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

How then does each of us hear his own native language spoken by them?

"As to the patriarch David, I need hardly remind you, brethren, that he died and was buried, and that we still have his tomb among us.

Being a Prophet, however, and knowing that God had solemnly sworn to him to seat a descendant of his upon his throne,

with prophetic foresight he spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, to the effect that He was not left forsaken in the Unseen World, nor did His body undergo decay.

Those, therefore, who joyfully welcomed his Message were baptized; and on that one day about three thousand persons were added to them;

Peter fixing his eyes on him, as John did also, said, "Look at us."

Then taking his hand Peter lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankles were strengthened.

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our forefathers, has conferred this honour on His Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and disowned in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to let Him go.

It is His name-- faith in that name being the condition--which has strengthened this man whom you behold and know; and the faith which He has given has made this man sound and strong again, as you can all see.

But in this way God has fulfilled the declarations He made through all the Prophets, that His Christ would suffer.

Heaven must receive Him until those times of which God has spoken from the earliest ages through the lips of His holy Prophets--the times of the reconstitution of all things.

It is to you first that God, after raising His Servant from the grave, has sent Him to bless you, by causing every one of you to turn from your wickedness."

The kings of the earth came near, and the rulers assembled together against the Lord and against His Anointed.'"

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;

and gave it to the Apostles, and distribution was made to every one according to his wants.

There was a man of the name of Ananias who, with his wife Sapphira, sold some property but,

About three hours had passed, when his wife came in, knowing nothing of what had happened.

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.