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[1]ANDwhile they spake these words to the people, the priests, and Zadukoyee, and the governors of the temple, arose against them,
[2]Beingangered against them because they taught the people, and preached through the Meshiha the resurrection from the dead.
[3]Andthey laid upon them hands, and kept them unto the day after, because the evening had drawn nigh.
[4]Andmany who heard the word believed; and they were in number as five thousand men.
[5]Andthe day after, the rulers, and elders, and sophree, assembled,
[6]Andalso Hanan chief of the priests, and Kaiapha, and Juhanon, and Alexandros, and they who were of the race of the chief priests.
[7]Andwhen they had made them stand in the midst, they questioned them, By what power, or in what name, have you done this?
[8]ThenShemun Kipha was filled with the Spirit of Holiness, and said to them, Rulers of the people, and elders of the house of Israel, hear:
[9]Ifwe this day are judged of you concerning the good which has been done to the infirm man, insomuch that he is cured;
[10]Bethis known to you, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jeshu Meshiha Natsroya, whom you crucified, whom Aloha hath raised from among the dead, through this Himself, behold, this [man] standeth before you well.
[11]Thisis the stone which you builders rejected, and he is become the head of the corner.
[12]Andin no other oneⓘ is redemption: for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind, by which we must be saved.
[13]Andwhen they heard the words of Shemun and of Juhanon, which they had confidently spoken, they perceived that they knew not literature and were common-men,ⓘ and wondered at them; and they recognised them, that with Jeshu they had been conversant.
[14]Andthey saw that the lame man who had been healed was standing with them, and they could not say any thing against them.
[15]Thenthey commanded that they should lead them from their assembly, and said one to another,
[16]Whatshall we do with these men? For, behold, a conspicuous sign which hath been done by their hands to all the inhabitants of Urishlem is known, and we cannot deny.
[17]Butthat this report may not go forth more, [widely] we will threaten them that again they shall not speak in This Name to any man.ⓘ
[18]Andthey called them, and commanded them that not at all they should speak and teach in the name of Jeshu.
[19]SHEMUNKIPHA and Juhanon answered and said to them, If it be right before Aloha that you we obey rather than Aloha, judge you.
[20]Forwhat we have seen and heard we cannot but speak.
[21]Andthey threatened them, and dismissed them; for they could not find cause to lay [a penalty] upon their head,ⓘ because of the people; for every one glorified Aloha for that which had been done.
[22]Fora son of more than forty years was that man in whom had been wrought this sign of healing.
[23]Andwhen they were dismissed they came to their brethren, and made known to them whatever the priests and elders had said.
[24]Andthey, when they had heard, with one accord lifted up their voice unto Aloha, and said, Lord, thou art God who hast made heaven and earth and the seas, and all that is in them:
[25]Andthou art he who hast spoken by the Spirit of Holiness in the mouth of David thy servant: Why rage the Heathen, and the peoples imagine vanity?
[26]Thekings and powers of the earth arise and counsel together against the Lord, and against his Meshiha.
[27]Forverily they are assembled in this city against thy holy Son Jeshu, whom thou hast anointed,—Herodes and Pilatos with the Gentiles and the synagogue of Israel,
[28]—towork whatsoever thy hand and thy will have signified before should be done.
[29]Andnow also, Lord, behold and see their threatenings, and give unto thy servants with boldness to preach thy word,
[30]Whilethy hand thou outstretchest unto healings and mighty works which they shall do in the name of thy holy Son Jeshu.
[31]Andas they prayed and supplicated, the place in which they were assembled was moved, and they were all filled with the Spirit of Holiness, and they spake with openness the word of Aloha.
[32]BUTto the assembly of the men who believed there was one soul and one mind; and no man of them said of the goods which he possessed that they were his own, but all whatever they had was in common.
[33]Andwith great power did those apostles testify concerning the resurrection of Jeshu Meshiha, and great grace was with all of them.
[34]Andno man of them had want; for they who possessed fields and houses sold, [them] and brought the prices of whatever was sold
[35]Andlaid at the feet of the apostles, and there was given to each according to that which was needed.
[36]ButJauseph, who was entitled Bar Naba by the apostles, which is interpreted, A son of consolation, a Levoya from the Isle of Kypros,
[37]Hada field, and he sold it, and brought its price and laid before the feet of the apostles.
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