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But Jesus must stay in heaven until God makes all things new, just as his holy prophets promised long ago.

But a lot of people who had heard the message believed it. So by now there were about five thousand followers of the Lord.

But there is something we must tell you and everyone else in Israel. This man is standing here completely well because of the power of Jesus Christ from Nazareth. You put Jesus to death on a cross, but God raised him to life.

But they could not deny what had happened. The man who had been healed was standing there with the apostles.

But to keep this thing from spreading, we will warn them never again to speak to anyone about the name of Jesus."

But they agreed to cheat and keep some of the money for themselves. So when Ananias took the rest of the money to the apostles,

Three hours later Sapphira came in, but she did not know what had happened to her husband.

But that night an angel from the Lord opened the doors of the jail and led the apostles out. The angel said,

"We found the jail locked tight and the guards standing at the doors. But when we opened the doors and went in, we didn't find anyone there."

The captain of the temple police and the chief priests listened to their report, but they did not know what to think about it.

The captain went with some of the temple police and brought the apostles back. But they did not use force. They were afraid that the people might start throwing stones at them.

"We told you plainly not to teach in the name of Jesus. But look what you have done! You have been teaching all over Jerusalem, and you are trying to blame us for his death."

You killed Jesus by nailing him to a cross. But the God our ancestors worshiped raised him to life

But one of the members was the Pharisee Gamaliel, a highly respected teacher. He ordered the apostles to be taken out of the room for a little while.

Not long ago Theudas claimed to be someone important, and about four hundred men joined him. But he was killed. All his followers were scattered, and that was the end of that.

Later, when the people of our nation were being counted, Judas from Galilee showed up. A lot of people followed him, but he was killed, and all his followers were scattered.

But if God is behind it, you cannot stop it anyway, unless you want to fight against God. The council members agreed with what he said,

A lot of people were now becoming followers of the Lord. But some of the ones who spoke Greek started complaining about the ones who spoke Aramaic. They complained that the Greek-speaking widows were not given their share when the food supplies were handed out each day.

But some Jews from Cyrene and Alexandria were members of a group who called themselves "Free Men." They started arguing with Stephen. Some others from Cilicia and Asia also argued with him.

But they were no match for Stephen, who spoke with the great wisdom that the Spirit gave him.