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Acts 4:23 ESV

When they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

Acts 4:24 ESV

And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, “Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them,

who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them,

who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said

by the Holy Spirit

Acts 4:25–26 ESV

who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit, “ ‘Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers were gathered together, against the Lord and against his Anointed’—

PS 2:1Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot in vain?

2  The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together,

against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying,

3  “Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.” 4  He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision.

Acts 4:27 ESV

for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel,

Herod

Pontius Pilate

along with the Gentiles

the peoples of Israel

Acts 4:28 ESV

to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.

grant to your servants to continue to speak

with all boldness

while you stretch out your hand to heal

signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus

29 And now, Lord, … holy servant Jesus.

Acts 4:29–30 ESV

And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness, while you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”

Acts 4:31 ESV

And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.

the place... was shaken

they were all filled with the Holy Spirit

continued to speak the word of God with boldness

Acts 4:32 ESV

Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common.

one heart and soul

and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own

they had everything in common

Acts 4:33 ESV

And with great power the apostles were giving their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.

great grace was upon them all

not a needy person among them

as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them

brought the proceeds of what was sold

laid it at the apostles’ feet

it was distributed to each as any had need