then those, indeed, who did gladly receive his word were baptized, and there were added on that day, as it were, three thousand souls,

and Joseph having sent, did call for his father Jacob, and all his kindred -- with seventy and five souls --

Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God,

who sometime disbelieved, when once the long-suffering of God did wait, in days of Noah -- an ark being preparing -- in which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water;