Acts 4:19-37 ▼

19 but Peter and John made answer, do you yourselves judge, whether it be right in the sight of God, to obey you rather than God.

20 for we cannot avoid publishing what we have seen and heard.

21 so when they had further threatned them, they let them go, not finding it practicable to punish them, because of the people, who all glorified God for that which was done.

22 for the man who was so miraculously cured, was above forty years old.

23 As soon as they were discharg'd, they went to their brethren, and reported all that the chief priests and senators had said to them:

24 at the relation of which they unanimously lift up their voice to God, and said, Lord, thou art the God who hast made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is therein:

25 who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, "why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?

26 the kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ."

27 for it was truly against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, that Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, united themselves in this city,

28 to effect what thy power and thy wisdom pre-determined to be done.

29 and now, Lord, behold their threatnings: and enable thy servants to deliver thy word with freedom,

30 by displaying thine hand in miraculous cures, and prodigies, which by the name of thy holy child Jesus shall be done.

31 When they had prayed, the place where they were assembled, trembled; they were all filled with the holy spirit, and they spake the word of God with boldness.

32 Now the whole body of believers were but one heart, and one soul: no one look'd upon what he possessed, as his own, but every thing was held in common.

33 Great was the power by which the apostles attested the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and they were all greatly favoured by the people.

34 for there was no poor among them, because as many as bad lands or houses, sold them, and brought the value,

35 which they laid down at the apostles feet: and they distributed it to every man as his occasions required.

36 among the rest one Joseph, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas (that is to say, the son of consolation) a Levite, and a native of Cyprus,

37 sold an estate he had, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles feet.