New Revised Standard Version
and they were continually in the temple blessing God.

Contemporary English Version
They spent their time in the temple, praising God.

New American Bible
and they were continually in the temple praising God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they were always in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.

And they were always in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.

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Acts 2:46,47 And continuing daily with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to house, they took their meat with gladness and simplicity of heart: . . .

Acts 5:41,42 And they indeed went from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were accounted worthy to suffer reproach for the name of Jesus. . . .

Amen.

Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world.

Mark 16:20 But they going forth preached every where: the Lord working withal, and confirming the word with signs that followed.

Revelation 22:21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

CONCLUDING REMARKS ON LUKE'S GOSPEL.

Luke 4:14 And Jesus returned in the power of the spirit, into Galilee: and the fame of him went out through the whole country.

;) and as he was the companion of that apostle, in all his labours and sufferings, for many years, (Ac.

Luke 16:12 And if you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?

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Luke 20:1-6 And it came to pass that on one of the days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes, with the ancients, met together, . . .

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27:1,2;

28:13-16.

2Ti.

Luke 4:11 And that in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest perhaps thou dash thy foot against a stone.

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Luke 4:24 And he said: Amen I say to you that no prophet is accepted in his own country.

,) and wrote 'the Acts of the Apostles,' which conclude with a brief account of Paul's imprisonment at Rome, we may be assured that he had the Apostle's sanction to what he did; and probably this Gospel was written some time before that event, about

A.D.63 or

64, as is generally supposed. He would appear, from Col.

Luke 4:10 For it is written that He hath given his angels charge over thee that they keep thee.

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Luke 4:11 And that in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest perhaps thou dash thy foot against a stone.

, and his intimate acquaintance with the Greek language, as well as from his Greek name [Loukas,] to have been of Gentile extraction; and according to Eusebius and others, he was a native of Antioch. But, from the Hebraisms occurring in his writings, and especially from his accurate knowledge of the Jewish rites, ceremonies, and custom, it is highly probable that he was a Jewish proselyte, and afterwards converted to Christianity. Though he may not have been, as some have affirmed, one of the seventy disciples, and an eye-witness of our Saviour's miracles, yet his intercourse with the apostles, and those who were eye-witnesses of the works and ear witnesses of the words of Christ, renders him an unexceptional witness, if considered merely as an historian; and the early and unanimous reception of his Gospel as divinely inspired is sufficient to satisfy every reasonable person.