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For the manwasaboveforty years old,onwhomthismiracle of healing was shewed.
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And being let go, they wentto their own company,andreportedall that the chief priestsandelders had said untothem.
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And when they heard that, they lifted up their voicetoGod with one accord,andsaid, Lord,thou art God,which hast madeheaven,andearth,and the sea,andall that in them is:
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Whoby the mouth of thyservantDavid hast said, Whydid the heathenrage, and the peopleimagine vain things?
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The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gatheredtogether*against the Lord,andagainsthisChrist.
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Forof a truthagainstthyholychildJesus,whom thou hast anointed, bothHerod,andPontiusPilate,with the Gentiles,and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
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For to dowhatsoeverthyhandandthycounsel determined before to be done.
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Andnow,Lord,behold*theirthreatenings:and grant untothyservants, that withallboldness they may speakthyword,
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Bystretchingforththinehandtoheal;and that signsandwonders may be doneby the name of thyholychildJesus.
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And when they had prayed, the place was shakenwheretheywere assembled together; and they wereallfilled with the HolyGhost,and they spake the word of Godwithboldness.
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And the multitude of them that believedwere of one heartand of onesoul:neither*saidany of them that ought of the things which hepossessedwas his own;buttheyhad all thingscommon.
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And with greatpowergave the apostleswitness of the resurrection of the LordJesus:andgreatgracewasuponthemall.
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Neither*was there anyamongthem that lacked:for as many aswerepossessors of landsorhouses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,
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And laid them downat the apostles'feet:and distribution was made unto every manaccordingas he hadneed*.
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AndJoses,whoby the apostles was surnamedBarnabas,* (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus,
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Having*land,sold it, and brought the money,andlaid it at the apostles'feet.