they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds among all, as anyone might be in need.

In fact, invalids were actually carried into the streets and laid on beds and mattresses, so that, when Peter passed, his shadow at anyrate might fall on one or other of them.

who came down and prayed that the Samaritans might receive the holy Spirit.

for he publicly refuted the Jews with might and main, showing from the scriptures that the messiah was Jesus.

"He might have been released," said Agrippa to Festus, "if he had not appealed to Caesar."