The Council’s Dilemma and Threat

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Now seeing the constancy of Peter and of John, understanding that they were illiterate and ignorant men, they wondered: and they knew them that they had been with Jesus.

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Seeing the man also who had been healed, standing with them, they could say nothing against it.

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But they commanded them to go aside out of the council: and they conferred among themselves,

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Saying: What shall we do to these men? For indeed a miracle hath been done by them, known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. It is manifest: and we cannot deny it.

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But that it may be no farther spread among the people, let us threaten them that they speak no more in this name to any man.

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And calling them, they charged them not to speak at all, nor teach in the name of Jesus.

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But Peter and John answering, said to them: If it be just, in the sight of God, to hear you rather than God, judge ye.

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For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

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But they, threatening, sent them away, not finding how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified what had been done, in that which had come to pass.

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For the man was above forty years old, in whom that miraculous cure had been wrought.

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