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1 And as they spake unto the peo­ple, the priests, and the cap­tain of the tem­ple, and the Sad­ducees, came upon them, 2 Be­ing grieved that they taught the peo­ple, and preached through Je­sus the res­ur­rec­tion from the dead. 3 And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now even­tide. 4 How­beit many of them which heard the word be­lieved; and the num­ber of the men was about five thou­sand. 5 And it came to pass on the mor­row, that their rulers, and el­ders, and scribes, 6 And An­nas the high priest, and Ca­iaphas, and John, and Alexan­der, and as many as were of the kin­dred of the high priest, were gath­ered to­geth­er at Jerusalem. 7 And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what pow­er, or by what name, have ye done this? 8 Then Pe­ter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the peo­ple, and el­ders of Is­rael, 9 If we this day be ex­am­ined of the good deed done to the im­po­tent man, by what means he is made whole; 10 Be it known unto you all, and to 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 doth this man stand here be­fore you whole. 11 This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is be­come the head of the cor­ner. 12 Nei­ther is there sal­va­tion in any oth­er: for there is none oth­er name un­der heav­en giv­en among men, where­by we must be saved. 13 Now when they saw the bold­ness of Pe­ter and John, and per­ceived that they were un­learned and ig­no­rant men, they mar­velled; and they took knowl­edge of them, that they had been with Je­sus. 14 And be­hold­ing the man which was healed stand­ing with them, they could say noth­ing against it. 15 But when they had com­mand­ed them to go aside out of the coun­cil, they con­ferred among them­selves, 16 Say­ing, What shall we do to these men? for that in­deed a no­table mir­a­cle hath been done by them is man­i­fest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem; and we can­not deny it. 17 But that it spread no fur­ther among the peo­ple, let us strait­ly threat­en them, that they speak hence­forth to no man in this name. 18 And they called them, and com­mand­ed them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Je­sus. 19 But Pe­ter and John an­swered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hear­ken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. 20 For we can­not but speak the things which we have seen and heard. 21 So when they had fur­ther threat­ened them, they let them go, find­ing noth­ing how they might pun­ish them, be­cause of the peo­ple: for all men glo­ri­fied God for that which was done. 22 For the man was above forty years old, on whom this mir­a­cle of heal­ing was shewed. 23 And be­ing let go, they went to their own com­pa­ny, and re­port­ed all that the chief priests and el­ders had said unto them. 24 And when they heard that, they lift­ed up their voice to God with one ac­cord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heav­en, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is: 25 Who by the mouth of thy ser­vant David hast said, Why did the hea­then rage, and the peo­ple imag­ine vain things? 26 The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gath­ered to­geth­er against the Lord, and against his Christ. 27 For of a truth against thy holy child Je­sus, whom thou hast anoint­ed, both Herod, and Pon­tius Pi­late, with the Gen­tiles, and the peo­ple of Is­rael, were gath­ered to­geth­er, 28 For to do what­so­ev­er thy hand and thy coun­sel de­ter­mined be­fore to be done. 29 And now, Lord, be­hold their threat­en­ings: and grant unto thy ser­vants, that with all bold­ness they may speak thy word, 30 By stretch­ing forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and won­ders may be done by the name of thy holy child Je­sus. 31 And when they had prayed, the place was shak­en where they were as­sem­bled to­geth­er; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with bold­ness. 32 And the mul­ti­tude of them that be­lieved were of one heart and of one soul: nei­ther said any of them that ought of the things which he pos­sessed was his own; but they had all things com­mon. 33 And with great pow­er gave the apos­tles wit­ness of the res­ur­rec­tion of the Lord Je­sus: and great grace was upon them all. 34 Nei­ther was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were pos­ses­sors of lands or hous­es sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, 35 And laid them down at the apos­tles' feet: and dis­tri­bu­tion was made unto ev­ery man ac­cord­ing as he had need. 36 And Jos­es, who by the apos­tles was sur­named Barn­abas, (which is, be­ing in­ter­pret­ed, The son of con­so­la­tion, ) a Levite, and of the coun­try of Cyprus, 37 Hav­ing land, sold it, and brought the mon­ey, and laid it at the apos­tles' feet.