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Then they threatened them still further and let them go; on account of the people they found themselves unable to find any means of punishing them, for everybody was glorifying God over what had happened

Instantly she fell down at their feet and expired. The younger men came in to find her dead; they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.

But as the attendants did not find them when they got to the prison, they came back to report,

"We found the prison safely locked up with the sentries posted at the doors, but on opening the doors we found no one inside!"

whereas, if it really springs from God, you will be unable to put them down. You may even find yourselves fighting God!"

rescuing him from all his troubles and allowing him to find favour for his wisdom with Pharaoh king of Egypt, who appointed him viceroy over Egypt and over all his own household.

Now a famine came over the whole of Egypt and Canaan, attended with great misery, so that our ancestors could not find provender.

He found favour with God and asked permission to devise a dwelling for the God of Jacob.

while Philip found himself at Azotus, where he passed on, preaching the gospel in every town, till he reached Caesarea.

and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus empowering him to put any man or woman in chains whom he could find belonging to the Way, and bring them to Jerusalem.

There he found a man called Aeneas who had been bed-ridden for eight years with paralysis.

Then talking to him he entered the house, to find a large company assembled.

Herod made inquiries for him but could not find him; so, after cross-examining the guards, he ordered them off to death. He then went down from Judaea to Caesarea, where he spent some time.

After deposing him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he bore this testimony that 'In David, the son of Jessai, I have found a man after my own heart, who will obey all my will.'

though they could find him guilty of no crime that deserved death, they begged Pilate to have him put to death,

but as they failed to find Paul and Silas they haled Jason and some of the brothers before the politarchs, yelling, "These upsetters of the whole world have come here too!

It was when Apollos was in Corinth that Paul, after passing through the inland districts, came down to Ephesus. There he found some disciples,

and numbers who had practised magic arts collected their books and burned them in the presence of all. On adding up the value of them, it was found that they were worth two thousand pounds.

as we found a ship there bound for Phoenicia, we went on board and set sail.

We found out the local disciples and stayed there for seven days. These disciples told Paul by the Spirit not to set foot in Jerusalem;

till the commander ordered him to be taken inside the barracks and examined under the lash, so as to find out why the people shouted at him in this way.

Then those who were to have examined him left him at once alone; even the commander was alarmed to find that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had bound him.

Next day, as he was anxious to find out the real reason why the Jews accused him, he unbound him, ordered the high priests and all the Sanhedrin to meet, and brought Paul down, placing him in front of them.

Thus a loud clamour broke out. Some of the scribes who belonged to the Pharisaic party got up and contended, "We find nothing wrong about this man. What if some spirit or angel has spoken to him?"

Anxious to find out why they accused him, I took him down to their Sanhedrin,

where I found he was accused of matters relating to their Law but not impeached for any crime that deserved death or imprisonment.

The fact is, we have found this man is a perfect pest; he stirs up sedition among the Jews all over the world and he is a ringleader of the Nazarene sect.

Examine him for yourself and you will be able to find out about all these charges of ours against him."

They never found me arguing with anyone in the temple or causing a riot either in the synagogues or in the city;

and it was in presenting these that I was found within the temple. I was ceremonially pure, I was not mixed up in any mob or riot; no, the trouble was caused by some Jews from Asia,

Failing them, let these men yonder tell what fault they found with my appearance before the Sanhedrin! ??21 unless it was with the single sentence I uttered, when I stood and said, 'It is for the resurrection of the dead that I am on my trial to-day before you.'"

I could not find he had done anything that deserved death, so I decided to send him, on his own appeal, to the emperor.

There the officer found an Alexandrian ship bound for Italy, and put us on board of her.

On taking soundings they found twenty fathoms, and a little further on, when they sounded again, they found fifteen.

It was only after our escape that we found out the island was called Malta.