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Acts 5

Acts 5:2

AND KEPT BACK PART OF THE PRICE, HIS WIFE ALSO BEING PRIVY TO IT, AND BROUGHT A CERTAIN PART, AND LAID IT AT THE APOSTLES' FEET.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 5:3

BUT PETER SAID, ANANIAS, WHY HATH SATAN FILLED THINE HEART TO LIE TO THE HOLY GHOST, AND TO KEEP BACK PART OF THE PRICE OF THE LAND?... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 5:4

WHILES IT REMAINED, WAS IT NOT THINE OWN? AND AFTER IT WAS SOLD, WAS IT NOT IN THINE OWN POWER? WHY HAST THOU CONCEIVED THIS THING IN THINE HEART? THOU HAST NOT LIED UNTO MEN, BUT UNTO GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 5:5

AND ANANIAS, HEARING THESE WORDS, FELL DOWN, AND GAVE UP THE GHOST; AND GREAT FEAR CAME ON ALL THEM THAT HEARD THESE THINGS.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 5:6

AND THE YOUNG MEN AROSE, WOUND HIM UP, AND CARRIED HIM OUT, AND BURIED HIM. Luke had just narrated an instance of true, charitable selflessness in the conduct of Barnabas of Cyprus. Unfortunately, however, the appreciation and praise accorded to people that have shown real benevolence often prompts... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 5:8

AND PETER ANSWERED UNTO HER, TELL ME WHETHER YE SOLD THE LAND FOR SO MUCH. AND SHE SAID, YEA, FOR SO MUCH.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 5:9

THEN PETER SAID UNTO HER, HOW IS IT THAT YE HAVE AGREED TOGETHER TO TEMPT THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD? BEHOLD, THE FEET OF THEM WHICH HAVE BURIED THY HUSBAND ARE AT THE DOOR, AND SHALL CARRY THEE OUT.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 5:10

THEN FELL SHE DOWN STRAIGHTWAY AT HIS FEET, AND YIELDED UP THE GHOST. AND THE YOUNG MEN CAME IN, AND FOUND HER DEAD, AND, CARRYING HER FORTH, BURIED HER BY HER HUSBAND.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 5:11

AND GREAT FEAR CAME UPON ALL THE CHURCH, AND UPON AS MANY AS HEARD THESE THINGS. Whether the information concerning the death of her husband had been withheld from Sapphira by the command of Peter, or whether the awe of the incident they had witnessed kept the members from spreading the story, is im... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 5:12

AND BY THE HANDS OF THE APOSTLES WERE MANY SIGNS AND WONDERS WROUGHT AMONG THE PEOPLE, (AND THEY WERE ALL WITH ONE ACCORD IN SOLOMON'S PORCH.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 5:15

INSOMUCH THAT THEY BROUGHT FORTH THE SICK INTO THE STREETS, AND LAID THEM ON BEDS AND COUCHES, THAT AT THE LEAST THE SHADOW OF PETER PASSING BY MIGHT OVERSHADOW SOME OF THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 5:16

THERE CAME ALSO A MULTITUDE OUT OF THE CITIES ROUND ABOUT UNTO JERUSALEM, BRINGING SICK FOLKS, AND THEM WHICH WERE VEXED WITH UNCLEAN SPIRITS; AND THEY WERE HEALED, EVERY ONE. The activity of the apostles, and of the congregation with them, manifested itself in two ways, by the preaching of the Word... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 5:17

THEN THE HIGH PRIEST ROSE UP, AND ALL THEY THAT WERE WITH HIM, (WHICH IS THE SECT OF THE SADDUCEES,) AND WERE FILLED WITH INDIGNATION,... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 5:21

AND WHEN THEY HEARD THAT, THEY ENTERED INTO THE TEMPLE EARLY IN THE MORNING AND TAUGHT. One storm had been safely weathered, chap. 4, but a second one was coming on which would prove a little severer than the previous one. The constant growth of the congregation and the enthusiastic praise which was... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 5:23

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.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 5:24

NOW WHEN THE HIGH PRIEST AND THE CAPTAIN OF THE TEMPLE AND THE CHIEF PRIESTS HEARD THESE THINGS, THEY DOUBTED OF THEM WHERE UNTO THIS WOULD GROW.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 5:25

THEN CAME ONE AND TOLD THEM, SAYING, BEHOLD, THE MEN WHOM YE PUT IN PRISON ARE STANDING IN THE TEMPLE AND TEACHING THE PEOPLE. The next morning the high priest was stirring betimes. Having come to the place where the Sadducees met, he and his henchmen called a meeting, not only of the entire Sanhedr... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 5:26

THEN WENT THE CAPTAIN WITH THE OFFICERS, AND BROUGHT THEM WITHOUT VIOLENCE; FOR THEY FEARED THE PEOPLE, LEST THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN STONED.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 5:28

SAYING, DID NOT WE STRAITLY COMMAND YOU THAT YE SHOULD NOT TEACH IN THIS NAME? AND, BEHOLD, YE HAVE FILLED JERUSALEM WITH YOUR DOCTRINE, AND INTEND TO BRING THIS MAN'S BLOOD UPON US. The chief of the Temple police acted upon the information which had been given to the Sanhedrin, Leaving the council-... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 5:31

HIM HATH GOD EXALTED WITH HIS RIGHT HAND TO BE A PRINCE AND A SAVIOR, FOR TO GIVE REPENTANCE TO ISRAEL AND FORGIVENESS OF SINS.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 5:32

AND WE ARE HIS WITNESSES OF THESE THINGS; AND SO IS ALSO THE HOLY GHOST, WHOM GOD HATH GIVEN TO THEM THAT OBEY HIM. While Peter was the chief spokesman upon this occasion, the other apostles gave a good account of themselves, and he but voiced the conviction of their hearts. The very first words in... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 5:34

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;... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 5:36

FOR BEFORE THESE DAYS ROSE UP THEUDAS, BOASTING HIMSELF TO BE SOMEBODY; TO WHOM A NUMBER OF MEN, ABOUT FOUR HUNDRED, JOINED THEMSELVES; WHO WAS SLAIN, AND ALL, AS MANY AS OBEYED HIM, WERE SCATTERED AND BROUGHT TO NAUGHT.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 5:37

AFTER THIS MAN ROSE UP JUDAS OF GALILEE IN THE DAYS OF THE TAXING, AND DREW AWAY MUCH PEOPLE AFTER HIM; HE ALSO PERISHED, AND ALL, EVEN AS MANY AS OBEYED HIM, WERE DISPERSED. The address of Peter, in which he and also the other apostles defended themselves against the attacks of the Jewish leaders,... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 5:38

AND NOW I SAY UNTO YOU, REFRAIN FROM THESE MEN AND LET THEM ALONE; FOR IF THIS COUNSEL OR THIS WORK BE OF MEN, IT WILL COME TO NAUGHT;... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 5:40

AND TO HIM THEY AGREED; AND WHEN THEY HAD CALLED THE APOSTLES AND BEATEN THEM, THEY COMMANDED THAT THEY SHOULD NOT SPEAK IN THE NAME OF JESUS, AND LET THEM GO.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 5:41

AND THEY DEPARTED FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE COUNCIL, REJOICING THAT THEY WERE COUNTED WORTHY TO SUFFER SHAME FOR HIS NAME.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 5:42

AND DAILY IN THE TEMPLE AND IN EVERY HOUSE THEY CEASED NOT TO TEACH AND PREACH JESUS CHRIST. Whether Gamaliel secretly favored the cause of Christ, but for various reasons did not join the congregation, or whether he spoke his opinion out of a natural sense of expediency and justice, cannot be decid... [ Continue Reading ]

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