These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Acts 4
Brit Hadashah 37 verses
- 1 While they were saying this to the people, the Priests, the Commander of the Temple Guard, and the Sadducees came upon them,
- 2 highly incensed at their teaching the people and proclaiming in the case of the Resurrection from among the dead.
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They arrested the two Apostles and lodged them in custody till the next day; for it was already evening.
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- 4 But many of those who had listened to their preaching believed; and the number of the adult men had now grown to be about 5,000.
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The next day a meeting was held in of their Rulers, Elders, and Scribes,
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with Annas the High Priest, Caiaphas, , Alexander, and the other members of the high-priestly family.
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So they made the Apostles stand in the centre, and demanded of them, “By what power or in what have you done this?”
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Then was filled with the Holy , and he replied, “Rulers and Elders of the people,
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if we to-day are under examination concerning the benefit conferred on a man helplessly lame, as to how this man has been cured;
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- 10 be it known to you all, and to all the people of , that through the of the Anointed, the Nazarene, whom *you* crucified, but whom ** has raised from among the dead—through that this man stands here before you in health.
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This is the Stone treated with contempt by you the builders, but it has been made the Cornerstone.
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- 12 And in no other is the great to be found; for, in fact, there is no second under Heaven that has been given among men through which we are to be saved.”
- 13 As they looked on and so fearlessly outspoken—and also discovered that they were illiterate persons, untrained in the schools—they were surprised; and now they recognized them as having been with .
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And seeing the man standing with them—the man who had been cured—they had no reply to make.
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So they ordered them to withdraw from the Sanhedrin while they conferred among themselves.
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“What are we to do with these men?” they asked one another; for the fact that a remarkable miracle has been performed by them is well known to every one in , and we cannot deny it.
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But to prevent the matter spreading any further among the people, let us stop them by threats from speaking in the future in this to any one whatever.”
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Acts 5:28 Amos 7:12-17 Jeremiah 20:1-3 1 Thessalonians 1:8 Daniel 2:34-35 1 Thessalonians 2:15-16 Acts 5:39-40 Isaiah 30:8-11 Psalm 2:1-4 Matthew 27:64 Romans 10:16-18 Micah 2:6-7 Jeremiah 29:25-32 Romans 15:18-22 Amos 2:12 Acts 4:21 2 Chronicles 25:15-16 Jeremiah 38:4 John 11:47-48 Acts 4:29-30 Acts 5:24 -
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So they recalled the Apostles, and ordered them altogether to give up speaking or teaching in the of .
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But and replied, “Judge whether it is right in Elohim’s sight to listen to you instead of listening to .
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Acts 5:29 1 Timothy 2:3 Daniel 3:18 Exodus 1:17 1 Corinthians 10:15 1 Kings 21:11 2 Kings 16:15 2 Corinthians 4:2 2 Chronicles 26:16-20 Daniel 6:10 John 7:24 Amos 7:16 Matthew 22:21 1 Kings 12:30 Revelation 13:3-10 Psalm 58:1 Micah 6:16 Ephesians 6:1 Revelation 14:9-12 1 Kings 14:16 1 Kings 22:14 Hosea 5:11 James 2:4 Hebrews 11:23 -
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As for us, what we have seen and heard we cannot help speaking about.”
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Acts 22:15 Jeremiah 20:9 Ezekiel 3:11 Acts 5:32 Jeremiah 1:7 1 Corinthians 9:16-17 Numbers 22:38 Job 32:18-20 Micah 3:8 Jeremiah 4:19 Numbers 23:20 Jeremiah 1:17-19 1 John 1:1-3 Hebrews 2:3-4 Acts 18:5 Ezekiel 3:14-21 Jeremiah 6:11 Acts 17:16-17 2 Samuel 23:2 Acts 1:8 Acts 10:39-41 Acts 3:15 Luke 1:2 Acts 2:4 Acts 2:32 Acts 1:22 - 21 The Court added further threats and then let them go, being quite unable to find any way of punishing them on account of the people, because all gave the for the thing that had happened.
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For the man was over forty years of age on whom this miracle of restoration to health had been performed.
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- 23 After their release the two Apostles went to their friends, and told them all that the High Priests and Elders had said.
- 24 And they, upon hearing the story, all lifted up their voices to and said, “O Sovereign Lord, it is Thou who didst make Heaven and earth and sea, and all that is in them,
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and didst say through the Holy by the lips of our forefather Thy , “’Why have the nations stamped and raged, and the peoples formed futile plans?
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- 26 The kings of the earth came near, and the rulers assembled together against the Lord and against His Anointed.’”
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“They did indeed assemble in this city in hostility to Thy Servant whom Thou hadst anointed—Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and also the tribes of —
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Matthew 27:2 Acts 4:30 Luke 4:18 Luke 23:7-38 Luke 22:1-6 Luke 1:35 Hebrews 7:26 Psalm 45:7 Psalm 2:2 John 19:34 John 18:1-14 John 18:28 Isaiah 61:1 John 1:11 Matthew 21:28 Luke 18:31-33 Psalm 2:6 Matthew 27:40-43 Isaiah 53:3 Acts 10:38 Matthew 20:18-19 Matthew 27:11-36 Luke 9:22 Matthew 14:1 Mark 14:1-2 Job 15:14 Zechariah 11:7-8 John 10:36 Matthew 23:37 Acts 2:27 Matthew 26:3-4 Mark 15:1-27 Mark 10:33 John 18:19-24 Job 14:4 Isaiah 49:7 Luke 20:13-19 Matthew 26:59-68 Matthew 2:13-16 Acts 3:13-14 Luke 22:47-52 Job 25:4 Luke 22:63 Mark 14:43-65 Luke 13:31-33 Mark 15:31 - 28 to do all that Thy power and Thy will had predetermined should be done.
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And now, Lord, listen to their threats, and enable Thy servants to proclaim Thy Message with fearless courage,
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Acts 4:31 Acts 4:13 Acts 14:3 Acts 9:27 Philippians 1:14 Acts 19:8 Acts 13:46 Acts 28:31 Lamentations 5:1 Acts 20:26-27 Ezekiel 2:6 Micah 3:8 Daniel 9:18 Lamentations 3:50 Isaiah 58:1 2 Timothy 1:7-8 2 Timothy 4:17 Acts 4:21 Acts 4:17-18 Acts 26:26 1 Thessalonians 2:2 Isaiah 63:15 Ephesians 6:18-20 Isaiah 37:17-20 - 30 whilst Thou stretchest out Thine arm to cure men, and to give signs and marvels through the of Thy Servant .”
- 31 When they had prayed, the place in which they were assembled shook, and they were, one and all, filled with the Holy , and proceeded to tell Elohim’s Message with boldness.
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Among all those who had embraced the there was but one and , so that none of them claimed any of his possessions as his own, but everything they had was common property;
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1 Corinthians 1:10 Ephesians 4:2-6 Philippians 2:1-2 John 17:21-23 2 Corinthians 13:11 Acts 2:44-46 1 Peter 3:8 Philippians 1:27 Acts 1:14 1 Corinthians 12:12-14 Ezekiel 11:19-20 John 17:11 Acts 2:1 1 Peter 4:11 Jeremiah 32:39 2 Chronicles 30:12 Romans 15:5-6 Luke 16:10-12 1 Chronicles 29:14-16 Romans 12:5 Acts 5:12 - 33 while the Apostles with great force of conviction delivered their testimony as to the resurrection of the Lord ; and great was upon them all.
- 34 And, in fact, there was not a needy man among them, for all who were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the money which they realised,
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and gave it to the Apostles, and distribution was made to every one according to his wants.
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- 36 In this way , whom the Apostles gave the of Bar-nabas—signifying ‘Son of Encouragement’—a , a native of Cyprus,
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sold a farm which he had, and brought the money and gave it to the Apostles.
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