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Matthew:2:7 @ Then Herod secretly summoned the wise men and learned from them exactly the time of the star's appearance,
riversident@Matthew:26:68 @ saying, "Act the prophet for us, you Christ! Who was it that struck you? "
riversident@Luke:1:1 @ INASMUCH as many have taken in hand to draw up a narrative of those facts which are firmly believed among us,
riversident@Luke:1:4 @ so that you may know the exact truth in regard to the matters which you have been taught by word of mouth.
riversident@Luke:23:51 @ who had not participated in their plan and action. He was of Arimathaea, a city of the Judaeans, and was looking for the kingdom of God.
riversident@Luke:24:28 @ They drew near to the village where they were going and he acted as if he were going on.
riversident@John:2:18 @ The Jews said to him, "What sign do you show us, since you act in this way?"
riversident@John:8:4 @ they said to him, "Teacher, this woman was taken in the very act of adultery.
riversident@Acts:1:1 @ IN my first book, Theophilus, I told of all that Jesus did and taught from the beginning
riversident@Acts:1:2 @ down to the day when, after giving commands, through the Holy Spirit, to the apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up to heaven.
riversident@Acts:1:3 @ By many proofs he revealed himself to these men as still alive after his sufferings; for he was seen by them for forty days and spoke of things relating to the kingdom of God.
riversident@Acts:1:4 @ Also while eating with them, he charged them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, said he,
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riversident@Acts:1:6 @ When they came together, they asked him, "Master, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?"
riversident@Acts:1:7 @ He said to them,
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riversident@Acts:1:9 @ He said this and then, while they were looking on, he was taken up and a cloud lifted him from their sight.
riversident@Acts:1:10 @ They were gazing into the sky as he went, when suddenly two men in white robes were standing beside them
riversident@Acts:1:11 @ and said, "Men of Galilee, why are you standing and looking up into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way that you have seen him go into heaven."
riversident@Acts:1:12 @ They then returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called the Olive Orchard, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey distant.
riversident@Acts:1:13 @ When they came into the city, they went up to the upper room where they were staying. There were Peter and John, and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.
riversident@Acts:1:14 @ All of these continued earnestly and unitedly in prayer with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brothers.
riversident@Acts:1:15 @ In those days Peter stood up in the midst of the brethren (note:)the company numbered about a hundred and twenty(:note) and said:
riversident@Acts:1:16 @ "Brethren, it was necessary that the Scripture should be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit spoke through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became guide to those who arrested Jesus.
riversident@Acts:1:17 @ For he was numbered among us and received a share in this service.
riversident@Acts:1:18 @ (This man bought a piece of land with the price of his wickedness, and falling headlong he burst asunder and all his entrails were poured out.
riversident@Acts:1:19 @ It became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that that field was called in their own language Akeldama, that is, the Field of Blood.)
riversident@Acts:1:20 @ For it is written in the book of Psalms, 'Let his dwelling become desolate and let there be no one living in it,' and, 'His overseership let another take.'
riversident@Acts:1:21 @ It is needful, therefore, that of the men who have been with us during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
riversident@Acts:1:22 @ from the baptism of John down to the day that he was taken up from us \'97 that one of these should become a witness with us of his resurrection."
riversident@Acts:1:23 @ So they put forward two, Joseph who is called Barsabbas, surnamed Justus, and Matthias.
riversident@Acts:1:24 @ In prayer they said, "O Lord, thou who knowest the hearts of all, show which one of these two thou has chosen
riversident@Acts:1:25 @ to take the place in this service and apostleship which Judas deserted to go to his own place."
riversident@Acts:1:26 @ Then they cast lots between them. The lot fell on Matthias and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.
riversident@Acts:2:1 @ DURING the course of the day of Pentecost they were all together in the same place,
riversident@Acts:2:2 @ when suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of a strong rushing wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
riversident@Acts:2:3 @ Then there appeared to them, as it were, tongues of flame distributing themselves, and one rested on each of them.
riversident@Acts:2:4 @ They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in foreign tongues, as the Spirit gave them power of expression.
riversident@Acts:2:5 @ There were Jews living in Jerusalem, pious men from every nation under heaven.
riversident@Acts:2:6 @ When this sound was heard, the crowd came together and were astonished because each one heard them speaking in his own language.
riversident@Acts:2:7 @ They were amazed and, wondering, said, "Are not all these who are talking, Galilaean?
riversident@Acts:2:8 @ How then does each of us hear them in his own native language?
riversident@Acts:2:9 @ Parthians and Medes and Elamites and those who live in Mesopotamia, Judas and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,
riversident@Acts:2:10 @ Phrygia and Pamphilia, Egypt and the regions of Libya toward Cyrene, visitors from Rome, Jews and proselytes,
riversident@Acts:2:11 @ Cretans and Arabians \'97 we hear them speaking in our languages the mighty works of God."
riversident@Acts:2:12 @ They were all astonished and at a loss, one saying to another, "What does this mean?"
riversident@Acts:2:13 @ Some scoffingly said, "They are full of sweet wine."
riversident@Acts:2:14 @ But Peter, standing up with the eleven, raised his voice and declared to them: "Fellow Jews, and all of you who live in Jerusalem, understand this and listen to my words.
riversident@Acts:2:15 @ These are not drunk, as you assume, for it is only nine o'clock in the morning;
riversident@Acts:2:16 @ but this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel:
riversident@Acts:2:17 @ 'It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all mankind, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.
riversident@Acts:2:18 @ Yes, upon the slave men and slave girls that are mine I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.
riversident@Acts:2:19 @ I will give portents in heaven above and signs on the earth beneath, blood and fire and vapor of smoke.
riversident@Acts:2:20 @ The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the day of the Lord comes \'97 that great and glorious day.
riversident@Acts:2:21 @ And every one who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.'
riversident@Acts:2:22 @ Fellow Israelites, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene was a man proved to be sent to you from God by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did through him in the midst of you, as you yourselves know.
riversident@Acts:2:23 @ But when he had been delivered up according to the fixed purpose and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed him through the hands of lawless men.
riversident@Acts:2:24 @ But God freed him from the pangs of death and raised him up, since it was impossible that he should be held under the power of death.
riversident@Acts:2:25 @ For David says of him, 'I saw the Lord always before my face, for he is at my right hand so that I may not be cast down.
riversident@Acts:2:26 @ Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices, and my flesh still dwells in hope
riversident@Acts:2:27 @ that thou wilt not leave my soul to Hades and wilt not let thy holy one see decay.
riversident@Acts:2:28 @ Thou makest me know the paths of life. Thou wilt fill me with joy in thy presence.'
riversident@Acts:2:29 @ "Brethren, allow me to say frankly to you regarding the patriarch David that he died and was buried and his tomb is among us to this day.
riversident@Acts:2:30 @ But being a prophet and knowing that God had sworn to him an oath to place a descendant of his body upon his throne,
riversident@Acts:2:31 @ he foreseeing spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, saying that he was not left to Hades and that his flesh did not see decay.
riversident@Acts:2:32 @ This Jesus, God raised up, and all of us are witnesses of it.
riversident@Acts:2:33 @ Therefore having been exalted to the right hand of God and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which you see and hear.
riversident@Acts:2:34 @ For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he says, 'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand,
riversident@Acts:2:35 @ till I make your enemies your footstool.'
riversident@Acts:2:36 @ Let all the house of Israel know surely that this Jesus, whom you crucified, God has made both Lord and Christ."
riversident@Acts:2:37 @ Hearing this they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, "What shall we do, brethren?"
riversident@Acts:2:38 @ Peter said to them, "Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
riversident@Acts:2:39 @ For the promise belongs to you and to your children and to all those who are far off, as many as the Lord your God may call."
riversident@Acts:2:40 @ With many other words he bore witness and exhorted them, "Save yourselves from this perverse generation."
riversident@Acts:2:41 @ Those who accepted his message were baptized, and there were added on that day about three thousand souls.
riversident@Acts:2:42 @ These gave constant attention to the teaching of the apostles and to the fellowship and the breaking of bread and the prayers.
riversident@Acts:2:43 @ Awe came on every soul. Many wonders and signs were done by the apostles.
riversident@Acts:2:44 @ All who believed had all things together in common.
riversident@Acts:2:45 @ They would sell their lands and goods and distribute to all as any one had need.
riversident@Acts:2:46 @ Every day, continuing with one accord in the Temple courts and in breaking bread from house to house, they ate together in joy and simplicity of heart,
riversident@Acts:2:47 @ praising God and having favor with all the people. The Lord added daily to their number those who were being saved.
riversident@Acts:3:1 @ PETER and John were going up into the Temple courts at the hour of prayer, three o'clock,
riversident@Acts:3:2 @ when a man lame from his birth was being carried along. This man used to be placed every day near the gate of the Temple courts \'97 the one called the Beautiful Gate \'97 to beg of those who were entering.
riversident@Acts:3:3 @ Seeing Peter and John about to go into the Temple courts, he begged to receive something.
riversident@Acts:3:4 @ But Peter fixing his eyes on him, along with John, said, "Look at us."
riversident@Acts:3:5 @ He gave attention to them, expecting to receive something from them.
riversident@Acts:3:6 @ But Peter said, "Silver and gold I have not; but what I have I will give you. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, walk."
riversident@Acts:3:7 @ Grasping his right hand he lifted him up. Immediately his feet and ankles became strong,
riversident@Acts:3:8 @ and he sprang up and stood and walked and entered the Temple court with them, walking and leaping and praising God.
riversident@Acts:3:9 @ All the people saw him walking about and praising God,
riversident@Acts:3:10 @ and when they recognized that it was he who had sat begging at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple court, they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
riversident@Acts:3:11 @ While he still clung to Peter and John, all the people ran crowding around them in what was called Solomon's Colonnade, greatly astonished.
riversident@Acts:3:12 @ Peter, seeing the people, explained, "Fellow Israelites, why do you wonder at this, or why do you gaze so at us, as if by our own power or piety we had made him walk?
riversident@Acts:3:13 @ The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus whom you delivered up and disowned before Pilate when he had decided to release him.
riversident@Acts:3:14 @ You disowned the holy and righteous one and begged to have a murderer granted you.
riversident@Acts:3:15 @ You killed the Author of life, but God raised him from the dead. Of this we are witnesses.
riversident@Acts:3:16 @ And now by faith in his name this man whom you see and know has been made strong by his name, and the faith that is through him has given this man this perfect soundness before you all.
riversident@Acts:3:17 @ "Now, brethren, I know that you acted in ignorance, as also your rulers did.
riversident@Acts:3:18 @ God in this way fulfilled what he had predicted through the mouths of all the prophets that his Christ should suffer.
riversident@Acts:3:19 @ Therefore, repent and turn about, that your sins may be wiped away and the gracious face of the Lord may bring times of refreshing,
riversident@Acts:3:20 @ and he may send Jesus Christ, long ago appointed,
riversident@Acts:3:21 @ but whom heaven must receive until the times of the restoration of all things, of which God spoke through the mouths of his holy prophets of old.
riversident@Acts:3:22 @ "Moses indeed said, 'The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet from among your brethren, as he raised me; listen to all that he may say to you.
riversident@Acts:3:23 @ It shall be that every person who does not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.'
riversident@Acts:3:24 @ And all the prophets, Samuel and those who followed him, all who spoke, also foretold these days.
riversident@Acts:3:25 @ You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God established with your fathers when he said to Abraham, 'In your descendants all the families of the earth will be blessed.'
riversident@Acts:3:26 @ To you first God, when he raised up his servant, sent him, to bless you by turning each one of you from his wicked ways."
riversident@Acts:4:1 @ WHILE they were speaking to the people, the priests and the commandant of the Temple and the Sadducees came upon them,
riversident@Acts:4:2 @ being offended because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in the case of Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
riversident@Acts:4:3 @ They laid hands on them and placed them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening.
riversident@Acts:4:4 @ But many of those who had heard the message believed, and the number of the men grew to be about five thousand.
riversident@Acts:4:5 @ On the next day there was a gathering of their rulers and elders and scribes in Jerusalem,
riversident@Acts:4:6 @ with Annas the High Priest and Caiaphas and John and Alexander and all who were of high priestly race.
riversident@Acts:4:7 @ They placed the apostles in the midst and asked them, "By what power and in what name did you do this?"
riversident@Acts:4:8 @ Then Peter, full of the Holy Spirit, said to them, "Rulers of the people and elders,
riversident@Acts:4:9 @ if we must answer to-day regarding a benefit done to an infirm man, by what name he has been healed,
riversident@Acts:4:10 @ be it known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead \'97 by this name, this man stands here before you sound.
riversident@Acts:4:11 @ This is the stone which was despised by you the builders, and which has become the corner stone.
riversident@Acts:4:12 @ Nor is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."
riversident@Acts:4:13 @ Observing the fearless outspokenness of Peter and John and perceiving that they were common, uneducated men, they were astonished, and they recognized them as former companions of Jesus.
riversident@Acts:4:14 @ Seeing the man who had been healed standing there with the apostles, they had nothing to say in opposition.
riversident@Acts:4:15 @ After ordering them to go out of the council, they conferred together,
riversident@Acts:4:16 @ saying, "What shall we do to these men? For that a notable miracle has been done by them is plain to all who live in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.
riversident@Acts:4:17 @ But that it may not spread further among the people, let us sternly forbid them to speak any longer in this name to any one."
riversident@Acts:4:18 @ So, calling them in, they commanded them absolutely not to speak or teach in the name of Jesus.
riversident@Acts:4:19 @ But Peter and John answered them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves.
riversident@Acts:4:20 @ We, for our part, cannot refrain from saying what we have seen and heard."
riversident@Acts:4:21 @ The Council after further threats set them at liberty, not finding any way to punish them on account of the people; for all were giving glory to God because of what had happened.
riversident@Acts:4:22 @ For the man upon whom this miracle of healing had been performed was more than forty years old.
riversident@Acts:4:23 @ The apostles upon being released came to their friends and told them all that the high priests and the elders had said.
riversident@Acts:4:24 @ They hearing it unitedly lifted up their prayer to God and said, "O Lord, thou who didst make the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things that are in them,
riversident@Acts:4:25 @ who through the Holy Spirit by the mouth of our father David, thy servant, didst say, 'Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine vain things?
riversident@Acts:4:26 @ The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers are gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ' \'97
riversident@Acts:4:27 @ for truly in this city Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered against thy holy servant Jesus,
riversident@Acts:4:28 @ to do all that thy hands and thy will had predetermined should take place \'97
riversident@Acts:4:29 @ now, Lord, look upon their threats and enable thy servants to speak thy message with all fearlessness,
riversident@Acts:4:30 @ while thou dost stretch out thine hand for healing and while signs and wonders are done through the name of thy holy servant Jesus."
riversident@Acts:4:31 @ After this prayer the place in which they were assembled was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the message of God with courageous freedom.
riversident@Acts:4:32 @ The multitude of those who had believed was of one heart and one soul, and no one said that any part of his property was his own, but they had all things in common.
riversident@Acts:4:33 @ With great power the apostles continued to bear witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Great grace was upon them all.
riversident@Acts:4:34 @ Nor was any one in need among them, for all who were owners of lands or houses would sell them and bring the money for what had been sold
riversident@Acts:4:35 @ and lay it at the apostles' feet, and it would be distributed to each as he had need.
riversident@Acts:4:36 @ Joseph, to whom the apostles had given the name Barnabas, which means "Son of Encouragement," a Levite born in Cyprus,
riversident@Acts:4:37 @ being the owner of a farm, sold it and brought the money and laid it at the apostles' feet.
riversident@Acts:5:1 @ BUT a man called Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a piece of property
riversident@Acts:5:2 @ and kept back a part of the price, with his wife's connivance, and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles' feet.
riversident@Acts:5:3 @ Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land?
riversident@Acts:5:4 @ While you had it, was it not yours? And after it was sold, was it not at your own disposal? Why have you conceived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men, but to God."
riversident@Acts:5:5 @ When Ananias heard these words he fell down and died. Great fear came upon all who heard these words.
riversident@Acts:5:6 @ Then the young men arose and wrapped him in a shroud and carried him out and buried him.
riversident@Acts:5:7 @ After an interval of about three hours, Ananias' wife came in, not knowing what had happened.
riversident@Acts:5:8 @ Peter asked her, "Tell me, did you sell the land for so much?" She answered, "Yes, for so much."
riversident@Acts:5:9 @ Peter said to her, "Why was it agreed between you to test the Spirit of the Lord? Even now the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out."
riversident@Acts:5:10 @ Immediately she fell down at his feet and died. The young men came in and found her dead, and carried her out and buried her beside her husband.
riversident@Acts:5:11 @ Great awe came upon the whole church and upon all who heard these things.
riversident@Acts:5:12 @ Many signs and wonders were done among the people by the hands of the apostles. They were all with one purpose in Solomon's Colonnade.
riversident@Acts:5:13 @ Of the rest no one dared join them, but the people honored them highly.
riversident@Acts:5:14 @ Believers in the Lord were more and more being added, crowds both of men and of women,
riversident@Acts:5:15 @ so that they carried out the sick into the streets and laid them on couches and pallets with the hope that as Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on some one of them.
riversident@Acts:5:16 @ A crowd was coming too from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were troubled by impure spirits, and these were all being healed.
riversident@Acts:5:17 @ But the High Priest and all his party \'97 the sect of the Sadducees \'97 became aroused and filled with indignation,
riversident@Acts:5:18 @ and laid hands on the apostles and put them into the public jail.
riversident@Acts:5:19 @ But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors in the night and led them out and said,
riversident@Acts:5:20 @ "Go, stand and speak to the people in the Temple courts all the words of this life."
riversident@Acts:5:21 @ On hearing this they went into the Temple courts about daybreak and began teaching. When the High Priest and his party arrived, they called together the Council and all the eldership of the children of Israel and sent to the jail to have the men brought.
riversident@Acts:5:22 @ But when the officers came there they did not find them in the prison. They returned and reported,
riversident@Acts:5:23 @ "We found the prison shut with all security and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened we found no one inside."
riversident@Acts:5:24 @ On hearing these words the commandant of the Temple and the high priests were at a loss as to what this would grow into.
riversident@Acts:5:25 @ Then some one came and told them, "The men whom you put in jail are standing in the Temple courts and teaching the people."
riversident@Acts:5:26 @ Then the commandant with his subordinates went and brought them, but without violence, for they were afraid of being stoned by the people.
riversident@Acts:5:27 @ They brought them in and made them stand before the Council. The High Priest asked them,
riversident@Acts:5:28 @ "Did we not strictly order you not to teach in this name? And here you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine and want to bring this man's blood on us."
riversident@Acts:5:29 @ Peter, answering for the apostles, said, "God must be obeyed rather than men.
riversident@Acts:5:30 @ The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you had killed by hanging him on a cross.
riversident@Acts:5:31 @ God has exalted him as Leader and Savior at his own right hand to give to Israel change of heart and forgiveness of sins.
riversident@Acts:5:32 @ We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit which God has given to those who obey him."
riversident@Acts:5:33 @ On hearing this they became furious and wanted to kill them.
riversident@Acts:5:34 @ But a certain Pharisee named Gamaliel \'97 a teacher of the law honored by all the people \'97 arose in the Council and, after directing that the men should be taken outside for a little while,
riversident@Acts:5:35 @ said, "Men of Israel, consider carefully what you are going to do to these men.
riversident@Acts:5:36 @ For before these days arose Theudas, professing to be somebody. A number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves to him. But he was slain and all who followed him were scattered and came to naught.
riversident@Acts:5:37 @ After him arose Judas the Galilean, in the days of the Census, and led away people after him. He too perished, and all who followed him were scattered.
riversident@Acts:5:38 @ And now I advise you to keep away from these men and let them alone, for if this plan or work is of men it will collapse,
riversident@Acts:5:39 @ but if it is of God you will not be able to suppress them. You might even be found to be fighting against God."
riversident@Acts:5:40 @ They were persuaded by him. So they called in the apostles and gave them a flogging and ordered them not to go on speaking in the name of Jesus, and then set them at liberty;
riversident@Acts:5:41 @ but they went away from before the Council rejoicing because they were thought worthy to be put to shame for the Name.
riversident@Acts:5:42 @ And every day in the Temple courts and from house to house they unceasingly taught and told the good news of Jesus the Christ.
riversident@Acts:6:1 @ IN those days, when the number of disciples was increasing, the Greek-speaking Jews began to grumble at the Hebrew Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily service.
riversident@Acts:6:2 @ Then the twelve called the body of disciples together and said, "We do not wish to leave the message of God and wait on tables.
riversident@Acts:6:3 @ Therefore, brethren, pick out seven men from among you, men of reputation, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, and we will appoint them to look after this need.
riversident@Acts:6:4 @ But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the service of the message."
riversident@Acts:6:5 @ This proposal pleased the whole body. So they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolaus, a proselyte from Antioch.
riversident@Acts:6:6 @ These they presented before the apostles, who after prayer laid their hands upon them.
riversident@Acts:6:7 @ The message of God continued to spread and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem increased greatly, and even a great body of the priests were obedient to the faith.
riversident@Acts:6:8 @ Stephen, full of grace and of power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people.
riversident@Acts:6:9 @ But certain persons from what was called the synagogue of the Libyans and Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and some from Cilicia and Asia, rose up and disputed with Stephen;
riversident@Acts:6:10 @ yet they could not hold their own against the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke.
riversident@Acts:6:11 @ Then they got some men to say, "We have heard him speaking profane words against Moses and against God."
riversident@Acts:6:12 @ They excited the people and the elders and the scribes, and coming suddenly upon Stephen they arrested him and led him to the Council.
riversident@Acts:6:13 @ There they put forward false witnesses who said, "This man never ceases saying things against this holy place and the law.
riversident@Acts:6:14 @ We have heard him say that this Jesus, the Nazarene, will destroy this place and will change the customs that Moses handed down to us."
riversident@Acts:6:15 @ All who were sitting in the Council as they looked at him saw that his face was like the face of an angel.
riversident@Acts:7:1 @ THE High Priest said, "Are these things true?"
riversident@Acts:7:2 @ Stephen said: "Brethren and Fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
riversident@Acts:7:3 @ and said to him, 'Leave your land and your kindred and go into whatever land I shall show you.'
riversident@Acts:7:4 @ Then he came out from the land of the Chaldaeans and settled in Haran. From there, after the death of his father, God removed him into this land in which you now live,
riversident@Acts:7:5 @ but he did not give him any inheritance in it, not even a foot of it. Still he promised to give it as a possession to him and to his descendants after him, though at that time he had no child.
riversident@Acts:7:6 @ God spoke thus, 'His descendants will sojourn in a land not their own, and they will be enslaved and maltreated four hundred years.'
riversident@Acts:7:7 @ And God said, 'That nation by which they are enslaved I will judge, and after that they shall come out and serve me in this place.'
riversident@Acts:7:8 @ God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham circumcised his son Isaac on the eighth day, and Isaac circumcised his son Jacob, and Jacob circumcised his sons, the twelve patriarchs.
riversident@Acts:7:9 @ "The patriarchs becoming jealous of Joseph sold him into Egypt. But God was with him
riversident@Acts:7:10 @ and delivered him out of all his trials, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him governor over the land of Egypt and all his own house.
riversident@Acts:7:11 @ Then there came a famine over all Egypt and Canaan, and great distress, and our fathers found no food.
riversident@Acts:7:12 @ When Jacob heard that there was food in Egypt he sent our fathers the first time.
riversident@Acts:7:13 @ On their second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph's family was made known to Pharaoh.
riversident@Acts:7:14 @ Then Joseph sent and invited down Jacob his father and all his relatives, seventy-five persons,
riversident@Acts:7:15 @ and Jacob went down into Egypt and died there \'97 he and our fathers.
riversident@Acts:7:16 @ They were brought to Shechem and buried in the tomb which Abraham bought for a price in silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
riversident@Acts:7:17 @ "As the time drew near for the fulfillment of the promise which God had made to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt
riversident@Acts:7:18 @ until there arose to rule over Egypt a different king, who did not know Joseph.
riversident@Acts:7:19 @ He adopted a crafty policy toward our race and oppressed our fathers, forcing them to expose their babes so that they should not be kept alive.
riversident@Acts:7:20 @ "At that time Moses was born, and was beautiful in God's sight. For three months he was cared for in his father's house.
riversident@Acts:7:21 @ When he had been exposed, Pharaoh's daughter took him up and reared him as her own son.
riversident@Acts:7:22 @ Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was strong in words and in deeds.
riversident@Acts:7:23 @ When he reached the age of forty years it came into his heart to look after his brethren, the children of Israel.
riversident@Acts:7:24 @ Seeing one of them being wronged, he defended him and did justice for the injured man by striking down the Egyptian.
riversident@Acts:7:25 @ He thought that his brethren knew that God would give them freedom through his hand. But they did not understand it.
riversident@Acts:7:26 @ On the next day Moses appeared when two of them were fighting, and tried to make peace between them, saying, 'Men, you are brethren. Why are you injuring each other?'
riversident@Acts:7:27 @ But he who was injuring his neighbor pushed him away, saying, 'Who appointed you a ruler and judge over us?
riversident@Acts:7:28 @ Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'
riversident@Acts:7:29 @ At that word Moses fled and became a sojourner in the land of Midian, and there he had two sons.
riversident@Acts:7:30 @ "When forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai in the flames of a burning bush.
riversident@Acts:7:31 @ When Moses saw the sight he was astonished, but as he was approaching to look closely, the voice of the Lord was heard,
riversident@Acts:7:32 @ 'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob.' Then Moses trembled and did not dare to look closely.
riversident@Acts:7:33 @ The Lord said to him, 'Loose your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.
riversident@Acts:7:34 @ I have plainly seen the distress of my people in Egypt and I have heard their groans and have come down to deliver them. Come now and I will send you to Egypt.'
riversident@Acts:7:35 @ "This Moses whom they disowned, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and judge?' \'97 this man God sent as ruler and deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
riversident@Acts:7:36 @ This man led them out, doing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.
riversident@Acts:7:37 @ This is the Moses who said, 'God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brethren.'
riversident@Acts:7:38 @ This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him in Mount Sinai and with our fathers, and he received the living words to give to us.
riversident@Acts:7:39 @ Our fathers would not obey him, but thrust him away and turned back in their hearts toward Egypt,
riversident@Acts:7:40 @ saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods to lead us; for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt \'97 we do not know what has become of him.'
riversident@Acts:7:41 @ And they made the image of a calf in those days and brought sacrifices to the idol and rejoiced in the work of their own hands.
riversident@Acts:7:42 @ So God turned and gave them up to worship the stars of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets, 'Did you offer to me slaughtered animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
riversident@Acts:7:43 @ No, you carried the tent of Moloch and the star of the god Rephan, the images that you made for worship. Therefore I will remove you beyond Babylon.'
riversident@Acts:7:44 @ "In the wilderness our fathers had the Tent of the Testimony made as he who spoke to Moses directed, according to the model which he had seen.
riversident@Acts:7:45 @ This Tent our fathers who were with Joshua received in their turn and brought into the land of the nations whom God drove out from before our fathers, and it remained until the days of David.
riversident@Acts:7:46 @ He found favor with God and prayed that he might provide a temple for the house of Israel.
riversident@Acts:7:47 @ But Solomon built for him a house.
riversident@Acts:7:48 @ Yet the Most High does not dwell in buildings made by hands; as the prophet says,
riversident@Acts:7:49 @ 'Heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool. What sort of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is my place of rest?
riversident@Acts:7:50 @ Did not my hand make all these things?'
riversident@Acts:7:51 @ "You stiff-necked men, uncircumcised in hearts and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so do you.
riversident@Acts:7:52 @ Which one of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? Yes, they killed those who announced in advance the coming of the righteous one of whom now you have become the betrayers and murderers \'97
riversident@Acts:7:53 @ you who received the law as it was transmitted by angels and have not kept it."![[pBiblx2]](/img/pbiblx2_logo3.png){kind=logo}