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So two names were proposed, Joseph called Bar-sabbas--and surnamed Justus--and Matthias.

So when this noise was heard, they came crowding together, and were amazed because everyone heard his own language spoken.

So he looked and waited, expecting to receive something from them.

Repent, therefore, and reform your lives, so that the record of your sins may be cancelled, and that there may come seasons of revival from the Lord,

So they made the Apostles stand in the centre, and demanded of them, "By what power or in what name have you done this?"

As they looked on Peter and John so fearlessly outspoken--and also discovered that they were illiterate persons, untrained in the schools--they were surprised; and now they recognized them as having been with Jesus.

So they ordered them to withdraw from the Sanhedrin while they conferred among themselves.

So they recalled the Apostles, and ordered them altogether to give up speaking or teaching in the name of Jesus.

Among all those who had embraced the faith there was but one heart and soul, so that none of them claimed any of his possessions as his own, but everything they had was common property;

Peter at once questioned her. "Tell me," he said, "whether you sold the land for so much." "Yes," she replied, "for so much."

Instantly she fell down dead at his feet, and the young men came in and found her dead. So they carried her out and buried her by her husband's side.

so that they would even bring out their sick friends into the streets and lay them on light couches or mats, in order that when Peter came by, at least his shadow might fall on one or other of them.

Having received that command they went into the Temple, just before daybreak, and began to teach: So when the High Priest and his party came, and had called together the Sanhedrin as well as all the Elders of the descendants of Israel, they sent to the jail to fetch the Apostles.

But the officers went and could not find them in the prison. So they came back and brought word,

So they brought them and made them stand in front of the Sanhedrin. And then the High Priest questioned them.

His advice carried conviction. So they called the Apostles in, and--after flogging them--ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and then let them go.

So the Twelve called together the general body of the disciples and said, "It does not seem fitting that we Apostles should neglect the delivery of God's Message and minister at tables.

But some members of the so-called `Synagogue of the Freed-men,' together with some Cyrenaeans, Alexandrians, Cilicians and men from Roman Asia, were roused to encounter Stephen in debate.

But there came a famine throughout the whole of Egypt and Canaan--and great distress--so that our forefathers could find no food.

and Jacob went down into Egypt. There he died, and so did our forefathers,