38 And now I say unto you, [a]Refrain yourselves from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel, or this work be of [b]men, it will come to naught:

39 But if it be of God, ye cannot destroy it, lest ye be found even fighters against God.

40 And to him they agreed, and called the Apostles: and when they had beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the Name of Jesus, and let them go.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 5:38 He dissuadeth his fellows from murdering the Apostles, neither doth he think it good to refer the matter to the Roman Magistrate, for the Jews could abide nothing worse, than to have the tyranny of the Romans confirmed.
  2. Acts 5:38 If it be counterfeit and devised.

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