Verse 38
Acts 5:38
Bible in Basic English
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And now I say to you, Do nothing to these men, but let them be: for if this teaching or this work is of men, it will come to nothing:
Original Language Text
greek
καὶ τὰ νῦν λέγω ὑμῖν, ἀπόστητε ἀπὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων τούτων καὶ ⸀ἄφετε αὐτούς· (ὅτι ἐὰν ᾖ ἐξ ἀνθρώπων ἡ βουλὴ ⸀αὕτη ἢ τὸ ἔργον τοῦτο, καταλυθήσεται,
English Translation
And now I say to you, withdraw from these men and leave them; for if this plan or this work is of men, it will be overthrown.
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Chapter 5 Context
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But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, got money for his property,
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And kept back part of the price, his wife having knowledge of it, and took the rest and put it at th...
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But Peter said, Ananias, why has the Evil One put it into your heart to be false to the Holy Spirit,...
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While you had it, was it not your property? and after you had given it in exchange, was it not still...
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And at these words, Ananias went down on the earth, and his life went from him: and great fear came...
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And the young men went and made ready his body, and took it out, and put it in the earth.
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And about three hours after, his wife, having no knowledge of what had taken place, came in.
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And Peter said to her, Give me an answer: was this amount of money the price of the land? And she sa...
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But Peter said to her, Why have you made an agreement together to be false to the Spirit of the Lord...
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And straight away she went down at his feet, and her life went from her: and the young men came in a...
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Then great fear came on all the church and on all who had knowledge of these things.
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Now a number of signs and wonders were done among the people by the hands of the Apostles; and they...
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The others, in fear, kept back from joining them: but the people made much of them;
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And a great number of men and women had faith, and were joined to the Lord;
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And they even took into the streets people who were ill, and put them on beds, so that when Peter we...
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And numbers of people came together from the towns round about Jerusalem, with those who were ill an...
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But the high priest and those who were with him (the Sadducees) were full of envy,
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And they took the Apostles and put them in the common prison.
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But in the night an angel of the Lord, opening the doors of the prison, took them out and said,
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Go, take your place in the Temple and give the people all the teaching about this Life.
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And hearing this, they went into the Temple at dawn, and were teaching. But the high priest and thos...
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But the men who were sent saw that they were not in the prison, and came back with the news,
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Saying, The doors of the prison were safely shut, and the keepers were at the doors, but when they w...
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Now, at these words, the captain of the Temple and the chief priests were greatly troubled about wha...
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And someone came and said to them, The men, whom you put in prison, are in the Temple teaching the p...
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Then the captain and some of the police went and took them, but not violently, for fear that they mi...
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And they took them into the Sanhedrin, and the high priest said to them,
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We gave you very clear orders not to give teaching in this name: and now Jerusalem is full of your t...
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But Peter and the Apostles, answering, said, We have to do the orders of God (Elohim), not of man.
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The God (Elohim) of our fathers gave Yashua (Jesus) back to life, whom you had put to death, hanging...
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Him God (Elohim) has put on high at his right hand, as a Ruler and a Saviour, to give to Israel a ch...
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And we are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God (Elohim) has given to thos...
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But when these words came to their ears, they were cut to the heart, and had a mind to put them to d...
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But one of the Sanhedrin, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a man of learning in the law, of whom all the p...
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And he said to them, Men of Israel, take care what you do about these men.
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For before this there was Theudas, who said he was someone important, to whom about four hundred men...
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After this man, there was Judas of Galilee, at the time of the numbering, and some of the people wen...
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And now I say to you, Do nothing to these men, but let them be: for if this teaching or this work is...
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But if it is of God (Elohim), you will not be able to overcome them, and you are in danger of fighti...
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And he seemed to them to be right: and they sent for the Apostles, and, after having them whipped an...
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So they went away from the Sanhedrin, happy to undergo shame for the Name.
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And every day, in the Temple and privately, they went on teaching and preaching Yashua (Jesus) as th...
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