1   And vvhen they vvere speaking to the people, the Priests and magistrates of the temple and the Sadducees came vpon them,

2   being greeued that they taught the people, and shevved in Iesvs the resurrection from the dead:

3   and they laid handes vpon them, and put them into vvard, vntil the morovv, for it vvas novv euening.

4   And ^note many of them that had heard the vvord, beleeued: and the number of the men vvas made fiue thousand.

5   And it came to passe on the morovv, that their princes, and Auncients, and Scribes vvere gathered into Hierusalem.

6   and Annas the high priest, and Caiphas and Iohn, and Alexander, and as many as vvere of the priests stocke.

7   And setting them in the middes, they asked: In vvhat povver or in vvhat name haue you done this?

8   Then Peter replenished vvith the holy Ghost, said to them, Ye princes of the people & Auncients:

9   If vve this day be examined for a good deede vpon an impotent man, in vvhat he hath been made whole,

10   be it knovven to al you and to al the people of Israël, that in the name of Iesvs Christ of Nazareth, vvhom you did crucifie, vvhom God hath raised from the dead, in this same this man standeth before you vvhole. ^note

11   This is the stone that vvas reiected of you the builders: vvhich is made into the head of the corner. ^note

12   and there is not saluation in any other. for neither is there any other name vnder heauen giuen to men, vvherein vve must be saued. ^note

13   And seeing Peters constancie and Iohns, vnderstanding that they vvere men vnlettered, and of the vulgar sort, they marueled, and they knew them that they had been vvith Iesvs:

14   seeing the man also that had been cured, standing vvith them, they could say nothing to the contrarie.

15   But they commaunded them to goe aside forth out of the councel: and they conferred together,

16   saying, Vvhat shal vve doe to these men? for a notorious signe in deede hath been done by them, to al the inhabitants of Hierusalem: it is manifest, and vve can not denie it.

17   But that it be no further spred abrode among the people, let vs threaten them, that they speake no more in this name to any man.

18   And calling them, they charged them that they should not speake at al, nor teache in the name of Iesvs.

19   But Peter and Iohn ansvvering, said to them, ^note If it be iust in the sight of God, to heare you rather then God, iudge ye.

20   for vve can not but speake the things vvhich vve haue seen and heard.

21   But they threatening, dimissed them: not finding hovv they might punish them, for the people, because all glorified that vvhich had been done, in that vvhich vvas chaunced.

22   For the man vvas more then fourtie yeres old in vvhom that signe of health had been vvrought.

23   And being dimissed they came to theirs, and shevved al that the cheefe priests and Auncients had said to them.

24   Vvho hauing heard it, with one accord lifted vp their voice

to God, and said, Lord, thou that didst make heauen & earth, the sea, and al things that are in them,

25   vvho in the holy Ghost by the mouth of our father Dauid thy seru&abar;t hast said, Vvhy did the Gentiles rage, and the people meditate vaine thinges:

26   the kings of the earth stand vp, and the princes assemble together against our Lord, and against his Christ? ^note

27   For there assembled in deede in this citie against thy holy childe Iesvs vvhom thou hast anointed, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, vvith the Gentiles and the people of Israël,

28   to doe vvhat ^note thy hand & thy counsel decreed to be done.

29   And novv Lord looke vpon their threatenings, and giue vnto thy seruants vvith al confidence to speake thy vvorde,

30   in that, that thou extend thy hand to cures and signes and vvonders to be done by the name of thy holy sonne Iesvs.

31   And vvhen they had praied, the place vvas moued vvherein they vvere gathered: and they vvere al replenished vvith the holy Ghost, and they spake the vvord of God vvith confidence.

32   And the multitude of beleeuers had one hart and one soule: neither did any one say that ought vvas his ovvne of those things vvhich he possessed, but al things vvere common vnto them.

33   And vvith great povver did the Apostles giue testimonie of the resurrection of Iesvs Christ our Lord: and great grace vvas in al them.

34   For neither vvas there any one needie among them. For as many as vvere ovvners of landes or houses, ^note sold and brought the prices of those things vvhich they sold,

35   and laid it before the feete of the Apostles. And to euery one vvas deuided according as euery one hade neede.

36   And Ioseph vvho vvas surnamed of the Apostles Barnabas (vvhich is by interpretation, the sonne of consolation) a Leuite, a Cyprian borne,

37   vvhereas he had a peece of land, sold it, and brought the price, and laid it09Q0873 before the feete of the Apostles.

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