"For in the Book of Psalms it is written, "Let his estate be desolate, and let no one live on it,' and, "Let someone else take over his office,'

"Therefore, let all the people of Israel understand beyond a doubt that God made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah!"

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob the God of our ancestors has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you betrayed and rejected in the presence of Pilate, even though he had decided to let him go.

But to keep it from spreading any further among the people, let us warn them never again to speak to anyone in this name."

So they threatened Peter and John even more and then let them go. They couldn't find any way to punish them, because all the people were praising God for what had happened,

So they were convinced by him. After calling in the apostles and beating them, they again ordered them to stop speaking in the name of Jesus and let them go.

but his disciples took him one night and let him down through the city wall by lowering him in a basket.

Then they fasted and prayed, laid their hands on them, and let them go.

In another Psalm he says, "You will not let your Holy One experience decay.'

A few days later, Paul told Barnabas, "Let's go back and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord and see how they're doing."

but after they had gotten a bond from Jason and the others, they let them go.

Paul wanted to go into the crowd, but the disciples wouldn't let him.

Paul replied, "I'm a Jew from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. Please let me speak to the people."

The next day, they let the horsemen ride with Paul while they returned to their barracks.

He ordered the centurion to guard Paul but to let him have some freedom and not to keep any of his friends from caring for his needs.

When the people who lived there saw the snake hanging from his hand, they told one another, "This man must be a murderer! He may have escaped from the sea, but Justice won't let him live."

They examined me and wanted to let me go because there was no reason for me to receive the death penalty in my case.

For this people's minds have become stupid, and their ears can barely hear, and they have shut their eyes so that they may never see with their eyes, and listen with their ears, and understand with their heart and turn and let me heal them."'