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and there were coming together also the people of the cities round about to Jerusalem, bearing ailing persons, and those harassed by unclean spirits -- who were all healed.
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And having risen, the chief priest, and all those with him -- being the sect of the Sadducees -- were filled with zeal,
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and laid their hands upon the apostles, and did put them in a public prison;
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and a messenger of the Lord through the night opened the doors of the prison, having also brought them forth, he said,
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`Go on, and standing, speak in the temple to the people all the sayings of this life;'
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and having heard, they did enter at the dawn into the temple, and were teaching. And the chief priest having come, and those with him, they called together the sanhedrim and all the senate of the sons of Israel, and they sent to the prison to have them brought,
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and the officers having come, did not find them in the prison, and having turned back, they told,
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saying -- `The prison indeed we found shut in all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors, and having opened -- within we found no one.'
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And as the priest, and the magistrate of the temple, and the chief priests, heard these words, they were doubting concerning them to what this would come;
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and coming near, a certain one told them, saying -- `Lo, the men whom ye did put in the prison are in the temple standing and teaching the people;'
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then the magistrate having gone away with officers, brought them without violence, for they were fearing the people, lest they should be stoned;