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man sound and strong again, as you can all see. 003:017 "And now, brethren, I know that it was in ignorance that you did it, as was the case with your rulers also. 003:018 But in this way God has fulfilled the declarations He made through all the Prophets, that His Christ would suffer. 003:019 Repent, therefore, and reform your lives, so that the record of your sins may be cancelled, and that there may come seasons of revival from the Lord, 003:020 and that He may send the Christ appointed beforehand for you--even Jesus. 003:021 Heaven must receive Him until those times of which God has spoken from the earliest ages through the lips of His holy Prophets-- the times of the reconstitution of all things. 003:022 Moses declared, "`The Lord your God will raise up a Prophet for you from among your brethren as He has raised me. In all that He says to you, you must listen to Him. 003:023 And every one, without exception, who refuses to listen to that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the People.' 003:024 Yes, and all the Prophets, from Samuel onwards--all who have spoken-- have also announced the coming of this present time. 003:025 "You are the heirs of the Prophets, and of the Covenant which God made with your forefathers when He said to Abraham, `And through your posterity all the families of the world shall be blessed.' 003:026 It is to you first that God, after raising His Servant from the grave, has sent Him to bless you, by causing every one of you to turn from your wickedness." 004:001 While they were saying this to the people, the Priests, the Commander of the Temple Guard, and the Sadducees came upon them, 004:002 highly incensed at their teaching the people and proclaiming in the case of Jesus the Resurrection from among the dead. 004:003 They arrested the two Apostles and lodged them in custody till the next day; for it was already evening. 004:004 But many of those who had listened to their preaching believed; and the number of the adult men had now grown to be about 5,000. 004:005 The next day a meeting was held in Jerusalem of their Rulers, Elders, and Scribes, 004:006 with Annas the High Priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and the other members of the high-priestly family. 004:007 So they made the Apostles stand in the centre, and demanded of them, "By what power or in what name have you done this?" 004:008 Then Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit, and he replied, "Rulers and Elders of the people, 004:009 if we to-day are under examination concerning the benefit conferred on a man helplessly lame, as to how this man has been cured; 004:010 be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that through the name of Jesus the Anointed, the Nazarene, whom *you* crucified, but whom *God* has raised from among the dead--through that name this man stands here before you in perfect health. 004:011 This Jesus is the Stone treated with contempt by you the builders, but it has been made the Cornerstone. 004:012 And in no other is the great salvation to be found; for, in fact, there is no second name under Heaven that has been given among men through which we are to be saved." 004:013 As they looked on Peter and John so fearlessly outspoken-- and also discovered that they were illiterate persons, untrained in the schools--they were surprised; and now they recognized them as having been with Jesus. 004:014 And seeing the man standing with them--the man who had been cured-- they had no reply to make. 004:015 So they ordered them to withdraw from the Sanhedrin while they conferred among themselves. 004:016 "What are we to do with these men?" they asked one another; for the fact that a remarkable miracle has been performed by them is well known to every one in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it. 004:017 But to prevent the matter spreading any further among the people, let us stop them by threats from speaking in the future in this name to any one whatever." 004:018 So they recalled the Apostles, and ordered them altogether to give up speaking or teaching in the name of Jesus. 004:019 But Peter and John replied, "Judge whether it is right in God's sight to listen to you instead of listening to God. 004:020 As for us, what we have seen and heard we cannot help speaking about." 004:021 The Court added further threats and then let them go, being quite unable to find any way of punishing them on account of the people, because all gave God the glory for the thing that had happened. 004:022 For