Acts 4:19-37 ▼

19 And Peter and John responding said to them, Whether it is right in the sight of God to hearken unto you rather than God, judge ye;

20 for we are not able not to speak those things which we have seen and heard.

21 And they having threatened them, in addition sent them away, finding nothing to the end that they can punish them, on account of the people, because all continued to glorify God over that which had taken place;

22 for the man on whom this miracle of healing was wrought was more than forty years old.

23 And having been released they came to their own people, and proclaimed so many things as the chief priests and elders said to them.

24 And having heard, they unanimously lifted up their voice to God, and said, O Lord, thou having created the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things which are in them,

25 the One speaking through the mouth of David, thy child, our father through the Holy Ghost, Wherefore did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?

26 The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and his Christ.

27 For in truth they were assembled together in this city, against thy holy Child Jesus, whom thou didst anoint; both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel,

28 to do so many things as thy hand and thy counsel did foreordain to come to pass.

29 And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to thy servants with all boldness to speak thy word,

30 while, reaching forth thy hand unto healings, both miracles and wonders are wrought through the name of thy holy child Jesus.

31 And they praying, the place in which they were assembled was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.

32 And of the multitude who believed there was one heart and soul, and no one was saying that any of those things which belonged to him were his own, but all things were common to them.

33 And with great power the apostles continued to give witness of the resurrection of Jesus Christ the Lord; and great grace was upon them all.

34 For no one among them was in need; for so many possessions of lands or houses as belonged to them, selling, they were bringing the prices of the things having been sold,

35 and laying them at the feet of the apostles; and it was distributed to each as any one had need.

36 And Joseph called Barnabas by the apostles, which is interpreted, Son of consolation, a Levite, a Cyprian by race,

37 a farm belonging to him, having sold it, he brought the money and laid it at the feet of the apostles.