2 3:11And as he held Peter and John, all the people ran to them in the porch which is called Solomon's, greatly wondering. 3:12And Peter seeing it answered the people, Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this? or why do you look intently at us as if by our power or piety we had made him walk? 3:13The God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied before Pilate when he decided to release him; 3:14but you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked a murderer to be given you, 3:15but killed the Prince of life, whom God has raised from the dead, whose witnesses we are. 3:16And by the faith of his name, his name has made strong this man whom you behold and know, and the faith which is by him has given him this entire soundness before you all. 3:17And now, brothers, I know that you did it without knowledge, as did also your rulers; 3:18but what God had before declared by the mouth of all the prophets that his Anointed should suffer, he has so accomplished. 3:19Change your minds, therefore, and turn yourselves, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, 3:20and he send to you Jesus Christ before appointed, 3:21whom heaven must receive till the times of the restoration of all things of which God has spoken by the mouth of his holy prophets since the world began. 3:22Moses indeed said, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up to you, of your brothers, like me; him shall you hear in all things which he shall speak to you; 3:23and every soul which will not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from the people. 3:24And all the prophets, from Samuel and those following him in order, who have spoken, have also announced these days. 3:25You are the children of the prophets, and of the promise which God promised to our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 3:26God having raised up his servant has sent him to you first, to bless you by turning each [one of you] from your evil ways.
3 4:1And while they were speaking to the people, the priests, and the commander of the temple, and the Sadducees came upon them, 4:2being displeased because they taught the people and declared by Jesus the resurrection of the dead; 4:3and they laid hands on them and put them in prison till the next day; for it was now evening. 4:4But many of those that heard the word believed, and the number of the men became about five thousand.
4 4:5And on the next day the rulers, and elders, and scribes 4:6assembled at Jerusalem, and Annas the chief priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and all that were of the family of the chief priesthood, 4:7and placing them in the midst, asked, By what power, or by what name, have you done this? 4:8Then Peter, full of the Holy Spirit, said to them, Rulers of the people and elders of Israel, 4:9if we are to-day examined concerning the good work done to the sick man, by what means he has been cured, 4:10be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazoraean, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by him has this man stood before you sound. 4:11This is the stone rejected by you builders, which has become the head of a corner. 4:12And there is salvation in no other; for there is no other name given under heaven among men, by which we can be saved.
5 4:13And seeing the boldness of Peter and John, and supposing that they were illiterate and common men, they wondered, and perceived that they had been with Jesus; 4:14and seeing the man standing with them cured, they could not dispute it. 4:15And commanding them to withdraw from the Sanhedrim, they conferred one with another, 4:16saying, What shall we do to these men? for that a notable miracle has been performed by them is manifest to all that live at Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it; 4:17but that it spread no further among the people, let us threaten them severely, [and charge them] to speak no more to any man in this name. 4:18And calling them, they charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. 4:19But Peter and John answered and said to them, Whether it is right in the sight of God to obey you rather than God, judge; 4:20for we cannot but tell what we have seen and heard. 4:21And threatening them still further, they dismissed them, not being able to punish them, on account of the people, because all glorified God for what was done; 4:22for the man was more than forty years old on whom this miracle of the cure was performed.
6 4:23And being dismissed they came to their friends, and related to them what the chief priests and elders said to them. 4:24And when they heard it they lifted up their voice with one consent to God, and said, Master, thou who hast made heaven, and the earth, the sea, and all things in them, 4:25who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the nations rage and the peoples devise vain things? 4:26the kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were assembled together against the Lord, and against his anointed. 4:27For of a truth, in this city, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the gentiles and people of Israel, were assembled together against thy holy servant Jesus whom thou hast anointed, 4:28to do what thy hand and counsel before appointed to be done. 4:29And now, Lord, look down upon their threatenings, and grant to thy servants with all boldness to speak thy word, 4:30by stretching out thy hand, that cures and miracles and prodigies may be performed by the name of thy holy servant Jesus. 4:31And when they had prayed the place was shaken in which they were assembled, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and spoke the word of God with boldness.
CHAPTER IV.
THE LIBERALITY OF THE FIRST CHRISTIANS, ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA, FURTHER PERSECUTION.
1 4:32AND the multitude that believed had one heart and one soul, and none said that anything of his possessions was his; but they had all things common. 4:33And the apostles delivered the testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus with great power, and great favor was towards them all. 4:34For no one among them was needy; for those who possessed lands or houses sold and brought the prices of the things sold, 4:35and laid them at the apostles' feet; and distribution was made to each as any one had need. 4:36And Joseph, called Barnabas by the apostles, which is interpreted, A son of consolation, a Levite, a Cyprian by birth, 4:37having land, sold it, and brought the money and laid it at the feet of the apostles.
2 5:1And one Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, 5:2and he kept back a part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and bringing a certain part laid it at the apostles' feet. 5:3But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart that you should lie to the Holy Spirit, and that you should keep back a part of the price of the land? 5:4Continuing unsold was it not yours, and when it was sold was it not at your disposal? Why did you propose this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God. 5:5And Ananias hearing these words fell down and expired; and great fear was upon all who heard. 5:6And the young men arose and laid him out, and having carried him out buried him.
3 5:7And after an interval of about three hours, his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in. 5:8And Peter answered her, Tell me whether you sold the field for so much? And she said, Yes; for so much. 5:9And Peter said to her, Why have you agreed together to try the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those that buried your husband are at the door, and they shall carry you out. 5:10And she fell down immediately at his feet, and expired; and the young men coming in found her dead, and carried her out, and buried her by her husband. 5:11And great fear was on all the assembly [church], and on all that heard of these things.