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For neither was there any one needy among them. For as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the price of the things they sold,

And Peter said to her: Tell me, woman, whether you sold the land for so much? And she said: Yea, for so much.

Then went the officer with the ministers and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.

For before these days rose up Theodas, affirming himself to be somebody, to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves. Who was slain: and all that believed him were scattered and brought to nothing.

And now, therefore, I say to you: Refrain from these men and let them alone. For if this council or this work be of men, it will come to nought:

And they indeed went from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were accounted worthy to suffer reproach for the name of Jesus.

And in those days, the number of the disciples increasing, there arose a murmuring of the Greeks against the Hebrews, for that their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.

For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place and shall change the traditions which Moses delivered unto us.

And they were translated into Sichem and were laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Hemor, the son of Sichem.

And when he was exposed, Pharao’s daughter took him up and nourished him for her own son.

And the Lord said to him: Loose the shoes from thy feet: for the place wherein thou standest is holy ground.

Saying to Aaron: Make us gods to go before us. For as for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.

And God turned and gave them up to serve the host of heaven, as it is written in the books of the prophets: Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me for forty years, in the desert, O house of Israel?

The tabernacle of the testimony was with our fathers in the desert, as God ordained for them, speaking to Moses, that he should make it according to the form which he had seen.

Who found grace before God and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

And devout men took order for Stephen’s funeral and made great mourning over him.

For many of them who had unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice, went out.

And they were attentive to him, because, for a long time, he had bewitched them with his magical practices.

Who, when they were come, prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Ghost.

For he was not as yet come upon any of them: but they were only baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.