharisees.They were the first who had compassion for all men of the "earth" (the uncircumcised men as descendants of Adam) and women of the "sea" (the image derived from their monthly periods that needed to be cleansed in the sea and the mission established in Rome, across the sea, that would later become famous under Bernice, the twin sister of Agrippa II, ). However, common men and women were still outcastes to the Essenes until Jesus gave them rights to be members of the Church. The Essene principle is that normal existence is not life, but rather death; because life comes from membership in the Essene brotherhood.

^{Rev 12:12} because of this be glad, you heavens, and those in them who do tabernacle; woe (Refers to the Plague Attacks - 2nd seven year plague cycle beginning 6 AD) to those inhabiting the land and the sea, because the Devil did go down unto you, having great wrath, having known that he has little time.'

The Restoration by God is expected soon.

^{Rev 12:13} And when the dragon (Joazar Boethus) saw that he was cast forth to the earth, he pursued the woman who did bring forth the male,

^{Rev 12:14} and there were given to the woman two wings of the great eagle (Jonathan Annas helping her) that she may fly to the wilderness, to her place, where she is nourished a time, and times, and half a time from the face of the serpent;

The Sadducees were often depicted as the Eagles from the Ezekiel’s chariot vision as they remained at peace with Rome (the symbol of the insignia of the eagle) but also protected the Jews. Thus they flew back and forth from West to East. "A time, and times, and half a time" comes from the prophesies of Daniel where two and one-half years would align all calendars of the different Jewish sects and to the Roman calendar (a Sadducee goal).

^{Rev 12:15} and the serpent did cast forth after the woman, out of his mouth, water as a river, that he may cause her to be carried away by the river, ^{Rev 12:16} and the land did help the woman, and the land did open its mouth and did swallow up the river, that the dragon did cast forth out of his mouth;

The Therapeuts (See Adoration of the Shepherds of the Bethlehem story) believed that like Joshua they would one day cross the Jordan River as God would give them the Promised Land, once again, in the expected Restoration. (See The disastrous crossing of the Jordan River by Theudas in 44 AD.) Mary lived in female monastery in their territory in the wilderness of Mird and would act the part of Miriam in the pageants of the crossing of the Red Sea that occurred during the flooding of the wadys.

^{Rev 12:17} and the dragon was angry against the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, those keeping the commands of God, and having the testimony of Jesus Christ.

The High Priests Pharisee Joazar and Caiaphas after him continued to attack the legitimacy of her child Jesus, claiming that her next son James was the true Messiah because James was conceived by the strict Essene rules that only allowed sexual relations from November to January for the purpose of continuing the kingly or priestly line. (See Jesus' illegitimate conception in June) Ironically, it is James' birthday that was used to date the "AD:Anno Domini" by the 6th century monk Dionysius Exiguus, so this claim clearly stuck, especially when James became Bishop of Jerusalem.

^{Rev 08:08} And the second angel did sound, and as it were a great mountain with fire burning was cast into the sea, and the third of the sea became blood, ^{Rev 08:09} and die did the third of the creatures that [are] in the sea, those having life, and the third of the ships were destroyed.

(James Niceta writes:)
^{Rev 08:08} And the second angel did sound, and as it were a great mountain with fire burning was cast into the sea, and the third of the sea became blood, ^{Rev 08:09} and die did the third of the creatures that are in the sea, those having life, and the third of the ships were destroyed.

The year is 13 AD. In 14 AD the Emperor Augustus Caesar died and was replaced by Tiberius (the mountain falling into the sea). The High Priest Ananus was replaced by his oldest son Eleazar Annas who was the second angel (High Priest (16-17 AD). The mission in Tiber Island in Rome was a flourishing Jewish center for the Gentiles. One third of the Gentles were the monastics who used fermented wine (blood), one third, dying to their normal lives and gaining life by becoming members of the Church (following the symbolism of Noah they would be baptized in the sea and know as fish (creatures of the sea) - See Fishers of Men. However in 19 AD the Jews were expelled, because a Roman lady who inclined toward Judaism had thought that her gift would be for the temple instead of been used for other purposes. (Simon Magus was using the funds to support the Zealots back home.) The synagogues were closed, the vessels burned, and 4,000 Jewish youths were sent upon military service to Sardinia. (Expelled by Tiberius)

Paul is born in November 16AD. (A Sagittarius!)

^{Rev 08:10} And the third angel did sound, and there fell out of the heaven a great star, burning as a lamp, and it did fall upon the third of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters, ^{Rev 08:11} and the name of the star is called Wormwood, and the third of the waters does become wormwood, and many of the men did die of the waters, because they were made bitter.

(James Niceta writes:)
^{Rev 08:10} And the third angel did sound, and there fell out of the heaven a great star, burning as a lamp, and it did fall upon the third of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters,

In 20 AD John the Baptist is the third angel (27 years old, son of Zechariah, the Zadok Priest, and Elizabeth). Zechariah, had been murdered in 6 AD. The star that fell out of heaven was Jesus' father Joseph (the Bethlehem Star of David) who was killed in 23 AD (See Mary is a widow).

^{Rev 08:11} and the name of the star is called Wormwood, and the third of the waters does become wormwood, and many of the men did die of the waters, because they were made bitter.

The new rising star would be Simon Magus (being called poison because he would mastermind the poisoning of Agrippa I). He had been expelled from Rome being involved in the Tiber Island problem above in 19 AD. The rivers and the fountains were the initiates who were baptized in them. The implication is that Simon poisoned them with his teachings.

Also in 23 AD Tiberius' favorite son Drusus is poisoned and Tiberius sends away all those that remind him of his son including Herod Agrippa. It was in this year also that his mother Bernice died leaving Agrippa with less ability to avoid the financial consequences of his lavish life style. In 26 AD Tiberius retires to Capri instructing that he is not to be disturbed. Agrippa is forced to leave Rome deeply in debt. He becomes deeply depressed and considers suicide, but his wife Cypros sends a letter to Heriodias, his sister, and she gets her husband Herod Antipas to give him a job in Tiberias as commissioner of markets in 27 AD.

^{Rev 12:18} And I stood upon the sand of the sea, ^{Rev 13:01}and I saw out of the sea a beast coming up, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon its horns ten diadems, and upon its heads a name of evil speaking, ^{Rev 13:02} and the beast that I saw was like to a leopard, and its feet as of a bear, and its mouth as the mouth of a lion, and the dragon did give to it his power, and his throne, and great authority. ^{Rev 13:03} And I saw one of its heads as slain to death, and its deadly stroke was healed, and all the earth did wonder after the beast, ^{Rev 13:04} and they did bow before the dragon who did give authority to the beast, and they did bow before the beast, saying, 'Who [is] like to the beast? who is able to war with it?'

^{Rev 13:05} And there was given to it a mouth speaking great things, and evil-speakings, and there was given to it authority to make war forty-two months, ^{Rev 13:06} and it did open its mouth for evil-speaking toward God, to speak evil of His name, and of His tabernacle, and of those who in the heaven tabernacle, ^{Rev 13:07} and there was given to it to make war with the saints, and to overcome them, and there was given to it authority over every tribe, and tongue, and nation. ^{Rev 13:08} And bow before it shall all who are dwelling upon the land, whose names have not been written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

^{Rev 13:09} If any one has an ear -- let him hear: ^{Rev 13:10} if any one a captivity does gather, into captivity he does go away; if any one by sword does kill, it behooves him by sword to be killed; here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.

^{Rev 13:11} And I saw another beast coming up out of the land, and it had two horns, like a lamb, and it was speaking as a dragon, ^{Rev 13:12} and all the authority of the first beast does it do before it, and it makes the land and those dwelling in it that they shall bow before the first beast, whose deadly stroke was healed, ^{Rev 13:13} and it does great signs, that fire also it may make to come down from the heaven to the earth before men, ^{Rev 13:14} and it leads astray those dwelling on the land, because of the signs that were given it to do before the beast, saying to those dwelling upon the land to make an image to the beast that has the stroke of the sword and did live, ^{Rev 13:15} and there was given to it to give a spirit to the image of the beast, that also the image of the beast may speak, and [that] it may cause as many as shall not bow before the image of the beast, that they may be killed. ^{Rev 13:16} And it makes all, the small, and the great, and the rich, and the poor, and the freemen, and the servants, that it may give to them a mark upon their right hand or upon their foreheads, ^{Rev 13:17} and that no one may be able to buy, or to sell, except he who is having the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. ^{Rev 13:18} Here is the wisdom! He who is having the understanding, let him count the number of the beast, for the number of a man it is, and its number is 666.

(John Aquila writes:)
^{Rev 12:18} And I stood upon the sand of the sea,

James and John, illegitimate sons of Augustus Caesar' daughter Julia the Elder (also the wife of Tiberius), were secretly banished from Rome, captured by pirates, and purchased by Helena, who became the consort of Simon Magus. (See the Biographies in the Clementine Books). Having been brought to dry land (the "sand") they were part of the uncircumcised males that were classed with females (the "sea") and being young they were easily influenced by Simon Magus, but through the teachings Ananus the Younger (See Zacchaeus in the Gospels and the Clementines Here it is more likely to be Jonathan Annas the older brother of Ananus the Younger as indicated by Mark 3:17: Boanerges ('sons of thunder'), they were brought over to accept Jesus' mission. Their full names were James Niceta and John Aquila. (John is writing this and also is shown with Paul in 52AD)

^{Rev 13:01}and I saw out of the sea a beast coming up, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon its horns ten diadems, and upon its heads a name of evil speaking,

Simon Magus' organization, as he had created on Tiber Island in Rome before his expulsion by Tiberius, had seven ministers (See the use of seven for Church leaders: Seven Leaders Chosen in June 37 AD) and his mission to Rome was the tenth Province (eventually he would be head of them all as Pope).

^{Rev 13:02} and the beast that I saw was like to a leopard (supporting the Zealots - name of head of a Zealot military division such as Judas Iscariot, and its feet (the money jar for Church tithes at the feet) as of a bear (the Herods controlling the funds), and its mouth as the mouth of a lion (to speak on behalf of king), and the dragon (Caiaphas - the High Priest who followed Joazar Boethus in philosophy) did give to it his power, and his throne, and great authority.

^{Rev 13:03} And I saw one of its heads as slain to death, and its deadly stroke was healed (John the Baptist has been executed and replaced by Jesus) and all the earth did wonder after the beast, ^{Rev 13:04} and they did bow before the dragon (Caiaphas) who did give authority to the beast, and they did bow before the beast, saying, 'Who is like to the beast? who is able to war with it?'

^{Rev 13:05} And there was given to it a mouth speaking great things, and evil-speakings, and there was given to it authority to make war forty-two months, (In other words until the Restoration: the three and half years of Daniel: 3.5 years*360 (12 months of 30 day months) or 42 months.)

^{Rev 13:06} and it did open its mouth for evil-speaking toward God, to speak evil of His name, and of His tabernacle, and of those who in the heaven tabernacle, ^{Rev 13:07} and there was given to it to make war with the saints, and to overcome them, and there was given to it authority over every tribe (twelve tribes of Israel - Pharisees and Sadducees), and tongue ("speaking in tongues" - the Diaspora holding services in foreign languages. See Day of Pentecost), and nation (descendents of Herod the Great - for instance Bernice, great granddaughter of Herod). ^{Rev 13:08} And bow before it shall all who are dwelling upon the land, whose names have not been written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. (In the Schism of the Churches following the poisoning of Agrippa I in 47 AD, Simon Magus the beast was on the other side from the followers of Jesus.)

^{Rev 13:09} If any one has an ear -- let him hear: ^{Rev 13:10} if any one a captivity does gather, into captivity he does go away (John the Baptist is put in prison by Herod Antipas in January 30AD and executed by Herod Agrippa) in November 31AD; if any one by sword does kill, it behooves him by sword to be killed (Agrippa I threatened to kill James by the sword and is poisoned by Simon Magus); here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.

^{Rev 13:11} And I saw another beast coming up out of the land, and it had two horns, like a lamb, (Simon Magus, the proverbial "wolf in sheep's clothing", having control over Jesus the Lamb and causing him to be be crucified with him and keeping him in seclusion afterwards) and it was speaking as a dragon (becoming Pope), ^{Rev 13:12} and all the authority of the first beast does it do before it, and it makes the land and those dwelling in it that they shall bow before the first beast, whose deadly stroke was healed (Raising of Lazarus: Simon Magus), ^{Rev 13:13} and it does great signs, that fire also it may make to come down from the heaven to the earth before men, ^{Rev 13:14}and it leads astray those dwelling on the land, because of the signs that were given it to do before the beast, saying to those dwelling upon the land to make an image to the beast that has the stroke of the sword (Simon Magus as Fourth Rider wielding the sword of excommunication:death) and did live (Demetrius (tithe collector of silver coins - Simon Magus) makes silver icons of Mary Magdalene to sell upon her death.), ^{Rev 13:15} and there was given to it to give a spirit to the image of the beast, that also the image of the beast may speak (See Simon's magic in the Clementines: "I can render statues animated, so that those who see, suppose that they are men. ")

^{Rev 13:16} And it makes all, the small, and the great, and the rich, and the poor, and the freemen, and the servants, that it may give to them a mark upon their right hand or upon their foreheads, ^{Rev 13:17} and that no one may be able to buy, or to sell (Jesus only requires donations; Ananias (Simon Magus) demands tithes and is excommunicated by Peter), except he who is having the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. ^{Rev 13:18} Here is the wisdom! He who is having the understanding, let him count the number of the beast, for the number of a man it is, and its number is 666. (See Beast 666 is Simon Magus.)

Clementine Recollections R.2.7. SIMON MAGUS : HIS HISTORY. "This Simon's father was Antonius, and his mother Rachel. By nation he is a Samaritan, from a village of the Gettones; by profession a magician, yet exceedingly well trained in the Greek literature; desirous of glory, and boasting above all the human race, so that he wishes himself to be believed to be an exalted power, which is above God the Creator, and to be thought to be the Christ, and to be called the Standing One. And he uses this name as implying that he can never be dissolved, asserting that his flesh is so compacted by the power of his divinity, that it can endure to eternity. Hence, therefore, he is called the Standing One, as though he cannot fall by any corruption."

Clementine Homilies H.2.23. SIMON A DISCIPLE OF THE BAPTIST. "But that he came to deal with the doctrines of religion happened on this wise. There was one John, a day-baptist, who was also, according to the method of combination, the forerunner of our Lord Jesus; and as the Lord had twelve apostles, bearing the number of the twelve months of the sun, so also he, John, had thirty chief men, fulfilling the monthly reckoning of the moon, in which number was a certain woman called Helena, that not even this might be without a dispensational significance. For a woman, being half a man, made up the imperfect number of the triacontad; as also in the case of the moon, whose revolution does not make the complete course of the month. (Moon's phase (synodic) cycle repeats on average every 29.53 days, thus Helena was the 30th being a woman worth half of the value as a man by Jewish tradition.) (Tertullian Appendix: Triacontad of Aeons, which is made up in the Pleroma of an ogdoad, a decad, and a duodecad (8+10+12)=30) But of these thirty, the first and the most esteemed by John was Simon;"

^{Rev 08:12} And the fourth angel did sound, and smitten was the third of the sun, and the third of the moon, and the third of the stars, that darkened may be the third of them, and that the day may not shine -- the third of it, and the night in like manner.

^{Rev 08:13} And I saw, and I heard one angel, flying in the mid-heaven, saying with a great voice, 'Woe, woe, woe, to those dwelling upon the land from the rest of the voices of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound.'

(James Niceta writes:)
^{Rev 08:12} And the fourth angel (Jonathan Annas) did sound: smitten was the third of the sun - that darkened(John the Baptist imprisoned in January 30 by Herod Antipas) and the third of the moon - the day may not shine (Jonathan Annas acting in John the Baptist's place during his imprisonment reflecting the Sun's light), and the third of the stars - the night in like manner(David star: Jesus baptizing at night)

In 27 AD the fourth angel is Jonathan Annas who is aligned with John the Baptist in 28 AD (See Parable of the Good Samaritan). John the Baptist had become Pope in 26 AD. The "Sun smitten" is John the Baptist imprisoned in January 30 AD by Herod Antipas. The Moon (Jonathan Annas acting in John the Baptist's place during his imprisonment reflecting the Sun's light - See The Good Samaritan) is overpowered ("Moon" smitten) by the charisma of Simon Magus and in 31 AD (See John the Baptist is deposed "not beheaded" by Herod Antipas in September 31 AD) and then executed by Herod Agrippa, the brother of Herodias in November 31 AD. David star: Jesus baptizing at night ("Stars smitten"). ("Day may not shine") refers to Jesus following John as a "day-baptist" (Clementine Homilies H.2.23 shown previously). ("Night in a like manner") refers to the night training that Jesus also followed. (See Nicodemus-Theudas meets with Jesus at night and Secret Gospel of Mark.

Clementine Recollections R.2.8. SIMON MAGUS: HIS HISTORY "For after that John the Baptist was killed, as you yourself also know, when Dositheus had broached his heresy,'with thirty other chief disciples, and one woman, who was called Luna
(By comparison with Homilies, Luna is clearly another name for Helena.)
whence also these thirty appear to have been appointed with reference to the number of the days, according to the course of the moon this Simon, ambitious of evil glory, as we have said, goes to Dositheus, and pretending friendship, entreats him, that if any one of those thirty should die, he should straightway substitute him in room of the dead : for it was contrary to their rule either to exceed the fixed number, or to admit any one who was unknown, or not yet proved; whence also the rest, desiring to become worthy of the place and number, are eager in every way to please, according to the institutions of their sect, each one of those who aspire after admittance into the number, hoping that he may be deemed worthy to be put into the place of the deceased, when, as we have said, any one dies. Therefore Dositheus, being greatly urged by this man, introduced Simon when a vacancy occurred among the number. "

^{Rev 14:01} And I saw, and lo, a Lamb having stood upon the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty-four thousands, having the name of his Father written upon their foreheads; ^{Rev 14:02} and I heard a voice out of the heaven, as a voice of many waters, and as a voice of great thunder, and a voice I heard of harpers harping with their harps, ^{Rev 14:03} and they sing, as it were, a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures, and the elders, and no one was able to learn the song except the hundred forty-four thousands, who have been bought from the earth; ^{Rev 14:04} these are they who with women were not defiled, for they are virgin; these are they who are following the Lamb whithersoever he may go; these were bought from among men -- a first-fruit to God and to the Lamb -- ^{Rev 14:05} and in their mouth there was not found guile, for unblemished are they before the throne of God.

(John Aquila writes:)
^{Rev 14:01} And I saw, and lo, a Lamb (Jesus having been sacrificed like a Pascal lamb) having stood upon the mount Sion (the Cenacle building on Mount Zion), and with him an hundred forty-four thousands (the 10 provinces with the monastics of Asher and Dan added each having 12,000 members), having the name of his Father written upon their foreheads (symbol of the cross X, soon to be the Chi Rho ☧); ^{Rev 14:02} and I heard a voice out of the heaven (Jesus not yet in the monastery on the higher platform), as a voice of many waters (all having been baptized), and as a voice of great thunder (those in monastery are welcome), and a voice I heard of harpers harping with their harps (those in the abbey: the Psalms played by David on his harp, hymns with musical accompaniment were popularized by the Therapeuts See Adoration by the Shepherds), ^{Rev 14:03} and they sing, as it were, a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures (Lion, Calf, Man, Eagle of Ezekiel 1:10), and the elders, and no one was able to learn the song except the hundred forty-four thousands,
(Reviewing the two groups again) (1) who have been bought from the earth (from the mission of Peter, James and John where fees are paid);
^{Rev 14:04}(2) the monastics (such as John Mark, Philip, and Andrew) these are they who with women were not defiled, for they are virgin; these are they who are following the Lamb whithersoever he may go; these were bought from among men -- a first-fruit to God and to the Lamb -- ^{Rev 14:05} and in their mouth there was not found guile, for unblemished are they before the throne of God.

^{Acts 01:01} The former account, indeed, I made concerning all things, O Theophilus, that Jesus began both to do and to teach, ^{Acts 01:02} till the day in which, having given command, through the Holy Spirit, to the apostles whom he did choose out, he was taken up, ^{Acts 01:03} to whom also he did present himself alive after his suffering, in many certain proofs, through forty days being seen by them, and speaking the things concerning the reign of God.

^{Acts 01:04} And being assembled together with them, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem (Qumran), but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, [said he,] 'You did hear of me; ^{Acts 01:05} because John, indeed, baptized with water, and you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit -- after not many days.'

^{Acts 01:06} They, therefore, indeed, having come together, were questioning him, saying, 'Lord, do you at this time restore the reign to Israel?' ^{Acts 01:07} and he said unto them, 'It is not yours to know times or seasons that the Father did appoint in His own authority; ^{Acts 01:08} but you shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and you shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.'

^{Acts 01:09} And these things having said -- they beholding -- he was taken up, and a cloud did receive him up from their sight; ^{Acts 01:10} and as they were looking steadfastly to the heaven in his going on, then, lo, two men stood by them in white apparel, ^{Acts 01:11} who also said, 'Men, Galileans, why do you stand gazing into the heaven? this Jesus who was received up from you into the heaven, shall so come in what manner you saw him going on to the heaven.'

^{Acts 01:01} The former account, indeed, I made concerning all things, O Theophilus, that Jesus began both to do and to teach (the Gospel of Luke which Luke wrote also), ^{Acts 01:02} till the day in which, having given command, through the Holy Spirit, to the apostles whom he did choose out, he was taken up, ^{Acts 01:03a} to whom also he did present himself alive after his suffering, (Note that death is not mentioned) in many certain proofs, through forty days being seen by them, and speaking the things concerning the reign of God.

^{Acts 01:04} And being assembled together with them, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem (Qumran), but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, [said he,] 'You did hear of me; ^{Acts 01:05} because John, indeed, baptized with water, and you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit -- after not many days.' (Jesus, being in monastery, will act through his assigned minister, most likely John Mark)

^{Acts 01:06} They, therefore, indeed, having come together, were questioning him, saying, 'Lord, do you at this time restore the reign to Israel?'"^{Acts 01:07} and he said unto them, 'It is not yours to know times or seasons that the Father did appoint in His own authority (The predicted Restoration did not occur and it would need to be recalculated); ^{Acts 01:08} but you shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and you shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.'

^{Acts 01:09} And these things having said -- they beholding -- he was taken up, and a cloud (the priest acting as a guide like the cloud that directed Moses - Exodus 13:21) did receive him up from their sight; ^{Acts 01:10} and as they were looking steadfastly to the heaven in his going on, then, lo, two men (the second in the hierarchy: Jonathan Annas) stood by them in white apparel, ^{Acts 01:11} who also said, 'Men, Galileans, why do you stand gazing into the heaven? this Jesus who was received up from you into the heaven, shall so come in what manner you saw him going on to the heaven.' (Jesus, wearing the white robe of an Essene priest.).

^{Acts 01:12} Then did they return to Jerusalem from the mount that is called of Olives, that is near Jerusalem, a sabbath's journey; ^{Acts 01:13} and when they came in, they went up to the upper room, where were abiding both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James, of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas of James; ^{Acts 01:14} these all were continuing with one accord in prayer and supplication, with women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

^{Acts 01:15} And in these days, Peter having risen up in the midst of the disciples, said, (the multitude also of the names at the same place was, as it were, an hundred and twenty,) ^{Acts 01:16} 'Men, brethren, it behoved this Writing that it be fulfilled that beforehand the Holy Spirit spake through the mouth of David, concerning Judas, who became guide to those who took Jesus, ^{Acts 01:17} because he was numbered among us, and did receive the share in this ministration, ^{Acts 01:18} this one, indeed, then, purchased a field out of the reward of unrighteousness, and falling headlong, burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed forth, ^{Acts 01:19} and it became known to all those dwelling in Jerusalem, insomuch that that place is called, in their proper dialect, Aceldama, that is, field of blood,

^{Acts 01:20} for it has been written in the book of Psalms: "Let his lodging-place become desolate, and let no one be dwelling in it", and "his oversight let another take."

^{Acts 01:21} 'It behooves, therefore, of the men who did go with us during all the time in which the Lord Jesus went in and went out among us, ^{Acts 01:22} beginning from the baptism of John, unto the day in which he was received up from us, one of these to become with us a witness of his rising again.'

^{Acts 01:23} And they set two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias, ^{Acts 01:24} and having prayed, they said, 'You, Lord, who are knowing the heart of all, show which one you did choose of these two ^{Acts 01:25} to receive the share of this ministration and apostleship, from which Judas, by transgression, did fall, to go on to his proper place;' ^{Acts 01:26} and they gave their lots, and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

^{Acts 01:12} Then did they return to Jerusalem from the mount that is called of Olives, that is near Jerusalem, a sabbath's journey; ^{Acts 01:13} and when they came in, they went up to the upper room, where were abiding both Peter, and James (Niceta), and John (Aquila), and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew (John Mark), and Matthew Annas, James, of Alphaeus (Alphaeus is his father High Priest Annas thus Jonathan Annas), and Simon the Zealot, and Judas of James (Judas of James (Theudas - Judas Thaddaeus - Judas (brother of rather than son of) Jesus' father Joseph - first usage of thisexpression); ^{Acts 01:14} these all were continuing with one accord in prayer and supplication, with women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

^{Acts 01:15} And in these days, Peter having risen up in the midst of the disciples, said, (the multitude also of the names at the same place was, as it were, an hundred and twenty,)
Peter tells of the death of Judas Iscariot:
^{Acts 01:16} 'Men, brethren, it behoved this Writing that it be fulfilled that beforehand the Holy Spirit spake through the mouth of David, concerning Judas, who became guide to those who took Jesus, ^{Acts 01:17} because he was numbered among us, and did receive the share in this ministration, ^{Acts 01:18} this one, indeed, then, purchased a field out of the reward of unrighteousness, and falling headlong, burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed forth, ^{Acts 01:19} and it became known to all those dwelling in Jerusalem, insomuch that that place is called, in their proper dialect, Aceldama, that is, field of blood,

Although Judas Iscariot, as the third man on the cross who ridiculed Jesus, was rescued from the cross with only his legs broken and placed in the cave with Simon Magus, who also had survived, Judas was still a traitor and Simon had no intention to let him live. Theudus- Nicodemus, who had brought the potions to get rid of the poison that Jesus had taken on the cross, gave Judas a sedative and in the morning threw him over the cliff.

^{Acts 01:20a} for it has been written in the book of Psalms: "Let his lodging-place become desolate, and let no one be dwelling in it," and "his oversight let another take."

The first quote of Peter is from Psalm 69:25. Rather than just this one verse implying "Let his lodging-place become desolate, and let no one be dwelling in it," it is quite likely that Peter recited the whole of Psalm 69 since it relates to Jesus as the Messiah (though imperfect) and especially verse Psalms 69:21 "They also gave me gall for my food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink." This verse shows the poison that had been given to Jesus on the cross in exactly the same way as in the Gospels. One can surmise that when Acts was canonized, it was decided not to emphasize the fact that Jesus was poisoned on the cross as it would detract from his Messianic stature.

and ^{Acts 01:20b} "his oversight let another take."

The second quote quote of Peter is from Psalms 109:8 "His days are few, his oversight another takes"(YLT). Rather than just this one verse implying that Caiaphas would be replaced, is quite likely that Peter recited the whole of Psalm 109 since it tells of Jesus 'betrayal by more than just Judas. This needed to be swept under the rug if there was to be an peaceful coexistence with Caiaphas.

^{Acts 01:21} 'It behooves, therefore, of the men who did go with us during all the time in which the Lord Jesus went in and went out among us, ^{Acts 01:22} beginning from the baptism of John (Jesus' baptism by John, really performed by his second: Jonathan Annas), unto the day in which he was received up from us, one of these to become with us a witness of his rising again.'

It is interesting to note that the witness needed to replace Judas had to have verified "Jesus' rising again", thus his "Ascension". Since most of the disciples slept through "Jesus 'first rising", with the exception of Peter, John Mark, and Theudas, it was the women who witnessed his "Resurrection" and thus actually played a more important role. However, the concept of Twelve was an Essene principle thus men only!

^{Acts 01:23} And they set two, Joseph called Barsabas
(James having the same last name as Judas (Jude)
(in Acts 15:22 "Then pleased it the apostles and elders with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabbas and Silas (Simon), chief men among the brethren:"),
(Note how all three brothers except James are here and it parallels: The names of Jesus 'brothers
and thus clearly a family name for their father Joseph, thus James the younger brother of Jesus),
who was surnamed Justus, (term for the crown prince)
and Matthias. (The Clementines say that Matthias is Barnabas and Barnabas is Joses the second brother of Jesus (Acts 4:36).

^{Acts 01:24} and having prayed, they said, 'You, Lord, who are knowing the heart of all, show which one you did choose of these two ^{Acts 01:25} to receive the share of this ministration and apostleship, from which Judas, by transgression, did fall, to go on to his proper place;' ^{Acts 01:26} and they gave their lots, and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

The decision was then was between the two brothers of Jesus, but James (age 32), although the crown prince, is a Jewish Christian and was with Judas at the arrest in the Garden. However, James had relented when Jesus was crucified (apparently he never expected Jesus to be on the cross as he was not privy to the decision to substitute Jesus for Theudas-Barabbas) and helped by asking Pilate if Jesus could be removed from the cross in time to be revived in the cave. There his name is shown using his real name Joseph with "of Arimathea" to show his reconciliation with Jesus. He would be the other person on the Road to Emmaus with his uncle Cleopas.

^{Acts 03:01} And Peter and John were going up at the same time to the temple, at the hour of the prayer, the ninth [hour], ^{Acts 03:02} and a certain man, being lame from the womb of his mother, was being carried, whom they were laying every day at the gate of the temple, called Beautiful, to ask a kindness from those entering into the temple, ^{Acts 03:03} who, having seen Peter and John about to go into the temple, was begging to receive a kindness.

^{Acts 03:04} And Peter, having looked steadfastly toward him with John, said, 'Look toward us;' ^{Acts 03:05} and he was giving heed to them, looking to receive something from them; ^{Acts 03:06} and Peter said, 'Silver and gold I have none, but what I have, that I give to you; in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and be walking.'

^{Acts 03:07} And having seized him by the right hand, he raised [him] up, and presently his feet and ankles were strengthened, ^{Acts 03:08} and springing up, he stood, and was walking, and did enter with them into the temple, walking and springing, and praising God; ^{Acts 03:09} and all the people saw him walking and praising God, ^{Acts 03:10} they were knowing him also that this it was who for a kindness was sitting at the Beautiful gate of the temple, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what has happened to him.

^{Acts 04:22} for above forty years of age was the man upon whom had been done this sign of the healing.

^{Acts 03:01} And Peter and John were going up at the same time to the temple, at the hour of the prayer, the ninth [hour],

John is John Mark (not John the brother of James). The two leaders of the Church were: Peter the leader of the abbey and John Mark the leader of the monastery. They both had run up to the tomb to see if Jesus had risen and brought him down out of the tomb.

^{Acts 03:02} and a certain man, being lame from the womb of his mother, was being carried, whom they were laying every day at the gate of the temple, called Beautiful, to ask a kindness from those entering into the temple, ^{Acts 03:03} who, having seen Peter and John about to go into the temple, was begging to receive a kindness.

Beautiful gate is the name of the gate of the temple which led from the court of the Gentiles to the court of the women. It was of massive structure, and covered with plates of Corinthian brass.

^{Acts 03:04} And Peter, having looked steadfastly toward him with John, said, 'Look toward us;' ^{Acts 03:05} and he was giving heed to them, looking to receive something from them; ^{Acts 03:06} and Peter said, 'Silver and gold I have none, but what I have, that I give to you; in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and be walking.'

^{Acts 03:07} And having seized him by the right hand, he raised [him] up, and presently his feet and ankles were strengthened, ^{Acts 03:08} and springing up, he stood, and was walking, and did enter with them into the temple, walking and springing, and praising God; ^{Acts 03:09} and all the people saw him walking and praising God, ^{Acts 03:10} they were knowing him also that this it was who for a kindness was sitting at the Beautiful gate of the temple, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what has happened to him.

Although James had reconciled with his brother Jesus (See Resurrection: Road to Emmaus appearance, his rejection as the replacement for Judas Iscariot had left him as a "lame man". Luke was following the plan of the Gospel of Luke, which he had written with Jesus, by pretending that issues of doctrine change would be presented as healings. The significance of gold and silver is to show that Peter is not offering James a position of leadership, but is willing to accept him into his Mission. James accepts this offer and eventually James will later become the Bishop of Jerusalem. (See Peter heals Aeneas (James) and makes James bishop of Jerusalem in 40 AD.)

^{Acts 04:22} for above forty years of age was the man upon whom had been done this sign of the healing.

This verse shows that the forty year prediction of the Crossing of the River Jordan into the Promised Land according to the Therapeuts had not come and would have to be recalculated. Jesus had already healed James before as the Impotent Man at the Pool of Bethesda . Then he had two years yet to go for 40 year prediction, now it had not come to pass with the updated prediction being 46 BC to be the age of Wrath 6AD+40. (See the Abortive crossing of the Jordan River by Theudas 44 AD thus two years prior when the Israelites started towards Jordan.) Here he is lame, thus accepted into Jesus' Church, whereas when impotent before, he had no standing, but in both cases, he needed to be carried (ridiculing him for his religiousness that requires him to be carried in a palanquin (royal stretcher) so as not to touch the ground contaminated by the Gentiles.) Peter was honoring Jesus' action of accepting James into the Church.

^{Acts 03:11} And at the lame man who was healed holding Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch called Solomon's -- greatly amazed, ^{Acts 03:12} and Peter having seen, answered unto the people, 'Men, Israelites! why wonder you at this? or on us why look you so earnestly, as if by our own power or piety we have made him to walk?

^{Acts 03:13} 'The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, did glorify His child Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, he having given judgment to release [him], ^{Acts 03:14} and you the Holy and Righteous One did deny, and desired a man -- a murderer -- to be granted to you, ^{Acts 03:15} and the Prince of the life you did kill, whom God did raise out of the dead, of which we are witnesses; ^{Acts 03:16} and on the faith of his name, this one whom you see and have known, his name made strong, even the faith that [is] through him did give to him this perfect soundness before you all.

^{Acts 03:17} 'And now, brethren, I have known that through ignorance you did [it], as also your rulers; ^{Acts 03:18} and God, what things before He had declared through the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ should suffer, He did thus fulfill; ^{Acts 03:19} reform you, therefore, and turn back, for your sins being blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, ^{Acts 03:20} and He may send Jesus Christ who before has been preached to you, ^{Acts 03:21} whom it behooves heaven, indeed, to receive till times of a Restitution of all things, of which God spake through the mouth of all His holy prophets from the age.

^{Acts 03:22} 'For Moses, indeed, unto the fathers said -- A prophet to you shall the Lord your God raise up out of your brethren, like to me; him shall you hear in all things, as many as he may speak unto you; ^{Acts 03:23} and it shall be, every soul that may not hear that prophet shall be utterly destroyed out of the people; ^{Acts 03:24} and also all the prophets from Samuel and those following in order, as many as spake, did also foretell of these days.

^{Acts 03:25} 'You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant that God made unto our fathers, saying unto Abraham: And in your seed shall be blessed all the families of the earth; ^{Acts 03:26} to you first, God, having raised up His child Jesus, did send him, blessing you, in the turning away of each one from your evil ways.'

^{Acts 03:11} And at the lame man who was healed holding Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch called Solomon's -- greatly amazed, ^{Acts 03:12} and Peter having seen, answered unto the people, 'Men, Israelites! why wonder you at this? or on us why look you so earnestly, as if by our own power or piety we have made him to walk?

Peter give a speech at Solomon's Porch, which consisted of a cloister on the eastern side of the temple, and was traditional used as a place where doctors of the law met to hear and answer questions.

^{Acts 04:22} for above forty years of age was the man upon whom had been done this sign of the healing.

James was believing in the forty year Restoration, but it was overdue.

^{Acts 03:13} 'The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, did glorify His child Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, he having given judgment to release [him], ^{Acts 03:14} and you the Holy and Righteous One did deny, and desired a man -- a murderer -- to be granted to you,

Peter speaks there and sets the blame for Jesus' Crucifixion squarely on the ones who traded Jesus for Theudas, who was guilty of treason against Rome along with Simon Magus and Judas.

^{Acts 03:15} and the Prince of the life you did kill, whom God (Jonathan Annas) did raise out of the dead, of which we are witnesses;

The hidden meaning of this statement is that Jonathan Annas, a Sadducee being called "God", had raised Jesus from exclusion to a status acceptable for reentry back into the monastery that he had left three years prior for the purpose of conceiving a child.

^{Acts 03:16} and on the faith of his name, this one whom you see and have known, his name made strong, even the faith that [is] through him did give to him this perfect soundness before you all.

Jesus was called the Word in the Gospel of John. Peter is using the concept of Simon Magus that "Name" is the passive form of the "Word" and thus Jesus in the monastery will now act as a passive force in the mission.

^{Acts 03:17} 'And now, brethren, I have known that through ignorance you did [it], as also your rulers; ^{Acts 03:18} and God, what things before He had declared through the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ should suffer, He did thus fulfill; ^{Acts 03:19} reform you, therefore, and turn back, for your sins being blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, ^{Acts 03:20} and He may send Jesus Christ who before has been preached to you, ^{Acts 03:21} whom it behooves heaven, indeed, to receive till times of a restitution of all things, of which God spake through the mouth of all His holy prophets from the age.

Here Peter expresses the hope that God will bring the Restoration in three more years and that Jesus, who is in heaven (the monastery), will return three years from the birth of his daughter to coincide with that event. (Jesus is allowed to try to for a child three years after the birth of a daughter or six years after the birth of a son.) In this way Peter is showing that Jesus 'first child is a girl born in 33 AD and that Jesus will return in 36 AD to try for a son.

^{Acts 03:22} 'For Moses, indeed, unto the fathers said -- A prophet to you shall the Lord your God raise up out of your brethren, like to me; him shall you hear in all things, as many as he may speak unto you;

Peter is quoting from Deuteronomy 18:18 and implying that Jesus is that person who was promised.

^{Acts 03:23} and it shall be, every soul that may not hear that prophet shall be utterly destroyed out of the people; ^{Acts 03:24} and also all the prophets from Samuel and those following in order, as many as spake, did also foretell of these days.

^{Acts 03:25} 'You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant that God made unto our fathers, saying unto Abraham: And in your seed shall be blessed all the families of the earth; ^{Acts 03:26} to you first, God, having raised up His child Jesus, did send him, blessing you, in the turning away of each one from your evil ways.'

In quoting from Genesis 22:15-18, Peter is comparing Jesus' experience on the cross to Abraham's sacrifice of his son Isaac. In both cases Jesus and Isaac were allowed to remain alive as a test of their commitment to God. In return God promises that all the Jews would be blessed.

^{Acts 04:01} And as they are speaking unto the people, there came to them the priests, and the magistrate of the temple, and the Sadducees -- ^{Acts 04:02} being grieved because of their teaching the people, and preaching in Jesus the rising again out of the dead -- ^{Acts 04:03} and they laid hands upon them, and did put them in custody unto the morrow, for it was evening already; ^{Acts 04:04} and many of those hearing the word did believe, and the number of the men became, as it were, five thousand.

^{Acts 04:01} And as they are speaking unto the people, there came to them the priests, and the magistrate of the temple, and the Sadducees -- ^{Acts 04:02} being grieved because of their teaching the people, and preaching in Jesus the rising again out of the dead --

Caiaphas was still High Priest and Annas his father-in-law opposed Jesus at his trial and we not going to allow Peter to tell people that Jesus would rise again.

^{Acts 04:03} and they laid hands upon them, and did put them in custody unto the morrow, for it was evening already; ^{Acts 04:04} and many of those hearing the word did believe, and the number of the men became, as it were, five thousand.

Five thousand is a reference to Feeding the 5000 which created a Mission group made up of married men who could advance to the level of priests. This is something that Peter himself would accomplish. John the brother of James was the head of this mission as he was John Aquila married to Priscilla.

^{Acts 04:05} And it came to pass upon the morrow, there were gathered together of them the rulers, and elders, and scribes, to Jerusalem, ^{Acts 04:06} and Annas the chief priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the chief priest, ^{Acts 04:07} and having set them in the midst, they were inquiring, 'In what power, or in what name did you do this?'

^{Acts 04:08} Then Peter, having been filled with the Holy Spirit, said unto them: 'Rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, ^{Acts 04:09} if we to-day are examined concerning the good deed to the ailing man, by whom he has been saved, ^{Acts 04:10} be it known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you did crucify, whom God did raise out of the dead, in him has this one stood by before you whole.

^{Acts 04:11} 'This is the stone that was set at nought by you -- the builders, that became head of a corner; ^{Acts 04:12} and there is not salvation in any other, for there is no other name under the heaven that has been given among men, in which it behooves us to be saved.'

^{Acts 04:13} And beholding the openness of Peter and John, and having perceived that they are men unlettered and plebeian, they were wondering -- they were taking knowledge also of them that with Jesus they had been -- ^{Acts 04:14} and seeing the man standing with them who has been healed, they had nothing to say against [it], ^{Acts 04:15} and having commanded them to go away out of the Sanhedrin, they took counsel with one another, ^{Acts 04:16} saying, 'What shall we do to these men? because that, indeed, a notable sign has been done through them, to all those dwelling in Jerusalem [is] manifest, and we are not able to deny [it]; ^{Acts 04:17} but that it may spread no further toward the people, let us strictly threaten them no more to speak in this name to any man.'

^{Acts 04:18} And having called them, they charged them not to speak at all, nor to teach, in the name of Jesus, ^{Acts 04:19} and Peter and John answering unto them said, 'Whether it is righteous before God to hearken to you rather than to God, judge you; ^{Acts 04:20} for we cannot but speak what we did see and hear.'

^{Acts 04:21} And they having further threatened [them], let them go, finding nothing how they may punish them, because of the people, because all were glorifying God for that which has been done, ^{Acts 04:22} for above forty years of age was the man upon whom had been done this sign of the healing.

^{Acts 04:05} And it came to pass upon the morrow, there were gathered together of them the rulers, and elders, and scribes, ^{Acts 04:06} and Annas the chief priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the chief priest,

Luke makes the same error he did in Luke 03:02 when calls Annas the High Priest. Although Caiaphas is technically High Priest, he is married to the daughter of Annas, so Annas is still in joint control, having also been the previous High Priest. John is Jonathan Annas and Alexander is Theudas (this name was used for him as Alexander the son of Simon of Cyrene because the Therapeuts had their center in Alexandria.
It was therefore two against two in this decision: Annas, the previous High Priest, and Caiaphas, the High Priest, against Peter and John Mark and Jonathan Annas. the superior of Jesus, and Theudas, the leader of the Therapeuts for Peter and John.

^{Acts 04:08} Then Peter, having been filled with the Holy Spirit, said unto them: 'Rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, ^{Acts 04:09} if we to-day are examined concerning the good deed to the ailing man, by whom he has been saved, ^{Acts 04:10} be it known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you did crucify, whom God did raise out of the dead, in him has this one stood by before you whole.

^{Acts 04:11} 'This is the stone that was set at nought by you -- the builders, that became head of a corner;

This quote is from Psalm 118 which is used as a justification for Jesus being the Messiah (being third in the hierarchy on the right hand of God who is in the the center position while on the left hand is his levite). Jesus used this phrase in his parable The Vineyard - History of the Mission from the Pentecost to 62AD. ^{Acts 04:12} and there is not salvation in any other, for there is no other name under the heaven that has been given among men, in which it behooves us to be saved.'

^{Acts 04:13} And beholding the openness of Peter and John, and having perceived that they are men unlettered and plebeian, they were wondering -- they were taking knowledge also of them that with Jesus they had been -- ^{Acts 04:14} and seeing the man standing with them who has been healed, they had nothing to say against it, ^{Acts 04:15} and having commanded them to go away out of the Sanhedrin, they took counsel with one another, ^{Acts 04:16} saying, 'What shall we do to these men? because that, indeed, a notable sign has been done through them, to all those dwelling in Jerusalem is manifest, and we are not able to deny it; ^{Acts 04:17} but that it may spread no further toward the people, let us strictly threaten them no more to speak in this name to any man.'

^{Acts 04:18} And having called them, they charged them not to speak at all, nor to teach, in the name of Jesus, ^{Acts 04:19} and Peter and John answering unto them said, 'Whether it is righteous before God to hearken to you rather than to God, judge you; ^{Acts 04:20} for we cannot but speak what we did see and hear.'

^{Acts 04:21} And they having further threatened them, let them go, finding nothing how they may punish them, because of the people, because all were glorifying God for that which has been done,

Annas and Caiaphas had manipulated James by promising to replace Jesus with him, but now he was against them because they tried to kill his brother, Jesus.
With Jesus having gone back to the monastery they had hoped that there would be no more trouble. Annas and Caiaphas having seen their attempt to kill Jesus had only made him more powerful, decided to let Peter and John Mark go with a warning not to speak or teach about Jesus, which they ignored.

^{Acts 04:23} And being let go, they went unto their own friends, and declared whatever the chief priests and the elders said unto them, ^{Acts 04:24} and they having heard, with one accord did lift up the voice unto God, and said, 'Lord, you [art] God, who did make the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all that [are] in them, ^{Acts 04:25} who, through the mouth of David your servant, did say, Why did nations rage, and peoples meditate vain things? ^{Acts 04:26} the kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against His Christ; ^{Acts 04:27} for gathered together of a truth against Your holy child Jesus, whom You did anoint, were both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with nations and peoples of Israel, ^{Acts 04:28} to do whatever Your hand and Your counsel did determine before to come to pass.

^{Acts 04:29} 'And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings, and grant to Your servants with all freedom to speak Your word, ^{Acts 04:30} in the stretching forth of Your hand, for healing, and signs, and wonders, to come to pass through the name of Your holy child Jesus.'

^{Acts 04:31} And they having prayed, the place was shaken in which they were gathered together, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and were speaking the word of God with freedom,

^{Acts 04:23} And being let go, they went unto their own friends, and declared whatever the chief priests and the elders said unto them, ^{Acts 04:24} and they having heard, with one accord did lift up the voice unto God, and said, 'Lord, you art God, who did make the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all that [are] in them, ^{Acts 04:25} who, through the mouth of David your servant, did say, Why did nations rage, and peoples meditate vain things? ^{Acts 04:26} the kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against His Christ;

This is an excerpt from Psalm 2 of David:
Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain?
The kings of the earth rise up and the rulers band together
Against the Lord and against his anointed,
the rest is even as important an they must have sung the whole Psalm:
The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord scoffs at them.
He rebukes them in his anger and terrifies them in his wrath, saying,
"I have installed my king on Zion, my holy mountain."
I will proclaim the Lord’s decree:
He said to me, "You are my son; today I have become your father.
Ask me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession.
You will break them with a rod of iron; you will dash them to pieces like pottery."
Therefore, you kings, be wise; be warned, you rulers of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear and celebrate his rule with trembling.
Kiss his son, or he will be angry and your way will lead to your destruction, for his wrath can flare up in a moment.
Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

^{Acts 04:27} for gathered together of a truth against Your holy child Jesus, whom You did anoint, were both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with nations and peoples of Israel, ^{Acts 04:28} to do whatever Your hand and Your counsel did determine before to come to pass.

^{Acts 04:29} 'And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings, and grant to Your servants with all freedom to speak Your word, ^{Acts 04:30} in the stretching forth of Your hand, for healing, and signs, and wonders, to come to pass through the name of Your holy child Jesus.'

^{Acts 04:31} And they having prayed, the place was shaken in which they were gathered together, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and were speaking the word of God with freedom,

^{Rev 09:01} And the fifth angel did sound, and I saw a star out of the heaven having fallen to the earth, and there was given to it the key of the pit of the abyss,

^{Rev 09:02} and he did open the pit of the abyss, and there came up a smoke out of the pit as smoke of a great furnace, and darkened was the sun and the air, from the smoke of the pit.

^{Rev 09:03} And out of the smoke came forth locusts to the earth, and there was given to them authority, as scorpions of the earth have authority,

^{Rev 09:04} and it was said to them that they may not injure the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but -- the men only who have not the seal of God upon their foreheads,

^{Rev 09:05} and it was given to them that they may not kill them, but that they may be tormented five months, and their torment [is] as the torment of a scorpion, when it may strike a man; ^{Rev 09:06} and in those days shall men seek the death, and they shall not find it, and they shall desire to die, and the death shall flee from them.

^{Rev 09:07} And the likenesses of the locusts [are] like to horses made ready to battle, and upon their heads as crowns like gold, and their faces as faces of men, ^{Rev 09:08} and they had hair as hair of women, and their teeth were as [those] of lions, ^{Rev 09:09} and they had breastplates as breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings [is] as the noise of chariots of many horses running to battle; ^{Rev 09:10} and they have tails like to scorpions, and stings were in their tails; and their authority [is] to injure men five months;

^{Rev 09:11} and they have over them a king -- the angel of the abyss -- a name [is] to him in Hebrew, Abaddon, and in the Greek he has a name, Apollyon.

(James Niceta writes:)
^{Rev 09:01} And the fifth angel did sound, and I saw a star out of the heaven having fallen to the earth, and there was given to it the key of the pit of the abyss,

In 34 AD the Fifth Angel is Theophilus Annas (High Priest 37- 41 AD) . His older brother Jonathan Annas (High Priest 36-37) was discredited (See The Stoning of Stephen). Jesus (the Star fallen from Heaven) now has the keys to the pit - his Resurrection.

^{Rev 09:02} and he did open the pit of the abyss, and there came up a smoke out of the pit as smoke of a great furnace, and darkened was the sun and the air, from the smoke of the pit.

The magician's smoke (the lie about the Resurrection) allows Simon Magus (a Magus (magi) and an expert in magic to attract followers), to take over John the Baptist's position as Pope. (See the Clementine books of Pope Clement).

^{Rev 09:03} And out of the smoke came forth locusts to the earth, and there was given to them authority, as scorpions of the earth have authority,

The symbol of locusts is related to John the Baptist who originally lived on locusts in the wilderness of Mird as a Nazarite. A scorpion is synonymous with the Eagle, one of the four living creatures of Ezekiel that represent the mission: Eagle is Rome, Calf is Antioch, Lion is Alexandria, Man is Babylon. Thus Simon Magus, as Pope in John the Baptist's place, controls the western part of the mission.

^{Rev 09:04} and it was said to them that they may not injure the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but -- the men only who have not the seal of God upon their foreheads,

Simon accepts the Gentiles (the green grass symbol comes from "Jesus commanding the multitudes to recline upon the grass - See Feeding of the 5,000). Simon's symbol is the 'X' represents entry into the Church.

^{Rev 09:05} and it was given to them that they may not kill them, but that they may be tormented five months, and their torment is as the torment of a scorpion, when it may strike a man; ^{Rev 09:06} and in those days shall men seek the death, and they shall not find it, and they shall desire to die, and the death shall flee from them. ^{Rev 09:10} and they have tails like to scorpions, and stings were in their tails; and their authority is to injure men five months;

The period of initiation is for five months and requires death to the world (the scorpion's sting).

^{Rev 09:07} And the likenesses of the locusts are like to horses made ready to battle, and upon their heads as crowns like gold, and their faces as faces of men,

The disciples go out as living on locusts as John the Baptist, thus without 'scrip, bread, money, but shod with sandals, one coat, and on foot without a staff, relying on people's hospitality. (See Jesus sends out the twelve.) The horses are the priests on horseback as were the four horsemen of the Apocalyse in Revelation 6 who brought the four Gospels to the world. Their gold crowns symbolize authority, specifically Jonathan Annas also called Stephen (stephanos is Greek for crown).

Here are the symbols of Ezekiel: a Man, but with the hair of a women meaning that they are to exercise the compassion of females (women's hair). This is especially important since women were their best converts with the husband following after (i.e. Constantine of the Romans and Colvis of the Gauls). They are to have the courage of a Lion while being protected with a breastplate of iron representing the Ox and their wings are like Eagles. The chariot represents the many directions of the mission that are laid out as spokes on a wheel with these symbols a the four directions.

^{Rev 09:11} and they have over them a king -- the angel of the abyss -- a name is to him in Hebrew, Abaddon, and in the Greek he has a name, Apollyon.

Jesus is their King Abaddon, the angel who returned from death (the abyss) alive.

^{Acts 02:01} And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place, ^{Acts 02:02} and there came suddenly out of the heaven a sound as of a bearing violent breath, and it filled all the house where they were sitting, ^{Acts 02:03} and there appeared to them divided tongues, as it were of fire; it sat also upon each one of them, ^{Acts 02:04} and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, according as the Spirit was giving them to declare.

^{Acts 02:05} And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation of those under the heaven, ^{Acts 02:06} and the rumor of this having come, the multitude came together, and was confounded, because they were each one hearing them speaking in his proper dialect, ^{Acts 02:07} and they were all amazed, and did wonder, saying one unto another, 'Lo, are not all these who are speaking Galileans? ^{Acts 02:08} and how do we hear, each in our proper dialect, in which we were born? ^{Acts 02:09} Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and those dwelling in Mesopotamia, in Judea also, and Cappadocia, Pontus, and Asia, ^{Acts 02:10} Phrygia also, and Pamphylia, Egypt, and the parts of Libya, that [are] along Cyrene, and the strangers of Rome, both Jews and proselytes, ^{Acts 02:11} Cretes and Arabians, we did hear them speaking in our tongues the great things of God.'

^{Acts 02:12} And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one unto another, 'What would this wish to be?'

^{Acts 02:01} And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place, ^{Acts 02:02} and there came suddenly out of the heaven a sound as of a bearing violent breath, and it filled all the house where they were sitting, ^{Acts 02:03} and there appeared to them divided tongues, as it were of fire; it sat also upon each one of them, ^{Acts 02:04} and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, according as the Spirit was giving them to declare.

^{Acts 02:05} And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation of those under the heaven, ^{Acts 02:06} and the rumor of this having come, the multitude came together, and was confounded, because they were each one hearing them speaking in his proper dialect, ^{Acts 02:07} and they were all amazed, and did wonder, saying one unto another, 'Lo, are not all these who are speaking Galileans? ^{Acts 02:08} and how do we hear, each in our proper dialect, in which we were born? ^{Acts 02:09} Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and those dwelling in Mesopotamia, in Judea also, and Cappadocia, Pontus, and Asia, ^{Acts 02:10} Phrygia also, and Pamphylia, Egypt, and the parts of Libya, that [are] along Cyrene, and the strangers of Rome, both Jews and proselytes, ^{Acts 02:11} Cretes and Arabians, we did hear them speaking in our tongues the great things of God.'

^{Acts 02:12} And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one unto another, 'What would this wish to be?'

The Pentecost gathering has been traditionally thought to have occurred right after the "Resurrection" in 33 AD, but is more likely to have occurred at Pentecost in the next year 34 AD because this corresponds to start of Age 9 which was to be the Restoration of the Priests and line of David Kings (See Qumran World Ages). Logically, it would have taken a year to notify all the representatives of the Mission in foreign lands to arrange travel to Jerusalem. Clearly, the year 34 AD would have been the perfect time to reorganize the World Mission to recognize Jesus as the David King. Since Jesus would not be present (assumed to have died and gone to Heaven), he would direct the Mission through his representatives who would be acting in the role of the Holy Spirit (thus the importance of the Holy Spirit at this event.)

The World Mission could be laid out in a circle as Dr. Barbara Thiering has done:

^{Acts 02:13} and others mocking said, -- 'They are full of new wine;' ^{Acts 02:14} and Peter having stood up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and declared to them, 'Men, Jews! and all those dwelling in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and harken to my sayings, ^{Acts 02:15} for these are not drunken, as you take it up, for it is the third hour of the day.

^{Acts 02:16} 'But this is that which has been spoken through the prophet Joel: ^{Acts 02:17} And it shall be in the last days, said God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; ^{Acts 02:18} and also upon My men-servants, and upon My maid-servants, in those days, I will pour out of My Spirit, and they shall prophesy; ^{Acts 02:19} and I will give wonders in the heaven above, and signs upon the earth beneath -- blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke, ^{Acts 02:20} the sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the day of the Lord -- the great and illustrious; ^{Acts 02:21} and it shall be, every one -- whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved.

^{Acts 02:22} 'Men, Israelites! hear these words, Jesus the Nazarene, a man approved of God among you by mighty works, and wonders, and signs, that God did through him in the midst of you, according as also you yourselves have known; ^{Acts 02:23} this one, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, being given out, having taken by lawless hands, having crucified -- you did slay; ^{Acts 02:24} whom God did raise up, having loosed the pains of the death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it, ^{Acts 02:25} for David said in regard to him: I foresaw the Lord always before me -- because He is on my right hand -- that I may not be moved; ^{Acts 02:26} because of this was my heart cheered, and my tongue was glad, and yet -- my flesh also shall rest on hope, ^{Acts 02:27} because You will not leave my soul to Hades, nor will You give Your Kind One to see corruption; ^{Acts 02:28} You did make known to me ways of life, You shall fill me with joy with Your countenance.

^{Acts 02:29} 'Men, brethren! it is permitted to speak with freedom unto you concerning the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is among us unto this day; ^{Acts 02:30} a prophet, therefore, being, and knowing that with an oath God did swear to him, out of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, to raise up the Christ, to sit upon his throne, ^{Acts 02:31} having foreseen, he did speak concerning the rising again of the Christ, that his soul was not left to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.

^{Acts 02:32} 'This Jesus did God raise up, of which we are all witnesses; ^{Acts 02:33} at the right hand then of God having been exalted -- also the promise of the Holy Spirit having received from the Father -- he was shedding forth this, which now you see and hear; ^{Acts 02:34} for David did not go up to the heavens, and he said himself: The Lord said to my lord, Sit you at my right hand, ^{Acts 02:35} till I make your foes your footstool; ^{Acts 02:36} assuredly, therefore, let all the house of Israel know, that both Lord and Christ did God make him -- this Jesus whom you did crucify.'

^{Acts 02:13} and others mocking said, -- 'They are full of new wine;' ^{Acts 02:14}

And Peter having stood up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and declared to them, 'Men, Jews! and all those dwelling in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and harken to my sayings, ^{Acts 02:15} for these are not drunken, as you take it up, for it is the third hour of the day.

The monastics were ridiculing the Diaspora because they were using fermented wine at the ceremony, whereas the monastics use new wine (unfermented wine). They also perform the ceremony at different times. These comments indicate that this gathering was not the the meeting of firm believers of Jesus' resurrection, but rather followers of a modified Judaism practiced by the Therapeuts in Diaspora.

^{Acts 02:16} 'But this is that which has been spoken through the prophet Joel (Joel chapter 2 begins quote by Peter to justify Jesus):
^{Acts 02:17} And it shall be in the last days, said God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; ^{Acts 02:18} and also upon My men-servants, and upon My maid-servants, in those days, I will pour out of My Spirit, and they shall prophesy; ^{Acts 02:19} and I will give wonders in the heaven above, and signs upon the earth beneath (similar to Moses)-- blood (the Nile turning red as blood equals Jesus blood at the Crucifixion), and fire and vapor of smoke (the pillar of fire and cloud that protected them and hid them from the Pharaoh equals the success of saving Jesus from Pilate with the poison and 'smoke and mirrors', but secret to the crowd), ^{Acts 02:20} the sun shall be turned to darkness (the hour of darkness at the Crucifixion), and the moon to blood (the partial lunar eclipse at dawn), before the coming of the day of the Lord -- the great and illustrious; ^{Acts 02:21} and it shall be, every one -- whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved. (end quote by Peter)

^{Acts 02:22} 'Men, Israelites! hear these words, Jesus the Nazarene, a man approved of God among you by mighty works, and wonders, and signs, that God did through him in the midst of you, according as also you yourselves have known; ^{Acts 02:23} this one, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, being given out, having taken by lawless hands, having crucified -- you did slay; ^{Acts 02:24} whom God did raise up, having loosed the pains of the death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it,

^{Acts 02:25}
For David said in regard to him (Psalm 16:8-11 begin quote by Peter):
I foresaw the Lord always before me -- because He is on my right hand -- that I may not be moved; ^{Acts 02:26} because of this was my heart cheered, and my tongue was glad, and yet -- my flesh also shall rest on hope, ^{Acts 02:27} because You will not leave my (spirit) soul to Hades, nor will You give your (eternal) soul to see decay; ^{Acts 02:28} You did make known to me ways of life, You shall fill me with joy with Your countenance. (End quote by Peter. Missing is the last line: "with eternal pleasures at your right hand")

^{Acts 02:29} 'Men, brethren! it is permitted to speak with freedom unto you concerning the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is among us unto this day; ^{Acts 02:30} a prophet, therefore, being, and knowing that with an oath God did swear to him, out of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, to raise up the Christ, to sit upon his throne, ^{Acts 02:31} having foreseen, he did speak concerning the rising again of the Christ, that his soul was not left to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.

From the quote from Psalms (above) Peter confirms the Resurrection and the Ascension by saying that David, when he wrote it, had prophesied that his ancestor Jesus would escape the after-life and rise up to Heaven.

^{Acts 02:32} 'This Jesus did God raise up, of which we are all witnesses; ^{Acts 02:33} at the right hand then of God having been exalted -- also the promise of the Holy Spirit having received from the Father -- he was shedding forth this, which now you see and hear; ^{Acts 02:34}

for David did not go up to the heavens, and he said himself (Psalm 101:1 Begin quote):
The Lord said to my lord, Sit you at my right hand, ^{Acts 02:35} till I make your foes your footstool; (End quote)

^{Acts 02:36} assuredly, therefore, let all the house of Israel know, that both Lord and Christ did God make him -- this Jesus whom you did crucify.'

Peter has given and amazingly studied speech. It would appear that "Lord" is a substitution for David King because "King" would be objected to by the Roman Emperor. As to proof of Jesus being the "Christ", it is proved by Peter's quotes, although there more convincing quotes that Peter could have chosen. None of the other eleven disciples are shown to have spoken which shows that Peter is now the leader.

^{Acts 02:37} And having heard, they were pricked to the heart; they say also to Peter, and to the rest of the apostles, 'What shall we do, men, brethren?' ^{Acts 02:38} and Peter said unto them, 'Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, ^{Acts 02:39} for to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.'

^{Acts 02:40} Also with many more other words he was testifying and exhorting, saying, 'Be saved from this perverse generation;' ^{Acts 02:41} then those, indeed, who did gladly receive his word were baptized, and there were added on that day, as it were, three thousand souls, ^{Acts 02:42} and they were continuing steadfastly in the teaching of the apostles, and the fellowship, and the breaking of the bread, and the prayers.

^{Acts 02:37} And having heard, they were pricked to the heart; they say also to Peter, and to the rest of the apostles, 'What shall we do, men, brethren?' ^{Acts 02:38} and Peter said unto them, 'Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, ^{Acts 02:39} for to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.'

^{Acts 02:40} Also with many more other words he was testifying and exhorting, saying, 'Be saved from this perverse generation;' ^{Acts 02:41} then those, indeed, who did gladly receive his word were baptized, and there were added on that day, as it were, three thousand souls, ^{Acts 02:42} and they were continuing steadfastly in the teaching of the apostles, and the fellowship, and the breaking of the bread, and the prayers.

Continuing Baptism as John the Baptist did, but this time in the name of Jesus Christ. This is part of the attempt of the disciples to convince the group to accept the precepts of Jesus, namely a modified Essene structure.

^{Acts 02:43} And fear came on every soul, many wonders also and signs were being done through the apostles, ^{Acts 02:44} and all those believing were at the same place, and had all things common, ^{Acts 02:45} and the possessions and the goods they were selling, and were parting them to all, according as any one had need.

^{Acts 02:46} Daily also continuing with one accord in the temple, breaking also at every house bread, they were partaking of food in gladness and simplicity of heart, ^{Acts 02:47} praising God, and having favor with all the people, and the Lord was adding those being saved every day to the assembly.

^{Acts 04:32} and of the multitude of those who did believe the heart and the soul was one, and not one was saying that anything of the things he had was his own, but all things were to them in common.

^{Acts 04:33} And with great power were the apostles giving the testimony to the rising again of the Lord Jesus, great grace also was on them all, ^{Acts 04:34} for there was not any one among them who did lack, for as many as were possessors of fields, or houses, selling [them], were bringing the prices of the thing sold, ^{Acts 04:35} and were laying them at the feet of the apostles, and distribution was being made to each according as any one had need.

^{Acts 02:43} And fear came on every soul, many wonders also and signs were being done through the apostles, ^{Acts 02:44} and all those believing were at the same place, and had all things common, ^{Acts 02:45} and the possessions and the goods they were selling, and were parting them to all, according as any one had need.

^{Acts 02:46} Daily also continuing with one accord in the temple, breaking also at every house bread, they were partaking of food in gladness and simplicity of heart, ^{Acts 02:47} praising God, and having favor with all the people, and the Lord was adding those being saved every day to the assembly.

^{Acts 04:32} and of the multitude of those who did believe the heart and the soul was one, and not one was saying that anything of the things he had was his own, but all things were to them in common.

^{Acts 04:33} And with great power (Simon Magus again in charge) were the apostles giving the testimony to the rising again of the Lord Jesus, great grace (John Mark bishop) also was on them all, ^{Acts 04:34} for there was not any one among them who did lack, for as many as were possessors of fields, or houses, selling [them], were bringing the prices of the thing sold, ^{Acts 04:35} and were laying them at the feet of the apostles, and distribution was being made to each according as any one had need.

After sufficient time for study and practice, those who gained full membership could participate at the holy supper. Then all their property would be given up to share to all in common as was done in the Essene monastery.

EVERY GOOD MAN IS FREE (THE ESSENES) by Philo Judaeus of Alexandria (c. 20 BC – c. 50 AD)

Moreover Palestine and Syria too are not barren of exemplary wisdom and virtue, which countries no slight portion of that most populous nation of the Jews inhabits. There is a portion of those people called Essenes, in number something more than four thousand in my opinion, who derive their name from their piety, though not according to any accurate form of the Grecian dialect, because they are above all men devoted to the service of God, not sacrificing living animals, but studying rather to preserve their own minds in a state of holiness and purity.

These men, in the first place, live in villages, avoiding all cities on account of the habitual lawlessness of those who inhabit them, well knowing that such a moral disease is contracted from associations with wicked men, just as a real disease might be from an impure atmosphere, and that this would stamp an incurable evil on their souls. Of these men, some cultivating the earth, and others devoting themselves to those arts which are the result of peace, benefit both themselves and all those who come in contact with them, not storing up treasures of silver and of gold, nor acquiring vast sections of the earth out of a desire for ample revenues, but providing all things which are requisite for the natural purposes of life;

for they alone of almost all men having been originally poor and destitute, and that too rather from their own habits and ways of life than from any real deficiency of good fortune, are nevertheless accounted very rich, judging contentment and frugality to be great abundance, as in truth they are.

Among those men you will find no makers of arrows, or javelins, or swords, or helmets, or breastplates, or shields; no makers of arms or of military engines; no one, in short, attending to any employment whatever connected with war, or even to any of those occupations even in peace which are easily perverted to wicked purposes; for they are utterly ignorant of all traffic, and of all commercial dealings, and of all navigation, but they repudiate and keep aloof from everything which can possibly afford any inducement to covetousness;

and there is not a single slave among them, but they are all free, aiding one another with a reciprocal interchange of good offices; and they condemn masters, not only as unjust, inasmuch as they corrupt the very principle of equality, but likewise as impious, because they destroy the ordinances of nature, which generated them all equally, and brought them up like a mother, as if they were all legitimate brethren, not in name only, but in reality and truth. But in their view this natural relationship of all men to one another has been thrown into disorder by designing covetousness, continually wishing to surpass others in good fortune, and which has therefore engendered alienation instead of affection, and hatred instead of friendship;

and leaving the logical part of philosophy, as in no respect necessary for the acquisition of virtue, to the word-catchers, and the natural part, as being too sublime for human nature to master, to those who love to converse about high objects (except indeed so far as such a study takes in the contemplation of the existence of God and of the creation of the universe), they devote all their attention to the moral part of philosophy, using as instructors the laws of their country which it would have been impossible for the human mind to devise without divine inspiration.

Now these laws they are taught at other times, indeed, but most especially on the seventh day, for the seventh day is accounted sacred, on which they abstain from all other employments, and frequent the sacred places which are called synagogues, and there they sit according to their age in classes, the younger sitting under the elder, and listening with eager attention in becoming order.

Then one, indeed, takes up the holy volume and reads it, and another of the men of the greatest experience comes forward and explains what is not very intelligible, for a great many precepts are delivered in enigmatical modes of expression, and allegorically, as the old fashion was;

and thus the people are taught piety, and holiness, and justice, and economy, and the science of regulating the state, and the knowledge of such things as are naturally good, or bad, or indifferent, and to choose what is right and to avoid what is wrong, using a threefold variety of definitions, and rules, and criteria, namely, the love of God, and the love of virtue, and the love of mankind.

Accordingly, the sacred volumes present an infinite number of instances of the disposition devoted to the love of God, and of a continued and uninterrupted purity throughout the whole of life, of a careful avoidance of oaths and of falsehood, and of a strict adherence to the principle of looking on the Deity as the cause of everything which is good and of nothing which is evil. They also furnish us with many proofs of a love of virtue, such as abstinence from all covetousness of money, from ambition, from indulgence in pleasures, temperance, endurance, and also moderation, simplicity, good temper, the absence of pride, obedience to the laws, steadiness, and everything of that kind; and, lastly, they bring forward as proofs of the love of mankind, goodwill, equality beyond all power of description, and fellowship, about which it is not unreasonable to say a few words.

In the first place, then, there is no one who has a house so absolutely his own private property, that it does not in some sense also belong to every one: for besides that they all dwell together in companies, the house is open to all those of the same notions, who come to them from other quarters;

then there is one magazine among them all; their expenses are all in common; their garments belong to them all in common; their food is common, since they all eat in messes; for there is no other people among which you can find a common use of the same house, a common adoption of one mode of living, and a common use of the same table more thoroughly established in fact than among this tribe: and is not this very natural? For whatever they, after having been working during the day, receive for their wages, that they do not retain as their own, but bring it into the common stock, and give any advantage that is to be derived from it to all who desire to avail themselves of it;

and those who are sick are not neglected because they are unable to contribute to the common stock, inasmuch as the tribe have in their public stock a means of supplying their necessities and aiding their weakness, so that from their ample means they support them liberally and abundantly; and they cherish respect for their elders, and honor them and care for them, just as parents are honored and cared for by their lawful children: being supported by them in all abundance both by their personal exertions, and by innumerable contrivances.

^{Acts 04:36} And Joses, who was surnamed by the apostles Barnabas -- which is, having been interpreted, Son of Encouragement -- a Levite, of Cyprus by birth, ^{Acts 04:37} a field being his, having sold [it], brought the money and laid [it] at the feet of the apostles.

^{Acts 04:36} And Joses ( Matthias - See Replacing Judas)
who was surnamed by the apostles Barnabas -- which is, having been interpreted, Son of Encouragement -- (Joses would then have the title of “Justus” from his older brother James after Jesus' death but rather was called Barnabas meaning “Son of Encouragement” as he was really still third in the David line and James kept his “Justus” title as Jesus was really still alive.)
a Levite (as the younger brother of Jesus, with James passed over, he is second to Peter, who represents Jesus),
of Cyprus by birth (this is quite possible since his father Joseph, being sent out as an apostle of the early Mission, could have been assigned to Cyprus and Mother Mary could have given birth to him in Cyprus. In any case he like John Mark were celibates with their center being a monastery in Cyprus so it could imply "by association".),
^{Acts 04:37} a field being his (symbolic of the field of blood of Judas Iscariot whom he replaced),
having sold [it], brought the money and laid [it] at the feet of the apostles. (Judas had sold himself for thirty pieces of silver. Joses symbolically reverses that sin by giving the money back to the Mission.)

^{Acts 05:01} And a certain man, Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, ^{Acts 05:02} and did keep back of the price -- his wife also knowing -- and having brought a certain part, at the feet of the apostles he laid [it].

^{Acts 05:03} And Peter said, 'Ananias, therefore did Satan fill your heart, for you to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back of the price of the place? ^{Acts 05:04} while it remained, did it not remain yours? and having been sold, in your authority was it not? why [is] it that you did put in your heart this thing? you did not lie to men, but to God;' ^{Acts 05:05} and Ananias hearing these words, having fallen down, did expire, and great fear came upon all who heard these things, ^{Acts 05:06} and having risen, the younger men wound him up, and having carried forth, they buried [him].

^{Acts 05:07} And it came to pass, about three hours after, that his wife, not knowing what has happened, came in, ^{Acts 05:08} and Peter answered her, 'Tell me if for so much you sold the place;'and she said, 'Yes, for so much.'

^{Acts 05:09} And Peter said unto her, 'How was it agreed by you, to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? lo, the feet of those who did bury your husband [are] at the door, and they shall carry you forth;' ^{Acts 05:10} and she fell down presently at his feet, and expired, and the young men having come in, found her dead, and having carried forth, they buried [her] by her husband; ^{Acts 05:11} and great fear came upon all the assembly, and upon all who heard these things.

The headquarters of the Mission had been moved to had been moved to Caesarea Maritima and Simon Magus had regained his power (Acts 04:33 "great power"). Simon Magus was the leader of Manasseh as Theudas was the leader of Ephraim. (These were the tribes of Joseph's sons each counted as one half.) He was a Samaritan (the rejected Jewish race) and Magian (from Zoroaster). His views were liberal such as exempting circumcision and he held Mount Gerizim to be more important than the Temple Mound in Jerusalem. (See Samaritan Woman at the Well where Helena recruits Jesus.)

Jesus preferred to remain in the monastery out of the public eye leaving Simon and Peter in control, until he returned in 36 AD to try for a child again. Part of the reason for the move was to have more autonomy from the leaders in Jerusalem. They feared the possible rise of Herod Agrippa who had quit his subservient position with Herod Antipas his uncle and refinanced his debt to be in the good graces of Tiberius Caesar. He had already meddled at the Trial of Jesus before Herod Agrippa, where he became good friends with Pilate and they knew that his goal was to become King of Judea.

^{Acts 05:01} And a certain man, Ananias (Simon Magus ridiculing the name of the High Priest Ananias) by name, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, ^{Acts 05:02} and did keep back of the price -- his wife also knowing -- and having brought a certain part, at the feet of the apostles he laid [it].

To decipher the person Ananias it is necessary to look forward to the Conversion of Saul in 40AD where Jesus leaves the conversion and training of Paul to Ananias (who is clearly not dead). This implies that Ananias is an important person in the Mission, therefore Simon Magus.
Later on in June 45 AD
JOSEPHUS IN ANTIQUITIES 20.1.3
At the same time Helena, queen of Adiabene and her son Izates became converts to Judaism.
JOSEPHUS IN ANTIQUITIES 20.2.3&4
Now during the time when Izates resided at Charax Spasini, a certain Jewish merchant (code for missionary) named Ananias visited the king’s wives and taught them to worship God after the manner of the Jewish tradition. It was through their agency that he was brought to the notice of Izates, whom he similarly won over with the co-operation of the women.
When Izates was convinced that he needed to be circumcised by Eleazar, who came from Galilee, Ananias opposed the need of it. Given these issues it would appear that this Ananias was affiliated with Paul, whose position was that circumcision was not necessary. Again it would appear to Simon Magus.

To decipher the person Sapphira his wife it is significant that in The new abbey in Rev 21:19 "the foundations of the wall of the city with every precious stone have been adorned; the first foundation jasper; the second, sapphire". This shows that the sapphire is in second position which is what Simon Magus' consort Helena would be if Simon held the top position.

and thus

^{Acts 05:03} And Peter said, 'Ananias, therefore did Satan (the Zealots to whom he was sending Church money) fill your heart, for you to lie to the Holy Spirit (Jonathan Annas, Peter's superior as he was to Jesus), and to keep back of the price of the place? ^{Acts 05:04} while it remained, did it not remain yours? and having been sold, in your authority was it not? why [is] it that you did put in your heart this thing? you did not lie to men, but to God;' ^{Acts 05:05} and Ananias hearing these words, having fallen down, did expire, and great fear came upon all who heard these things, ^{Acts 05:06} and having risen, the younger men wound him up, and having carried forth, they buried [him].

^{Acts 05:07} And it came to pass, about three hours after, that his wife, not knowing what has happened, came in, ^{Acts 05:08} and Peter answered her, 'Tell me if for so much you sold the place;'and she said, 'Yes, for so much.'

^{Acts 05:09} And Peter said unto her, 'How was it agreed by you, to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? lo, the feet of those who did bury your husband [are] at the door, and they shall carry you forth;' ^{Acts 05:10} and she fell down presently at his feet, and expired, and the young men having come in, found her dead, and having carried forth, they buried [her] by her husband; ^{Acts 05:11} and great fear came upon all the assembly, and upon all who heard these things.

This strange event of two persons being killed by Peter for holding back Church money has to be metaphorical. Certainly the God that Jesus describes is not the vengeful God of the Jews, but rather a compassionate God. In fact it merely documents the falling out between Peter and Simon Magus over where the Church monies would be directed. Simon Magus used part the monies to finance the Zealots. A council was called and Peter called for the excommunication of Simon Magus (Ananias). It is significant to note that his consort Helena (Sapphira) was not excommunicated until a later hour when the Council session of the lower class Gentiles and women was held. These were a symbolic deaths, just as before when Simon Magus was excommunication as Lazarus (See the Raising of Lazarus. Clearly Ananias is not dead as he is the person who converts Paul in 40 AD.

This was the beginning of the rift prophesied at the Crucifixion:
Matt 27:51-53 "And lo, the veil of the sanctuary was rent in two from top unto bottom (two churches: abbey for the common folk and monastery for "the saints"), and the earth did quake (those married ones: the 5000), and the rocks (Peter the rock) were rent, and the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who have fallen asleep (monastics at prayer), arose, and having come forth out of the tombs (monastery)after his rising, they went into the holy city, and appeared to many." (Simon is in control of the monasteries (the saints) and when Peter removes him as Pope, he leaves with them.)

^{Acts 05:12} And through the hands of the apostles came many signs and wonders among the people, and they were with one accord all in the porch of Solomon; ^{Acts 05:13} and of the rest no one was daring to join himself to them, but the people were magnifying them, ^{Acts 05:14} (and the more were believers added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women,) ^{Acts 05:15} so as into the broad places to bring forth the ailing, and to lay [them] upon couches and mats, that at the coming of Peter, even [his] shadow might overshadow some one of them; ^{Acts 05:16} and there were coming together also the people of the cities round about to Jerusalem, bearing ailing persons, and those harassed by unclean spirits -- who were all healed.

^{Acts 05:17} And having risen, the chief priest, and all those with him -- being the sect of the Sadducees -- were filled with zeal, ^{Acts 05:18} and laid their hands upon the apostles, and did put them in a public prison; ^{Acts 05:19} and an angel of the Lord through the night opened the doors of the prison, having also brought them forth, he said, ^{Acts 05:20} 'Go on, and standing, speak in the temple to the people all the sayings of this life;' ^{Acts 05:21} and having heard, they did enter at the dawn into the temple, and were teaching. And the chief priest having come, and those with him, they called together the Sanhedrin and all the senate of the sons of Israel, and they sent to the prison to have them brought, ^{Acts 05:22} and the officers having come, did not find them in the prison, and having turned back, they told, ^{Acts 05:23} saying -- 'The prison indeed we found shut in all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors, and having opened -- within we found no one.'

^{Acts 05:24} And as the priest, and the magistrate of the temple, and the chief priests, heard these words, they were doubting concerning them to what this would come; ^{Acts 05:25} and coming near, a certain one told them, saying -- 'Lo, the men whom you did put in the prison are in the temple standing and teaching the people;'

^{Acts 05:12} And through the hands of the apostles came many signs and wonders among the people, and they were with one accord all in the porch of Solomon; ^{Acts 05:13} and of the rest no one was daring to join himself to them, but the people were magnifying them, ^{Acts 05:14} (and the more were believers added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women,) ^{Acts 05:15} so as into the broad places to bring forth the ailing, and to lay [them] upon couches and mats, that at the coming of Peter, even [his] shadow might overshadow some one of them; ^{Acts 05:16} and there were coming together also the people of the cities round about to Jerusalem, bearing ailing persons, and those harassed by unclean spirits -- who were all healed.

^{Acts 05:17} And having risen, the chief priest, and all those with him -- being the sect of the Sadducees -- were filled with zeal, ^{Acts 05:18} and laid their hands upon the apostles, and did put them in a public prison; ^{Acts 05:19} and an angel of the Lord through the night opened the doors of the prison, having also brought them forth, he said, ^{Acts 05:20} 'Go on, and standing, speak in the temple to the people all the sayings of this life;' ^{Acts 05:21} and having heard, they did enter at the dawn into the temple, and were teaching. And the chief priest having come, and those with him, they called together the Sanhedrin and all the senate of the sons of Israel, and they sent to the prison to have them brought, ^{Acts 05:22} and the officers having come, did not find them in the prison, and having turned back, they told, ^{Acts 05:23} saying -- 'The prison indeed we found shut in all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors, and having opened -- within we found no one.'

^{Acts 05:24} And as the priest, and the magistrate of the temple, and the chief priests, heard these words, they were doubting concerning them to what this would come; ^{Acts 05:25} and coming near, a certain one told them, saying -- 'Lo, the men whom you did put in the prison are in the temple standing and teaching the people;'

^{Acts 05:12} And through the hands of the apostles came many signs and wonders among the people, and they were with one accord all in the porch of Solomon; ^{Acts 05:13} and of the rest no one was daring to join himself to them, but the people were magnifying them, ^{Acts 05:14} (and the more were believers added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women,) ^{Acts 05:15} so as into the broad places to bring forth the ailing, and to lay [them] upon couches and mats, that at the coming of Peter, even [his] shadow might overshadow some one of them; ^{Acts 05:16} and there were coming together also the people of the cities round about to Jerusalem, bearing ailing persons, and those harassed by unclean spirits -- who were all healed.

^{Acts 05:17} And having risen, the chief priest (Jonathan Annas, was appointed High Priest in 36 AD and a Sadducee), and all those with him -- being the sect of the Sadducees -- were filled with zeal, ^{Acts 05:18} and laid their hands upon the apostles, and did put them in a public prison; ^{Acts 05:19} and an angel of the Lord (Jonathan Annas as High Priest would be an angel thus must be going against his father Annas who was High Priest 6-15 AD) through the night opened the doors of the prison, having also brought them forth, he said, ^{Acts 05:20} 'Go on, and standing, speak in the temple to the people all the sayings of this life;' ^{Acts 05:21} and having heard, they did enter at the dawn into the temple, and were teaching. And the chief priest having come, and those with him, they called together the Sanhedrin and all the senate of the sons of Israel, and they sent to the prison to have them brought, ^{Acts 05:22} and the officers having come, did not find them in the prison, and having turned back, they told, ^{Acts 05:23} saying -- 'The prison indeed we found shut in all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors, and having opened -- within we found no one.'

^{Acts 05:24} And as the priest, and the magistrate of the temple, and the chief priests, heard these words, they were doubting concerning them to what this would come; ^{Acts 05:25} and coming near, a certain one told them, saying -- 'Lo, the men whom you did put in the prison are in the temple standing and teaching the people;'

The apostles have been explicitly told not to preach about Jesus on the porch of Solomon again and have defied the instructions of the Sanhedrin. Apparently they were counting on having the support of the High Priest Jonathan. Caiaphas, a Pharisee, and the others in the Sanhedrin were not pleased by this. Next year they would excommunicate Jonathan using his name as Stephen.

^{Acts 05:26} then the magistrate having gone away with officers, brought them without violence, for they were fearing the people, lest they should be stoned; ^{Acts 05:27} and having brought them, they set [them] in the Sanhedrin, and the chief priest questioned them, ^{Acts 05:28} saying, 'Did not we strictly command you not to teach in this name? and lo, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring upon us the blood of this man.'

^{Acts 05:29} And Peter and the apostles answering, said, 'To obey God it behooves, rather than men; ^{Acts 05:30} and the God of our fathers did raise up Jesus, whom you slew, having hanged upon a tree; ^{Acts 05:31} this one God, a Prince and a Saviour, has exalted with His right hand, to give reformation to Israel, and forgiveness of sins; ^{Acts 05:32} and we are His witnesses of these sayings, and the Holy Spirit also, whom God gave to those obeying him.'

^{Acts 05:33} And they having heard, were cut [to the heart], and were taking counsel to slay them, ^{Acts 05:34} but a certain one, having risen up in the Sanhedrin -- a Pharisee, by name Gamaliel, a teacher of law honored by all the people -- commanded to put the apostles forth a little, ^{Acts 05:35} and said unto them, 'Men, Israelites, take heed to yourselves about these men, what you are about to do,

Acts 05:36 for before these days rose up Theudas, saying, that himself was some one, to whom a number of men did join themselves, as it were four hundred, who was slain, and all, as many as were obeying him, were scattered, and came to nought.

^{Acts 05:37} 'After this one rose up, Judas the Galilean, in the days of the enrollment, and drew away much people after him, and that one perished, and all, as many as were obeying him, were scattered;

^{Acts 05:40} And to him they agreed, and having called near the apostles, having beaten [them], they commanded [them] not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go; ^{Acts 05:41} they, indeed, then, departed from the presence of the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that for his name they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor, ^{Acts 05:42} every day also in the temple, and in every house, they were not ceasing teaching and proclaiming good news -- Jesus the Christ.

^{Acts 05:26} then the magistrate having gone away with officers, brought them without violence, for they were fearing the people, lest they should be stoned; ^{Acts 05:27} and having brought them, they set [them] in the Sanhedrin, and the chief priest questioned them, ^{Acts 05:28} saying, 'Did not we strictly command you not to teach in this name? and lo, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring upon us the blood of this man.'

^{Acts 05:29} And Peter and the apostles answering, said, 'To obey God it behooves, rather than men; ^{Acts 05:30} and the God of our fathers did raise up Jesus, whom you slew, having hanged upon a tree; (Reference to Jesus' return from celibate life in November for the conception of his second child with Mary Magdalene)^{Acts 05:31} this one God, a Prince and a Saviour, has exalted with His right hand, to give reformation to Israel, and forgiveness of sins; ^{Acts 05:32} and we are His witnesses of these sayings, and the Holy Spirit also, whom God gave to those obeying him.'

^{Acts 05:33} And they having heard, were cut [to the heart], and were taking counsel to slay them,

^{Acts 05:34} but a certain one, having risen up in the Sanhedrin -- a Pharisee, by name Gamaliel, a teacher of law honored by all the people -- commanded to put the apostles forth a little,

^{Acts 05:35} and said unto them, 'Men, Israelites, take heed to yourselves about these men, what you are about to do,

Acts 05:36 for before these days rose up Theudas, saying, that himself was some one, to whom a number of men did join themselves, as it were four hundred, who was slain, and all, as many as were obeying him, were scattered, and came to nought. (See Abortive crossing of the Jordan River by Theudas 44 AD)

^{Acts 05:37} 'After this one rose up, Judas the Galilean, in the days of the enrollment, and drew away much people after him, and that one perished, and all, as many as were obeying him, were scattered; (See Gamaliel tells how Judas the Galilean rose up 6 AD.) The pairing of these two characters is in the two verses is because Judas the Galilean and Theudas fought together against the taxation of Cyrenius in 6 AD. (Scholars already believe that Luke makes many mistakes such as placing the birth of Jesus in 6 AD, but it was his Bar Mitzvah - a symbolic birth.) Actually Luke's only mistake was combining two speeches of Gamaliel: the one here and the one that followed these two events: the Abortive crossing of the Jordan River by Theudas 44 AD and the The crucifixion of the sons of Judas the Galilean in 46 AD (note the connection to Judas the Galilean).

^{Acts 05:38} and now I say to you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone, because if this counsel or this work may be of men, it will be overthrown, ^{Acts 05:39} and if it be of God, you are not able to overthrow it, lest perhaps also you be found fighting against God.'

^{Acts 05:40} And to him they agreed, and having called near the apostles, having beaten [them], they commanded [them] not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go; ^{Acts 05:41} they, indeed, then, departed from the presence of the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that for his name they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor, ^{Acts 05:42} every day also in the temple, and in every house, they were not ceasing teaching and proclaiming good news -- Jesus the Christ.

Gamaliel was the grandson of Hillel, who had advocated for the Golden Rule and probably compiled the content of the Sermon on the Mount. He would therefore be sympathetic towards the apostles who practiced non-violence as opposed to the armed conflict of the Zealots such as Judas the Galilean and his two sons. Although Theudas' crossing of the Jordan was to be a peaceful event, it was judged by the procurator Fadus to be an act of provocation against Rome. Ignoring the anachronism, Gamaliel's point is that the Sanhedrin should be more concerned with reigning in the Zealots and leave the apostles alone. (See Clementines: Gamaliel is secretly aligned with the Christians.)

^{Acts 06:01} And in these days, the disciples multiplying, there came a murmuring of the Hellenists at the Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily ministration, ^{Acts 06:02} and the twelve, having called near the multitude of the disciples, said, 'It is not pleasing that we, having left the word of God, do minister at tables; ^{Acts 06:03} look out, therefore, brethren, seven men of you who are well testified of, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may set over this necessity, ^{Acts 06:04} and we to prayer, and to the ministration of the word, will give ourselves continually.'

^{Acts 06:05} And the thing was pleasing before all the multitude, and they did choose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch, ^{Acts 06:06} whom they did set before the apostles, and they, having prayed, laid on them [their] hands.

^{Acts 06:01} And in these days, the disciples multiplying, there came a murmuring of the Hellenists at the Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily ministration, ^{Acts 06:02} and the twelve, having called near the multitude of the disciples, said, 'It is not pleasing that we, having left the word of God, do minister at tables;

In the Essene heiracrchy, celibate women (widows) were considered equal to non-circumcised men (Hellenists) and it made sense for them to have equal rights with them. The circumcised men (Hebrews) have even to this day banned females from having important roles as does ironically the Catholic Church today.

Next a structure of seven priests were elected to preside on each day of the week.

^{Acts 06:03} look out, therefore, brethren, seven men of you who are well testified of, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may set over this necessity, ^{Acts 06:04} and we to prayer, and to the ministration of the word, will give ourselves continually.'

^{Acts 06:05} And the thing was pleasing before all the multitude, and they did choose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit

Stephen is Jonathan Annas in the primary position as High Priest. He uses the name Stephen to signify his new role in the highest position of the heiracrchy, having been assigned to the Sabbath, and the Greek word 'stephanas 'means crowned.

^{Acts 06:08} And Stephen, full of faith and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people, ^{Acts 06:09} and there arose certain of those of the synagogue, called of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia, and Asia, disputing with Stephen, ^{Acts 06:10} and they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit with which he was speaking; ^{Acts 06:11} then they suborned men, saying -- 'We have heard him speaking evil sayings in regard to Moses and God.'

^{Acts 06:12} They did stir up also the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and having come upon [him], they caught him, and brought [him] to the Sanhedrin; ^{Acts 06:13} they set up also false witnesses, saying, 'This one does not cease to speak evil sayings against this holy place and the law, ^{Acts 06:14} for we have heard him saying, That this Jesus the Nazarean shall overthrow this place, and shall change the customs that Moses delivered to us;' ^{Acts 06:15} and gazing at him, all those sitting in the Sanhedrin saw his face as it were the face of an angel.

^{Acts 07:01} And the chief priest said, 'Are then these things so?' ^{Acts 07:02} and he said, 'Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken: The God of the glory did appear to our father Abraham, being in Mesopotamia, before his dwelling in Haran, ^{Acts 07:03} and He said to him, Go forth out of your land, and out of your kindred, and come to a land that I shall show you.

^{Acts 07:04} 'Then having come forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, he dwelt in Haran, and from thence, after the death of his father, He did remove him to this land wherein you now dwell, ^{Acts 07:05} and He gave him no inheritance in it, not even a footstep, and did promise to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him -- he having no child.

^{Acts 07:06} 'And God spake thus, That his seed shall be sojourning in a strange land, and they shall cause it to serve, and shall do it evil four hundred years, ^{Acts 07:07} and the nation whom they shall serve I will judge, said God; and after these things they shall come forth and shall do Me service in this place.

^{Acts 07:08} 'And He gave to him a covenant of circumcision, and so he begat Isaac, and did circumcise him on the eighth day, and Isaac [begat] Jacob, and Jacob -- the twelve patriarchs; ^{Acts 07:09} and the patriarchs, having been moved with jealousy, sold Joseph to Egypt, and God was with him, ^{Acts 07:10} and did deliver him out of all his tribulations, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he did set him -- governor over Egypt and all his house.

^{Acts 07:11} 'And there came a dearth upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great tribulation, and our fathers were not finding sustenance, ^{Acts 07:12} and Jacob having heard that there was corn in Egypt, sent forth our fathers a first time; ^{Acts 07:13} and at the second time was Joseph made known to his brethren, and Joseph's kindred became manifest to Pharaoh, ^{Acts 07:14} and Joseph having sent, did call for his father Jacob, and all his kindred -- with seventy and five souls -- ^{Acts 07:15} and Jacob went down to Egypt, and died, himself and our fathers, ^{Acts 07:16} and they were carried over into Sychem, and were laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in money from the sons of Emmor, of Sychem.

^{Acts 07:17} 'And according as the time of the promise was drawing near, which God did swear to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt, ^{Acts 07:18} till another king rose, who had not known Joseph; ^{Acts 07:19} this one, having dealt subtilely with our kindred, did evil to our fathers, causing to expose their babes, that they might not live; ^{Acts 07:20} in which time Moses was born, and he was fair to God, and he was brought up three months in the house of his father; ^{Acts 07:21} and he having been exposed, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and did rear him to herself for a son; ^{Acts 07:22} and Moses was taught in all wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was powerful in words and in works.

^{Acts 07:23} 'And when forty years were fulfilled to him, it came upon his heart to look after his brethren, the sons of Israel; ^{Acts 07:24} and having seen a certain one suffering injustice, he did defend, and did justice to the oppressed, having smitten the Egyptian; ^{Acts 07:25} and he was supposing his brethren to understand that God through his hand does give salvation; and they did not understand.

^{Acts 07:26} 'On the succeeding day, also, he showed himself to them as they are striving, and urged them to peace, saying, Men, brethren are you, therefore do you injustice to one another? ^{Acts 07:27} and he who is doing injustice to the neighbor, did thrust him away, saying, Who set you a ruler and a judge over us? ^{Acts 07:28} to kill me do you wish, as you did kill yesterday the Egyptian? ^{Acts 07:29} 'And Moses fled at this word, and became a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons, ^{Acts 07:30} and forty years having been fulfilled, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai an angel of the Lord, in a flame of fire of a bush, ^{Acts 07:31} and Moses having seen did wonder at the sight; and he drawing near to behold, there came a voice of the Lord unto him, ^{Acts 07:32} I [am] the God of your fathers; the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. 'And Moses having become terrified, dared not behold, ^{Acts 07:33} and the Lord said to him, Loose the sandal of your feet, for the place in which you hast stood is holy ground; ^{Acts 07:34} seeing I have seen the affliction of My people that [is] in Egypt, and their groaning I did hear, and came down to deliver them; and now come, I will send you to Egypt.

^{Acts 07:35} 'This Moses, whom they did refuse, saying, Who did set you a ruler and a judge? this one God a ruler and a redeemer did send, in the hand of an angel who appeared to him in the bush; ^{Acts 07:36} this one did bring them forth, having done wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years; ^{Acts 07:37} this is the Moses who did say to the sons of Israel: A prophet to you shall the Lord your God raise up out of your brethren, like to me, him shall you hear.

^{Acts 07:38} 'This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who is speaking to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers who did receive the living oracles to give to us; ^{Acts 07:39} to whom our fathers did not wish to become obedient, but did thrust away, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt, ^{Acts 07:40} saying to Aaron, Make to us gods who shall go on before us, for this Moses, who brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, we have not known what has happened to him.

^{Acts 07:41} 'And they made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and were rejoicing in the works of their hands, ^{Acts 07:42} and God did turn, and did give them up to do service to the host of the heaven, according as it has been written in the scroll of the prophets: Slain beasts and sacrifices did you offer to Me forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? ^{Acts 07:43} and you took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan -- the figures that you made to bow before them, and I will remove your dwelling beyond Babylon.

^{Acts 07:44} 'The tabernacle of the testimony was among our fathers in the wilderness, according as He did direct, who is speaking to Moses, to make it according to the figure that he had seen; ^{Acts 07:45} which also our fathers having in succession received, did bring in with Joshua, into the possession of the nations whom God did drive out from the presence of our fathers, till the days of David, ^{Acts 07:46} who found favor before God, and requested to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob; ^{Acts 07:47} and Solomon built Him an house.

^{Acts 07:48} 'But the Most High in sanctuaries made with hands does not dwell, according as the prophet said: ^{Acts 07:49} The heaven [is] My throne, and the earth My footstool; what house will you build to Me? said the Lord, or what [is] the place of My rest? ^{Acts 07:50} has not My hand made all these things? ^{Acts 07:51} 'You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! you do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers -- also you; ^{Acts 07:52} which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed those who declared before about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now you betrayers and murderers have become, ^{Acts 07:53} who received the law by arrangement of angels, and did not keep [it].'

^{Acts 06:08} And Stephen, full of faith and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people, ^{Acts 06:09} and there arose certain of those of the synagogue, called of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia, and Asia, disputing with Stephen, ^{Acts 06:10} and they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit with which he was speaking; ^{Acts 06:11} then they suborned men, saying -- 'We have heard him speaking evil sayings in regard to Moses and God.'

^{Acts 06:12} They did stir up also the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and having come upon [him], they caught him, and brought [him] to the Sanhedrin; ^{Acts 06:13} they set up also false witnesses, saying, 'This one does not cease to speak evil sayings against this holy place and the law, ^{Acts 06:14} for we have heard him saying, That this Jesus the Nazarean shall overthrow this place, and shall change the customs that Moses delivered to us;' ^{Acts 06:15} and gazing at him, all those sitting in the Sanhedrin saw his face as it were the face of an angel.

The proof that Stephen is Jonathan Annas can be shown not only from the Greek stephanas meaning 'crown', thus supporting Jonathan's aspiration of being the Pope, but also that he had the "face of an angel", which is not to say he had an angelic countenance but that he is a person high up in the hierarchy (See Preaching at Solomon's porch, arrest, and escape by an angel Sept 36). Also, Stephen has the most important position of the Seven Leaders Chosen in June 37 AD. Thus Stephen cannot be a recent convert to Christianity as he is traditionally portrayed.

In his long speech Stephen's tone of superiority and disdain for those beneath him is clearly evident and confirmed by:
(1.) (Josephus Antiquities 20.8.5) "Felix also bore an ill-will to Jonathan, the high priest, because he frequently gave him admonitions about governing the Jewish affairs better than he did".
(2.) (Paul's Second Epistle to the Corinthians 12:7), Paul compares him to: "a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure"
(3.) (Josephus Jewish Wars 2.8.14) on the Sadducees"the behavior of the Sadducees one towards another is in some degree wild, and their conversation with those that are of their own party is as barbarous as if they were strangers to them."

What follows next is Jonathan Annas' justification at his trial before the Sanhedrin for his actions based on the groundwork set by previous Jewish scholars: Hillel and Menahem; the proselytizing by Jesus' grandfather Heli and the Therapeuts who followed Moses. Comparing Hillel with Abraham is not unprecedented as Wikipedia article on Hillel states "In the Midrash compilation Sifre (Deut. 357), the periods of Hillel's life are made parallel to those in the life of Moses. Both lived 120 years (Deut. 34:7), and at the age of forty Hillel went to the Land of Israel; forty years he spent in study; and the last third of his life he was the spiritual head of the Jewish people." Here Jonathan Annas compares Hillel to Abraham and then Menahem to Isaac. The comparison of Heli to Joseph has already occurred in the comparison of Jesus' genealogy for Joseph's father in Matt 01:16 and Luke 03:23. For the Therapeuts, the metaphoric comparison of their leader to Moses was their belief in their return to the Promised Land.

Hillel was born in Babylon c. 119BC and died 19BC (See 50 years in John 08:57 and one of the most important religious leaders in Jewish history. He is associated with the development of the Mishnah and the Talmud. Renowned within Judaism as a sage and scholar, he was the founder of the House of Hillel school for Tannaïm (Sages of the Mishnah) and the founder of a dynasty of Sages who stood at the head of the Jews living in the land of Israel until roughly the fifth century AD.

^{Acts 07:01} And the chief priest said, 'Are then these things so?' ^{Acts 07:02} and he said, 'Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken: The God of the glory did appear to our father Abraham, being in Mesopotamia, before his dwelling in Haran, ^{Acts 07:03} and He said to him, Go forth out of your land, and out of your kindred, and come to a land that I shall show you.

^{Acts 07:04} 'Then having come forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, he dwelt in Haran, and from thence, after the death of his father, He did remove him to this land wherein you now dwell, ^{Acts 07:05} and He gave him no inheritance in it, not even a footstep, and did promise to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him -- he having no child.

^{Acts 07:06} 'And God spake thus, That his seed shall be sojourning in a strange land, and they shall cause it to serve, and shall do it evil four hundred years, ^{Acts 07:07} and the nation whom they shall serve I will judge, said God; and after these things they shall come forth and shall do Me service in this place.

Hillel as 'Abraham' had founded a Mission to the Diaspora in all lands preaching the Golden Rule. Menahem the Essene and was successor to Hillel as the 'Issac'. Menahem became an advisor to Herod the Great by successfully predicting that he would become King and that he would reign for twenty or even thirty or more years (Josephus Antiquities 15.10).

^{Acts 07:08} 'And He gave to him a covenant of circumcision, and so he begat Isaac, and did circumcise him on the eighth day, and Isaac [begat] Jacob, and Jacob -- the twelve patriarchs; ^{Acts 07:09} and the patriarchs, having been moved with jealousy, sold Joseph to Egypt, and God was with him, ^{Acts 07:10} and did deliver him out of all his tribulations, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he did set him -- governor over Egypt and all his house.

Heli as "Jacob" under Herod the Great was not allowed to be a King from the line of David, but was put in charge of the Mission to the Diaspora. In Mark's parable of the Sower to the Diaspora were referred to as corn and wheat defining three levels of study compared to corn: blade (outside knowledge), ear (the inner knowledge) and full ear (understanding).

^{Acts 07:11} 'And there came a dearth upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great tribulation, and our fathers were not finding sustenance, ^{Acts 07:12} and Jacob having heard that there was corn in Egypt, sent forth our fathers a first time; ^{Acts 07:13} and at the second time was Joseph made known to his brethren, and Joseph's kindred became manifest to Pharaoh, ^{Acts 07:14} and Joseph having sent, did call for his father Jacob, and all his kindred -- with seventy and five souls -- ^{Acts 07:15} and Jacob went down to Egypt, and died, himself and our fathers, ^{Acts 07:16} and they were carried over into Sychem, and were laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in money from the sons of Emmor, of Sychem.

^{Acts 07:17} 'And according as the time of the promise was drawing near, which God did swear to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt, ^{Acts 07:18} till another king rose, who had not known Joseph; ^{Acts 07:19} this one, having dealt subtilely with our kindred, did evil to our fathers, causing to expose their babes, that they might not live; ^{Acts 07:20} in which time Moses was born, and he was fair to God, and he was brought up three months in the house of his father; ^{Acts 07:21} and he having been exposed, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and did rear him to herself for a son; ^{Acts 07:22} and Moses was taught in all wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was powerful in words and in works.

The Therapeuts had their headquarters in Alexandria and believed in forty year cycles, expecting to cross the Jordan River into the Promised Land in 44 AD (See Abortive crossing of the Jordan River by Theudas.

^{Acts 07:23} 'And when forty years were fulfilled to him, it came upon his heart to look after his brethren, the sons of Israel; ^{Acts 07:24} and having seen a certain one suffering injustice, he did defend, and did justice to the oppressed, having smitten the Egyptian; ^{Acts 07:25} and he was supposing his brethren to understand that God through his hand does give salvation; and they did not understand.

^{Acts 07:26} 'On the succeeding day, also, he showed himself to them as they are striving, and urged them to peace, saying, Men, brethren are you, therefore do you injustice to one another? ^{Acts 07:27} and he who is doing injustice to the neighbor, did thrust him away, saying, Who set you a ruler and a judge over us? ^{Acts 07:28} to kill me do you wish, as you did kill yesterday the Egyptian? ^{Acts 07:29} 'And Moses fled at this word, and became a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons, ^{Acts 07:30} and forty years having been fulfilled, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai an angel of the Lord, in a flame of fire of a bush, ^{Acts 07:31} and Moses having seen did wonder at the sight; and he drawing near to behold, there came a voice of the Lord unto him, ^{Acts 07:32} I [am] the God of your fathers; the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. 'And Moses having become terrified, dared not behold, ^{Acts 07:33} and the Lord said to him, Loose the sandal of your feet, for the place in which you hast stood is holy ground; ^{Acts 07:34} seeing I have seen the affliction of My people that [is] in Egypt, and their groaning I did hear, and came down to deliver them; and now come, I will send you to Egypt.

^{Acts 07:35} 'This Moses, whom they did refuse, saying, Who did set you a ruler and a judge? this one God a ruler and a redeemer did send, in the hand of an angel who appeared to him in the bush; ^{Acts 07:36} this one did bring them forth, having done wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years; ^{Acts 07:37} this is the Moses who did say to the sons of Israel: A prophet to you shall the Lord your God raise up out of your brethren, like to me, him shall you hear.

^{Acts 07:38} 'This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who is speaking to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers who did receive the living oracles to give to us; ^{Acts 07:39} to whom our fathers did not wish to become obedient, but did thrust away, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt, ^{Acts 07:40} saying to Aaron, Make to us gods who shall go on before us, for this Moses, who brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, we have not known what has happened to him.

^{Acts 07:41} 'And they made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and were rejoicing in the works of their hands, ^{Acts 07:42} and God did turn, and did give them up to do service to the host of the heaven, according as it has been written in the scroll of the prophets: Slain beasts and sacrifices did you offer to Me forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? ^{Acts 07:43} and you took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan -- the figures that you made to bow before them, and I will remove your dwelling beyond Babylon.

^{Acts 07:44} 'The tabernacle of the testimony was among our fathers in the wilderness, according as He did direct, who is speaking to Moses, to make it according to the figure that he had seen; ^{Acts 07:45} which also our fathers having in succession received, did bring in with Joshua, into the possession of the nations whom God did drive out from the presence of our fathers, till the days of David, ^{Acts 07:46} who found favor before God, and requested to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob; ^{Acts 07:47} and Solomon built Him an house.

Jonathan ends his metaphoric history lesson and explains that God does not expect the Temple of Jerusalem to be the only place where God shows his presence. God allows his any Church or Temple in nay land to be his House. Then he criticizes his accusers for resisting the messages from those who hold the position of the Holy Spirit like himself or John the Baptist whom they killed or Jesus whom they crucified.

^{Acts 07:48} 'But the Most High in sanctuaries made with hands does not dwell, according as the prophet said: ^{Acts 07:49} The heaven [is] My throne, and the earth My footstool; what house will you build to Me? said the Lord, or what [is] the place of My rest? ^{Acts 07:50} has not My hand made all these things? ^{Acts 07:51} 'You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! you do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers -- also you; ^{Acts 07:52} which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed those who declared before about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now you betrayers and murderers have become, ^{Acts 07:53} who received the law by arrangement of angels, and did not keep [it].'

^{Acts 07:54}And hearing these things, they were cut to the hearts, and did gnash the teeth at him; ^{Acts 07:55} and being full of the Holy Spirit, having looked steadfastly to the heaven, he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, ^{Acts 07:56} and he said, 'Lo, I see the heavens having been opened, and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God.'

^{Acts 07:57} And they, having cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and did rush with one accord upon him, ^{Acts 07:58} and having cast him forth outside of the city, they were stoning [him] -- and the witnesses did put down their garments at the feet of a young man called Saul (^{Acts 22:20} and when the blood of your witness Stephen was being poured forth, I also was standing by and assenting to his death, and keeping the garments of those putting him to death; )-- ^{Acts 07:59} and they were stoning Stephen, calling and saying, 'Lord Jesus, receive my spirit;' ^{Acts 07:60} and having bowed the knees, he cried with a loud voice, 'Lord, may you not lay to them this sin;'and this having said, he fell asleep.

^{Acts 08:01} And Saul was assenting to his death, and there came in that day a great persecution upon the assembly in Jerusalem (Qumran), all also were scattered abroad in the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles; ^{Acts 08:02} and devout men carried away Stephen, and made great lamentation over him; ^{Acts 08:03} and Saul was making havoc of the assembly, into every house entering, and haling men and women, was giving them up to prison; ^{Acts 08:04} they then indeed, having been scattered, went abroad proclaiming good news -- the Word.

^{Acts 07:54}And hearing these things, they were cut to the hearts, and did gnash the teeth at him; ^{Acts 07:55} and being full of the Holy Spirit, having looked steadfastly to the heaven, he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, ^{Acts 07:56} and he said, 'Lo, I see the heavens having been opened, and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God.'

Jonathan Annas (Stephen) taunts his accusers with an expression that implies that he is "God", as a title like "Father", and that Jesus is his Son as the the Son of Man at his right hand on the highest platform of any Church.

^{Acts 07:57} And they, having cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and did rush with one accord upon him, ^{Acts 07:58} and having cast him forth outside of the city, they were stoning [him] -- and the witnesses did put down their garments at the feet of a young man called Saul ("young man" neanias aged 20 - Paul is still acolyte at age 20). Paul will retell this story at his arrest in Jerusalem: Paul speaks to the people July 58 AD ^{Acts 22:20} and when the blood of your witness Stephen was being poured forth, I also was standing by and assenting to his death, and keeping the garments of those putting him to death; ) -- ^{Acts 07:59} and they were stoning Stephen, calling and saying, 'Lord Jesus, receive my spirit;' ^{Acts 07:60} and having bowed the knees, he cried with a loud voice, 'Lord, may you not lay to them this sin;'and this having said, he fell asleep.

^{Acts 08:01} And Saul was assenting to his death, and there came in that day a great persecution upon the assembly in Jerusalem (Qumran), all also were scattered abroad in the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles; ^{Acts 08:02} and devout men carried away Stephen, and made great lamentation over him; ^{Acts 08:03} and Saul was making havoc of the assembly, into every house entering, and haling men and women, was giving them up to prison; ^{Acts 08:04} they then indeed, having been scattered, went abroad proclaiming good news -- the Word.

Jonathan was not killed, but merely excommunicated and removed as High Priest by Vitellius. It is significant that Saul, later called Paul as his Christian name, already dislikes Jonathan and assists in dissolving of Qumran which was 'Jerusalem' at the Crucifixion (being the plural form of Jerusalem). Thus Jonathan with his followers fled to Damascus in Syria where Simon Magus had moved his Church. He had done this to avoid Herod Agrippa, who had been made King of Judea by his friend Caligula who became Emperor in March 37AD on the death of Tiberius. In fact many of those who excommunicated Jonathan also fled to Damascus. It was they who wrote the Damascus Document and other Dead Sea Scroll pesharim. This meant that there were two rival parties in Damascus.

^{Acts 06:07} And the word of God did increase, and the number of the disciples did multiply in Jerusalem exceedingly; a great multitude also of the priests were obedient to the faith.

^{Acts 06:07} And the word of God did increase, and the number of the disciples did multiply in Jerusalem exceedingly; a great multitude also of the priests were obedient to the faith.

"In the beginning was the Word" (John 1:1). Thus "Word" is code for Jesus. If the "Word" increases it means a son. In the case of Jesus' first child Tamar-Phoebe, there was no indication other than Peter saying that Jesus would return in three years. (The rule is that the wait after a girl is three years and for a boy six years). Jesus' son will be called Jesus and as the crown prince, her will have the title of "Justus". (James the younger brother of Jesus had the position of crown prince prior to the birth of Jesus' son and thus has been know as James the Just. Jesus Justus is mentioned by Paul in Colossians 4:11. September was the same month that Phoebe was born having had the three month viable point of pregnancy point in March prior to the Crucifixion. Jesus had left the monastery in September 36 being allowed to have sexual relations 3 years after the birth of a girl (6 years after a boy).

^{Acts 08:05} And Philip having gone down to a city of Samaria, was preaching to them the Christ, ^{Acts 08:06} the multitudes also were giving heed to the things spoken by Philip, with one accord, in their hearing and seeing the signs that he was doing, ^{Acts 08:07} for unclean spirits came forth from many who were possessed, crying with a loud voice, and many who have been paralytic and lame were healed, ^{Acts 08:08} and there was great joy in that city.

^{Acts 08:09} And a certain man, by name Simon, was before in the city using magic, and amazing the nation of Samaria, saying himself to be a certain great one, ^{Acts 08:10} to whom they were all giving heed, from small unto great, saying, 'This one is the great power of God;' ^{Acts 08:11} and they were giving heed to him, because of his having for a long time amazed them with deeds of magic.

^{Acts 08:12} And when they believed Philip, proclaiming good news, the things concerning the reign of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized both men and women; ^{Acts 08:13} and Simon also himself did believe, and, having been baptized, he was continuing with Philip, beholding also signs and mighty acts being done, he was amazed.

^{Acts 08:05} And Philip having gone down to a city of Samaria, was preaching to them the Christ, ^{Acts 08:06} the multitudes also were giving heed to the things spoken by Philip, with one accord, in their hearing and seeing the signs that he was doing, ^{Acts 08:07} for unclean spirits came forth from many who were possessed, crying with a loud voice, and many who have been paralytic and lame were healed, ^{Acts 08:08} and there was great joy in that city.

^{Acts 08:09} And a certain man, by name Simon, was before in the city using magic, and amazing the nation of Samaria, saying himself to be a certain great one, ^{Acts 08:10} to whom they were all giving heed, from small unto great, saying, 'This one is the great power of God;' ^{Acts 08:11} and they were giving heed to him, because of his having for a long time amazed them with deeds of magic.

^{Acts 08:12} And when they believed Philip, proclaiming good news, the things concerning the reign of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized both men and women; ^{Acts 08:13} and Simon also himself did believe, and, having been baptized, he was continuing with Philip, beholding also signs and mighty acts being done, he was amazed.

Philip who was elected as one of Seven Leaders Chosen in June 37 AD was the one representing Sunday, showing that Jonathan Annas (Stephen) was his superior. As Jonathan Annas had gone to Antioch in Syria, he was in charge. The identity of the disciple Simon the Zealot/Canaanite is revealed here explicitly: Simon the Magician, Simon Magus having come from Samaria (See the Simon Magus in the Clementine books of Pope Clement). His title as "the Great Power of God" shows that he acknowledges Jonathan Annas as his superior as "God". Baptism means that both he and Philip would jointly be in charge as part of this new structure.

^{Acts 08:14} And the apostles in Jerusalem (Qumran) having heard that Samaria has received the word of God, did send unto them Peter and John, ^{Acts 08:15} who having come down did pray concerning them, that they may receive the Holy Spirit, -- ^{Acts 08:16} for as yet he was fallen upon none of them, and only they have been baptized -- to the name of the Lord Jesus; ^{Acts 08:17} then were they laying hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

^{Acts 08:18} And Simon, having beheld that through the laying on of the hands of the apostles, the Holy Spirit is given, brought before them money, ^{Acts 08:19} saying, 'Give also to me this authority, that on whomsoever I may lay the hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit.'

^{Acts 08:20} And Peter said unto him, 'Your silver with you -- may it be to destruction! because the gift of God you did think to possess through money; ^{Acts 08:21} you hast neither part nor lot in this thing, for your heart is not right before God; ^{Acts 08:22} reform, therefore, from this your wickedness, and beseech God, if then the purpose of your heart may be forgiven you, ^{Acts 08:23} for in the gall of bitterness, and bond of unrighteousness, I perceive you being.'

^{Acts 08:24} And Simon answering, said, 'Beseech you for me unto the Lord, that nothing may come upon me of the things you have spoken.'

^{Acts 08:25} They indeed, therefore, having testified fully, and spoken the word of the Lord, did turn back to Jerusalem (Qumran); in many villages also of the Samaritans they did proclaim good news.

^{Acts 08:14} And the apostles in Jerusalem (Qumran) having heard that Samaria has received the word of God, did send unto them Peter and John, ^{Acts 08:15} who having come down did pray concerning them, that they may receive the Holy Spirit, --

The phrase "Samaria has received the word of God" means that Jesus (the word of God) had gone with Simon Magus (Samaria). Since Simon Magus was in Damascus, the apostles came there.

The apostles had adopted a new phrase for baptism to baptize in the name of the Holy Spirit instead of the name Jesus Christ . This was done to indicate that Jesus was now acting in the role of Holy Spirit (the third position).

^{Acts 08:18} And Simon, having beheld that through the laying on of the hands of the apostles, the Holy Spirit is given, brought before them money, ^{Acts 08:19} saying, 'Give also to me this authority, that on whomsoever I may lay the hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit.'

Simon Magus, having just been revealed previously in Philip converts Simon Magus, as if he has just been converted, is now humorously criticizing Peter for not practicing his method of buying or selling of ecclesiastical privileges (something that has used many times in the Church as its Pope), which is named after him: "simony". He proposes to buy his way into the second position under Peter which is symbolized by silver. In this case Peter is much more controlled in his reply than when he Struck down dead Simon (Ananias) and his wife Helena (Sapphira) in 35 AD!

^{Acts 08:20} And Peter said unto him, 'Your silver with you -- may it be to destruction! because the gift of God you did think to possess through money; ^{Acts 08:21} you hast neither part nor lot in this thing, for your heart is not right before God; ^{Acts 08:22} reform, therefore, from this your wickedness, and beseech God, if then the purpose of your heart may be forgiven you, ^{Acts 08:23} for in the gall of bitterness, and bond of unrighteousness, I perceive you being.'

Peter also chides him with the words "gall of bitterness" as he takes issue with Simon's pending "unrighteous" assassination of Agrippa by snake venom.

^{Acts 08:24} And Simon answering, said, 'Beseech you for me unto the Lord, that nothing may come upon me of the things you have spoken.'

Again Simon is humorously pretending that Peter is the direct voice to Jesus.

^{Acts 08:25} They indeed, therefore, having testified fully, and spoken the word of the Lord, did turn back to Jerusalem (Qumran); in many villages also of the Samaritans they did proclaim good news.

Those who visited have acknowledged their alliance with Jesus through Peter (the value of a common enemy: Agrippa) and return.

^{Acts 08:26} And an angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, 'Arise, and go on toward the south, on the way that is going down from Jerusalem to Gaza,'-- this is desert.

^{Acts 08:27} And having arisen, he went on, and lo, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch, a man of rank, of Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to worship to Jerusalem; ^{Acts 08:28} he was also returning, and is sitting on his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah.

^{Acts 08:29} And the Spirit said to Philip, 'Go near, and be joined to this chariot;' ^{Acts 08:30} and Philip having run near, heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, 'Do you then know what you do read?' ^{Acts 08:31} and he said, 'Why, how am I able, if some one may not guide me?' he called Philip also, having come up, to sit with him.

^{Acts 08:32} And the contents of the Writing that he was reading was this: 'As a sheep unto slaughter he was led, and as a lamb before his shearer dumb, so he does not open his mouth; ^{Acts 08:33} in his humiliation his judgment was taken away, and his generation -- who shall declare? because taken from the earth is his life.'

^{Acts 08:34} And the eunuch answering Philip said, 'I pray you, about whom does the prophet say this? about himself, or about some other one?' ^{Acts 08:35} and Philip having opened his mouth, and having begun from this Writing, proclaimed good news to him -- Jesus.

^{Acts 08:36} And as they were going on the way, they came upon a certain water, and the eunuch said, 'Lo, water; what does hinder me to be baptized?'

^{Acts 08:37} And Philip said, 'If you do believe out of all the heart, it is lawful;'and he answering said, 'I believe Jesus Christ to be the Son of God;'

^{Acts 08:38} and he commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down to the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him; ^{Acts 08:39} and when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, and the eunuch saw him no more, for he was going on his Way rejoicing; ^{Acts 08:40} and Philip was found at Azotus, and passing through, he was proclaiming good news to all the cities, till his coming to Caesarea.

^{Acts 08:26} And an angel of the Lord (Simon Magus) spake unto Philip, saying, 'Arise, and go on toward the south, on the way that is going down from Jerusalem to Gaza,'-- this is desert.

^{Acts 08:27} And having arisen, he went on, and lo, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch, a man of rank (Titus, the head of the group called Fish. It was he who was represented as Fish 2 in the five loaves in Feeding the 5000. Fish were the Gentiles that were part of the Noah symbology of his three sons of Shem led by Philip, Ham led by Titus, and Japheth who would be Luke.), of Candace the queen of the Ethiopians (Pliny (Nat. History, 7:29). His words are: "The edifices of the city were few; a woman reigned there of the name of Candace, which name had been transmitted to these queens for many years."), who was over all her treasure (the church fees), who had come to worship to Jerusalem; (^{Acts 08:28} he was also returning, and is sitting on his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah.

^{Acts 08:29} And the Spirit said to Philip, 'Go near, and be joined to this chariot;' ^{Acts 08:30} and Philip having run near, heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, 'Do you then know what you do read?' ^{Acts 08:31} and he said, 'Why, how am I able, if some one may not guide me?' he called Philip also, having come up, to sit with him.

The words from Isaiah are in code to ask Titus, who is a friend of Agrippa, to agree to be silent about the plot to assassinate King Agrippa.

^{Acts 08:32} And the contents of the Writing that he was reading was this: 'As a sheep unto slaughter he was led, and as a lamb before his shearer dumb, so he does not open his mouth; ^{Acts 08:33} in his humiliation his judgment was taken away, and his generation -- who shall declare? because taken from the earth is his life.'

^{Acts 08:34} And the eunuch answering Philip said, 'I pray you, about whom does the prophet say this? about himself, or about some other one?' ^{Acts 08:35} and Philip having opened his mouth, and having begun from this Writing, proclaimed good news to him -- Jesus.

The answer of 'Jesus' meant that the symbolic meaning would prevail and not 'Agrippa' who was he head the sheep (Nazarites).

^{Acts 08:36} And as they were going on "The Way" (This is the first use of Jesus' new teaching: (Matthew 7:14 Because Straight is the gate, and narrow is The Way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it), they came upon a certain water, and the eunuch said, 'Lo, water; what does hinder me to be baptized?'

Philip has offered to baptize Titus as a bishop if he agrees!

^{Acts 08:37} And Philip said, 'If you do believe out of all the heart, it is lawful;'and he answering said, 'I believe Jesus Christ to be the Son of God;'

This first use of "Son of God"in Acts is an addition as it is not in Sinaiticus or Vaticanus.

^{Acts 08:38} and he commanded the chariot to stand still and they both went down to the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him; ^{Acts 08:39} and when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, and the eunuch saw him no more, for he was going on his Way rejoicing;

Titus will appear again in Paul's Epistles and most importantly as the tutor of Jesus' son Jesus Justus and in his own Epistle of Titus. Keeping quiet to Herod Agrippa, he will still remain close to Agrippa's son Agrippa II.

^{Acts 08:40} and Philip was found at Azotus, and passing through, he was proclaiming good news to all the cities, till his coming to Caesarea (Maritima).

Philip returns to Caesarea where he will be found in 58 AD when Paul stops at Philip's Church of virgin at position 5, Mary Magdalene.

^{Acts 26:04} 'The manner of my life then, indeed, from youth -- which from the beginning was among my nation, in Jerusalem (Qumran) -- know do all the Jews, ^{Acts 26:05} knowing me before from the first, (if they may be willing to testify,) that after the most exact sect of our worship, I lived a Pharisee;

^{Acts 26:04} 'The manner of my life then, indeed, from youth -- which from the beginning was among my nation, in Jerusalem (Qumran) -- know do all the Jews, ^{Acts 26:05} knowing me before from the first, (if they may be willing to testify,) that after the most exact sect of our worship, I lived a Pharisee;

Paul is actually a Herodian, being the son of Herod Antipas, (Clue: "from the beginning was among my nation" where nation means "descendent of Herod the Great" (See Rev 13:07 where the phrase "tribe, tongue, and nation" is used. Also see Paul's step-sister) as such they observed many Jewish customs. Paul is using the same concept used with Jesus in Luke that birth is Bar Mitzvah and thus he merely studied in Tarsus and also for a brief time with Gamaliel, but he was really born in the Herod palace in Jerusalem which is the tribal area of Benjamin. Possibly he was not even circumcised, which would explain why he was chosen to recruit the Gentiles. His mother was a Nabataean princess and his grandfather Herod the Great was Idumaean.

^{Acts 09:01} And Saul, yet breathing of threatening and slaughter to the disciples of the Lord, having gone to the chief priest, ^{Acts 09:02} did ask from him letters to Damascus, unto the synagogues, that if he may find any being of The Way, both men and women, he may bring them bound to Jerusalem.

^{Acts 09:03} And in the going, he came near to Damascus, and suddenly there shone round about him a light from the heaven, ^{Acts 09:04} and having fallen upon the earth, he heard a voice saying to him, 'Saul, Saul, why me do you persecute?'

^{Acts 09:05} And he said, 'Who are you, Lord?'and the Lord said, 'I am Jesus whom you do persecute; hard for you at the pricks to kick;' ^{Acts 09:06} trembling also, and astonished, he said, 'Lord, what do you wish me to do?'and the Lord [said] unto him, 'Arise, and enter into the city, and it shall be told you what it behooves you to do.'

^{Acts 09:07} And the men who are journeying with him stood speechless, hearing indeed the voice but seeing no one, ^{Acts 09:08} and Saul arose from the earth, and his eyes having been opened, he beheld no one, and leading him by the hand they brought him to Damascus, ^{Acts 09:09} and he was three days without seeing, and he did neither eat nor drink.

^{Acts 22:04} 'And this way I persecuted unto death, binding and delivering up to prisons both men and women, ^{Acts 22:05} as also the chief priest does testify to me, and all the eldership; from whom also having received letters unto the brethren, to Damascus, I was going on, to bring also those there bound to Jerusalem that they might be punished, ^{Acts 22:06} and it came to pass, in my going on and coming near to Damascus, about noon, suddenly out of the heaven there shone a great light round about me, ^{Acts 22:07} I fell also to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why me do you persecute?

^{Acts 22:08} 'And I answered, Who are you, Lord? and he said unto me, I am Jesus the Nazarene whom you do persecute -- ^{Acts 22:09} and they who are with me the light did see, and became afraid, and the voice they heard not of him who is speaking to me -- ^{Acts 22:10} and I said, What shall I do, Lord? and the Lord said unto me, Having risen, go on to Damascus, and there it shall be told you concerning all things that have been appointed for you to do.

^{Acts 22:11} 'And when I did not see from the glory of that light, being led by the hand by those who are with me, I came to Damascus,

^{Acts 26:09} 'I, indeed, therefore, thought with myself, that against the name of Jesus of Nazareth it behoved [me] many things to do, ^{Acts 26:10} which also I did in Jerusalem (Qumran), and many of the saints I in prison did shut up, from the chief priests having received the authority; they also being put to death, I gave my vote against them, ^{Acts 26:11} and in every synagogue, often punishing them, I was constraining [them] to speak evil, being also exceedingly mad against them, I was also persecuting [them] even unto strange cities.

^{Acts 26:12} 'In which things, also, going on to Damascus -- with authority and commission from the chief priests -- ^{Acts 26:13} at mid-day, I saw in the way, O king, out of heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me a light -- and those going on with me; ^{Acts 26:14} and we all having fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew dialect, Saul, Saul, why me do you persecute? hard for you against pricks to kick!

^{Acts 26:15} 'And I said, Who are you, Lord? and he said, I am Jesus whom you do persecute; ^{Acts 26:16} but rise, and stand upon your feet, for for this I appeared to you, to appoint you an officer and a witness both of the things you did see, and of the things [in which] I will appear to you, ^{Acts 26:17} delivering you from the people, and the nations, to whom now I send you, ^{Acts 26:18} to open their eyes, to turn [them] from darkness to light, and [from] the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that [is] toward me.

^{Acts 09:01} And Saul, yet breathing of threatening and slaughter to the disciples of the Lord, having gone to the chief priest, ^{Acts 09:02} did ask from him letters to Damascus, unto the synagogues, that if he may find any being of The Way, both men and women, he may bring them bound to Jerusalem.

^{Acts 09:03} And in the going, he came near to Damascus, and suddenly there shone round about him a light from the heaven, ^{Acts 09:04} and having fallen upon the earth, he heard a voice saying to him, 'Saul, Saul, why me do you persecute?'

^{Acts 09:05} And he said, 'Who are you, Lord?'and the Lord said, 'I am Jesus whom you do persecute; hard for you at the pricks to kick;' ^{Acts 09:06} trembling also, and astonished, he said, 'Lord, what do you wish me to do?'and the Lord [said] unto him, 'Arise, and enter into the city, and it shall be told you what it behooves you to do.'

^{Acts 09:07} And the men who are journeying with him stood speechless, hearing indeed the voice but seeing no one, ^{Acts 09:08} and Saul arose from the earth, and his eyes having been opened, he beheld no one, and leading him by the hand they brought him to Damascus, ^{Acts 09:09} and he was three days without seeing, and he did neither eat nor drink.

^{Acts 22:04} 'And this way I persecuted unto death, binding and delivering up to prisons both men and women, ^{Acts 22:05} as also the chief priest does testify to me, and all the eldership; from whom also having received letters unto the brethren, to Damascus, I was going on, to bring also those there bound to Jerusalem that they might be punished, ^{Acts 22:06} and it came to pass, in my going on and coming near to Damascus, about noon, suddenly out of the heaven there shone a great light round about me, ^{Acts 22:07} I fell also to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why me do you persecute?

^{Acts 22:08} 'And I answered, Who are you, Lord? and he said unto me, I am Jesus the Nazarene whom you do persecute -- ^{Acts 22:09} and they who are with me the light did see, and became afraid, and the voice they heard not of him who is speaking to me -- ^{Acts 22:10} and I said, What shall I do, Lord? and the Lord said unto me, Having risen, go on to Damascus, and there it shall be told you concerning all things that have been appointed for you to do.

^{Acts 22:11} 'And when I did not see from the glory of that light, being led by the hand by those who are with me, I came to Damascus,

^{Acts 26:09} 'I, indeed, therefore, thought with myself, that against the name of Jesus of Nazareth it behoved [me] many things to do, ^{Acts 26:10} which also I did in Jerusalem (Qumran), and many of the saints I in prison did shut up, from the chief priests having received the authority; they also being put to death, I gave my vote against them, ^{Acts 26:11} and in every synagogue, often punishing them, I was constraining [them] to speak evil, being also exceedingly mad against them, I was also persecuting [them] even unto strange cities.

^{Acts 26:12} 'In which things, also, going on to Damascus -- with authority and commission from the chief priests -- ^{Acts 26:13} at mid-day, I saw in the way, O king, out of heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me a light -- and those going on with me; ^{Acts 26:14} and we all having fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew dialect, Saul, Saul, why me do you persecute? hard for you against pricks to kick!

^{Acts 26:15} 'And I said, Who are you, Lord? and he said, I am Jesus whom you do persecute; ^{Acts 26:16} but rise, and stand upon your feet, for for this I appeared to you, to appoint you an officer and a witness both of the things you did see, and of the things in which I will appear to you, ^{Acts 26:17} delivering you from the people, and the nations, to whom now I send you, ^{Acts 26:18} to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and [from] the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that is toward me.

Saul may have had a directive to persecute those who have strayed from the path, but the description mimics the layout of the Church structure which contained a platform with a trap door that could be opened at midday to allow the sun to shine through. This structure can be seen in the healing in Capernaum by Jesus The paralytic, let down through the roof. (This story was a humorous portrayal of Jonathan Annas, the priest who would be on the platform as the priest above the congregation, showing that there were moveable roofs open to the sun.) The congregation were designated as the earth and the platform was heaven. Clearly, Jesus had come forward in front of the blinding light so as to be obscured as he is not supposed to be alive. He then spoke to Saul from the platform suggesting that he rethink his position.

From Acts 19:22 Paul use of "chronon" for his fortieth birthday and his marriage year, Paul gives the clue that he was born in November 16 AD so in this year 40 AD, he is 23 years old, the age at which he would enter into an Essene monastery to be educated and trained. This would indicate that his journey to Damascus might actually have been for the purpose of checking out Jesus' school before he "blindly" destroyed it. It is clear that his mentor Gamaliel would have advised him to not be so rash as to dismiss the school of "The Way".

Paul is saying that Jesus "by revelation" since it is pretended that he died on the cross, but he really taught him directly.

^{Acts 09:10} And there was a certain disciple in Damascus, by name Ananias, and the Lord said unto him in a vision, 'Ananias;'and he said, 'Behold me, Lord;' ^{Acts 09:11} and the Lord [said] unto him, 'Having risen, go on unto the street that is called Straight, and seek in the house of Judas, [one] by name Saul of Tarsus, for, lo, he does pray, ^{Acts 09:12} and he saw in a vision a man, by name Ananias, coming in, and putting a hand on him, that he may see again.'

^{Acts 09:13} And Ananias answered, 'Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how many evils he did to Your saints in Jerusalem, ^{Acts 09:14} and here he has authority from the chief priests, to bind all those calling on Your name.'

^{Acts 09:15} And the Lord said unto him, 'Be going on, because a choice vessel to Me is this one, to bear My name before nations and kings -- the sons also of Israel; ^{Acts 09:16} for I will show him how many things it behooves him for My name to suffer.'

^{Acts 09:17} And Ananias went away, and did enter into the house, and having put upon him [his] hands, said, 'Saul, brother, the Lord has sent me -- Jesus who did appear to you in The Way in which you were coming -- that you may see again, and may be filled with the Holy Spirit.'

^{Acts 09:18} And immediately there fell from his eyes as it were scales, he saw again also presently, and having risen, was baptized,

^{Acts 22:12} and a certain one, Ananias, a pious man according to the law, being testified to by all the Jews dwelling [there], ^{Acts 22:13} having come unto me and stood by [me], said to me, Saul, brother, look up; and I the same hour did look up to him; ^{Acts 22:14} and he said, The God of our fathers did choose you beforehand to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice out of his mouth, ^{Acts 22:15} because you shall be his witness unto all men of what you hast seen and heard; ^{Acts 22:16} and now, why tarry you? having risen, baptize yourself, and wash away your sins, calling upon the name of the Lord.

^{Acts 09:10} And there was a certain disciple in Damascus, by name Ananias (Simon Magus - this is the name that he used previously in Ananias and Sapphira), and the Lord said unto him in a vision. (Obviously Jesus does not to speak to Simon in a vision as both he and Simon both survived the Crucifixion, however it is a nice effect.)

'Ananias;'and he said, 'Behold me, Lord;' ^{Acts 09:11} and the Lord [said] unto him, 'Having risen, go on unto the street that is called Straight, and seek in the house of Judas
(Matthew 7:14 "Because Straight is the gate, and narrow is The Way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.")

(This Judas would be Apollos as the replacement for Theudas who also initiate an abortive reenactment of the Walls of Jericho (See Paul in Jerusalem accused of being a part of it). Theudas had taken this title of Judas after Judas Iscariot had left the Last Supper:
(John 14:22 "Judas said to him, (not the Iscariot) ..."

Paul refers to Apollos as one of the leaders that the Corinthians were fighting over
(1 Corinthians 1:12): "What I mean is that each one of you says, 'I belong to Paul,' or 'I belong to Apollos,' or 'I belong to Cephas (Peter),' or 'I belong to Christ.' He also is shown to be trained by Aquila and Priscilla.

for, lo, he does pray, ^{Acts 09:12} and he saw in a vision a man, by name Ananias, coming in, and putting a hand on him, that he may see again.'

^{Acts 09:13} And Ananias answered, 'Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how many evils he did to Your saints in Jerusalem, ^{Acts 09:14} and here he has authority from the chief priests, to bind all those calling on Your name.'

Simon questions the logic of Jesus bringing an enemy into their Church.

^{Acts 09:15} And the Lord said unto him, 'Be going on, because a choice vessel to Me is this one, to bear My name before nations and kings -- the sons also of Israel; ^{Acts 09:16} for I will show him how many things it behooves him for My name to suffer.'

Jesus disagrees with Simon, as he knows Paul's credentials and feels that it is worth the chance. He had been tutored by Gamaliel, the grandson of Hillel, and would be sure to have an honored place with the Herods, as Gamaliel did, teaching their princes. One of these princes would be the son of Agrippa, Agrippa II, whose importance would be immense if his father was killed and Jesus would have known that Simon Magus was plotting his death. Paul's Herodian heritage gave him a solid background in Greek philosophy and could relate to the Gentiles. He also had a strong will. He was clearly the most driven compared to his six disciples: Peter, Andrew, James and John, Philip, and John Mark.

^{Acts 09:17} And Ananias went away, and did enter into the house, and having put upon him [his] hands, said, 'Saul, brother, the Lord has sent me -- Jesus who did appear to you in The Way in which you were coming -- that you may see again, and may be filled with the Holy Spirit.'

^{Acts 09:18} And immediately there fell from his eyes as it were scales, he saw again also presently, and having risen, was baptized, The metaphor of being able to see is obviously referring to his schooling in "The Way" that would begin. (When Saul is baptized, he is given the name "Paul", but strangely Luke does not use it in Acts until later, perhaps because he distrusts Saul given his previous record of condemning the Way.)

^{Acts 22:12} and a certain one, Ananias, a pious man according to the law, being testified to by all the Jews dwelling [there], ^{Acts 22:13} having come unto me and stood by [me], said to me, Saul, brother, look up; and I the same hour did look up to him; ^{Acts 22:14} and he said, The God of our fathers did choose you beforehand to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice out of his mouth, ^{Acts 22:15} because you shall be his witness unto all men of what you hast seen and heard; ^{Acts 22:16} and now, why tarry you? having risen, baptize yourself, and wash away your sins, calling upon the name of the Lord.

In 42 AD Peter (or at least the leaders of the Council) and Simon Magus were debating differences in doctrine between them. These debates in the Clementine Recognitions and Homilies are interwoven with a story of how the twins Niceta and Aquila (James and John, disciples of Jesus), who were originally called Faustinus and Faustus, were reunited with their mother and father (Faustus). In the story at one point Simon Magus turns into Faust and clearly this story was the basis for the play and opera about Faust being tempted by the devil. The heroine who is destroyed by Faust is clearly based on Helena, the consort of Simon Magus.

Recognitions III:75 shows that Ten Books were written on philosophical and religious matters that were to be sent to James. Although the receiver of this text was traditionally thought to be James, the younger brother of Jesus, the receiver is really Jonathan Annas, shown as the disciple of Jesus known as James, son of Alphaeus, who was really a Sadducee priest and the superior of Jesus.

The date of the Clementines can be derived to be 42 AD by the following excerpts:

Clementine Homilies H.II:17. FIRST THE WORSE, THEN THE BETTER.
"In like manner, the combination with respect to Elias (John the Baptist), which behoved to have come, has been willingly put off to another time, having determined to enjoy it conveniently hereafter. Wherefore, also, he (John the Baptist) who was among those born of woman came first; then he (Jesus) who was among the sons of men came second. It were possible, following this order, to perceive to what series Simon belongs, who came before me to the Gentiles, and to which I belong who have come after him,"

In this debate with Simon Magus, Peter is making the point the worse comes first before the good: John the Baptist before Jesus and then Simon Magus before Peter. He implies then that Simon Magus accepted the Gentiles before Jesus instructed Peter to do so.

R.VII:29. "NOTHING COMMON OR UNCLEAN."
"Therefore, when our mother (the mother of Niceta (James) and John (Aquila)) had risen from her sleep, Peter began to address her, saying : "I wish you to know, O woman, an observance of our religion. We worship one God, who made the world, and we keep His law, in which He commands us first of all to worship Him, and to reverence His name, to honor our parents, and to preserve chastity and uprightness. But this also we observe, not to have a common table with Gentiles, unless when they believe, and on the reception of the Truth are baptized, and consecrated by a certain threefold invocation of the blessed name; and then we eat with them. Otherwise, even if it were a father or a mother, or wife, or sons, or brothers, we cannot have a common table with them. Since, therefore, we do this for the special cause of religion, let it not seem hard to you that your son cannot eat with you, until you have the same judgment of the faith that he has."

Note the use of the word "Truth" as the name of the Church. This was used by Jesus at Trial of Jesus before Pilate: "What is truth?" in April 33AD

The selection of the year 42 AD for this time when Simon Magus and Peter would be vying for converts fits as at this point Peter is excluding Gentiles from eating with him. Jesus will change this next year, where Cornelius (Luke), the Gentile, will be allowed to dine with Jews.

^{Acts 09:19} and having received nourishment, was strengthened, and Saul was with the disciples in Damascus certain days, ^{Acts 09:20} and immediately in the synagogues he was preaching the Christ, that he is the Son of God.

^{Acts 09:21} And all those hearing were amazed, and said, 'Is not this he who laid waste in Jerusalem those calling on this name, and hither to this intent had come, that he might bring them bound to the chief priests?'

^{Acts 09:22} And Saul was still more strengthened, and he was confounding the Jews dwelling in Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

^{Acts 09:23} And when many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel together to kill him, ^{Acts 09:24} and their counsel against [him] was known to Saul; they were also watching the gates both day and night, that they may kill him, ^{Acts 09:25} and the disciples having taken him, by night did let him down by the wall, letting down in a basket.

^{Acts 09:26} And Saul, having come to Jerusalem, did try to join himself to the disciples, and they were all afraid of him, not believing that he is a disciple, ^{Acts 09:27} and Barnabas having taken him, brought [him] unto the apostles, and did declare to them how in The Way he saw the Lord, and that he spake to him, and how in Damascus he was speaking boldly in the name of Jesus.

^{Acts 09:28} And he was with them, coming in and going out in Jerusalem, ^{Acts 09:29} and speaking boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, he was both speaking and disputing with the Hellenists, and they were taking in hand to kill him, ^{Acts 09:30} and the brethren having known, brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus.

^{Acts 22:17} 'And it came to pass when I returned to Jerusalem, and while I was praying in the temple, I came into a trance, ^{Acts 22:18} and I saw him saying to me, Haste and go forth in haste out of Jerusalem, because they will not receive your testimony concerning me; ^{Acts 22:19} and I said, Lord, they -- they know that I was imprisoning and was scourging in every synagogue those believing on you; ^{Acts 22:21} and he said unto me, Go, because to nations far off I will send you.'

^{Acts 09:19} and having received nourishment, was strengthened, and Saul was with the disciples in Damascus certain days, ^{Acts 09:20} and immediately in the synagogues he was preaching the Christ, that he is the Son of God.

The general statement above does not imply that Paul's conversion was overnight, but rather it is saying that Paul undertook three years of study (nourishment) which was in Tarsus (see below).

The use of the phrase "preaching the Christ, that he is the Son of God" is supposed to be a reference to the Daniel's prediction of the coming of the Restoration with the arrival of 'the Son of Man" not "Son of God". Jesus quotes from the prophesy of Daniel 7:13-14 in the Trial of Jesus before Caiaphas (Mark 14:62) where Jesus said,"You shall see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of the power, and coming with the clouds, of the heaven."

Others has accused him of using the title "Son of God" either to deride him or from confusion, but he never referred to himself as "Son of God". The situation was caused by the problem that Jonathan Annas was in the position of "Man" being second to the High Priest representing God on earth, but he was also referred to as "God" as priests use the term "Father". As Paul had also disliked Jonathan (See), he decided to eliminate him and move Jesus up "Son of God". His use succeeded in erasing Jesus' own title of "Son of Man".

Clearly, Paul from the start is determined to simplify the message so the term "Son of God" is more direct just as he will continue to say that Christ died on the Cross and was Resurrected.

^{Acts 09:21} And all those hearing were amazed, and said, 'Is not this he who laid waste in Jerusalem those calling on this name, and hither to this intent had come, that he might bring them bound to the chief priests?'

^{Acts 09:22} And Saul was still more strengthened, and he was confounding the Jews dwelling in Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

^{Acts 09:23} And when many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel together to kill him, ^{Acts 09:24} and their counsel against [him] was known to Saul; they were also watching the gates both day and night, that they may kill him, ^{Acts 09:25} and the disciples having taken him, by night did let him down by the wall, letting down in a basket.

Obviously Paul was making a nuisance of himself trying to convince the ones that had sent him that Jesus was the one ordained by God and not them. They had enough of it decided to imprison him, but he made his escape over the wall.

This diatribe must be against Paul and Barnabas (brother of Jesus), who left with him, at that time.

^{Acts 09:26} And Saul, having come to Jerusalem, did try to join himself to the disciples, and they were all afraid of him, not believing that he is a disciple, ^{Acts 09:27} and Barnabas having taken him, brought [him] unto the apostles, and did declare to them how in The Way he saw the Lord, and that he spake to him, and how in Damascus he was speaking boldly in the name of Jesus.

Barnabas is Matthias, the twelfth disciple, chosen to replace Judas Iscariot, and the brother Joses of Jesus. He believed in Paul's abilities, but the others were wary considering the attack on Stephen (Jonathan Annas).

^{Acts 09:28} And he was with them, coming in and going out in Jerusalem, ^{Acts 09:29} and speaking boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, he was both speaking and disputing with the Hellenists, and they were taking in hand to kill him, ^{Acts 09:30} and the brethren having known, brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus.

This would be the start of many times that Paul's zeal would get him in to trouble. It was decided to send him to the monastery in Tarsus for his further study.

^{Acts 22:17} 'And it came to pass when I returned to Jerusalem, and while I was praying in the temple, I came into a trance, ^{Acts 22:18} and I saw him saying to me, Haste and go forth in haste out of Jerusalem, because they will not receive your testimony concerning me; ^{Acts 22:19} and I said, Lord, they -- they know that I was imprisoning and was scourging in every synagogue those believing on you; ^{Acts 22:21} and he said unto me, Go, because to nations far off I will send you.'

^{Acts 09:31} Then, indeed, the assemblies throughout all Judea, and Galilee, and Samaria, had peace, being built up, and, going on in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.

^{Acts 09:32} And it came to pass that Peter passing throughout all [quarters], came down also unto the saints who were dwelling at Lydda, ^{Acts 09:33} and he found there a certain man, Aeneas by name -- for eight years laid upon a couch -- who was paralytic, ^{Acts 09:34} and Peter said to him, 'Aeneas, heal you does Jesus the Christ; arise and spread for yourself;'and immediately he rose, ^{Acts 09:35} and all those dwelling at Lydda, and Saron saw him, and did turn to the Lord.

^{Acts 09:31} Then, indeed, the assemblies throughout all Judea, and Galilee, and Samaria, had peace, being built up, and, going on in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.

^{Acts 09:32} And it came to pass that Peter passing throughout all [quarters], came down also unto the saints who were dwelling at Lydda, ^{Acts 09:33} and he found there a certain man, Aeneas by name -- for eight years laid upon a couch -- who was paralytic, ^{Acts 09:34} and Peter said to him, 'Aeneas, heal you does Jesus the Christ; arise and spread for yourself;'and immediately he rose, ^{Acts 09:35} and all those dwelling at Lydda, and Saron saw him, and did turn to the Lord.

There is no doubt that this story relates to James, the brother of Jesus as it as this lame man has similar symptoms to March 31AD Impotent Man at the Pool of Bethesda and the Lame man healed by Peter Sept 33 AD. It had been approximately eight years since his his impotency had been healed by Jesus (31 AD + 8 =39 AD) and starting in the year 33 AD at age 32 when Peter accepted him in the Church he had begun his studies. Now Peter had been directed by Jesus to make James the Bishop of Jerusalem. James took the name Aeneas to indicate his rejection of strict Jewish practices in favor of the liberal ones that accept uncircumcised Gentiles, thus the name of the fabled founder of Rome.

The date of 40 AD is also supported by Recognitions of Clement 1:43. SUCCESS OF THE GOSPEL "We sought for a fitting opportunity, a week of years was completed from the passion of the Lord (7 years + AD 33 = AD 40), the Church of the Lord which was constituted in Jerusalem was most plentifully multiplied and grew, being governed with most righteous ordinances by James [the Just], who was ordained bishop in it by the Lord."

"For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James (April 33AD Resurrection: Road to Emmaus appearance (Cleopas and James) then to all the apostles, and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born. (1 Corinthians 15:3-8)

Hegesippus, who lived immediately after the apostles, gives the most accurate account in the fifth book of his Memoirs. He writes as follows: "James, the brother of the Lord, succeeded to the government of the Church in conjunction with the apostles. He has been called the Just by all from the time of our Saviour to the present day....He was holy from his mother's womb (Joseph and Mary followed the prescribed time for sexual relations as opposed to the conception of Jesus where many declared him illegitimate) ; and he drank no wine nor strong drink, nor did he eat flesh. No razor came upon his head; he did not anoint himself with oil, and he did not use the bath. He alone was permitted to enter into the holy place; for he wore not woolen but linen garments. And he was in the habit of entering alone into the temple, and was frequently found upon his knees begging forgiveness for the people, so that his knees became hard like those of a camel..." (Eusebius Church History II.23.5-6)

^{Acts 09:36} And in Joppa there was a certain female disciple, by name Tabitha, (which interpreted, is called Dorcas,) this woman was full of good works and kind acts that she was doing; ^{Acts 09:37} and it came to pass in those days she, having ailed, died, and having bathed her, they laid her in an upper chamber, ^{Acts 09:38} and Lydda being near to Joppa, the disciples having heard that Peter is in that [place], sent two men unto him, calling on him not to delay to come through unto them.

^{Acts 09:39} And Peter having risen, went with them, whom having come, they brought into the upper chamber, and all the widows stood by him weeping, and showing coats and garments, as many as Dorcas was making while she was with them.

^{Acts 09:40} And Peter having put them all forth without, having bowed the knees, did pray, and having turned unto the body said, 'Tabitha, arise;'and she opened her eyes, and having seen Peter, she sat up, ^{Acts 09:41} and having given her [his] hand, he lifted her up, and having called the saints and the widows, he presented her alive, ^{Acts 09:42} and it became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed on the Lord;

^{Acts 09:36} And in Joppa there was a certain female disciple, by name Tabitha, (which interpreted, is called Dorcas,) this woman was full of good works and kind acts that she was doing; ^{Acts 09:37} and it came to pass in those days she, having ailed, died, and having bathed her, they laid her in an upper chamber, ^{Acts 09:38} and Lydda being near to Joppa, the disciples having heard that Peter is in that [place], sent two men unto him, calling on him not to delay to come through unto them.

^{Acts 09:39} And Peter having risen, went with them, whom having come, they brought into the upper chamber, and all the widows stood by him weeping, and showing coats and garments, as many as Dorcas was making while she was with them.

^{Acts 09:40} And Peter having put them all forth without, having bowed the knees, did pray, and having turned unto the body said, 'Tabitha, arise;'and she opened her eyes, and having seen Peter, she sat up, ^{Acts 09:41} and having given her [his] hand, he lifted her up, and having called the saints and the widows, he presented her alive, ^{Acts 09:42} and it became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed on the Lord;

Mary Mother of Jesus was wedded to Joseph in 8 BC at the age of (17 and a half) thus born in December 26 BC. In December 40 AD she would be 65 years old (26 BC -1 + 40AD = 65 years). She had become an ordinary widow when her husband Joseph was assassinated in 23 AD, but now she would be promoted to the revered Widow class, thus in a metaphoric sense dying to her widow state. She would now attain to the position of that Anna held. (See Mar 6AD Essenes: Simeon and Anna bless Jesus.) This position was of that "Sarah" (Abraham's wife, the mother of Isaac) Note that she was placed in the "upper chamber" (the higher platform of the church where the priests sat after "bathing her" the ritual bathing of Essenes entering the monastery. Her title before that was "Mary" as Miriam, a sister of "Moses" but her real name as shown here is Dorcas (Tabitha meaning gazelle). Joppa was the tribal territory of Dan from which Mary came and all were sad to see her leave for her higher duties. Being a sister in the monastery where wealth was shared, she had overseen the embroidery on the priests garments. (Since Jonathan Annas' personal title was "God" which people attributed to Jesus, Mary would now be "Holy Mother of God".)

^{Rev 09:12} The first woe did go forth, lo, there come yet two woes after these things.

^{Rev 09:13} And the sixth angel did sound, and I heard a voice out of the four horns of the altar of gold that is before God,

^{Rev 09:14} saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, 'Loose the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates;' ^{Rev 09:15} and loosed were the four angels, who have been made ready for the hour, and day, and month, and year, that they may kill the third of men;

^{Rev 09:16} and the number of the forces of the horsemen [is] two myriads of myriads, and I heard the number of them. ^{Rev 09:17} And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those sitting upon them, having breastplates of fire, and jacinth, and brimstone; and the heads of the horses [are] as heads of lions, and out of their mouths proceeds fire, and smoke, and brimstone; ^{Rev 09:18} by these three were the third of men killed, from the fire, and from the smoke, and from the brimstone, that is proceeding out of their mouth, ^{Rev 09:19} for their authorities are in their mouth, and in their tails, for their tails [are] like serpents, having heads, and with them they do injure.

^{Rev 09:20} And the rest of men, who were not killed in these plagues, neither did reform from the works of their hands, that they may not bow before the demons, and idols, those of gold, and those of silver, and those of brass, and those of stone, and those of wood, that are neither able to see, nor to hear, nor to walk, ^{Rev 09:21} yea they did not reform from their murders, nor from their sorceries, nor from their whoredoms, nor from their thefts.

(James Niceta writes:)
^{Rev 09:12} The first woe did go forth (Refers to the Plague Attacks - 7th seven year plague cycle beginning 41AD) , lo, there come yet two woes after these things. 48AD and 55AD

It was the year 41 AD and the Sixth Angel is Matthew Annas (High Priest 43 AD) and, since Agrippa I has been made King Herod by Caligula in 37 AD and he is given a position in front and thus higher status than the High Priest as in the days of Herod the Great.

^{Rev 09:14} saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, 'Loose the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates;' ^{Rev 09:15} and loosed were the four angels, who have been made ready for the hour, and day, and month, and year, that they may kill the third of men; (1. priests, 2. laity, and 3. nonbelievers-who are already dead or made dead by excommunication)

The Church now has four factions that needed to join together against the great threat of King Agrippa who would now be as powerful as Herod the Great:

1. James, the brother of Jesus, made bishop of Jerusalem in 40AD (later called Jewish Christians)
2. Simon's monastery in Caesarea Maritima being called "Seekers of Smooth Things" in the Damascus Document of the Dead Sea Scrolls
3. the monastery of Qumran for Gentiles where Peter would train to be bishop
4. the Church of Damascus connected to Diaspora missions of Peter and Paul

The next passages are merely to inflate the importance of the mission to the West.

^{Rev 09:16} and the number of the forces of the horsemen (priests) are two myriads of myriads, and I heard the number of them. ^{Rev 09:17} And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those sitting upon them, having breastplates of fire, and jacinth, and brimstone (candles, the Holy Spirit - emblem at third position (Exodus 28:19), & accepted suffering); and the heads of the horses are as heads of lions (with the authority of kings: King Agrippa), and out of their mouths proceeds fire, and smoke, and brimstone (candles, incense, & accepted suffering); ^{Rev 09:18} by these three were the third of men killed (three divisions of mankind: priest. laity, and nonbelievers who are already dead or made dead by excommunication), from the fire, and from the smoke, and from the brimstone, that is proceeding out of their mouth, ^{Rev 09:19} for their authorities are in their mouth (preaching), and in their tails, for their tails [are] like serpents, having heads (power of excommunication like a scorpion sting brings death), and with them they do injure.

Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians 03:12 "Now if any one builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw --" 'Hay and straw' are wheat and barley of the Miracle of the Feeding the 4000/5000"

The next passages relate to the structure of Simon Magus' Church and are there to deride it.

^{Rev 09:20} And the rest of men, who were not killed (the opposing Church) in these plagues, neither did reform from the works of their hands, that they may not bow before the demons, and idols, those of gold, and those of silver, and those of brass, and those of stone, and those of wood, neither able to see, nor to hear, nor to walk,

• gold=priests
• silver=levites
• brass=presbyter
• stone=bishops (Helena as a female bishop wearing a sapphire: See Ananias and Sapphira hold back money to the Church)
• wood=Gentile proselytes (Adam in the Garden of Eden)

^{Rev 09:21} yea they did not reform from their murders, nor from their sorceries, nor from their whoredoms, nor from their thefts.

• 'murders and sorceries" = Simon Magus' illusions such as
  
Clementine Homilies H.2.30. Simon claims to have separated a soul from a human body
"Then Simon said: "I am aware that you know that I separated a soul from a human body; but I know that you are ignorant that it is not the soul of the dead person that ministers to me, for it does not exist; but a certain demon works, pretending to be the soul."
Clementine Homilies 2.30 32. Simon's amazing prodigies, witnessed by his ex-followers
"Aquila having thus spoken, I Clement enquired: "What, then, are the prodigies that he works?" And they told me that he makes statues walk, and that he rolls himself on the fire, and is not burnt; and sometimes he flies; and he makes loaves of stones; he becomes a serpent; he transforms himself into a goat; he becomes two-faced; he changes himself into gold; he opens lockfast gates; he melts iron; at banquets he produces images of all way of forms. In his house he makes dishes be seen as born of themselves to wait on him, no bearers being seen. I wondered when I heard them speak thus; but many bore witness that they had been present, and had seen such things."
• 'whoredom' = Bernice's affair with Titus
• 'thefts' = Ananias and Sapphira holding back money to the Church

^{Acts 09:43} and it came to pass, that he (assumed to be Peter) remained many days in Joppa, with a certain one, Simon a tanner.

^{Acts 09:43} and it came to pass, that he ("the Lord") remained many days in Joppa, with a certain one, Simon a tanner.

(Note that, although it is three years later (43AD), Luke has secretly revealed that it is Jesus ("the Lord" carried over from previous verse about the healing of Mother Mary: Acts 09:42 ... "and many believed on the Lord;"

Simon Magus is in Joppa by the sea next to Lydda where the convent of Mother Mary and Mary Magdalene were located. He is there to officiate at the third marriage union wedding of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, it being six years from the birth of Jesus Justus. As "tanner", he has taken the role that Judas took as a 'tester' when he was Tempted by Satan in the Wilderness for his Nazarite Vow before Marriage. Peter was there also.

^{Acts 10:01} And there was a certain man in Caesarea, by name Cornelius, a centurion from a band called Italian, ^{Acts 10:02} pious, and fearing God with all his house, doing also many kind acts to the people, and beseeching God always, ^{Acts 10:03} he saw in a vision manifestly, as it were the ninth hour of the day, an angel of God coming in unto him, and saying to him, 'Cornelius;' ^{Acts 10:04} and he having looked earnestly on him, and becoming afraid, said, 'What is it, Lord?'And he said to him, 'Your prayers and your kind acts came up for a memorial before God, ^{Acts 10:05} and now send men to Joppa, and send for a certain one Simon, who is surnamed Peter, ^{Acts 10:06} this one does lodge with a certain Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea; this one shall speak to you what it behooves you to do.'

^{Acts 10:07} And when the angel who is speaking to Cornelius went away, having called two of his domestics, and a pious soldier of those waiting on him continually, ^{Acts 10:08} and having declared to them all things, he sent them to Joppa.

^{Acts 10:09} And on the morrow, as these are proceeding on The Way, and are drawing near to the city, Peter went up upon the house-top to pray, about the sixth hour, ^{Acts 10:10} and he became very hungry, and wished to eat; and they making ready, there fell upon him a trance, ^{Acts 10:11} and he does behold the heaven opened, and descending unto him a certain vessel, as a great sheet, bound at the four corners, and let down upon the earth, ^{Acts 10:12} in which were all the four-footed beasts of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of the heaven, ^{Acts 10:13} and there came a voice unto him: 'Having risen, Peter, slay and eat.'

^{Acts 10:14} And Peter said, 'Not so, Lord; because at no time did I eat anything common or unclean;' ^{Acts 10:15} and [there is] a voice again a second time unto him: 'What God did cleanse, you, declare not you common;' ^{Acts 10:16} and this was done thrice, and again was the vessel received up to the heaven.

^{Acts 10:17} And as Peter was perplexed in himself what the vision that he saw might be, then, lo, the men who have been sent from Cornelius, having made inquiry for the house of Simon, stood at the gate, ^{Acts 10:18} and having called, they were asking if Simon, who is surnamed Peter, does lodge here?

^{Acts 10:19} And Peter thinking about the vision, the Spirit said to him, 'Lo, three men do seek you; ^{Acts 10:20} but having risen, go down and go on with them, nothing doubting, because I have sent them;' ^{Acts 10:21} and Peter having come down unto the men who have been sent from Cornelius unto him, said, 'Lo, I am he whom you seek, what [is] the cause for which you are present?'

^{Acts 10:22} And they said, 'Cornelius, a centurion, a man righteous and fearing God, well testified to, also, by all the nation of the Jews, was divinely warned by a holy angel to send for you, to his house, and to hear sayings from you.'

^{Acts 10:23} Having called them in, therefore, he lodged them, and on the morrow Peter went forth with them, and certain of the brethren from Joppa went with him, ^{Acts 10:24} and on the morrow they did enter into Caesarea; and Cornelius was waiting for them, having called together his kindred and near friends, ^{Acts 10:25} and as it came that Peter entered in, Cornelius having met him, having fallen at [his] feet, did bow before [him]; ^{Acts 10:26} and Peter raised him, saying, 'Stand up; I also myself am a man;' ^{Acts 10:27} and talking with him he went in, and does find many having come together.

^{Acts 10:28} And he said unto them, 'You know how it is unlawful for a man, a Jew, to keep company with, or to come unto, one of another race, but to me God did show to call no man common or unclean; ^{Acts 10:29} therefore also without gainsaying I came, having been sent for; I ask, therefore, for what matter you did send for me?'

^{Acts 10:30} And Cornelius said, 'Four days ago till this hour, I was fasting, and [at] the ninth hour praying in my house, and, lo, a man stood before me in bright clothing, ^{Acts 10:31} and he said, Cornelius, your prayer was heard, and your kind acts were remembered before God; ^{Acts 10:32} send, therefore, to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter; this one does lodge in the house of Simon a tanner, by the sea, who having come, shall speak to you; ^{Acts 10:33} at once, therefore, I sent to you; you also did do well, having come; now, therefore, are we all before God present to hear all things that have been commanded you by God.'

^{Acts 10:34} And Peter having opened his mouth, said, 'Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons, ^{Acts 10:35} but in every nation he who is fearing Him, and is working righteousness, is acceptable to Him; ^{Acts 10:36} the word that he sent to the sons of Israel, proclaiming good news -- peace through Jesus Christ (this one is Lord of all,) ^{Acts 10:37} you -- you have known; -- the word that came throughout all Judea, having begun from Galilee, after the baptism that John preached; ^{Acts 10:38} Jesus who [is] from Nazareth -- how God did anoint him with the Holy Spirit and power; who went through, doing good, and healing all those oppressed by the devil, because God was with him; ^{Acts 10:39} and we -- we are witnesses of all things that he did, both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem, -- whom they did slay, having hanged upon a tree.

^{Acts 10:40} 'This one God did raise up the third day, and gave him to become manifest, ^{Acts 10:41} not to all the people, but to witnesses, to those having been chosen before by God -- to us who did eat with [him], and did drink with him, after his rising out of the dead; ^{Acts 10:42} and he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify fully that it is he who has been ordained by God judge of living and dead -- ^{Acts 10:43} to this one do all the prophets testify, that through his name every one that is believing in him does receive remission of sins.'

^{Acts 10:44} While Peter is yet speaking these sayings, the Holy spirit fell upon all those hearing the word, ^{Acts 10:45} and those of the circumcision believing were astonished -- as many as came with Peter -- because also upon the nations the gift of the Holy Spirit has been poured out, ^{Acts 10:46} for they were hearing them speaking with tongues and magnifying God.

^{Acts 10:47} Then answered Peter, 'The water is any one able to forbid, that these may not be baptized, who the Holy Spirit did receive -- even as also we?' ^{Acts 10:48} he commanded them also to be baptized in the name of the Lord; then they besought him to remain certain days.

^{Acts 11:01} And the apostles and the brethren who are in Judea heard that also the nations did receive the word of God, ^{Acts 11:02} and when Peter came up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision were contending with him, ^{Acts 11:03} saying -- 'Unto men uncircumcised you did go in, and did eat with them!'

^{Acts 11:04} And Peter having begun, did expound to them in order saying, ^{Acts 11:05} 'I was in the city of Joppa praying, and I saw in a trance a vision, a certain vessel coming down, as a great sheet by four corners being let down out of the heaven, and it came unto me; ^{Acts 11:06} at which having looked steadfastly, I was considering, and I saw the four-footed beasts of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of heaven; ^{Acts 11:07} and I heard a voice saying to me, Having risen, Peter, slay and eat; ^{Acts 11:08} and I said, Not so, Lord; because anything common or unclean has at no time entered into my mouth; ^{Acts 11:09} and a voice did answer me a second time out of the heaven, What God did cleanse, you -- declare not you common.

^{Acts 11:10} 'And this happened thrice, and again was all drawn up to the heaven, ^{Acts 11:11} and, lo, immediately, three men stood at the house in which I was, having been sent from Caesarea unto me, ^{Acts 11:12} and the Spirit said to me to go with them, nothing doubting, and these six brethren also went with me, and we did enter into the house of the man, ^{Acts 11:13} he declared also to us how he saw the angel in his house standing, and saying to him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter, ^{Acts 11:14} who shall speak sayings by which you shall be saved, you and all your house.

^{Acts 11:15} 'And in my beginning to speak, the Holy Spirit did fall upon them, even as also upon us in the beginning, ^{Acts 11:16} and I remembered the saying of the Lord, how he said, John indeed did baptize with water, and you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit; ^{Acts 11:17} if then the equal gift God did give to them as also to us, having believed upon the Lord Jesus Christ, I -- how was I able to withstand God?'

^{Acts 11:18} And they, having heard these things, were silent, and were glorifying God, saying, 'Then, indeed, also to the nations did God give the reformation to life.'

Jesus is in Joppa with Simon Magus (the tanner) See Acts 9:43

Cornelius is the one who used a lancet to test if Jesus was dead on the cross and lied to Pilate that he was dead and guarded the tomb. In March 45 AD John Mark will leave Barnabas and Paul to go with Simon Magus and Mary Magdalene who is divorcing Jesus. At that time Cornelius will replace John Mark as Jesus' companion helper, taking the name Luke, as Jesus' physician.

^{Acts 10:02} pious, and fearing God with all his house, doing also many kind acts to the people, and beseeching God always, ^{Acts 10:03} he saw in a vision manifestly, as it were the ninth hour of the day, an angel of God (This would be Matthew Annas, the High Priest, a Sadducee) coming in unto him, and saying to him, 'Cornelius;' ^{Acts 10:04} and he having looked earnestly on him, and becoming afraid, said, 'What is it, Lord?'And he said to him, 'Your prayers and your kind acts came up for a memorial before God, ^{Acts 10:05} and now send men to Joppa, and send for a certain one Simon, who is surnamed Peter, ^{Acts 10:06} this one does lodge with a certain Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea; this one shall speak to you what it behooves you to do.'

^{Acts 10:07} And when the angel who is speaking to Cornelius went away, having called two of his domestics, and a pious soldier of those waiting on him continually, ^{Acts 10:08} and having declared to them all things, he sent them to Joppa.

^{Acts 10:09} And on the morrow, as these are proceeding on The Way, and are drawing near to the city, Peter went up upon the house-top to pray, about the sixth hour, ^{Acts 10:10} and he became very hungry, and wished to eat; and they making ready, there fell upon him a trance,

Peter is preparing the communion table and Jesus come on to the platform called heaven.

^{Acts 10:11} and he does behold the heaven opened, and descending unto him a certain vessel, as a great sheet, bound at the four corners, and let down upon the earth, ^{Acts 10:12} in which were all the four-footed beasts of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of the heaven, ^{Acts 10:13} and there came a voice unto him: 'Having risen, Peter, slay and eat.'

^{Acts 10:14} And Peter said, 'Not so, Lord; because at no time did I eat anything common or unclean;'

Jesus has passed down a tablecloth with embroidered animals on to place on the table. Peter objects as these are unclean animals.

^{Acts 10:15} and [there is] a voice again a second time unto him: 'What God did cleanse, you, declare not you common;' ^{Acts 10:16} and this was done thrice, and again was the vessel received up to the heaven.

The animals are those that Noah saved as a metaphor for the his three sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth being three groups of Gentiles called Fish 1, Fish 2 (present in Feeding the 5000), and Fish 3 represent their grades. They corresponded roughly to their geographic areas. Shem represented the Semites headed by Philip, Ham represented he Egyptians and Ethiopians head by Titus, and Japheth represented the Greeks and the Romans to be soon headed by James Niceta and later by Luke.

^{Acts 10:17} And as Peter was perplexed in himself what the vision that he saw might be, then, lo, the men who have been sent from Cornelius, having made inquiry for the house of Simon (Magus), stood at the gate, ^{Acts 10:18} and having called, they were asking if Simon, who is surnamed Peter, does lodge here?

^{Acts 10:19} And Peter thinking about the vision, the Spirit said to him, 'Lo, three men do seek you; ^{Acts 10:20} but having risen, go down and go on with them, nothing doubting, because I have sent them;' ^{Acts 10:21} and Peter having come down unto the men who have been sent from Cornelius unto him, said, 'Lo, I am he whom you seek, what [is] the cause for which you are present?'

^{Acts 10:22} And they said, 'Cornelius, a centurion, a man righteous and fearing God, well testified to, also, by all the nation of the Jews, was divinely warned by a holy angel to send for you, to his house, and to hear sayings from you.'

^{Acts 10:23} Having called them in, therefore, he lodged them, and on the morrow Peter went forth with them, and certain of the brethren from Joppa went with him, ^{Acts 10:24} and on the morrow they did enter into Caesarea;

Peter welcomes the three men from Cornelius and the next day they go by boat to Caesarea on instructions from Jesus.

and Cornelius was waiting for them, having called together his kindred and near friends, ^{Acts 10:25} and as it came that Peter entered in, Cornelius having met him, having fallen at [his] feet, did bow before [him]; ^{Acts 10:26} and Peter raised him, saying, 'Stand up; I also myself am a man;' ^{Acts 10:27} and talking with him he went in, and does find many having come together.

^{Acts 10:28} And he said unto them, 'You know how it is unlawful for a man, a Jew, to keep company with, or to come unto, one of another race, but to me God did show to call no man common or unclean; ^{Acts 10:29} therefore also without gainsaying I came, having been sent for; I ask, therefore, for what matter you did send for me?'

Cornelius tells his story of how the angel (Matthew Annas) stood before him.

^{Acts 10:30} And Cornelius said, 'Four days ago till this hour, I was fasting, and [at] the ninth hour praying in my house, and, lo, a man stood before me in bright clothing, ^{Acts 10:31} and he said, Cornelius, your prayer was heard, and your kind acts were remembered before God; ^{Acts 10:32} send, therefore, to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter; this one does lodge in the house of Simon a tanner, by the sea, who having come, shall speak to you; ^{Acts 10:33} at once, therefore, I sent to you; you also did do well, having come; now, therefore, are we all before God present to hear all things that have been commanded you by God.'

Peter tells the audience that Jesus was crucified and risen and that God intended this remission of sins to be for all nations and not just the Jews.

^{Acts 10:34} And Peter having opened his mouth, said, 'Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons, ^{Acts 10:35} but in every nation he who is fearing Him, and is working righteousness, is acceptable to Him; ^{Acts 10:36} the word that he sent to the sons of Israel, proclaiming good news -- peace through Jesus Christ (this one is Lord of all,) ^{Acts 10:37} you -- you have known; -- the word that came throughout all Judea, having begun from Galilee, after the baptism that John preached; ^{Acts 10:38} Jesus who [is] from Nazareth -- how God did anoint him with the Holy Spirit and power; who went through, doing good, and healing all those oppressed by the devil, because God was with him; ^{Acts 10:39} and we -- we are witnesses of all things that he did, both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem, -- whom they did slay, having hanged upon a tree.

^{Acts 10:40} 'This one God did raise up the third day, and gave him to become manifest, ^{Acts 10:41} not to all the people, but to witnesses, to those having been chosen before by God -- to us who did eat with [him], and did drink with him, after his rising out of the dead; ^{Acts 10:42} and he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify fully that it is he who has been ordained by God judge of living and dead -- ^{Acts 10:43} to this one do all the prophets testify, that through his name every one that is believing in him does receive remission of sins.'

^{Acts 10:44} While Peter is yet speaking these sayings, the Holy spirit fell upon all those hearing the word, ^{Acts 10:45} and those of the circumcision believing were astonished -- as many as came with Peter -- because also upon the nations the gift of the Holy Spirit has been poured out, ^{Acts 10:46} for they were hearing them speaking with tongues and magnifying God.

^{Acts 10:47} Then answered Peter, 'The water is any one able to forbid, that these may not be baptized, who the Holy Spirit did receive -- even as also we?' ^{Acts 10:48} he commanded them also to be baptized in the name of the Lord; then they besought him to remain certain days.

^{Acts 11:01} And the apostles and the brethren who are in Judea heard that also the nations did receive the word of God, ^{Acts 11:02} and when Peter came up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision were contending with him, ^{Acts 11:03} saying -- 'Unto men uncircumcised you did go in, and did eat with them!'

^{Acts 11:04} And Peter having begun, did expound to them in order saying, ^{Acts 11:05} 'I was in the city of Joppa praying, and I saw in a trance a vision, a certain vessel coming down, as a great sheet by four corners being let down out of the heaven, and it came unto me; ^{Acts 11:06} at which having looked steadfastly, I was considering, and I saw the four-footed beasts of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of heaven; ^{Acts 11:07} and I heard a voice saying to me, Having risen, Peter, slay and eat; ^{Acts 11:08} and I said, Not so, Lord; because anything common or unclean has at no time entered into my mouth; ^{Acts 11:09} and a voice did answer me a second time out of the heaven, What God did cleanse, you -- declare not you common.

^{Acts 11:10} 'And this happened thrice, and again was all drawn up to the heaven, ^{Acts 11:11} and, lo, immediately, three men stood at the house in which I was, having been sent from Caesarea unto me, ^{Acts 11:12} and the Spirit said to me to go with them, nothing doubting, and these six brethren also went with me, and we did enter into the house of the man, ^{Acts 11:13} he declared also to us how he saw the angel in his house standing, and saying to him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter, ^{Acts 11:14} who shall speak sayings by which you shall be saved, you and all your house.

Cornelius who is Luke, the writer of Acts, gets carried away declaring this to be like the Pentecost Gathering in June 34 AD

^{Acts 11:15} 'And in my beginning to speak, the Holy Spirit did fall upon them, even as also upon us in the beginning, ^{Acts 11:16} and I remembered the saying of the Lord, how he said, John indeed did baptize with water, and you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit; ^{Acts 11:17} if then the equal gift God did give to them as also to us, having believed upon the Lord Jesus Christ, I -- how was I able to withstand God?'

^{Acts 11:18} And they, having heard these things, were silent, and were glorifying God, saying, 'Then, indeed, also to the nations did God give the reformation to life.'

Indeed this was an exciting time for the Gentiles, who would no longer be required to be Jewish and to be circumcised. Peter would give up eating separately from the Gentiles. Paul talked of how he criticized Peter in Galatians 2:11-16:
"When Cephas (Peter) came to Antioch, I (Paul) opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group. The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray. When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas (Peter) in front of them all, You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs? We who are Jews by birth and not sinful Gentiles know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in[a] Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified."

^{Acts 11:19} Those, indeed, therefore, having been scattered abroad, from the tribulation that came after Stephen, went through unto Phoenicia, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to none except to Jews only; ^{Acts 11:20} and there were certain of them men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who having entered into Antioch, were speaking unto the Hellenists, proclaiming good news -- the Lord Jesus, ^{Acts 11:21} and the hand of the Lord was with them, a great number also, having believed, did turn unto the Lord.

^{Acts 11:22} And the account was heard in the ears of the assembly that [is] in Jerusalem concerning them, and they sent forth Barnabas to go through unto Antioch, ^{Acts 11:23} who, having come, and having seen the grace of God, was glad, and was exhorting all with purpose of heart to cleave to the Lord, ^{Acts 11:24} because he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit, and of faith, and a great multitude was added to the Lord.

^{Acts 11:25} And Barnabas went forth to Tarsus, to seek for Saul, ^{Acts 11:26} and having found him, he brought him to Antioch, and it came to pass that they a whole year did assemble together in the assembly, and taught a great multitude, the disciples also were divinely called first in Antioch Christians.

^{Acts 11:19} Those, indeed, therefore, having been scattered abroad, from the tribulation that came after Stephen, went through unto Phoenicia, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to none except to Jews only; ^{Acts 11:20} and there were certain of them men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who having entered into Antioch, were speaking unto the Hellenists, proclaiming good news (full stop: then carry to next verse) the Lord Jesus ^{Acts 11:21} (The Lord Jesus) and the hand of the Lord (Peter)was with them, ("The son of Agrippa, Agrippa II, was there, too, being tutored to be in the position of head of Jesus' Church. In Agrippa II and Bernice listen to Paul's case in June 60 AD he is already on board, but fearful of admitting it.)

a great number also, having believed, did turn unto the Lord.

Look how it shows that Jesus is there. (scribes later, believing him dead moved it to the preceeding verse.) Of course, if he were alive, Jesus would attend.
Paul's association with Agrippa II would allow Jesus' group to have two churches in the Herod houses where he lived: one in Caesarea Maritima and the other in Antioch of Syria. In Antioch they would call themselves Christians. This name would be acceptable to Peter who declared that Jesus was only the Christ and to the Sadducee Mathew, who would maintain his superiority to Jesus. It was is in Antioch and Ephesus that the Hellenists had their centers and it would be in Ephesus that the Gospels would be canonized. In Cyprus were the monastics under John Mark and Barnabas. In Caesarea Maritima were the Jewish Christians under Philip.

^{Acts 11:22} And the account was heard in the ears of the assembly that [is] in Jerusalem concerning them, and they sent forth Barnabas to go through unto Antioch of Syria, ^{Acts 11:23} who, having come, and having seen the grace of God, was glad, and was exhorting all with purpose of heart to cleave to the Lord, ^{Acts 11:24} because he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit, and of faith, and a great multitude was added to the Lord.

^{Acts 11:25} And Barnabas went forth to Tarsus, to seek for Saul, ^{Acts 11:26} and having found him, he brought him to Antioch, and it came to pass that they a whole year did assemble together in the assembly, and taught a great multitude, the disciples also were divinely called first in Antioch of Syria Christians.

The group in Jerusalem sent Barnabas to represent them and he also went to Tarsus to bring Paul to Antioch in Syria.

^{Acts 11:27} And in those days there came from Jerusalem (Qumran) prophets to Antioch in Syria, ^{Acts 11:28} and one of them, by name Agabus, having stood up, did signify through the Spirit a great dearth is about to be throughout all the world -- which also came to pass in the time of Claudius Caesar -- ^{Acts 11:29} and the disciples, according as any one was prospering, determined each of them to send for ministration to the brethren dwelling in Judea, ^{Acts 11:30} which also they did, having sent unto the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

^{Acts 11:27} And in those days there came from Jerusalem (Qumran) prophets to Antioch in Syria, ^{Acts 11:28} and one of them, by name Agabus (Matthew Annas) , having stood up, did signify through the Spirit (prophecy) a great dearth is about to be throughout all the world -- which also came to pass in the time of Claudius Caesar -- ^{Acts 11:29} and the disciples, according as any one was prospering, determined each of them to send for ministration to the brethren dwelling in Judea, ^{Acts 11:30} which also they did, having sent unto the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

Although there is a famine at this time, being sent to Qumran to relieve the famine is basically a cover story for delivering the tithes from Antioch to Qumran (plural form of Jerusalem). This money will be used for the assassination of Agrippa I. Paul also uses this visit to confer privately with Peter concerning the abandonment of circumcise. He speaks of this visit in Galatians 2:1-10, which is often confused with the their visit to the Council of Jerusalem in 46 AD.

Paul's Epistle to the Galatians 2:1-10
"Then after fourteen years (referring back to the beginning of his studies with Gamaliel) I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and also took Titus with me. And I went up by revelation, and communicated to them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those who were of reputation, lest by any means I might run, or had run, in vain. Yet not even Titus who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised. And this occurred because of false brethren secretly brought in (who came in by stealth to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage), to whom we did not yield submission even for an hour, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you."
"But from those who seemed to be something—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God shows personal favoritism to no man—for those who seemed to be something added nothing to me. But on the contrary, when they saw that the gospel for the uncircumcised had been committed to me, as the gospel for the circumcised was to Peter (for He who worked effectively in Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised also worked effectively in me toward the Gentiles), and when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that had been given to me, they gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. They desired only that we should remember the poor, the very thing which I also was eager to do".

^{Acts 12:01} And about that time, Herod the king put forth his hands, to do evil to certain of those of the assembly, ^{Acts 12:02} and he killed James, the brother of John, with the sword,

^{Acts 12:01} And about that time, Herod the king put forth his hands, to do evil to certain of those of the assembly, ^{Acts 12:02} and he killed James, the brother of John, with the sword,

This is a strange statement as it does not give a reason why Herod Agrippa would kill James, the brother of John. James was in charge of the group Fish 3 - Japheth made up of Greeks and the Romans. The symbolism of a "sword" has occurred previously during The kiss of Judas and the arrest of Jesus where Peter drew his sword to cut off the ear of Malchus (James, the brother of Jesus).

Here it was symbolic of the Peter preventing James from taking his place as "ear" (the one would gave Jesus' words to the people). A real ear was not cut off. The sword in this case was symbolic of the Angel which blocked Adam and Eve's entry into the Garden of Eden. In Revelation the Second Rider and the Fourth Rider had swords and, since they were priests, it indicates their power to excommunicate. It must be assumed that Herod Agrippa merely excommunicated James perhaps due to his growing paranoia that he inherited from his grandfather Herod the Great. Also, it is significant that Herod Agrippa is carrying on the tradition from Herod the Great of being the nominal head of the Church thus demonstrating the necessity of his removal.

^{Acts 12:03} and having seen that it is pleasing to the Jews, he added to lay hold of Peter also -- and they were the days of the unleavened food -- ^{Acts 12:04} whom also having seized, he did put in prison, having delivered [him] to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him, intending after the passover to bring him forth to the people.

^{Acts 12:05} Peter, therefore, indeed, was kept in the prison, and fervent prayer was being made by the assembly unto God for him, ^{Acts 12:06} and when Herod was about to bring him forth, the same night was Peter sleeping between two soldiers, having been bound with two chains, guards also before the door were keeping the prison, ^{Acts 12:07} and lo, an angel of the Lord stood by, and a light shone in the buildings, and having smitten Peter on the side, he raised him up, saying, 'Rise in haste,'and his chains fell from off [his] hands.

^{Acts 12:08} The angel also said to him, 'Gird yourself, and bind on your sandals;'and he did so; and he said to him, 'Put your garment round and be following me;' ^{Acts 12:09} and having gone forth, he was following him, and he knew not that it is true that which is done through the angel, and was thinking he saw a vision, ^{Acts 12:10} and having passed through a first ward, and a second, they came unto the iron gate that is leading to the city, which of its own accord did open to them, and having gone forth, they went on through one Street, and immediately the angel departed from him.

^{Acts 12:11} And Peter having come to himself, said, 'Now I have known of a truth that the Lord did sent forth His angel, and did deliver me out of the hand of Herod, and all the expectation of the people of the Jews;'

Simon Peter had criticized Herod Agrippa for "not living in a holy manner" (Josephus in his Antiquities' whitewashes the confrontation, but it is not in Herod Agrippa's nature to control his temper. His "small present" would be his deposing!) Using the metaphor similar to James, but this time of Jesus' Crucifixion trial, Agrippa clearly intends to publicly depose Peter. (The two chains are a metaphor for the chains that Tiberius placed on Agrippa when he was put in prison in Rome.) This situation happened to correspond with Peter's graduation as a bishop at Qumran and the two events are a composite.

^{Acts 12:03} and having seen that it is pleasing to the Jews, he added to lay hold of Peter also -- and they were the days of the unleavened food -- ^{Acts 12:04} whom also having seized, he did put in prison, having delivered [him] to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him, intending after the passover to bring him forth to the people.

^{Acts 12:05} Peter, therefore, indeed, was kept in the prison, and fervent prayer was being made by the assembly unto God for him, ^{Acts 12:06} and when Herod was about to bring him forth, the same night was Peter sleeping between two soldiers, having been bound with two chains, guards also before the door were keeping the prison,

^{Acts 12:07} and lo, an angel of the Lord stood by, and a light shone in the buildings, and having smitten Peter on the side, he raised him up, saying, 'Rise in haste,'and his chains fell from off his hands.

^{Acts 12:08} The angel also said to him, 'Gird yourself, and bind on your sandals;'and he did so; and he said to him, 'Put your garment round and be following me;' ^{Acts 12:09} and having gone forth, he was following him, and he knew not that it is true that which is done through the angel, and was thinking he saw a vision,

Peter had been studying to become archbishop and Matthew Annas (the angel), having freed him, begins his graduation ceremony. He instructs him on how to dress as the leader of the missionaries rather than the priests in the monastery: not in bare feet, but sandals; not to be belt-less, but having a belt. He is struck on the side as a symbol of Jacob wresting with the angel in
^{Genesis 32:25} When the angel saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched.
Jacob's ladder represents the levels that one would graduate to
^{Genesis 32:12} And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!

^{Acts 12:10} and having passed through a first ward, and a second, they came unto the iron gate that is leading to the city, which of its own accord did open to them, and having gone forth, they went on through one Street, and immediately the angel departed from him.

Here are described the levels from the highest to the lowest, back into the Street (The Way) that Peter had graduated through under the direction of Matthew Annas (the angel), sending him forth as a bishop.

^{Acts 12:11} And Peter having come to himself, said, 'Now I have known of a truth that the Lord did sent forth His angel, and did deliver me out of the hand of Herod, and all the expectation of the people of the Jews;

Peter was initially bound to Herod by his mother-in-law, Glaphyra, who was of the Herod family. Now that his wife was died, he could be trusted not to reveal the plot against Herod Agrippa.

^{Acts 12:12} also, having considered, he came unto the house of Mary, the mother of John, who is surnamed Mark, where there were many thronged together and praying.

^{Acts 12:13} And Peter having knocked at the door of the porch, there came a damsel to hearken, by name Rhoda,

^{Acts 12:14} and having known the voice of Peter, from the joy she did not open the porch, but having run in, told of Peter standing before the porch, ^{Acts 12:15} and they said unto her, 'You are mad;' and she was confidently affirming [it] to be so, and they said, 'It is his angel;' ^{Acts 12:16} and Peter was continuing knocking, and having opened, they saw him, and were astonished, ^{Acts 12:17} and having beckoned to them with the hand to be silent, he declared to them how the Lord brought him out of the prison, and he said, 'Declare to James and to the brethren these things;' and having gone forth, he went on to another place.

^{Acts 12:18} And day having come, there was not a little stir among the soldiers what then was become of Peter, ^{Acts 12:19a} and Herod having sought for him, and not having found, having examined the guards, did command [them] to be led away to punishment,

^{Acts 12:12} also, having considered, he came unto the house of Mary, the mother of John, who is surnamed Mark, where there were many thronged together and praying.

Finally, is revealed the last name of John who is also called Bartholomew. As Mother Superior, Mary is is John Mark's mother and it is the Church in Lydda.

^{Acts 12:13} And Peter having knocked at the door of the porch, there came a damsel to hearken, by name Rhoda,

Mary Magdalene answers the door. She is at the three month viable point of pregnancy. She is portrayed as Rhoda as she has informed Jesus that after the birth of her child that she will separate from him and go with John Mark over to Simon Magus. Cyprus and Rhodes were his territory.

^{Acts 12:14} and having known the voice of Peter, from the joy she did not open the porch, but having run in, told told of Peter standing before the porch, (and said, 'He is an angel;')

It is clear that this is Mary Magdalene because she knows Peter's voice and Jesus had returned last year to conceive his next child, being six years from the birth of his son Jesus Justus and the word 'joy' means hopefully a man child to be the second prince in the David line. The words "It is an angel" is what Mary told the others, thus she would not touch Peter because she was aware that, having just graduated, his status was now an angel and she was pregnant, thus unclean. The detractors of Mary Magdalene made it appear as if she were crazy.

^{Acts 12:15} and they said unto her, 'You are mad;' and she was confidently affirming it to be so, and they said, 'angel;is him' (having been ordained as a bishop) ^{Acts 12:16} and Peter was continuing knocking, and having opened, they saw him, and were astonished,

No one could believe that an uncircumcised Gentile like Peter could be an bishop (equivalent to an angel by Gentile levels: Rev 14:08 Tychicus calls him "another angel") so they called Mary Magdalene crazy. The addition to Vaticanus of this phrase indicates knowledge of the tradition of Essene graduates being called 'angels'.

^{Acts 12:17} and having beckoned to them with the hand to be silent, he declared to them how the Lord brought him out of the prison, and he said, 'Declare to James and to the brethren these things;' and having gone forth, he went on to another place.

"Declare unto James" is similar to Clementines: Clementines: Recognitions R.3.75: CONTENTS OF CLEMENT'S DISPATCHES TO JAMES. In the Clementines, Peter debated with Simon Magus in 42AD, who at that time were merely adversaries. However, this James, as in the Clementines, was not James, the brother of Jesus, also know as James the Just, but was James son of Alphaeus meaning James son of Annas, though better known as Jonathan Annas (Nathaniel).

"Declare unto James" was a way to tell Peter that the Schism of the Churches had begun in earnest with Mary Magdalene having announced to Jesus that she wants a divorce after the birth of their child. Since she and John Mark and Mother Mary have sided with Simon Magus, they are informing Peter that he needs to choose sides. He chooses Jesus' side: "He went on to another place". (This is also worded to show that Peter condones the assassination of Agrippa, but will hide out for now. Simon Peter will appear again at the Council of Jerusalem.)

^{Acts 12:18} And day having come, there was not a little stir among the soldiers what then was become of Peter, ^{Acts 12:19a} and Herod having sought for him, and not having found, having examined the guards, did command [them] to be led away to punishment,

^{Acts 12:20} And Herod was highly displeased with the Tyrians and Sidonians, and with one accord they came unto him, and having made a friend of Blastus, who [is] over the bed-chambers of the king, they were asking peace, because of their country being nourished from the king's; ^{Acts 12:21} and on a set day, Herod having arrayed himself in kingly apparel, and having sat down upon the tribunal, was making an oration unto them, ^{Acts 12:22} and the populace were shouting, 'The voice of a god, and not of a man;' ^{Acts 12:23} and presently there smote him an angel of the Lord, because he did not give the glory to God, and having been eaten of worms, he expired.

^{Acts 12:20} And Herod was highly displeased with the Tyrians and Sidonians (Simon Magus from Phoenicia- Tyre and Sidon) (See the Canaanite/SyroPhoenician woman, Helena, consort of Simon Magus), and with one accord they came unto him, and having made a friend of Blastus (the eunuch, Nicolaus, one of the Seven Church Leaders , who [is] over the bed-chambers of the king, they were asking peace, because of their country being nourished from the king's;

^{Acts 12:21} and on a set day, Herod having arrayed himself in kingly apparel, and having sat down upon the tribunal, was making an oration unto them, ^{Acts 12:22} and the populace

(Greek 'dēmos' - 'Demas' is name for Ananus the Younger, used by Paul in 2Timothy 6:10
"For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica")

were shouting, 'The voice of a god, and not of a man;'

(Herod Agrippa had deluded himself into thinking that he was divine like a Roman Emperor which would be an affront to the Emperor Claudius, certainly bringing retaliation against the Jews.)

^{Acts 12:23} and presently there smote him an angel of the Lord (Simon Magus), because he did not give the glory to God, and having been eaten of worms (poisoned), he expired.

See the detailed story from Josephus starting with the prophesy related to the owl to the description of his death.

^{Acts 12:24} And the word of God did grow and did multiply,

^{Acts 12:24} And the word of God did grow and did multiply,

Jesus' second son is born (See Mary Magdalene (Rhoda) at three months pregnant (Possibly he will be known as Joseph of Arimathea in England)

^{Acts 12:25} and Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, having fulfilled the ministration, having taken also with [them] John, who was surnamed Mark.

^{Acts 13:01} And there were certain in Antioch in Syria, in the assembly there, prophets and teachers; both Barnabas, and Simeon who is called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen also -- Herod the tetrarch's foster-brother -- and Saul; ^{Acts 13:02} and in their ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, 'Separate you to me both Barnabas and Saul to the work to which I have called them,' ^{Acts 13:03} then having fasted, and having prayed, and having laid the hands on them, they sent [them] away.

^{Acts 13:04} These, indeed, then, having been sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, thence also they sailed to Cyprus, ^{Acts 13:05} and having come unto Salamis, they declared the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and they had also John [as] a ministrant;

^{Acts 12:25} and Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem (it says 'to' and not 'from' which confuses many, but this should read "from Jerusalem having come from Jerusalem (Qumran). See plural of Jerusalem meaning Qumran explains problem of being in Jerusalem and then turning back into Jerusalem; they will be in Antioch next)

having fulfilled the ministration (Barnabas and Paul sent to relieve the famine in Judea March 44 AD), having taken also with [them] John, who was surnamed Mark. (John Mark-Bartholomew)

^{Acts 13:01} And there were certain in Antioch of Syria, in the assembly there, prophets and teachers;

• both Barnabas (Joses, brother of Jesus),
• and Simeon who is called Niger (Simon Peter, being a widower, he had graduated from the monastic school as an archbishop in a black robe),
• and Lucius the Cyrenian (Luke, assigned to Cyrene, Libya, who will soon replace James Niceta as head of Japheth which represented the Greeks and the Romans),
• Manaen
• also Herod the tetrarch's foster-brother: and Saul;

The phrase "Herod the tetrarch's foster-brother" applies to Saul/Paul not Manaen. (A scribe's confusion led to adding the "and" which is here deleted.) Since it appears as "foster brother" in most translations, it must be a common use. This word is σύντροφος (suntrophos) coming from from 'sun' (with) and 'trephó' (to nourish) thus other translations say "one brought up with" but fail to acknowledge that Herod the Tetrarch precedes it, so " brought up with Herod the tetrarch" is not correct.

From Acts 23:16 when Paul was later a prisoner in Jerusalem, it can be surmised that Paul's step-sister is Salome, the daughter of Herodias, Herod Antipas the Tetrarch's wife. Luke has been purposefully vague, but since Herod Antipas is husband and uncle to Herodias so Paul (having the same grandfather as Herodias: Herod the Great) would be step-brother to Salome from Herod's side but also from Herodias' side have the same kinship level as Herodias to be her brother then brother-in-law to Herod Antipas!

Manaen is probably the close friend of King Herod Agrippa named Marsyas, a freedman of Agrippa who raised money for him (Antiquities 18.6.3 "because he knew not where else to get a livelihood, he thought to sail to Italy; but as he (Agrippa) was restrained from so doing by want of money, he desired Marsyas, who was his freed-man, to find some method for procuring him so much as he wanted for that purpose, by borrowing such a sum of some person or other."). He is called Titus in most places, as he took this name in the new Church. He is the leader of Ham which represented the Egyptians and Ethiopians. His importance is signified by Philip's effort to make him a bishop so as not to tip off Herod Agrippa to the poison plot. (See Philip is sent to an Ethiopian Dec 39 AD. ) He remained close to the royal family being the tutor of Jesus' son Jesus Justus .

^{Acts 13:02} and in their ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit (Jesus) said, 'Separate you to me both Barnabas and Saul to the work to which I have called them,' ^{Acts 13:03} then having fasted, and having prayed, and having laid the hands on them, they sent [them] away.

^{Acts 13:04} These, indeed, then, having been sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, thence also they sailed to Cyprus, ^{Acts 13:05} and having come unto Salamis (in Cyprus), they declared the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and they had also John (Mark) as a ministrant;

Acts of Barnabas

Since from the descent of the presence of our Saviour Jesus Christ, the unwearied and benevolent and mighty Shepherd and Teacher and Physician, I beheld and saw the ineffable and holy and unspotted mystery of the Christians, who hold the hope in holiness, and who have been sealed; and since I have zealously served Him, I have deemed it necessary to give account of the mysteries which I have heard and seen.

I John, accompanying the holy apostles Barnabas and Paul, being formerly a servant of Cyrillus the high priest of Jupiter (a disguised position for servant of Herod Agrippa"), but now having received the gift of the Holy Spirit through Paul and Barnabas and Silas, who were worthy of the calling, and who baptized me in Iconium. After I was baptized, then, I saw a certain man standing clothed in white raiment (Jesus!); and he said to me: Be of good courage, John, for assuredly thy name shall be changed to Mark, and thy glory shall be proclaimed in all the world. And the darkness in thee has passed away from thee, and there has been given to thee understanding to know the mysteries of God.

John was first indicated as John Mark in Peter knocks at the door of the house of Mary, the mother of John, who is surnamed Mark in 44 AD, but it was not until now in Iconium that he was promoted to have a Roman name to symbolize his mission to the West like James Niceta and John Aquila.

And when I saw the vision, becoming greatly terrified, I went to the feet of Barnabas, and related to him the mysteries which I had seen and heard from that man. And the Apostle Paul was not by when I disclosed the mysteries. And Barnabas said to me: Tell no one the miracle which thou hast seen. For by me also this night the Lord stood, saying, Be of good courage: for as thou hast given thy life for my name to death and banishment from thy nation, thus also shalt thou be made perfect. Moreover, as for the servant who is with you, take him also with thyself; for he has certain mysteries. Now then, my child, keep to thyself the things which thou hast seen and heard; for a time will come for thee to reveal them.

And I, having been instructed in these things by him, remained in Jerusalem, and we came to Antioch in Syria; for there was there a holy man and a pious, who also entertained us, whose house also Paul had sanctified.

^{Acts 13:06} and having gone through the island unto Paphos, they found a certain Magian, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name [is] Bar-Jesus; ^{Acts 13:07} who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man; this one having called for Barnabas and Saul, did desire to hear the word of God, ^{Acts 13:08} and there withstood them Elymas the Magian -- for so is his name interpreted -- seeking to pervert the proconsul from the faith.

^{Acts 13:09} And Saul -- who also [is] Paul -- having been filled with the Holy Spirit, and having looked steadfastly on him, ^{Acts 13:10} said, 'O full of all guile, and all profligacy, son of a devil, enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the right ways of the Lord? ^{Acts 13:11} and now, lo, a hand of the Lord [is] upon you, and you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a season;'and presently there fell upon him a mist and darkness, and he, going about, was seeking some to lead [him] by the hand; ^{Acts 13:12} then the proconsul having seen what has come to pass, did believe, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.

Josephus Antiquities 19.9.2 Agrippa, the son of the deceased, was at Rome at this time, where he was being brought up at the court of Claudius Caesar. Caesar, on hearing of the death of Agrippa, and of the insults heaped upon him by the people of Sebaste and Caesarea, was grieved for him and angry at his ungrateful subjects. He had accordingly resolved to send the younger Cuspius Fadus is appointed procurator of Judaea, since Agrippa II is still a minor. Agrippa at once to take over the kingdom, wishing at the same time to maintain the sworn treaty with him. He was, however, dissuaded by those of his freedmen and friends who had great influence with him, who said that it was hazardous to entrust so important a kingdom to one who was quite young and had not even passed out of boyhood and who would find it impossible to sustain the cares of administration; even to a grown man, said they, a kingdom was a heavy responsibility. Caesar accordingly decided that their arguments were plausible. He therefore dispatched Cuspius Fadus as procurator of Judaea.

^{Acts 13:06} and having gone through the island unto Paphos, they found a certain Magian, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name is Bar-Jesus (Simon Magus under Jesus); ^{Acts 13:07} who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man (Agrippa II being deemed by Claudius to be too young was given a proconsul position in Cyprus.There have been found two inscriptions linking Sergius Paulus to Christian places: Tiber Island - a stone placed by Claudius - and Pisidian Antioch. "Paulus" indicates that he is a student of Paul); this one having called for Barnabas and Saul, did desire to hear the word of God (Jesus was there), ^{Acts 13:08} and there withstood them Elymas the Magian (Elymas is taken the name of Elam, the eldest son of Shem, the son of Noah, and that Elam was considered an archetypal magician: Josephus: Ant 1.6.4 "For Elymas left behind him the Elamites, the ancestors of the Persians" and notes that the Magi were commonly associated with the Persians. In the Book of Jubilees a book of healing arts is given by Noah to his eldest son, Shem. Thus this stands for Simon Magus)-- for so is his name interpreted -- seeking to pervert the proconsul from the faith.

^{Acts 13:09} And Saul -- who also is Paul -- having been filled with the Holy Spirit (speaking for Jesus), and having looked steadfastly on him, ^{Acts 13:10} said, 'O full of all guile, and all profligacy, son of a devil, enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the right ways of the Lord?

Paul reveals to Agrippa II that it was Simon Magus who poisoned his father.

^{Acts 13:11} and now, lo, a hand of the Lord is upon you, and you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a season;'and presently there fell upon him a mist and darkness (Paul reduces him to the status of pre-initiate novice like Paul when he was blinded on the Road to Damascus.), and he, going about, was seeking some to lead [him] by the hand; ^{Acts 13:12} then the proconsul having seen what has come to pass, did believe, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.

Agrippa II believed Paul and was astonished at the deceit of Simon Magus. Simon Magus was excommunicated again and replaced by the Magus Atomus who would later negotiate the marriage between Drusilla, the younger sister of Bernice, and the Procurator Felix. (See Josephus, Ant. 20, 142.)

^{Acts 05:36} for before these days rose up Theudas, saying, that himself was some one, to whom a number of men did join themselves, as it were four hundred, who was slain, and all, as many as were obeying him, were scattered, and came to nought.

Theudas was Barabbas (Bar-sabbas- Jesus's uncle), the leader of the Therapeuts, who had been traded for Jesus on the cross due to his old age, having been associated with Judas the Galilean's insurrection in 6 AD. The Therapeuts used the symbolism of Moses and Joshua in their ceremonies, believing that God would do the same for them against Rome. James the brother of Jesus also followed the 38 and 40 year timeframe from the birthdate of John the Baptist (See Impotent Man at Pool of Bethsaida, Peter heals (James) the lame man Sept 33 AD, and Peter heals Aeneas (James) and makes James bishop of Jerusalem in 40 AD. Theudas decided that the time had come for God to support their actions (corresponding to 38 years from the Age of Wrath 6AD+38 = 44AD which was the timeframe of the Israelites march towards the crossing of the Jordan River two years later) and instead was met by the Roman soldiers and his own death. Jesus had tried to talk him out of these type of activities in 31 AD suggesting that God would act silently against the Romans. (See Nicodemus-Theudas meets with Jesus and Gadarenes demonic and the swine.)

Gamaliel used this event as one of his examples and the other Judas the Galilean's insurrection in 6 AD to illustrate activities leading to violence and death that the Sanhedrin should oppose, rather than spending time opposing the activities of the apostles whom Jesus had instructed to be peaceful. (See Gamaliel comes to the rescue of the arrested apostles Sept 36.) Luke had combined two speeches that Gamaliel made in 35 AD and 46 AD because they related to Judas the Galilean however here it was his sons:

^{Acts 13:13} And those about Paul having set sail from Paphos, came to Perga of Pamphylia, and John having departed from them, did turn back to Jerusalem (Qumran),

^{Acts 13:13} And those about Paul having set sail from Paphos, came to Perga of Pamphylia, and John having departed from them, did turn back to Jerusalem (Qumran),

This is the most that can Acts has to say about Mary Magdalene's divorce of Jesus. John Mark, the disciple that Jesus loved, who was the stand-in for Mary Magdalene and also there as her chaperone, being a eunuch. At the Last Supper - The Seating is Reshuffled:And there was one of his disciples reclining (at meat) in the bosom of Jesus, whom Jesus was loving; (John 13:23). John Mark left with Mary Magdalene and after her death came back to Jesus as Eutychus. (See John Mark (Eutychus) is reconciled with Paul in 58 AD.)

The most important clue that Mary Magdalene asked for divorce was in the modifications of these rules in Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians. Prior to this Jesus had rejected the rules of Moses that allowed divorce under certain circumstances and had not allowed divorce except in the case of adultery. (See Jesus' statements on adultery.) His statement in Mark 10:11-12 was a major problem: "Whoever may put away his wife, and may marry another, does commit adultery against her and if a woman may put away her husband, and is married to another, she commits adultery." (It was exactly the former section that John the Baptist complained to Herod Antipas about, which got him beheaded. See "Beheading" of John the Baptist.) The implication was that Jesus would not be allowed to re-marry. Jesus instructs Paul in his Epistle to the Corinthians to add a statement: "if a wife separates, she is allowed to as long as she remains unmarried". Paul shows his disagreement by writing "not I, but the Lord":

^{1Cor 1:1} Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother, ^{1Cor 1:2} to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all those calling upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place -- both theirs and ours: ^{1Cor 1:3} Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

^{1Cor 1:4} I give thanks to my God always concerning you for the grace of God that was given to you in Christ Jesus, ^{1Cor 1:5} that in every thing you were enriched in him, in all discourse and all knowledge, ^{1Cor 1:6} according as the testimony of the Christ was confirmed in you, ^{1Cor 1:7} so that you are not behind in any gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, ^{1Cor 1:8} who also shall confirm you unto the end -- unblamable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ; ^{1Cor 1:9} faithful [is] God, through whom you were called to the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

^{1Cor 7:1} And concerning the things of which you wrote to me: good [it is] for a man not to touch a woman, ^{1Cor 7:2} and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband; ^{1Cor 7:3} to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband; ^{1Cor 7:4} the wife over her own body has not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body has not authority, but the wife.

^{1Cor 7:5} Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that you may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that Satan may not tempt you because of your incontinence; ^{1Cor 7:6} and this I say by way of concurrence -- not of command, ^{1Cor 7:7} for I wish all men to be even as I myself [am]; but each his own gift has of God, one indeed thus, and one thus.

^{1Cor 7:8} And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I [am];

Paul will remain celibate, but according to the relaxed Essene rules. He is not yet married to Jesus' daughter Phoebe and, when he is, he will only refer to her as his "yokefellow" in Philippians 4:3. (Apostolic_Constitutions Book 8:25 clearly shows yokefellow as marriage partner.) (See Dylan Stephens' book: He will have two daughters, the oldest was named Paulina.Paulina's promise to her grandfather, Jesus)

^{1Cor 7:9} and if they have not continence -- let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;

^{1Cor 7:10} and to the married I announce -- not I, but the Lord -- let not a wife separate from a husband: ^{1Cor 7:11} but and if she may separate, let her remain unmarried, or to the husband let her be reconciled, and let not a husband send away a wife.

Clearly Paul disagree on the justification for Jesus to remarry. Jesus instructs Paul to modify his on rule before his Crucifixion where he stated that "no marriage should be dissolved by the wife or husband except by adultery". He instructs Paul to say that, "if a wife separates, she is allowed to as long as she remains unmarried, but a husband is forbidden to desert his wife." This seems reasonable because a wife is dependent on a husband for financial support. (Note that Jesus has only modified the part that applies to his situation, continuing to disallow him to divorce Mary Magdalene because it was she who initiated it. He also holds open their reconciliation.)

The situation of Jesus and Mary Magdalene is a special one, because they are not really in a civil marriage, but are under the rules of the relaxed Essene rule for those of the line of David or the priestly lines where none of these factors apply since husband and wife live a celibate existence apart supported by their monasteries until the prescribed times for sexual intercourse for the purpose of conceiving an heir.

Josephus Wars 2.8.13 (retranslated): "There is yet another order of Essenes, who, while at one with the rest in their mode of life, customs and regulations, differ from them in their views on marriage. They think that those who decline to marry cut off the chief function of life - that of transmitting it - and furthermore that, were all to adopt the same view, the whole race would very quickly die out. They give their wives, however, a three month's probation, and only marry them after they have thrice undergone purification (no menstruation), in proof of fecundity (of pregnancy to term). But they do not accompany their wives when they are with child, as a demonstration that they do not marry out of regard to pleasure, but for the sake of posterity. Now the women go into the baths with some of their garments on, as the men do with somewhat girded about them."

^{Acts 13:14} and they having gone through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia, and having gone into the synagogue on the sabbath-day, they sat down, ^{Acts 13:15} and after the reading of the law and of the prophets, the chief men of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, 'Men, brethren, if there be a word in you of exhortation unto the people -- say on.'

^{Acts 13:16} And Paul having risen, and having beckoned with the hand, said, 'Men, Israelites, and those fearing God, hearken: ^{Acts 13:17} the God of this people Israel did choose our fathers, and the people He did exalt in their sojourning in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm did He bring them out of it; ^{Acts 13:18} and about a period of forty years He did suffer their manners in the wilderness, ^{Acts 13:19} and having destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, He did divide by lot to them their land.

^{Acts 13:20} 'And after these things, about four hundred and fifty years, He gave judges -- till Samuel the prophet; ^{Acts 13:21} and thereafter they asked for a king, and God did give to them Saul, son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years; ^{Acts 13:22} and having removed him, He did raise up to them David for king, to whom also having testified, he said, I found David, the [son] of Jesse, a man according to My heart, who shall do all My will.

^{Acts 13:23} 'Of this one's seed God, according to promise, did raise to Israel a Saviour -- Jesus, ^{Acts 13:24} John having first preached, before his coming, a baptism of reformation to all the people of Israel; ^{Acts 13:25} and as John was fulfilling the course, he said, Whom me do you suppose to be? I am not [he], but, lo, he does come after me, of whom I am not worthy to loose the sandal of [his] feet.

^{Acts 13:26} 'Men, brethren, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you fearing God, to you was the word of this salvation sent, ^{Acts 13:27} for those dwelling in Jerusalem, and their chiefs, this one not having known, also the voices of the prophets, which every sabbath are being read -- having judged [him] -- did fulfill, ^{Acts 13:28} and no cause of death having found, they did ask of Pilate that he should be slain, ^{Acts 13:29} and when they did complete all the things written about him, having taken [him] down from the tree, they laid him in a tomb; ^{Acts 13:30} and God did raise him out of the dead, ^{Acts 13:31} and he was seen for many days of those who did come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.

^{Acts 13:32} 'And we to you do proclaim good news -- that the promise made unto the fathers, ^{Acts 13:33} God has in full completed this to us their children, having raised up Jesus, as also in the second Psalm it has been written, My Son you are -- I to-day have begotten you.

^{Acts 13:34} 'And that He did raise him up out of the dead, no more to return to corruption, he has said thus -- I will give to you the faithful kindnesses of David; ^{Acts 13:35} therefore also in another [place] he said, You shall not give Your kind One to see corruption, ^{Acts 13:36} for David, indeed, his own generation having served by the will of God, did fall asleep, and was added unto his fathers, and saw corruption, ^{Acts 13:37} but he whom God did raise up, did not see corruption.

^{Acts 13:38} 'Let it therefore be known to you, men, brethren, that through this one to you is the forgiveness of sins declared, ^{Acts 13:39} and from all things from which you were not able in the law of Moses to be declared righteous, in this one every one who is believing is declared righteous; ^{Acts 13:40} see, therefore, it may not come upon you that has been spoken in the prophets: ^{Acts 13:41} See, you despisers, and wonder, and perish, because a work I -- I do work in your days, a work in which you may not believe, though any one may declare [it] to you.'

^{Acts 13:42} And having gone forth out of the synagogue of the Jews, the nations were calling upon [them] that on the next sabbath these sayings may be spoken to them, ^{Acts 13:43} and the synagogue having been dismissed, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes did follow Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, were persuading them to remain in the grace of God.

^{Acts 13:44} And on the coming sabbath, almost all the city was gathered together to hear the word of God, ^{Acts 13:45} and the Jews having seen the multitudes, were filled with zeal, and did contradict the things spoken by Paul -- contradicting and speaking evil.

^{Acts 13:46} And speaking boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, 'To you it was necessary that first the word of God be spoken, and seeing you do thrust it away, and do not judge yourselves worthy of the life age-during, lo, we do turn to the nations; ^{Acts 13:47} for so has the Lord commanded us: I have set you for a light of nations -- for your being for salvation unto the end of the earth.'

^{Acts 13:48} And the nations hearing were glad, and were glorifying the word of the Lord, and did believe -- as many as were appointed to life age-during; ^{Acts 13:49} and the word of the Lord was spread abroad through all the region.

^{Acts 13:50} And the Jews stirred up the devout and honorable women, and the first men of the city, and did raise persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and did put them out from their borders;

^{Acts 13:14} and they having gone through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia, and having gone into the synagogue on the sabbath-day, they sat down, ^{Acts 13:15} and after the reading of the law and of the prophets, the chief men of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, 'Men, brethren, if there be a word in you of exhortation unto the people -- say on.'

^{Acts 13:16} And Paul having risen, and having beckoned with the hand, said, 'Men, Israelites, and those fearing God, hearken: ^{Acts 13:17} the God of this people Israel did choose our fathers, and the people He did exalt in their sojourning in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm did He bring them out of it; ^{Acts 13:18} and about a period of forty years ('period' is Greek 'chronon' showing it equates to 40 years.) He did suffer their manners in the wilderness, ^{Acts 13:19} and having destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, He did divide by lot to them their land.

^{Acts 13:20} 'And after these things, about four hundred and fifty years, He gave judges -- till Samuel the prophet; ^{Acts 13:21} and thereafter they asked for a king, and God did give to them Saul, son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years; ^{Acts 13:22} and having removed him, He did raise up to them David for king, to whom also having testified, he said, I found David, the [son] of Jesse, a man according to My heart, who shall do all My will.

^{Acts 13:23} 'Of this one's seed God, according to promise, did raise to Israel a Saviour -- Jesus, ^{Acts 13:24} John having first preached, before his coming, a baptism of reformation to all the people of Israel; ^{Acts 13:25} and as John was fulfilling the course, he said, Whom me do you suppose to be? I am not [he], but, lo, he does come after me, of whom I am not worthy to loose the sandal of [his] feet.

^{Acts 13:26} 'Men, brethren, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you fearing God, to you was the word of this salvation sent, ^{Acts 13:27} for those dwelling in Jerusalem, and their chiefs, this one not having known, also the voices of the prophets, which every sabbath are being read -- having judged [him] -- did fulfill, ^{Acts 13:28} and no cause of death having found, they did ask of Pilate that he should be slain, ^{Acts 13:29} and when they did complete all the things written about him, having taken [him] down from the tree, they laid him in a tomb; ^{Acts 13:30} and God did raise him out of the dead, ^{Acts 13:31} and he was seen for many days of those who did come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.

^{Acts 13:32} 'And we to you do proclaim good news -- that the promise made unto the fathers, ^{Acts 13:33} God has in full completed this to us their children, having raised up Jesus, as also in the second Psalm it has been written, My Son you are -- I to-day have begotten you.

^{Acts 13:34} 'And that He did raise him up out of the dead, no more to return to corruption, he has said thus -- I will give to you the faithful kindnesses of David; ^{Acts 13:35} therefore also in another [place] he said, You shall not give Your kind One to see corruption, ^{Acts 13:36} for David, indeed, his own generation having served by the will of God, did fall asleep, and was added unto his fathers, and saw corruption, ^{Acts 13:37} but he whom God did raise up, did not see corruption.

^{Acts 13:38} 'Let it therefore be known to you, men, brethren, that through this one to you is the forgiveness of sins declared, ^{Acts 13:39} and from all things from which you were not able in the law of Moses to be declared righteous, in this one every one who is believing is declared righteous; ^{Acts 13:40} see, therefore, it may not come upon you that has been spoken in the prophets: ^{Acts 13:41} See, you despisers, and wonder, and perish, because a work I -- I do work in your days, a work in which you may not believe, though any one may declare [it] to you.'

^{Acts 13:42} And having gone forth out of the synagogue of the Jews, the nations were calling upon [them] that on the next sabbath these sayings may be spoken to them, ^{Acts 13:43} and the synagogue having been dismissed, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes did follow Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, were persuading them to remain in the grace of God.

^{Acts 13:44} And on the coming sabbath, almost all the city was gathered together to hear the word of God, ^{Acts 13:45} and the Jews having seen the multitudes, were filled with zeal, and did contradict the things spoken by Paul -- contradicting and speaking evil.

^{Acts 13:46} And speaking boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, 'To you it was necessary that first the word of God be spoken, and seeing you do thrust it away, and do not judge yourselves worthy of the life age-during, lo, we do turn to the nations; ^{Acts 13:47} for so has the Lord commanded us: I have set you for a light of nations -- for your being for salvation unto the end of the earth.'

^{Acts 13:48} And the nations hearing were glad, and were glorifying the word of the Lord, and did believe -- as many as were appointed to life age-during; ^{Acts 13:49} and the word of the Lord was spread abroad through all the region.

^{Acts 13:50} And the Jews stirred up the devout and honorable women, and the first men of the city, and did raise persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and did put them out from their borders;

^{Acts 13:51} and they having shaken off the dust of their feet against them, came to Iconium, ^{Acts 13:52} and the disciples were filled with joy and the Holy Spirit.

^{Acts 14:01} And it came to pass in Iconium, that they did enter together into the synagogue of the Jews, and spake, so that there believed both of Jews and Greeks a great multitude; ^{Acts 14:02} and the unbelieving Jews did stir up and made evil the souls of the nations against the brethren; ^{Acts 14:03} long time, indeed, therefore, did they abide speaking boldly in the Lord, who is testifying to the word of His grace, and granting signs and wonders to come to pass through their hands.