Acts of the Apostles
The Acts of our fathers the apostles, may their blessings be with us.
Acts 4 : 19 - 31
Chapter 4
19 | But Peter and John answered and said to them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge.
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20 | For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard."
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21 | So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way of punishing them, because of the people, since they all glorified God for what had been done.
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22 | For the man was over forty years old on whom this miracle of healing had been performed.
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23 | And being let go, they went to their own companions and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them.
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24 | So when they heard that, they raised their voice to God with one accord and said: "Lord, You are God, who made heaven and earth and the sea, and all that is in them,
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25 | who by the mouth of Your servant David have said: "Why did the nations rage, And the people plot vain things?
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26 | The kings of the earth took their stand, And the rulers were gathered together Against the LORD and against His Christ.'
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27 | "For truly against Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together
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28 | to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose determined before to be done.
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29 | Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word,
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30 | by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus."
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31 | And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.
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The word of the Lord shall grow, multiply, be mighty, and be confirmed, in the holy Church of God.
Amen.