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And, by faith in his name, his name has made this [man] strong whom ye behold and know; and the faith which is by him has given him this complete soundness in the presence of you all.

but God has thus fulfilled what he had announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer.

whom heaven indeed must receive till [the] times of [the] restoring of all things, of which God has spoken by the mouth of his holy prophets since time began.

To you first God, having raised up his servant, has sent him, blessing you in turning each one [of you] from your wickedness.

The kings of the earth were there, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ.

And the heart and soul of the multitude of those that had believed were one, and not one said that anything of what he possessed was his own, but all things were common to them;

But a certain man, Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,

and put aside for himself part of the price, [his] wife also being privy to it; and having brought a certain part, laid it at the feet of the apostles.

And it came to pass about three hours afterwards, that his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in.

And she fell down immediately at his feet and expired. And when the young men came in they found her dead; and, having carried her out, they buried her by her husband.

Him has God exalted by his right hand as leader and saviour, to give repentance to Israel and remission of sins.

And *we* are [his] witnesses of these things, and the Holy Spirit also, which God has given to those that obey him.

And they listened to his advice; and having called the apostles, they beat them, and enjoined them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and dismissed them.

And all who sat in the council, looking fixedly on him, saw his face as [the] face of an angel.

Then going out of the land of the Chaldeans he dwelt in Charran, and thence, after his father died, he removed him into this land in which *ye* now dwell.

And he did not give him an inheritance in it, not even what his foot could stand on; and promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he had no child.

And God spoke thus: His seed shall be a sojourner in a strange land, and they shall enslave them and evil entreat [them] four hundred years;

and delivered him out of all his tribulations, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he appointed him chief over Egypt and all his house.

and the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren, and the family of Joseph became known to Pharaoh.

And Joseph sent and called down to him his father Jacob and all [his] kindred, seventy-five souls.