4Acts 4

1And as they are speaking unto the people, there came to them the priests, and the magistrate of the temple, and the Sadducees--Select Acts 4:1

2being grieved because of their teaching the people, and preaching in Jesus the rising again out of the dead--Select Acts 4:2

3and they laid hands upon them, and did put them in custody unto the morrow, for it was evening already;Select Acts 4:3

4and many of those hearing the word did believe, and the number of the men became, as it were, five thousand.Select Acts 4:4

5And it came to pass upon the morrow, there were gathered together of them the rulers, and elders, and scribes, to Jerusalem,Select Acts 4:5

6and Annas the chief priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the chief priest,Select Acts 4:6

7and having set them in the midst, they were inquiring, `In what power, or in what name did ye do this?'Select Acts 4:7

8Then Peter, having been filled with the Holy Spirit, said unto them: `Rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,Select Acts 4:8

9if we to-day are examined concerning the good deed to the ailing man, by whom he hath been saved,Select Acts 4:9

10be it known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye did crucify, whom God did raise out of the dead, in him hath this one stood by before you whole.Select Acts 4:10

11`This is the stone that was set at nought by you--the builders, that became head of a corner;Select Acts 4:11

12and there is not salvation in any other, for there is no other name under the heaven that hath been given among men, in which it behoveth us to be saved.'Select Acts 4:12

13And beholding the openness of Peter and John, and having perceived that they are men unlettered and plebeian, they were wondering--they were taking knowledge also of them that with Jesus they had been--Select Acts 4:13

14and seeing the man standing with them who hath been healed, they had nothing to say against it ,Select Acts 4:14

15and having commanded them to go away out of the sanhedrim, they took counsel with one another,Select Acts 4:15

16saying, `What shall we do to these men? because that, indeed, a notable sign hath been done through them, to all those dwelling in Jerusalem is manifest, and we are not able to deny it ;Select Acts 4:16

17but that it may spread no further toward the people, let us strictly threaten them no more to speak in this name to any man.'Select Acts 4:17

18And having called them, they charged them not to speak at all, nor to teach, in the name of Jesus,Select Acts 4:18

19and Peter and John answering unto them said, `Whether it is righteous before God to hearken to you rather than to God, judge ye;Select Acts 4:19

20for we cannot but speak what we did see and hear.'Select Acts 4:20

21And they having further threatened them , let them go, finding nothing how they may punish them, because of the people, because all were glorifying God for that which hath been done,Select Acts 4:21

22for above forty years of age was the man upon whom had been done this sign of the healing.Select Acts 4:22

23And being let go, they went unto their own friends, and declared whatever the chief priests and the elders said unto them,Select Acts 4:23

24and they having heard, with one accord did lift up the voice unto God, and said, `Lord, thou art God, who didst make the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all that are in them,Select Acts 4:24

25who, through the mouth of David thy servant, did say, Why did nations rage, and peoples meditate vain things?Select Acts 4:25

26the kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against His Christ;Select Acts 4:26

27for gathered together of a truth against Thy holy child Jesus, whom Thou didst anoint, were both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with nations and peoples of Israel,Select Acts 4:27

28to do whatever Thy hand and Thy counsel did determine before to come to pass.Select Acts 4:28

29`And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings, and grant to Thy servants with all freedom to speak Thy word,Select Acts 4:29

30in the stretching forth of Thy hand, for healing, and signs, and wonders, to come to pass through the name of Thy holy child Jesus.'Select Acts 4:30

31And they having prayed, the place was shaken in which they were gathered together, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and were speaking the word of God with freedom,Select Acts 4:31

32and of the multitude of those who did believe the heart and the soul was one, and not one was saying that anything of the things he had was his own, but all things were to them in common.Select Acts 4:32

33And with great power were the apostles giving the testimony to the rising again of the Lord Jesus, great grace also was on them all,Select Acts 4:33

34for there was not any one among them who did lack, for as many as were possessors of fields, or houses, selling them , were bringing the prices of the thing sold,Select Acts 4:34

35and were laying them at the feet of the apostles, and distribution was being made to each according as any one had need.Select Acts 4:35

36And Joses, who was surnamed by the apostles Barnabas--which is, having been interpreted, Son of Comfort--a Levite, of Cyprus by birth,Select Acts 4:36

37a field being his, having sold it , brought the money and laid it at the feet of the apostles.Select Acts 4:37