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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   Day 314, 10 November 2025   
      
   1) Acts 4, Acts 5, Acts 6   
      
   Acts 4   
      
   Peter and John Before the Sanhedrin   
      
   1 (Lk 22:4; Ac 5:24) As they spoke to the people, the priests, the captain   
   of the temple, and the Sadducees came upon them,   
   2 (Ac 17:18) being greatly troubled because they taught the people   
   and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.   
   3 (Ac 5:18) And they seized them and put them in custody until the next day,   
   for it was already evening.   
   4 (Ac 2:41) But many of those who heard the word believed,   
   and the number of the men grew to about five thousand.   
   5 (Ac 4:8) On the next day their rulers and elders and scribes   
   6 (Lk 3:2; Mt 26:3) were assembled at Jerusalem with Annas the high priest,   
   and Caiaphas, and John and Alexander, and all who were of the family   
   of the high priest.   
   7 (Mt 21:23; Ac 4:10) When they had stood them in the midst, they asked,   
   "By what power or by what name have you done this?"   
   8 (Ac 2:4) Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them,   
   "Rulers of the people and elders of Israel:   
   9 (Ac 3:7) If we today are being examined concerning a good deed   
   done to a crippled man, how this man has been healed,   
   10 (Ac 3:6) be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel,   
   that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified,   
   whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands before you whole.   
   11 (Isa 28:16; Ps 118:22-23) He is   
   'the stone you builders rejected,   
   which has become the cornerstone.' (Ps 118:22.)   
   12 (Mt 1:21; Jn 3:36) There is no salvation in any other,for there is   
   no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."   
   13 (Jn 7:15; Mt 11:25) When they saw the boldness of Peter and John   
   and perceived that they were illiterate and uneducated men, they marveled.   
   And they recognized that they had been with Jesus.   
   14 But seeing the man who was healed standing with them, they had nothing   
   to say against it.   
   15 So when they had commanded them to go outside of the Sanhedrin,   
   they conferred among themselves,   
   16 saying, "What shall we do to these men?   
   For, indeed, that an acknowledged miracle has been done through them is   
   revealed to all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.   
   17 (Ac 5:28) But lest it spread further among the people,   
   let us threaten them that they no longer speak to anyone in this name."   
   18 (Ac 5:40) Then they called them and commanded them not to speak   
   or teach at all in the name of Jesus.   
   19 (Ac 5:29) But Peter and John answered them, "Whether it is right   
   in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge.   
   20 (Ac 22:15) For we cannot help but declare what we have seen and heard."   
   21 (Ac 5:26; Mt 21:46) When they had further threatened them,   
   they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people.   
   For all glorified God for what was done,   
   22 for the man on whom this miracle of healing   
   was performed was over forty years old.   
      
   [1] And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the   
   temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,   
   [2] Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus   
   the resurrection from the dead.   
   [3] And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for   
   it was now eventide.   
   [4] Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of   
   the men was about five thousand.   
   [5] And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and   
   scribes,   
   [6] And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as   
   many as were of the kindred of the high priest, were gathered together at   
   Jerusalem.   
   [7] And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or   
   by what name, have ye done this?   
   [8] Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the   
   people, and elders of Israel,   
   [9] If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by   
   what means he is made whole;   
   [10] Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the   
   name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from   
   the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.   
   [11] This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is   
   become the head of the corner.   
   [12] Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name   
   under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.   
   [13] Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that   
   they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took   
   knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.   
   [14] And beholding the man which was healed standing with them, they could   
   say nothing against it.   
   [15] But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they   
   conferred among themselves,   
   [16] Saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a notable   
   miracle hath been done by them is manifest to all them that dwell in   
   Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it.   
   [17] But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly   
   threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.   
   [18] And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach   
   in the name of Jesus.   
   [19] But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in   
   the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.   
   [20] For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.   
   [21] So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding   
   nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men   
   glorified God for that which was done.   
   [22] For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing   
   was shewed.   
      
   The Believers Pray for Boldness   
      
   23 On being released, they went to their own people and reported   
   what the chief priests and elders had said to them.   
   24 (Ne 9:6) When they heard this, they lifted their voices in unity to God   
   and prayed, "Lord, You are God, who has made the heaven and the earth   
   and the sea and everything in them,   
   25 (Ac 1:16) and who by the mouth of Your servant David said:   
   'Why did the nations rage,   
   and the people devise vain things?   
   26 (Lk 4:18; Ac 10:38) The kings of the earth came,   
   and the rulers were assembled together   
   against the Lord   
   and against His Christ.'   
   27 (Mt 27:2; Ac 4:30) Indeed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate,   
   with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were assembled together   
   against Your holy Son Jesus whom You have anointed,   
   28 (Ac 2:23; Isa 46:10) to do what Your hand and Your counsel   
   had foreordained to be done.   
   29 (Ac 4:13; 4:31) Now, Lord, look on their threats   
   and grant that Your servants may speak Your word with great boldness,   
   30 (Ac 4:27; 3:6) by stretching out Your hand to heal and that signs   
   and wonders may be performed in the name of Your holy Son Jesus."   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)