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"We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name! Look here! you have filled Yerushalayim with your teaching; moreover, you are determined to make us responsible for this man's death!"
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Kefa and the other emissaries answered, "We must obey God, not men.
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The God of our fathersl raised up Yeshua, whereas you men killed him by having him hanged on a stake. m
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God has exalted this man at his right handn as Ruler and Savior, in order to enable Isra'el to do t'shuvah and have her sins forgiven.
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We are witnesses to these things; so is the Ruach HaKodesh, whom God has given to those who obey him."
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On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were infuriated and wanted to put the emissaries to death.
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But one of the members of the Sanhedrin rose to his feet, a Parush named Gamli'el, a teacher of the Torah highly respected by all the people. He ordered the men put outside for a little while
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and then addressed the court: "Men of Isra'el, take care what you do to these people.
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Some time ago, there was a rebellion under Todah, who claimed to be somebody special; and a number of men, maybe four hundred, rallied behind him. But upon his being put to death, his whole following was broken up and came to nothing.
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After this, Y'hudah HaG'lili led another uprising, back at the time of the enrollment for the Roman tax; and he got some people to defect to him. But he was killed, and all his followers were scattered.
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So in the present case, my advice to you is not to interfere with these people, but to leave them alone. For if this idea or this movement has a human origin, it will collapse.