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And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest asked them,

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But Peter and the apostles answered and said, We must obey God rather than men.

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And we are witnesses of these things; and [supplied: so is] the Holy Spirit, whom God hath given to them that obey him.

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But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and minded to slay them.

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But there stood up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in honor of all the people, and commanded to put the men forth a little while.

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but if it is of God, ye will not be able to overthrow them; lest haply ye be found even to be fighting against God.

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And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles unto them, they beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

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Now in these days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a murmuring of the Grecian Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.

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And the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not fit that we should forsake the word of God, and serve tables.

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Look ye out therefore, brethren, from among you seven men of good report, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

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But we will continue stedfastly in prayer, and in the ministry of the word.

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And Stephen, full of grace and power, wrought great wonders and signs among the people.

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But there arose certain of them that were of the synagogue called [supplied: the synagogue] of the Libertines, and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen.

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And the high priest said, Are these things so?

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And he said, Brethren and fathers, hearken: The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,

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And God spake on this wise, that his seed should sojourn in a strange land, and that they should bring them into bondage, and treat them ill, four hundred years.

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Now there came a famine over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.

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But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent forth our fathers the first time.

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And Joseph sent, and called to him Jacob his father, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.

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And Jacob went down into Egypt; and he died, himself and our fathers;

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But as the time of the promise drew nigh which God vouchsafed unto Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

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and when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.

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And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians; and he was mighty in his words and works.

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But when he was well-nigh forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.

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and he supposed that his brethren understood that God by his hand was giving them deliverance; but they understood not.

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