Acts 4:17

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Summary

But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.

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1 Thessalonians 2:15

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but if it is from God, you will not be able to stop it. You may actually find yourselves fighting God!"

It is true, they have not all accepted the good news, for Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed what we have told?"

For I will venture to speak only of what Christ has accomplished through me in winning the heathen to obedience, by word and action,

For the Lord's message has rung out from you not only over Macedonia and Greece, but the story of your belief in God has gone everywhere, so that we never need to mention it.

Let

But after further threats they let them go, as they could find no way to punish them, on account of the people, who were all giving honor to God for what had happened,

When the commander of the Temple and the high priests heard this report, they were very much at a loss as to what would come of it.

Give orders, therefore, to have the tomb closely guarded till the third day, so that his disciples cannot come and steal him, and then tell the people that he is risen from the dead, and that delusion be worse than the other was."

Then the high priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the council, and they said, "What are we to do about the fact that this man is showing so many signs?

who killed the Lord Jesus and persecuted the prophets and us; who displease God, and in their hostility to all mankind