Acts 4:3-4 And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold to the next day: for it was now eventide.… A certain amount of persecution rouses a man's defiance, stirs his blood for magnificent battle, and makes him fifty times more a man than he would have been without the persecution. So it was with the great reformer when he said, "I will not be put down; I will be heard." And so it was with Millard, the preacher, in the time of Louis XI. When Louis XI. sent word to him that unless he stopped preaching in that style he would throw him into the river, he replied, "Tell the king that I will reach heaven sooner by water than he will reach it by fast horses." (T. De Witt Talmage, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide.WEB: They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening. |
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