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And referred to the resurrection of the Christ when he said that 'he had not been abandoned to the Place of Death, nor had his body undergone corruption.'

Verse ConceptsThe DeadCorruption, SolutionOvercoming DeathKnowing BeforehandNo DecayChrist Would Rise

One day, as Peter and John were going up into the Temple Courts for the three o'clock Prayers, a man, who had been lame from his birth, was being carried by.

Verse ConceptsFamily SolidarityCeremoniesHourWorship, Times ForPrayer Meetings3 PmDisciples In The TempleWhen To PrayThe First TemplePrayingpartnership

And as this [former] crippled man stayed close beside Peter and John, all the people rushed toward them at "Solomon's Portico" [Note: This was a large covered area, with rows of columns, on the side of the Temple enclosure], completely astonished [at what had happened].

Verse ConceptsSolomon, Life OfPorchesClinging To PeopleGateways Of The TempleGroups Running

When Peter saw this, he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this? Or why do you stare at us, as though we had made him walk by our own power or godliness?

Verse ConceptsPower Through GodPeter, The ApostleThe Healed WalkingLooking Intently At Peoplepietysurprises

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you handed over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release Him.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Jesus ChristJacob, The PatriarchMoses, Significance OfPeter, Preacher And TeacherRenunciationHanding Over ChristPeople Set Free By People

Now I know, brothers, that you acted in ignorance, like your rulers ??18 though this was how God fulfilled what he had announced beforehand by the lips of all the prophets, namely the sufferings of his Christ.

Verse ConceptsSin, Nature OfIgnorance Of EvilKnowing FactsIgnorance of Godignorance

And he may send forth him who had been fore-appointed for you - Christ Jesus:

Verse ConceptsPredestined PlansGod Sending OthersPredictions Of Second Coming

Yes, and all the Prophets from Samuel onwards, and all their successors who had a message to deliver, told of these days.

Verse ConceptsNamed Prophets Of The Lord

God, [after he] had raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning each [of you] back from your wickedness!"

Verse ConceptsChrist, The High PriestGod Raising ChristTo The Jew Firstservanthood

and the Saducees came upon them, Being grieved that they had healed the lame man, and preached thro' Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

Verse ConceptsHeraldTeachersTeachingTeaching The Way Of God

They arrested the Apostles and, as it was already evening, had them placed in custody till the next day.

Verse ConceptsInjustice, Nature And Source OfSuffering, Of BelieversThe Next DayEvenings For Jesus And His Disciples

After they had Peter and John stand before them, they asked the question: “By what power or in what name have you done this?”

Verse ConceptsHigh Priest, In NtPower, HumanIn The Name Of Christmagic

He is the stone which you builders had no use for, but which has been made the chief stone of the building.

Verse ConceptsCornerstonesGod, The RockMasonsOccupationsSpiritual FoundationsCapstoneBuildersChrist The Rock

After they had ordered them to leave the Sanhedrin, they conferred among themselves,

Verse ConceptsCommands, in NTDiscussionsGroups Sent Away

However, to keep things from going any further with the people, we had better threaten them that they are not to tell anyone in future about this Name."

Verse ConceptsSpreadingPersecution, Forms OfWitnessing, And Holy SpiritSpeaking In Christ's NameSpreading The Gospel

And when they had summoned them, they commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of believersSpeaking In Christ's NameMen's OrdersTeaching The Way Of Godpreaching

After threatening them further, they released them. They found no way to punish them, because the people were all giving glory to God over what had been done;

Verse ConceptsPeople Set Free By PeopleSpecific Praising Of God

"For in this city they actually met against your holy Servant Jesus, whom you had consecrated -- Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the heathen and the peoples of Israel,

Verse ConceptsAnointing, Of ChristJesus Christ, Holiness OfChrist, Character OfProphecies Concerning ChristChrist, Names ForThe Anointed OneAntagonism From Jew And GentileNamed Gentile Rulers

And no one among them was in need; for everyone who had land or houses, exchanging them for money, took the price of them,

Verse ConceptsLackBuying and sellingMoney, Uses OfSacrificial GivingPlenty For The PoorAvoiding PovertyGiving Money To The ChurchSharingsales

sold an estate he had, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles feet.

Verse ConceptsSharingsales

But a man named Ananias, who, with his wife Sapphira, had sold a piece of property,

Verse ConceptsProperty

and brought [only] a part of the selling price and gave it to the apostles; but the man and his wife had kept this a secret.

Verse ConceptsBad ConsciencesCorrupted ConsciencesCheatingKnowing FactsPutting Things DownThe Apostles In ActionPeople Giving Other Thingscouples

While you had it, was it not your property? and after you had given it in exchange, was it not still in your power? how has this purpose come into your mind? you have been false, not to men, but to God.

Verse ConceptsCommunismGod Hating LyingAuthorityGod Hates Lying

Then great fear came on all the church and on all who had knowledge of these things.

Verse ConceptsChristiansFear Of God, Examples OfThe Church UniversalThose Frightened Of God

But of the rest no man had the courage to unite himself with them: though the people extolled them.

Verse ConceptsSuperstitionJoined To The ChurchWork Ethic

Having received that command they went into the Temple, just before daybreak, and began to teach: So when the High Priest and his party came, and had called together the Sanhedrin as well as all the Elders of the descendants of Israel, they sent to the jail to fetch the Apostles.

Verse Conceptselders, as community leadersSanhedrinTeachersDaybreakTeaching In The ChurchAt DaybreakBringing People Out Of Other PlacesDisciples In The Temple

Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.

Verse ConceptsKeysStandingPrison KeepersEmpty PlacesShutting DoorsLocks And Barspreppingjail

Presently, however, some one came and told them, that the men whom they had put in prison were actually standing in the Temple Courts, teaching the people.

Verse Conceptsevangelism, kinds ofDisciples In The TempleTeaching The Way Of God

After they brought them in, they had them stand before the Sanhedrin, and the high priest asked,

Verse ConceptsInterrogating

But when these words came to their ears, they were cut to the heart, and had a mind to put them to death.

Verse ConceptsAngry With ChristAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleWork Ethic

Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space;

Verse ConceptsIntelligenceStatusTeachers Of The LawJewish SectsScholarsSchools

For, before these days, there rose up one Theudas, affirming, himself, to be somebody, - unto whom was inclined a number of men, about four hundred; who was slain, and, all as many as had been trusting in him, were disbanded, and came to nothing.

Verse ConceptsClaimsFour To Five HundredFour And Five HundredGreat IndividualsPeople Following PeopleScattering FollowersKilling Named Individualsmovement

After him, rose up Judas the Galilaean, in the days of the enrolling, and drew a people into revolt after him; and, he, perished, and, all, as many as had trusted in him, were scattered.

Verse ConceptsCensusHistoryPeople Following PeopleScattering Followers

And this saying was pleasing to all of them: and they made selection of Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolas of Antioch, who had become a Jew:

Verse ConceptsExamples Of FaithFaith, Growth InJudaismSpiritualityIndwelling Of The Holy SpiritAntioch in SyriaProselytesBeing Filled With The SpiritBelieving In GodOthers Believing In God

But some of those who were of the Synagogue named that of the Libertines, and some of the men of Cyrene and of Alexandria and those from Cilicia and Asia, had arguments with Stephen.

Verse ConceptsAlexandria The CityConfrontationMissionaries, Support ForSynagogueGod, Impartiality OfFalse Teachers, Examples OfDisputes

Then they induced some men to assert that they had heard Stephen saying blasphemous things against Moses, and against God;

Verse ConceptsFalse Accusations, Examples OfBlasphemy, Falsely AccusedIrreverenceLiesPersecution, Forms OfSecrecyHoly Spirit, Types OfActing In SecretBlasphemy

They had arranged for the false witnesses to say, "This man will not stop speaking against the Temple and the law of Moses,

Verse ConceptsCrimesHoliness, As Set Apart For GodJudaism

And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.

Verse ConceptsRadiancyShining FacesRadiant LivesAurasLike Angelsserenity

“Then he came out of the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. From there, after his father died, God had him move to this land you now live in.

And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.

Verse ConceptsGod Gave The LandGod's Promise To AbrahamNo Earthly Inheritance

And God had spoken about this [beforehand] by saying that Abraham's descendants would live in a foreign country and that they would [eventually] be ill-treated as slaves for four hundred years.

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions Of100 Years And MoreThose OppressedReckoned As ForeignersGroups Of SlavesStrangers in israelslaveryoppression

And he made with him the agreement of which circumcision was the sign. And so Abraham had a son, Isaac, and gave him circumcision on the eighth day; and Isaac had a son, Jacob, and Jacob was the father of the twelve heads of the families of Israel.

Verse ConceptsExclusivenessCircumcision, physicalThe Number TwelveSacramentsAbraham, God's Covenant WithLess Than A Year OldTwelve BeingsCircumcisionGifts Of GodGod's Covenant With The PatriarchsOther Gifts Of God

Now there was no food to be had in all Egypt and Canaan, and there was great trouble: and our fathers were not able to get food.

Verse ConceptsFamine, Examples OfNo Food

When, however, Jacob heard that there was wheat to be had, he sent our forefathers into Egypt; that was the first time.

Verse ConceptsFirst Actions

And the second time his brothers had a meeting with Joseph, and Pharaoh had knowledge of Joseph's family.

Verse ConceptsRelatives Also InvolvedSecond ThingPeople Made KnownIdentityIdentity In ChristRace

were carried back to Shechem, and were placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

Verse ConceptsMoney, Uses OfThe Cave Of Machpelah

till another king rose, who had not known Joseph;

Verse ConceptsNot Knowing People

And after he had been set outside, Pharaoh’s daughter took him away and nurtured him as her own son.

Verse ConceptsAdoption

But when he had completed his fortieth year, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.

Verse ConceptsVisiting

And [when he] saw one of them being unjustly harmed, he defended [him] and {avenged} the one who had been oppressed [by] striking down the Egyptian.

Verse Conceptsdefence, humanOppression, Nature OfMan AvengingGod Being Outside Of Creation

And he was hoping that his brothers would see that God had sent him to be their saviour; but they did not see.

Verse ConceptsDo You Understand?Individuals Saving OthersNot Understanding God's Thingsdeliverance

And at these words, Moses went in flight to the land of Midian, and was living there for a time, and had two sons.

Verse ConceptsReckoned As ForeignersTwo Sons

After 40 years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush.

Verse Concepts40 To 50 YearsGod Appearing In FireGod Led Them Through The Wilderness

This Moses whom they had repudiated, saying, 'Who appointed you a ruler and a judge?'--this man God sent [as] both ruler and redeemer with {the help} of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

Verse ConceptsBurning bushMoses, Significance OfRejection Of GodIndividuals Saving OthersRejection

"This is the Moses who had said to the Israelites [Deut. 18:15], 'God will raise up a prophet from among your countrymen who will be like me [in some ways].'

Verse ConceptsChrist Like PeopleJesus The Prophet

This is the man who was with our forefathers and with the assembly [of Hebrews] in the wilderness [after] the angel had spoken to him at Mt. Sinai. He [is the one] who received the living messages [from God at Mt. Sinai] and gave them to us.

Verse ConceptsAngels as God's servantsMoses, Significance OfAngels, Important EventsLawgiversIsrael In The WildernessAngels Giving The LawAngels As MediatorsThe Law Given Through Moses

They even made a calf in those days, offered sacrifice to the idol, and were celebrating what their hands had made.

Verse ConceptsCalf worshipCalvesIdolatry Consists OfGolden CalvesRejoicing In Evil

No, you offered me the tent of Moloch and the star of your god Rompha, the images you had made to worship! So I will now remove you beyond Babylon.'

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsBabylon, Israel Exiled ToBabylon, In NtShrinesExile In Prospect

“Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, just as He who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern he had seen.

Verse ConceptsDivine PlansDesignThe Tabernacle

Who was pleasing to God; and he had a desire to make a holy tent for the God of Jacob.

Verse ConceptsDivine FavourBuilding God's DwellingFavor

Which of the prophets did your forefathers not persecute? They killed the men who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and killed??53 you who had the Law given to you by angels, and did not obey it!"

Verse ConceptsMartyrdom, Examples OfPredictionsPrejudiceProphets, Lives OfRejection Of GodNames And Titles For ChristDenunciationsHanding Over ChristKilling ProphetsPredicting ChristProphets SufferingChrist Was KilledRighteousness Of Christ

And [after they] had driven [him] out of the city, they began to stone [him], and the witnesses laid aside their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Verse ConceptsCrimesevangelists, ministry ofMartyrdom, Examples OfMartyrdom Of The SaintsMartyrdom, Methods OfOutside The City

Saul had pleasure in his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the congregation which was at Jerusalem, and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Jewry and Samaria, except the apostles.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesChristiansdispersion, theJerusalem, Significance OfSamaritansChurch, Description OfChurch, Examples OfThe Church ScatteredAssentingApproval To KillThe Apostles In Action

A man named Simon had previously practiced sorcery in that city and astounded the Samaritan people, while claiming to be somebody great.

Verse ConceptsClaimsPride, Examples OfSelf ConfidenceSuperiorityBoastersGreat IndividualsSorcerymagic

To whom they had all given heed, from small to great, saying, This is the power of God which is called great.

Verse ConceptsGreat And SmallArrogantly Like GodPowerful Individuals

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