Thiswas the firstcensustakenwhile Quiriniuswas governorof Syria.
The newsabout Him spreadthroughoutallSyria;and they broughtto Him allwho were ill,those sufferingwith variousdiseasesand pains,demoniacs,epileptics,paralytics;and He healedthem.
Nowin thosedaysa decreewentout from CaesarAugustus,that a census be takenof allthe inhabited earth.
And everyonewas on his wayto register for the census,eachto his owncity.
Nowin the fifteenthyearof the reignof TiberiusCaesar,when PontiusPilatewas governorof Judea,and Herodwas tetrarchof Galilee,and his brotherPhilipwas tetrarchof the regionof Ituraeaand Trachonitis,and Lysaniaswas tetrarchof Abilene,
whowas with the proconsul,SergiusPaulus,a manof intelligence.This mansummonedBarnabasand Sauland soughtto hearthe wordof God.
But while Galliowas proconsulof Achaia,the Jewswith one accordrose up againstPauland broughthim beforethe judgment seat,
"ClaudiusLysias,to the most excellentgovernorFelix,greetings.
The kingstoodup and the governorand Bernice,and thosewho were sittingwith them,
"Afterthis man,Judasof Galileeroseup in the daysof the censusand drew away[some] peopleafterhim; he tooperished,and allthose whofollowedhim were scattered.
