Discovery Box| (0.35462085606061) | Act 5:24 |
| Now when the commander<n id="1" /> of the temple guard<n id="2" /> and the chief priests heard this report,<n id="3" /> they were greatly puzzled concerning it,<n id="4" /> wondering what this could<n id="5" /> be. |
| (0.35462085606061) | Act 5:34 |
| But a Pharisee<n id="1" /> whose name was Gamaliel,<n id="2" /> a teacher of the law who was respected by all the people, stood up<n id="3" /> in the council<n id="4" /> and ordered the men to be put outside for a short time. |
| (0.35462085606061) | Act 5:40 |
| and they summoned the apostles and had them beaten.<n id="1" /> Then<n id="2" /> they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus and released them. |
| (0.35462085606061) | Act 6:2 |
| So the twelve<n id="1" /> called<n id="2" /> the whole group<n id="3" /> of the disciples together and said, “It is not right for us to neglect the word of God to wait on tables.<n id="4" /> |
| (0.35462085606061) | Act 6:3 |
| But carefully select from among you, brothers,<n id="1" /> seven<n id="2" /> men who are well-attested,<n id="3" /> full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may put in charge<n id="4" /> of this necessary task.<n id="5" /> |
| (0.35462085606061) | Act 6:9 |
| But some men from the Synagogue<n id="1" /> of the Freedmen (as it was called),<n id="2" /> both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, as well as some from Cilicia and the province of Asia,<n id="3" /> stood up and argued with Stephen. |
| (0.35462085606061) | Act 7:6 |
| But God spoke as follows: ‘Your<n id="1" /> <b><i>descendants will be foreignersi>b><n id="2" /> <b><i>in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred yearsi>b>.<n id="3" /> |
| (0.35462085606061) | Act 7:11 |
| Then a famine occurred throughout<n id="1" /> Egypt and Canaan, causing<n id="2" /> great suffering, and our<n id="3" /> ancestors<n id="4" /> could not find food. |
| (0.35462085606061) | Act 7:17 |
| <p class="bodytext">“But as the time drew near for God to fulfill the promise he had declared to Abraham,<n id="1" /> the people increased greatly in number<n id="2" /> in Egypt, |
| (0.35462085606061) | Act 7:23 |
| But when he was about forty years old, it entered his mind<n id="1" /> to visit his fellow countrymen<n id="2" /> the Israelites.<n id="3" /> |
| (0.35462085606061) | Act 7:29 |
| When the man said this,<n id="1" /> Moses fled and became a foreigner<n id="2" /> in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.p> |
| (0.35462085606061) | Act 7:32 |
| ‘<b><i>I am the God of your forefathers,i>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>the God of Abraham, Isaac,i>b><n id="2" /> <b><i>and Jacobi>b>.’<n id="3" /> Moses began to tremble and did not dare to look more closely.<n id="4" /> |
| (0.35462085606061) | Act 7:33 |
| <b><i>But the Lord said to him,i>b> ‘<i><b>Take the sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy groundb>.i><n id="1" /> |
| (0.35462085606061) | Act 7:55 |
| But Stephen,<n id="1" /> full<n id="2" /> of the Holy Spirit, looked intently<n id="3" /> toward heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing<n id="4" /> at the right hand of God. |
| (0.35462085606061) | Act 7:60 |
| Then he fell<n id="1" /> to his knees and cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them!”<n id="2" /> When<n id="3" /> he had said this, he died.<n id="4" /> |
| (0.35462085606061) | Act 8:3 |
| But Saul was trying to destroy<n id="1" /> the church; entering one house after another, he dragged off<n id="2" /> both men and women and put them in prison.<n id="3" />p> |
| (0.35462085606061) | Act 8:6 |
| The crowds were paying attention with one mind to what Philip said,<n id="1" /> as they heard and saw the miraculous signs<n id="2" /> he was performing. |
| (0.35462085606061) | Act 8:7 |
| For unclean spirits,<n id="1" /> crying with loud shrieks, were coming out of many who were possessed,<n id="2" /> and many paralyzed and lame people were healed. |
| (0.35462085606061) | Act 8:9 |
| <p class="bodytext">Now in that city was a man named Simon, who had been practicing magic<n id="1" /> and amazing the people of Samaria, claiming to be someone great. |
| (0.35462085606061) | Act 8:12 |
| But when they believed Philip as he was proclaiming the good news about the kingdom of God<n id="1" /> and the name of Jesus Christ,<n id="2" /> they began to be baptized,<n id="3" /> both men and women. |
