Acts:4:1-31

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* And as they were speaking to the people , the priests , and the temple commander , and the Sadducees stood near them , * being distressed because they taught the people and announced in Jesus the resurrection from the dead . * And they laid hands on them , and put them into custody until the morrow , for it was already evening . * But many of those hearing the Word believed ; and the number of the men became about five thousand . * And it happened on the morrow that the rulers and elders and scribes gathered into Jerusalem ; * also Annas the high priest , and Caiaphas , and John , and Alexander , and as many as were of the high priestly family . * And standing them in the midst , they were inquiring , By what sort of power , or by what sort of name did you do this ? * Then being filled of the Holy Spirit , Peter said to them , Rulers of the people and elders of Israel , * if we are being examined today on a good work of an infirm man , by what this one has been healed , * let it be known to all of you , and to all the people of Israel , that in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazaraean , whom you crucified , whom God raised from the dead , in this name this one stands before you whole . * This One is the Stone counted worthless by you the builders , which has become to be the Head of the Corner ; Psa . strkjv @118:22 * and there is salvation in no other One , for neither is there any other name under Heaven having been given among men by which we must be saved . * But seeing the boldness of Peter and John , and having perceived that they are untaught and uneducated men , they marveled . And they recognized them , that they were with Jesus . * But seeing the man standing with them , the one having been healed , they had nothing to say against him . * But commanding them to go outside the sanhedrin , they conferred with one another , * saying , What may we do to these men ? For that a notable miracle indeed has occurred through them is plain to all those living in Jerusalem , and we are not able to deny it . * But that it may not be spread abroad further to the people , let us threaten them with a threat that they no longer speak on this name to any one of men . * And calling them , they ordered them not to speak at all , nor to teach on the name of Jesus . * But answering them Peter and John said , Whether it is right before God to listen to you rather than God , you judge . * For we are not able not to speak what we saw and heard . * But having threatened them again , they released them , finding nothing as to how they might punish them , on account of the people , because all glorified God on the thing happening . * For the man on whom this miracle of healing had occurred was more than forty years of age . * And being let go , they came to their own and reported to them what the chief priests and elders said . * And hearing they with one passion lifted voice to God and said , Master , You are "the God who made the heaven and the earth and the sea , and all things in them ," Ex . strkjv @20:11 * who through the mouth of Your servant David said , "Why did the nations rage , and the people meditated foolish things . * The kings of the earth stood up , and the rulers were assembled on the same day against the Lord , yea , against His Christ ." Psa . strkjv @2:1 , 2 * For truly both Herod and Pontius Pilate , with the nations and the peoples of Israel , were gathered together against Your holy child Jesus , whom You anointed , * to do whatever Your hand and Your counsel before-determined to be done . * And now , Lord , look upon their threatenings and give to Your slaves to speak Your Word with all boldness , * in the extending of Your hand for healing and miracles and wonders to happen through the name of Your holy child Jesus . * And they having prayed , the place in which they were gathered was shaken , and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the Word of God with boldness .

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