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"We found the prison shut and locked, and the guards standing before the doors, but when we had opened it up, we found no one inside!"
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Now when the Kohen Gadol, the captain of the temple, and the chief Kohanim heard these words, they were very perplexed about them and what might become of this.
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One came and told them, "Behold, the men whom you put in prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people."
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Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.
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When they had brought them, they set them before the council. The Kohen Gadol questioned them,
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saying, "Didn't we strictly charge you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Yerushalayim with your teaching, and intend to bring this man's blood on us."
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But Kefa and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men.
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The God of our fathers raised up Yeshua, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.
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God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Yisra'el, and remission of sins.
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We are His witnesses of these things; and so also is the Ruach HaKodesh, whom God has given to those who obey him."
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But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and determined to kill them.