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And they took them into the Sanhedrin, and the high priest said to them,

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But Peter and the Apostles, answering, said, We have to do the orders of God, not of man.

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And we are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who keep his laws.

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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 death.

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But one of the Sanhedrin, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a man of learning in the law, of whom all the people had a high opinion, got up and made a suggestion for the men to be put outside for a little time.

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But if it is of God, you will not be able to overcome them, and you are in danger of fighting against God.

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And he seemed to them to be right: and they sent for the Apostles, and, after having them whipped and giving them orders to give no teaching in the name of Jesus, they let them go.

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Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was increasing, protests were made by the Greek Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were not taken care of in the distribution of food every day.

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And the Apostles sent for all the disciples and said, It is not right for us to give up preaching the word of God in order to make distribution of food.

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Take then from among you seven men of good name, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, to whom we may give control of this business.

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Then we will give all our time to prayer and the teaching of the word.

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

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But some of those who were of the Synagogue named that of the Libertines, and some of the men of Cyrene and of Alexandria and those from Cilicia and Asia, had arguments with Stephen.

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Then the high priest said, Are these things true?

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And he said, My brothers and fathers, give hearing. The God of glory came to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he was living in Haran,

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And God said that his seed would be living in a strange land, and that they would make them servants, and be cruel to them for four hundred years.

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Now there was no food to be had in all Egypt and Canaan, and there was great trouble: and our fathers were not able to get food.

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But Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, sent out our fathers the first time.

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Then Joseph sent for Jacob his father and all his family, seventy-five persons.

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And Jacob went down to Egypt, and came to his end there, and so did our fathers;

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But when the time was near for putting into effect the undertaking which God had given to Abraham, the people were increasing in Egypt,

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And when he was put out, Pharaoh's daughter took him and kept him as her son.

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And Moses was trained in all the wisdom of Egypt, and was great in his words and works.

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But when he was almost forty years old, it came into his heart to go and see his brothers, the children of Israel.

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And he was hoping that his brothers would see that God had sent him to be their saviour; but they did not see.

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