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But with his wife's agreement he kept part of the money for himself and turned the rest over to the apostles.

But more and more people were added to the group—a crowd of men and women who believed in the Lord.

But that night an angel of the Lord opened the prison gates, led the apostles out, and said to them,

But when the officials arrived, they did not find the apostles in prison, so they returned to the Council and reported,

"When we arrived at the jail, we found it locked up tight and all the guards on watch at the gates; but when we opened the gates, we found no one inside!"

"We gave you strict orders not to teach in the name of this man," he said; "but see what you have done! You have spread your teaching all over Jerusalem, and you want to make us responsible for his death!"

But one of them, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, who was a teacher of the Law and was highly respected by all the people, stood up in the Council. He ordered the apostles to be taken out for a while,

You remember that Theudas appeared some time ago, claiming to be somebody great, and about four hundred men joined him. But he was killed, all his followers were scattered, and his movement died out.

After that, Judas the Galilean appeared during the time of the census; he drew a crowd after him, but he also was killed, and all his followers were scattered.

but if it comes from God, you cannot possibly defeat them. You could find yourselves fighting against God!" The Council followed Gamaliel's advice.

But he was opposed by some men who were members of the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), which had Jews from Cyrene and Alexandria. They and other Jews from the provinces of Cilicia and Asia started arguing with Stephen.

But the Spirit gave Stephen such wisdom that when he spoke, they could not refute him.

God did not then give Abraham any part of it as his own, not even a square foot of ground, but God promised to give it to him, and that it would belong to him and to his descendants. At the time God made this promise, Abraham had no children.

But I will pass judgment on the people that they will serve, and afterward your descendants will come out of that country and will worship me in this place.'

"Jacob's sons became jealous of their brother Joseph and sold him to be a slave in Egypt. But God was with him

(He thought that his own people would understand that God was going to use him to set them free, but they did not understand.)

But the one who was mistreating the other pushed Moses aside. ‘Who made you ruler and judge over us?' he asked.

Moses was amazed by what he saw, and went near the bush to get a better look. But he heard the Lord's voice:

"But our ancestors refused to obey him; they pushed him aside and wished that they could go back to Egypt.

But it was Solomon who built him a house.