Verse 24
Acts 5:24
Geneva Bible
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Then when the chiefe Priest, and the captaine of the Temple, and the hie Priestes heard these things, they doubted of them, whereunto this would growe.
Original Language Text
greek
ὡς δὲ ἤκουσαν τοὺς λόγους τούτους ὅ ⸀τε στρατηγὸς τοῦ ἱεροῦ καὶ οἱ ἀρχιερεῖς, διηπόρουν περὶ αὐτῶν τί ἂν γένοιτο τοῦτο.
English Translation
When the commander of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were perplexed about what this might be.
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Chapter 5 Context
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But a certaine man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, solde a possession,
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And kept away part of the price, his wife also being of counsell, and brought a certaine part, and l...
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Then saide Peter, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart, that thou shouldest lye vnto the holy...
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Whiles it remained, appertained it not vnto thee? and after it was solde, was it not in thine owne p...
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Now when Ananias heard these wordes, he fell downe, and gaue vp the ghost. Then great feare came on...
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And the yong men rose vp, and tooke him vp, and caried him out, and buried him.
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And it came to passe about the space of three houres after, that his wife came in, ignorant of that...
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And Peter sayd vnto her, Tell me, solde ye the land for so much? And she sayd, Yea, for so much.
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Then Peter sayde vnto her, Why haue ye agreed together, to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? beholde, th...
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Then she fell downe straightway at his feete, and yeelded vp the ghost: and the yong men came in, an...
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And great feare came on all the Church, and on as many as heard these things.
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Thus by the hands of the Apostles were many signes and wonders shewed among the people (and they wer...
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And of the other durst no man ioyne him selfe to them: neuerthelesse the people magnified them.
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Also the number of them that beleeued in the Lord, both of men and women, grewe more and more)
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In so much that they brought the sicke into the streetes, and layd them on beds and couches, that at...
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There came also a multitude out of the cities round about vnto Hierusalem, bringing sicke folkes, an...
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Then the chiefe Priest rose vp, and all they that were with him (which was the sect of the Sadduces)...
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And laide hands on the Apostles, and put them in the common prison.
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But the Angel of the Lord, by night opened the prison doores, and brought them forth, and sayd,
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Go your way, and stand in the Temple, and speake to the people, all the wordes of this life.
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So when they heard it, they entred into the Temple early in the morning, and taught. And the chiefe...
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But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned and tolde it,
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Saying, Certainely we founde the prison shut as sure as was possible, and the keepers standing witho...
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Then when the chiefe Priest, and the captaine of the Temple, and the hie Priestes heard these things...
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Then came one and shewed them, saying, Beholde, the men that ye put in prison, are standing in the T...
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Then went the captaine with the officers, and brought them without violence (for they feared the peo...
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And when they had brought them, they set them before the Councill, and the chiefe Priest asked them,
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Saying, Did not we straightly commaund you, that ye should not teach in this Name? and behold, ye ha...
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Then Peter and the Apostles answered, and sayd, We ought rather to obey God (Elohim) then men.
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The God (Elohim) of our fathers hath raised vp Iesus, whom ye slewe, and hanged on a tree.
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Him hath God (Elohim) lift vp with his right hand, to be a Prince and a Sauiour, to giue repentance...
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And we are his witnesses concerning these things which we say: yea, and the holy Ghost, whome God (E...
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Now when they heard it, they brast for anger, and consulted to slay them.
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Then stoode there vp in the Councill a certaine Pharise named Gamaliel, a doctour of the Lawe, honou...
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And sayd vnto them, Men of Israel, take heede to your selues, what ye intende to doe touching these...
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For before these times, rose vp Theudas boasting himselfe, to whom resorted a number of men, about a...
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After this man, arose vp Iudas of Galile, in the dayes of the tribute, and drewe away much people af...
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And nowe I say vnto you, Refraine your selues from these men, and let them alone: for if this counse...
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But if it be of God (Elohim), ye can not destroy it, lest ye be found euen fighters against God (Elo...
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And to him they agreed, and called the Apostles: and when they had beaten them, they commanded that...
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So they departed from the Councill, reioycing, that they were counted worthy to suffer rebuke for hi...
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And dayly in the Temple, and from house to house they ceased not to teach, and preach Iesus Christ.
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