ich we have seen and heard.
4:21. But they, threatening, sent them away, not finding how they might
punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified what had been
done, in that which had come to pass.
4:22. For the man was above forty years old, in whom that miraculous
cure had been wrought.
4:23. And being let go, they came to their own company and related all
that the chief priests and ancients had said to them.
4:24. Who having heard it, with one accord lifted up their voice to God
and said: Lord, thou art he that didst make heaven and earth, the sea
and all things that are in them.
4:25. Who, by the Holy Ghost, by the mouth of our father David, thy
servant, hast said: Why did the Gentiles rage: and the people meditate
vain things?
4:26. The kings of the earth stood up: and the princes assembled
together against the Lord and his Christ.
4:27. For of a truth there assembled together in this city against thy
holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, Herod, and Pontius Pilate,
with the Gentiles and the people of Israel,
4:28. To do what thy hand and thy counsel decreed to be done.
4:29. And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy
servants that with all confidence they may speak thy word,
4:30. By stretching forth thy hand to cures and signs and wonders, to be
done by the name of thy holy Son, Jesus.
4:31. And when they had prayed, the place was moved wherein they were
assembled: and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost: and they spoke
the word of God with confidence.
4:32. And the multitude of believers had but one heart and one soul.
Neither did any one say that aught of the things which he possessed was
his own: but all things were common unto them.
4:33. And with great power did the Apostles give testimony of the
resurrection of Jesus Christ our Lord: and great grace was in them all.
4:34. 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,
4:35. And laid it down before the feet of the apostles. And distribution
was made to every one, according as he had need.
4:36. And Joseph, who, by the apostles, was surnamed Barnabas (which is,
by interpretation, The son of consolation), a Levite, a Cyprian born,
4:37. Having land, sold it and brought the price and laid it at the feet
of the Apostles.
Acts Chapter 5
The judgment of God upon Ananias and Saphira
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