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Instantly, she fell to the floor and died. When the young men came in and saw that she was dead, they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.
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Great fear gripped the entire church and everyone else who heard what had happened.
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The apostles were performing many miraculous signs and wonders among the people. And all the believers were meeting regularly at the Temple in the area known as Solomon’s Colonnade.
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But no one else dared to join them, even though all the people had high regard for them.
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Yet more and more people believed and were brought to the Lord—crowds of both men and women.
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As a result of the apostles’ work, sick people were brought out into the streets on beds and mats so that Peter’s shadow might fall across some of them as he went by.
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Crowds came from the villages around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those possessed by evil spirits, and they were all healed.
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The high priest and his officials, who were Sadducees, were filled with jealousy.
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They arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.
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But an angel of the Lord came at night, opened the gates of the jail, and brought them out. Then he told them,
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“Go to the Temple and give the people this message of life!”