Acts 4:1-4
ACTS CHAPTER 4 Peter and John before the Council of the Jews. The arrest of the apostles:... [ Continue Reading ]
ACTS CHAPTER 4 Peter and John before the Council of the Jews. The arrest of the apostles:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AS THEY SPAKE UNTO THE PEOPLE, THE PRIESTS, AND THE CAPTAIN OF THE TEMPLE, AND THE SADDUCEES CAME UPON THEM,... [ Continue Reading ]
BEING GRIEVED THAT THEY TAUGHT THE PEOPLE, AND PREACHED THROUGH JESUS THE RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY LAID HANDS ON THEM, AND PUT THEM IN HOLD UNTO THE NEXT DAY; FOR IT WAS NOW EVENTIDE.... [ Continue Reading ]
HOWBEIT, MANY OF THEM WHICH HEARD THE WORD BELIEVED; AND THE NUMBER OF THE MEN WAS ABOUT FIVE THOUSAND. Up to this time the Lord had permitted the growth of the Church to be undisturbed, the work of the apostles going on without interruption and the disciples having plenty of opportunity to be stren... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT CAME TO PASS ON THE MORROW THAT THEIR RULERS, AND ELDERS, AND SCRIBES,... [ Continue Reading ]
The Sanhedrin is convened:... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY HAD SET THEM IN THE MIDST, THEY ASKED, BY WHAT POWER OR BY WHAT NAME HAVE YE DONE THIS? The next morning excitement ran high in official circles at Jerusalem; for were they not about to stamp out the hated sect that was gaining adherents with such alarming rapidity in their midst? So i... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN PETER, FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST, SAID UNTO THEM, YE RULERS OF THE PEOPLE AND ELDERS OF ISRAEL,... [ Continue Reading ]
Peter's speech of defense:... [ Continue Reading ]
IF WE THIS DAY BE EXAMINED OF THE GOOD DEED DONE TO THE IMPOTENT MAN, BY WHAT MEANS HE IS MADE WHOLE,... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS IS THE STONE WHICH WAS SET AT NAUGHT OF YOU BUILDERS, WHICH IS BECOME THE HEAD OF THE CORNER.... [ Continue Reading ]
NEITHER IS THERE SALVATION IN ANY OTHER; FOR THERE IS NONE OTHER NAME UNDER HEAVEN GIVEN AMONG MEN WHEREBY WE MUST BE SAVED. In the case of Peter it was now fulfilled what Jesus had promised, Luke 12:12. He was filled with the Holy Ghost; the Holy Ghost took charge of his mind and his mouth and dire... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW WHEN THEY SAW THE BOLDNESS OF PETER AND JOHN, AND PERCEIVED THAT THEY WERE UNLEARNED AND IGNORANT MEN, THEY MARVELED; AND THEY TOOK KNOWLEDGE OF THEM THAT THEY HAD BEEN WITH JESUS.... [ Continue Reading ]
The consultation of the Sanhedrin:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND BEHOLDING THE MAN WHICH WAS HEALED STANDING WITH THEM, THEY COULD SAY NOTHING AGAINST IT.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHEN THEY HAD COMMANDED THEM TO GO ASIDE OUT OF THE COUNCIL, THEY CONFERRED AMONG THEMSELVES,... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THAT IT SPREAD NO FURTHER AMONG THE PEOPLE, LET US STRAITLY THREATEN THEM THAT THEY SPEAK HENCEFORTH TO NO MAN IN THIS NAME. The Jewish rulers had expected Peter and John to show fear or timidity in their presence, to be overawed by the dignity and learning of the members of the council. Instead... [ Continue Reading ]
The resolution announced to Peter and John:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY CALLED THEM, AND COMMANDED THEM NOT TO SPEAK AT ALL NOR TEACH IN THE NAME OF JESUS.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WE CANNOT BUT SPEAK THE THINGS WHICH WE HAVE SEEN AND HEARD.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE MAN WAS ABOVE FORTY YEARS OLD ON WHOM THIS MIRACLE OF HEALING WAS SHOWED. Peter and John were now called back into the meeting of the council, and the resolution was made known to them in its strictest interpretation. They were in no way to utter a word nor to teach about the name of Jesus.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND BEING LET GO, THEY WENT TO THEIR OWN COMPANY, AND REPORTED ALL THAT THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND ELDERS HAD SAID UNTO THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PRAYER AND THE FURTHER ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CONGREGATION. The report of the apostles and the prayer:... [ Continue Reading ]
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;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO BY THE MOUTH OF THY SERVANT DAVID HAST SAID, WHY DID THE HEATHEN RAGE, AND THE PEOPLE IMAGINE VAIN THINGS?... [ Continue Reading ]
THE KINGS OF THE EARTH STOOD UP, AND THE RULERS WERE GATHERED TOGETHER AGAINST THE LORD AND AGAINST HIS CHRIST.... [ Continue Reading ]
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... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR TO DO WHATSOEVER THY HAND AND THY COUNSEL DETERMINED BEFORE TO BE DONE. By the power of the Spirit's testimony through the mouth of the apostles the enemies had been vanquished. The two disciples were discharged for want of condemnatory matter against them. They came to their own, to their fello... [ Continue Reading ]
AND NOW, LORD, BEHOLD THEIR THREATENINGS, AND GRANT UNTO THY SERVANTS THAT WITH ALL BOLDNESS THEY MAY SPEAK THY WORD,... [ Continue Reading ]
The conclusion of the prayer and its answer:... [ Continue Reading ]
BY STRETCHING FORTH THINE HAND TO HEAL; AND THAT SIGNS AND WONDERS MAY BE DONE BY THE NAME OF THY HOLY CHILD JESUS.... [ Continue Reading ]
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. The congregation now came to its special petition. The threatenings of the enemies were being concentrated upon their small f... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE MULTITUDE OF THEM THAT BELIEVED WERE OF ONE HEART AND OF ONE SOUL; NEITHER SAID ANY OF THEM THAT AUGHT OF THE THINGS WHICH HE POSSESSED WAS HIS OWN; BUT THEY HAD ALL THINGS COMMON.... [ Continue Reading ]
The unity and charity of the Church:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WITH GREAT POWER GAVE THE APOSTLES WITNESS OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE LORD JESUS; AND GREAT GRACE WAS UPON THEM ALL.... [ Continue Reading ]
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,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND LAID THEM DOWN AT THE APOSTLES' FEET; AND DISTRIBUTION WAS MADE UNTO EVERY MAN ACCORDING AS HE HAD NEED.... [ Continue Reading ]
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, v. 37. HAVING LAND, SOLD IT, AND BROUGHT THE MONEY, AND LAID IT AT THE APOSTLES' FEET. There was now a multitude of believers, a congregation of some... [ Continue Reading ]