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1 But a cer­tain man named Ana­nias, with Sap­phi­ra his wife, sold a pos­ses­sion, 2 And kept back part of the price, his wife also be­ing privy ­to it, and brought a cer­tain part, and laid it at the apos­tles' feet. 3 But Pe­ter said, Ana­nias, why hath Sa­tan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? 4 Whiles it re­mained, was it not thine own? and af­ter it was sold, was it not in thine own pow­er? why hast thou con­ceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. 5 And Ana­nias hear­ing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things. 6 And the young men arose, wound him up, and car­ried him out, and buried him. 7 And it was about the space of three hours af­ter, when his wife, not know­ing what was done, came in. 8 And Pe­ter an­swered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much. 9 Then Pe­ter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed to­geth­er to tempt the Spir­it of the Lord? be­hold, the feet of them which have buried thy hus­band are at the door, and shall car­ry thee out. 10 Then fell she down straight­way at his feet, and yield­ed up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, car­ry­ing her forth, buried her by her hus­band. 11 And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things. 12 And by the hands of the apos­tles were many signs and won­ders wrought among the peo­ple; (and they were all with one ac­cord in Solomon's porch. 13 And of the rest durst no man join him­self to them: but the peo­ple mag­ni­fied them. 14 And be­liev­ers were the more added to the Lord, mul­ti­tudes both of men and wom­en.) 15 In­so­much that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couch­es, that at the least the shad­ow of Pe­ter pass­ing by might over­shad­ow some of them. 16 There came also a mul­ti­tude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bring­ing sick folks, and them which were vexed with un­clean spir­its: and they were healed ev­ery one. 17 Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sad­ducees, ) and were filled with in­dig­na­tion, 18 And laid their hands on the apos­tles, and put them in the com­mon prison. 19 But the an­gel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said, 20 Go, stand and speak in the tem­ple to the peo­ple all the words of this life. 21 And when they heard that, they en­tered into the tem­ple ear­ly in the morn­ing, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the coun­cil to­geth­er, and all the sen­ate of the chil­dren of Is­rael, and sent to the prison to have them brought. 22 But when the of­fi­cers came, and found them not in the prison, they re­turned, and told, 23 Say­ing, The prison tru­ly found we shut with all safe­ty, and the keep­ers stand­ing with­out be­fore the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man with­in. 24 Now when the high priest and the cap­tain of the tem­ple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubt­ed of them where­un­to this would grow. 25 Then came one and told them, say­ing, Be­hold, the men whom ye put in prison are stand­ing in the tem­ple, and teach­ing the peo­ple. 26 Then went the cap­tain with the of­fi­cers, and brought them with­out vi­o­lence: for they feared the peo­ple, lest they should have been stoned. 27 And when they had brought them, they set them be­fore the coun­cil: and the high priest asked them, 28 Say­ing, Did not we strait­ly com­mand you that ye should not teach in this name? and, be­hold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doc­trine, and in­tend to bring this man's blood upon us. 29 Then Pe­ter and the other apos­tles an­swered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men. 30 The God of our fa­thers raised up Je­sus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. 31 Him hath God ex­alt­ed with his right hand ­to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give re­pen­tance to Is­rael, and for­give­ness of sins. 32 And we are his wit­ness­es of these things; and ­so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath giv­en to them that obey him. 33 When they heard that, they were cut ­to the heart, and took coun­sel to slay them. 34 Then stood there up one in the coun­cil, a Phar­isee, named Gamaliel, a doc­tor of the law, had in rep­u­ta­tion among all the peo­ple, and com­mand­ed to put the apos­tles forth a lit­tle space; 35 And said unto them, Ye men of Is­rael, take heed to your­selves what ye in­tend to do as touch­ing these men. 36 For be­fore these days rose up Theudas, boast­ing him­self to be some­body; to whom a num­ber of men, about four hun­dred, joined them­selves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scat­tered, and brought to nought. 37 Af­ter this man rose up Ju­das of Galilee in the days of the tax­ing, and drew away much peo­ple af­ter him: he also per­ished; and all, even as many as obeyed him, were dis­persed. 38 And now I say unto you, Re­frain from these men, and let them alone: for if this coun­sel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: 39 But if it be of God, ye can­not over­throw it; lest hap­ly ye be found even to fight against God. 40 And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apos­tles, and beat­en them, they com­mand­ed that they should not speak in the name of Je­sus, and let them go. 41 And they de­part­ed from the pres­ence of the coun­cil, re­joic­ing that they were count­ed wor­thy to suf­fer shame for his name. 42 And dai­ly in the tem­ple, and in ev­ery house, they ceased not to teach and preach Je­sus Christ.