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But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out, and said,

When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak, and taught. But the high priest came, and those who 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.

But the officers who came didn't find them in the prison. They returned and reported,

"We found the prison shut and locked, and the guards standing before the doors, but when we had opened it up, we found no one inside."

But Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men.

But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and determined to kill them.

But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and commanded to take the apostles out a little while.

But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God."

But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word."

But some of those who were of the synagogue called "The Libertines," and of the Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia arose, disputing with Stephen.

But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent forth our fathers the first time.

"But as the time of the promise came close which God swore to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.

He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn't understand.

But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

to whom our fathers wouldn't be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

But God turned, and gave them up to serve the host of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, 'Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices Forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

But Solomon built him a house.

But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed at him with one accord.