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When they spoke to the people, the priests and captain of the temple and the Sadducees, |
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Being grieved that they taught the people and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead; |
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And they laid hands on them, and put [them] unto the next day; for it was already evening. |
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Many of those who heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.
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The next day, they gathered in their rulers, and elders, and scribes, |
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and Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and of the kind of high priest; |
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and putting them in the midst, they asked: By what power or by what name have you done this? |
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Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, Rulers of the people and elders of Israel, |
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If we this day be examined of the good man infirm, he was healed, |
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let it be known to all of you and all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him before you health. |
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This is the stone which was rejected by you builders, which is become the head of the corner, and there is no salvation in any other, |
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for there is no other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. |
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They saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled; and they took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus; |
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And beholding the man which was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
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And he commanded them to go out of the council, they conferred among themselves, |
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saying, What shall we do with these people? For all those who live in Jerusalem, we know that they have made an obvious miracle, and we can not deny [this]; |
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but that it spread no further among the people, let us threaten them, that they speak in this name to any man. |
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And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. |
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But Peter and John answered them: judge whether the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God? |
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We can not but speak the things which we have seen and heard. |
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They had further threatened, released them, finding no way to punish them, because of the people; because all glorified God for what had happened. |
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For more than forty years has been the man on whom this miracle of healing.
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And being let go, they came to her and told that they spoke the chief priests and the elders. |
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When they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God and said, Lord, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in them! |
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Who by the mouth of our father David thy servant, he said by the Holy Spirit, what an uproar the Gentiles, and the people imagine a vain thing? |
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The kings of the earth, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ. |
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For truly gathered in this city against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, |
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to do whatsoever thy hand be predetermined and thy counsel. |
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And now, Lord, look upon their threats, and grant unto thy servants that with all boldness they may speak thy word, |
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while stretching forth thine hand to heal, and signs and wonders in the name of thy holy child Jesus. |
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And prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God with boldness.
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And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul; and no one from his estate does not own, but everything they had in common. |
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Apostles with great power gave witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ; and great grace was upon them all. |
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There was not any among them that lacked: For all those who owned lands or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales |
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and laid them at the feet of the apostles; and each was given, according as he had need. |
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And Joses, surnamed Barnabas by the apostles, which means - son of consolation, a Levite, Kipryanin, |
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who had a land, sold it, and brought the money and laid it at the feet of the apostles. |
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