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When they had brought them, they set them before the council. The high priest questioned them,

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

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We are His witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him."

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But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and determined to kill them.

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But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and commanded to put the apostles out for a little while.

δέ de “however”

But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!"

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They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

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Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Grecian Jews against the Hebrews because their widows were neglected in the daily service.

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The twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, "It is not appropriate for us to forsake the word of God and serve tables.

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Therefore select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

δέ, de “therefore,”

But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word."

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Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people.

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But some of those who were of the synagogue called "The Libertines," and of the Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia arose, disputing with Stephen.

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The high priest said, "Are these things so?"

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He said, "Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

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God spoke in this way: that his seed would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

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Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.

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

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Joseph sent, and summoned Jacob, his father, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.

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

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"But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

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When he was thrown out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and reared him as her own son.

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Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.

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

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He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn't understand.

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