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But Peter said, "Ananias, for what reason has Satan filled your heart, that you lied to the Holy Spirit and kept back for yourself some of the proceeds of the piece of land?

When it remained to you, did it not remain yours? And when it was sold, was it at your disposal? How is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to people, but to God!"

And none of the rest dared to join them, but the people spoke highly of them.

But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the prison and led them out and said,

But the officers who came did not find them in the prison, and they returned and reported,

saying, "We found the prison locked with all security and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside!"

But someone came and reported to them, "Behold, the men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple courts and teaching the people!"

But Peter and the apostles answered and said, "It is necessary to obey God rather than men!

But a certain man stood up in the Sanhedrin, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law respected by all the people, and gave orders to put the men outside for a short time.

But if it is from God, you will not be able to overthrow them, lest you even be found fighting against God." So they were persuaded by him.

But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word."

But some of those from the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and those from Cilicia and Asia, stood up and disputed with Stephen.

But God spoke like this: ‘His descendants will be foreigners in a foreign land, and they will enslave them and mistreat them four hundred years,

"But as the time of the promise that God had made to Abraham was drawing near, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt

"But when he was forty years old, it entered in his heart to visit his brothers, the sons of Israel.

And he thought his brothers would understand that God was granting deliverance to them by his hand, but they did not understand.

But the one who was doing wrong to his neighbor pushed him aside, saying, ‘Who appointed you a ruler and a judge over us?

to whom our fathers were not willing to become obedient, but rejected him and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, just as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘You did not bring offerings and sacrifices to me for forty years in the wilderness, did you, house of Israel?

But Solomon built a house for him.