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But one of the members of the Sanhedrin rose to his feet, a Parush named Gamli'el, a teacher of the Torah highly respected by all the people. He ordered the men put outside for a little while

After this, Y'hudah HaG'lili led another uprising, back at the time of the enrollment for the Roman tax; and he got some people to defect to him. But he was killed, and all his followers were scattered.

So in the present case, my advice to you is not to interfere with these people, but to leave them alone. For if this idea or this movement has a human origin, it will collapse.

And not for a single day, either in the Temple court or in private homes, did they stop teaching and proclaiming the Good News that Yeshua is the Messiah.

for we have heard him say that Yeshua from Natzeret will destroy this place and will change the customs Moshe handed down to us."

He gave him no inheritance in it, not even space for one foot ; yet he promised to give it to him as a possession and to his descendants after him , even though at the time he was childless.

What God said to him was, ‘ Your descendants will be aliens in a foreign land, where they will be in slavery and oppressed for four hundred years .

Yosef then sent for his father Ya‘akov and all his relatives, seventy-five people.

Their bodies were removed to Sh'khem and buried in the tomb Avraham had bought from the family of Hamor in Sh'khem for a certain sum of money.

"As the time drew near for the fulfillment of the promise God had made to Avraham, the number of our people in Egypt increased greatly,

"It was then that Moshe was born, and he was beautiful in God's sight. For three months he was reared in his father's house;

This man led them out, performing miracles and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.

So God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the stars — as has been written in the book of the prophets, ‘People of Isra'el, it was not to me that you offered slaughtered animals and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness!

He enjoyed God's favor and asked if he might provide a dwelling place for the God of Ya‘akov

‘Heaven is my throne,' says Adonai , ‘and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house could you build for me? What kind of place could you devise for my rest?

For many people were having unclean spirits driven out of them, shrieking; also many paralytics and crippled persons were being healed;

But there was a man named Shim‘on in the city who for some time had been practicing magic and astonishing the nation of Shomron, claiming to be somebody great.

They followed him because for a considerable time he had amazed them with his magic.

who came down and prayed for them, that they might receive the Ruach HaKodesh.

For until then he had not come upon any of them; they had only been immersed into the name of the Lord Yeshua.