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After this man, rose up Judas of Galilee, in the days of the enrolling, and drew away the people after him. He also perished: and all, even as many as consented to him, were dispersed.
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And now, therefore, I say to you: Refrain from these men and let them alone. For if this council or this work be of men, it will come to nought:
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But if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it, lest perhaps you be found even to fight against God. And they consented to him.
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And calling in the apostles, after they had scourged them, they charged them that they should not speak at all in the name of Jesus. And they dismissed them.
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And they indeed went from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were accounted worthy to suffer reproach for the name of Jesus.
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And every day they ceased not, in the temple and from house to house, to teach and preach Christ Jesus.