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Acts 4:21And they having further threatened them, let them go, finding nothing how they may punish them, because of the people, because all were glorifying God for that which hath been done,Acts 5:17And having risen, the chief priest, and all those with him—being the sect of the Sadducees—were filled with zeal,Acts 5:18and laid their hands upon the apostles, and did put them in a public prison;Acts 5:21and having heard, they did enter at the dawn into the temple, and were teaching. And the chief priest having come, and those with him, they called together the sanhedrim and all the senate of the sons of Israel, and they sent to the prison to have them brought,Acts 5:22and the officers having come, did not find them in the prison, and having turned back, they told,Acts 5:23saying—‘The prison indeed we found shut in all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors, and having opened—within we found no one.’Acts 5:24And as the priest, and the magistrate of the temple, and the chief priests, heard these words, they were doubting concerning them to what this would come;Acts 5:25and coming near, a certain one told them, saying—‘Lo, the men whom ye did put in the prison are in the temple standing and teaching the people;’Acts 5:26then the magistrate having gone away with officers, brought them without violence, for they were fearing the people, lest they should be stoned;Acts 5:27and having brought them, they set them in the sanhedrim, and the chief priest questioned them,Acts 5:28saying, ‘Did not we strictly command you not to teach in this name? and lo, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and ye intend to bring upon us the blood of this man.’Acts 5:29And Peter and the apostles answering, said, ‘To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;Acts 5:30and the God of our fathers did raise up Jesus, whom ye slew, having hanged upon a tree;Acts 5:31this one God, a Prince and a Saviour, hath exalted with His right hand, to give reformation to Israel, and forgiveness of sins;Acts 5:32and we are His witnesses of these sayings, and the Holy Spirit also, whom God gave to those obeying him.’Acts 5:33And they having heard, were cut to the heart, and were taking counsel to slay them,Acts 5:34but a certain one, having risen up in the sanhedrim—a Pharisee, by name Gamaliel, a teacher of law honoured by all the people—commanded to put the apostles forth a little,Acts 5:35and said unto them, ‘Men, Israelites, take heed to yourselves about these men, what ye are about to do,Acts 5:36for before these days rose up Theudas, saying, that himself was some one, to whom a number of men did join themselves, as it were four hundred, who was slain, and all, as many as were obeying him, were scattered, and came to nought.Acts 5:37‘After this one rose up, Judas the Galilean, in the days of the enrolment, and drew away much people after him, and that one perished, and all, as many as were obeying him, were scattered;Acts 5:38and now I say to you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone, because if this counsel or this work may be of men, it will be overthrown,Acts 5:39and if it be of God, ye are not able to overthrow it, lest perhaps also ye be found fighting against God.’Acts 5:40And to him they agreed, and having called near the apostles, having beaten them, they commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go;Acts 5:41they, indeed, then, departed from the presence of the sanhedrim, rejoicing that for his name they were counted worthy to suffer dishonour,Acts 6:9and there arose certain of those of the synagogue, called of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia, and Asia, disputing with Stephen,Acts 6:10and they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit with which he was speaking;Acts 6:11then they suborned men, saying—‘We have heard him speaking evil sayings in regard to Moses and God.’Acts 6:12They did stir up also the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and having come upon him, they caught him, and brought him to the sanhedrim;Acts 6:13they set up also false witnesses, saying, ‘This one doth not cease to speak evil sayings against this holy place and the law,Acts 6:14for we have heard him saying, That this Jesus the Nazarean shall overthrow this place, and shall change the customs that Moses delivered to us;’Acts 6:15and gazing at him, all those sitting in the sanhedrim saw his face as it were the face of a messenger.Acts 7:1And the chief priest said, ‘Are then these things so?’Acts 7:2and he said, ‘Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken: The God of the glory did appear to our father Abraham, being in Mesopotamia, before his dwelling in Haran,Acts 7:3and He said to him, Go forth out of thy land, and out of thy kindred, and come to a land that I shall shew thee.Acts 7:4‘Then having come forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, he dwelt in Haran, and from thence, after the death of his father, He did remove him to this land wherein ye now dwell,Acts 7:5and He gave him no inheritance in it, not even a footstep, and did promise to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him—he having no child.Acts 7:6‘And God spake thus, That his seed shall be sojourning in a strange land, and they shall cause it to serve, and shall do it evil four hundred years,Acts 7:7and the nation whom they shall serve I will judge, said God; and after these things they shall come forth and shall do Me service in this place.Acts 7:8And He gave to him a covenant of circumcision, and so he begat Isaac, and did circumcise him on the eighth day, and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob—the twelve patriarchs;Acts 7:9and the patriarchs, having been moved with jealousy, sold Joseph to Egypt, and God was with him,Acts 7:10and did deliver him out of all his tribulations, and gave him favour and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he did set him—governor over Egypt and all his house.Acts 7:11‘And there came a dearth upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great tribulation, and our fathers were not finding sustenance,Acts 7:12and Jacob having heard that there was corn in Egypt, sent forth our fathers a first time;Acts 7:13and at the second time was Joseph made known to his brethren, and Joseph’s kindred became manifest to Pharaoh,Acts 7:14and Joseph having sent, did call for his father Jacob, and all his kindred—with seventy and five souls—Acts 7:15and Jacob went down to Egypt, and died, himself and our fathers,Acts 7:16and they were carried over into Sychem, and were laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in money from the sons of Emmor, of Sychem.Acts 7:17‘And according as the time of the promise was drawing nigh, which God did swear to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,Acts 7:18till another king rose, who had not known Joseph;Acts 7:19this one, having dealt subtilely with our kindred, did evil to our fathers, causing to expose their babes, that they might not live;Acts 7:20in which time Moses was born, and he was fair to God, and he was brought up three months in the house of his father;Acts 7:21and he having been exposed, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and did rear him to herself for a son;Acts 7:22and Moses was taught in all wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was powerful in words and in works.Acts 7:23‘And when forty years were fulfilled to him, it came upon his heart to look after his brethren, the sons of Israel;Acts 7:24and having seen a certain one suffering injustice, he did defend, and did justice to the oppressed, having smitten the Egyptian;Acts 7:25and he was supposing his brethren to understand that God through his hand doth give salvation; and they did not understand.Acts 7:26‘On the succeeding day, also, he shewed himself to them as they are striving, and urged them to peace, saying, Men, brethren are ye, wherefore do ye injustice to one another?Acts 7:27and he who is doing injustice to the neighbour, did thrust him away, saying, Who set thee a ruler and a judge over us?Acts 7:28to kill me dost thou wish, as thou didst kill yesterday the Egyptian?Acts 7:29‘And Moses fled at this word, and became a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons,