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The New Testament diligently corrected and compared with the GreekThe Newe Testament dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke
The New Testament diligently corrected and compared with the Greek by William Tyndale, and finished in the year of our Lord God A.M.D. & xxxiiij. in the month of November.The Newe Testament dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke by Willyam Tindale, and fynesshed in the yere of our Lorde God A.M.D. & xxxiiij. in the moneth of Nouember.
Antwerp: printed by Marten Emperowr, 1534Anwerp: printed by Marten Emperowr, 1534
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
❧ The Acts of the Apostles / written by Saint Luke Evangelist which was present at the doings of them.
❧ The Actes of the Apostles / wrytten by Saynte Luke Evangelist which was present at the doynges of them.
¶ The First Chapter.
¶ The Fyrst Chapter.
IN the former treatise §A(Dear friend Theophilus) I have written of all that Jesus began to do & teach / until the day in the which he was taken up / after that he through the holy ghost / had given commandments unto the Apostles / which he had chosen: to whom also he showed him self alive / after his passion by many tokens / appearing unto them forty days / & speaking of the kingdom of god / & gathered them together / and commanded1 them / that they should not depart from Jerusalem: but to wait for the promise of the father / whereof ye have heard of me. For John baptised with water: but ye shall be baptised with the holy ghost / & that with in this few days. When they were come together / they axed of him saying: Lord wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? And he said unto them: It is not for you to know the times / or the seasons which the father hath put in his own power: but ye shall receive ⟨p. Clvii⟩