one them. (27)But when they had
conducted them, they placed them in the sanhedrim: and the high-priest
interrogated them, (28)saying, Did we not lay our strict injunction
upon you, that you should not teach in this name? and, lo, ye have
filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and would fain bring this man's
blood upon us.

(29)Then Peter and the apostles answering said, We must obey God rather
than men. (30)The God of our fathers hath raised up Jesus, whom ye had
killed, suspending him on a tree. (31)Him hath God exalted at his right
hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, to give repentance unto Israel, and
remission of sins. (32)And we are witnesses of these things; and the
Holy Ghost also, which God hath given to those who obey him.

(33)But when they heard this, they were cut asunder as with a saw, and
took counsel how to make away with them.

(34)Then arose a certain Pharisee, in the sanhedrim, named Gamaliel, a
doctor of the law, held in high esteem by all the people, and ordered
the apostles to be taken out for a little space; (35)and he said unto
them, Men of Israel, take heed to yourselves respecting these men, what
ye mean to do to them. (36)For before these days arose Theudas, saying
that he himself was a singular personage: to whom a number of men,
about four hundred, attached themselves: who was taken off; and as many
as obeyed him, were dispersed, and came to nothing. (37)And after him
arose Judas the Galilean, in the days of the enrolment, and drew away a
multitude of the populace after him: he also perished, and all, as many
as obeyed him, were dispersed. (38)And as to the matters now before
you, I say unto you, Abstain from these men, and leave them to
themselves: for if this design or this work be of men, it will come to
nothing: (39)but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; and in that
case would be found fighters against God. (40)And to him they assented:
and calling in the apostles, after scourging them, they commanded them
not to speak in the name of Jesus, and dismissed them.

(41)Then they went rejoicing from the presence of the sanhedrim, that
for his name's sake, they had been counted worthy to suffer this
injurious treatment. (42)And all the day long in the temple, and from
house to house, they never ceased teaching and preaching Jesus Christ.

CHAP. VI.

NOW in those days, when the disciples were multiplied, there arose a
murmuring of the Grecian proselytes against the Hebrews, because thei