Study Desk

The God of our fathers, the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, has done this. He has honored His Son Jesus. He is the One you handed over to Pilate. You turned your backs on Him after Pilate had decided to let Him go free.

You killed the very One Who made all life. But God raised Him from the dead. We saw Him alive.

In this way, God did what He said He would do through all the early preachers. He said that Christ must suffer many hard things.

But you must be sorry for your sins and turn from them. You must turn to God and have your sins taken away. Then many times your soul will receive new strength from the Lord.

But for awhile He must stay in heaven until the time when all things are made right. God said these things would happen through His holy early preachers.

"Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up from among your brothers One Who speaks for God, as He raised me. You must listen to everything He says.

Everyone among the people who will not listen to that One Who speaks for God will be put to death.'

You are of the family of the early preachers and of the promise that God made with our early fathers. He said to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will receive God's favor through your children.'

God has raised up His Son Jesus and has sent Him to you first to give God's favor to each of you who will turn away from his sinful ways."

The religious leaders and the leader of the house of God and some of the religious group who believe no one will be raised from the dead came to Peter and John while they were talking to the people.

You and all the Jews must know that it was by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the One you nailed to a cross and God raised from the dead. It is through Him that this man stands in front of you well and strong.

Peter and John said, "If it is right to listen to you more than to God, you decide about that.

After they had spoken more sharp words to them, they let them go. They could not beat them because the people were giving thanks to God for what had happened.

When they heard it, they all prayed to God, saying, "Lord God, You made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything that is in them.

When they had finished praying, the place where they were gathered was shaken. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit. It was easy for them to speak the Word of God.

Was not the land yours before you sold it? After it was sold, you could have done what you wanted to do with the money. Why did you allow your heart to do this? You have lied to God, not to men."

"Go, stand where you have been standing in the house of God. Keep on telling the people about this new life."

When Peter and John heard this, they went in the house of God early in the morning and began to teach. When the head religious leader and those with him had come, they gathered the men of the court and the leaders of the Jews together. Then they sent to have the missionaries brought to them from the prison.

When the religious leaders and the leader of the house of God heard this, they were much troubled as to what might happen.

Then someone came and told them, "The men you put in prison are now standing in the house of God and teaching the people."