32 [a]And we are his witnesses concerning these things which we say: yea, and the holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.

33 Now when they heard it, they [b]brast for anger, and consulted to slay them.

34 [c]Then stood there up in the Council a certain Pharisee named Gamaliel, a doctor of the Law, honored of all the people, and commanded to put the Apostles forth a little space,

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 5:32 It is not sufficient for us that there is a right end, but we must also according to our vocation go on forward till we come unto it.
  2. Acts 5:33 This reckoneth that they were in a most vehement rage, and marvelously disquieted in mind, for it is a borrowed kind of speech taken from them which are harrishly cut in sunder with a saw.
  3. Acts 5:34 Christ findeth defenders of his cause even in the very routs of his enemies, so oft as he thinketh it needful.

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