Acts 4:19-37 ▼

19 and Peter and John answering to them said, “Whether it is righteous before God to listen to you rather than to God, judge;

20 for we cannot but speak what we saw and heard.”

21 And they having further threatened [them], let them go, finding no way how they may punish them, because of the people, because all were glorifying God for that which has been done,

22 for above forty years of age was the man on whom had been done this sign of the healing.

23 And being let go, they went to their own friends, and declared whatever the chief priests and the elders said to them,

24 and they having heard, lifted up the voice to God with one accord and said, “LORD, You [are] God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all that [are] in them,

25 who, through the mouth of Your servant David, said, Why did nations rage, and peoples meditate vain things?

26 The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the LORD and against His Christ;

27 for gathered together of a truth against Your holy child Jesus, whom You anointed, were both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with nations and peoples of Israel,

28 to do whatever Your hand and Your counsel determined before to come to pass.

29 And now, LORD, look on their threatenings, and grant to Your servants to speak Your word with all freedom,

30 in the stretching forth of Your hand, for healing, and signs, and wonders, to come to pass through the Name of Your holy child Jesus.”

31 And they having prayed, the place was shaken in which they were gathered together, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and were speaking the word of God with freedom,

32 and of the multitude of those who believed, the heart and the soul were one, and not one was saying that anything of the things he had was his own, but all things were in common to them.

33 And with great power the apostles were giving the testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, great grace was also on them all,

34 for there was not anyone among them who lacked, for as many as were possessors of fields, or houses, selling [them], were bringing the prices of the thing sold,

35 and were laying them at the feet of the apostles, and distribution was being made to each according as anyone had need.

36 And Joses, who was surnamed by the apostles Barnabas—which is, having been interpreted, Son of Comfort—a Levite, of Cyprus by birth,

37 a field being his, having sold [it], brought the money and laid [it] at the feet of the apostles.