"For it is written in the Book of Psalms, "'Let his encampment be desolate: let there be no one to dwell there'; and "'His work let another take up.'

"Therefore let the whole House of Israel know beyond all doubt that God has made Him both LORD and CHRIST--this Jesus whom you crucified."

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our forefathers, has conferred this honour on His Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and disowned in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to let Him go.

But to prevent the matter spreading any further among the people, let us stop them by threats from speaking in the future in this name to any one whatever."

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 God the glory for the thing that had happened.

His advice carried conviction. So they called the Apostles in, and--after flogging them--ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and then let them go.

For I will let him know the great sufferings which he must pass through for My sake."

but his disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a hamper.

The sky had opened to his view, and what seemed to be an enormous sail was descending, being let down to the earth by ropes at the four corners.

"While I was in the town of Jaffa, offering prayer," he said, "in a trance I saw a vision. There descended what seemed to be an enormous sail, being let down from the sky by ropes at the four corners, and it came close to me.

So, after fasting and prayer and the laying on of hands, they let them go.

Yet let us send them written instructions to abstain from things polluted by connexion with idolatry, from fornication, from meat killed by strangling, and from blood.

But Paul said to them, "After cruelly beating us in public, without trial, Roman citizens though we are, they have thrown us into prison, and are they now going to send us away privately? No, indeed! Let them come in person and fetch us out."

They required Jason and the rest to find substantial bail, and after that they let them go.

Then Paul would have liked to go in and address the people, but the disciples would not let him do so.

If, however, Demetrius and the mechanics who support his contention have a grievance against any one, there are Assize-days and there are Proconsuls: let the persons interested accuse one another.

So the Tribune sent the youth home, cautioning him. "Do not let any one know that you have given me this information," he said.

Or let these men themselves say what misdemeanour they found me guilty of when I stood before the Sanhedrin,

"Therefore let those of you," he said, "who can come, go down with me, and impeach the man, if there is anything amiss in him."

But Julius let himself be persuaded by the pilot and by the owner rather than by Paul's arguments;

She was unable to make headway against the gale; so we gave up and let her drive.

Then the soldiers cut the ropes of the ship's boat and let her fall off.

He announced the coming of the Kingdom of God, and taught concerning the Lord Jesus Christ without let or hindrance.