Pastor Jeremy M. Thomas
Fredericksburg Bible Church
107 East Austin
Fredericksburg, Texas 78624
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A0828 – July 13, 2008 – Acts 5:12-27 – The Increase Of Persecution

Acts 5:12-27a Διὰ δὲ τῶν χειρῶν τῶν ἀποστόλων ἐγίνετο σημεῖα καὶ τέρατα πολλὰ ἐν τῷ λαῷ. καὶ ἦσαν ὁμοθυμαδὸν ἅπαντες ἐν τῇ στοᾷ Σολομῶντος, 13τῶν δὲ λοιπῶν οὐδεὶς ἐτόλμα κολλᾶσθαι αὐτοῖς, ἀλλʼ ἐμεγάλυνεν αὐτοὺς ὁ λαός. 14μᾶλλον δὲ προσετίθεντο πιστεύοντες τῷ κυρίῳ, πλήθη ἀνδρῶν τε καὶ γυναικῶν, 15ὥστε καὶ εἰς τὰς πλατείας ἐκφέρειν τοὺς ἀσθενεῖς καὶ τιθέναι ἐπὶ κλιναρίων καὶ κραβάττων, ἵνα ἐρχομένου Πέτρου κἂν ἡ σκιὰ ἐπισκιάσῃ τινὶ αὐτῶν. 16συνήρχετο δὲ καὶ τὸ πλῆθος τῶν πέριξ πόλεων Ἰερουσαλὴμ φέροντες ἀσθενεῖς καὶ ὀχλουμένους ὑπὸ πνευμάτων ἀκαθάρτων, οἵτινες ἐθεραπεύοντο ἅπαντες. 17Ἀναστὰς δὲ ὁ ἀρχιερεὺς καὶ πάντες οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ, ἡ οὖσα αἵρεσις τῶν Σαδδουκαίων, ἐπλήσθησαν ζήλου 18καὶ ἐπέβαλον τὰς χεῖρας ἐπὶ τοὺς ἀποστόλους καὶ ἔθεντο αὐτοὺς ἐν τηρήσει δημοσίᾳ. 19Ἄγγελος δὲ κυρίου διὰ νυκτὸς ἀνοίξας τὰς θύρας τῆς φυλακῆς ἐξαγαγών τε αὐτοὺς εἶπεν· 20πορεύεσθε καὶ σταθέντες λαλεῖτε ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ τῷ λαῷ πάντα τὰ ῥήματα τῆς ζωῆς ταύτης. 21ἀκούσαντες δὲ εἰσῆλθον ὑπὸ τὸν ὄρθρον εἰς τὸ ἱερὸν καὶ ἐδίδασκον. Παραγενόμενος δὲ ὁ ἀρχιερεὺς καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ συνεκάλεσαν τὸ συνέδριον καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν γερουσίαν τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραὴλ καὶ ἀπέστειλαν εἰς τὸ δεσμωτήριον ἀχθῆναι αὐτούς. 22οἱ δὲ παραγενόμενοι ὑπηρέται οὐχ εὗρον αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ φυλακῇ· ἀναστρέψαντες δὲ ἀπήγγειλαν 23λέγοντες ὅτι τὸ δεσμωτήριον εὕρομεν κεκλεισμένον ἐν πάσῃ ἀσφαλείᾳ καὶ τοὺς φύλακας ἑστῶτας ἐπὶ τῶν θυρῶν, ἀνοίξαντες δὲ ἔσω οὐδένα εὕρομεν. 24ὡς δὲ ἤκουσαν τοὺς λόγους τούτους ὅ τε στρατηγὸς τοῦ ἱεροῦ καὶ οἱ ἀρχιερεῖς, διηπόρουν περὶ αὐτῶν τί ἂν γένοιτο τοῦτο. 25παραγενόμενος δέ τις ἀπήγγειλεν αὐτοῖς ὅτι ἰδοὺ οἱ ἄνδρες οὓς ἔθεσθε ἐν τῇ φυλακῇ εἰσὶν ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ ἑστῶτες καὶ διδάσκοντες τὸν λαόν. 26Τότε ἀπελθὼν ὁ στρατηγὸς σὺν τοῖς ὑπηρέταις ἦγεν αὐτοὺς οὐ μετὰ βίας, ἐφοβοῦντο γὰρ τὸν λαὸν μὴ λιθασθῶσιν. 27Ἀγαγόντες δὲ αὐτοὺς ἔστησαν ἐν τῷ συνεδρίῳ. (NA27)
Acts 5:12-27a Now through the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were taking place (3PIDepI) among the people, and they were (3PIAI) of one purpose all in the Portico of Solomon. 13But none of the others dared to associate with them, but the people spoke highly (3SIAI) of them. 14And now more than ever believers were added (3PIPI) to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women, 15so that they even carried out the sick into the wide streets (the Cardo, Eastern Cardo and Decumanus) and laid them upon cots and pallets so that when Peter was coming by at least his shadow might fall upon (3SAASubj) anyone of them. 16And the people were also gathering (3SIDepI) from the towns all around Jerusalem (Bethany, Bethphage, Bethel,???)Jericho, Cypros Gabaon, Beth-horon, Bethlehem, Hebron, Tekoa,Gibeah, Emmaus, Caphethra bringing the sick and those tormented with unclean spirits, and they were all being healed (3PIPI). 17But the high priest (Annas, father in law of Caiaphas who was the actual high priest at the time but Annas was so wealthy he extended his influence long after he was deposed in AD15) rose up, and all who were with him (that is, the sect of the Sadducees), and being filled (3PAPI) with jealousy 18 they bound the hands of the apostles and put (3PAAI) them in the public (state) prison. 19But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the prison (different word than v 18 but used synonymously) doors and freed them and said, (3SAAI), 20”Go (2PPAImp) and stand in the temple (ieron – Temple Compound) and speak (2PPAImp) to the people all the words of this the Life.” (the emphasis is not on the bare minimum and they did not go and just preach, the next verse says they began to teach. People can become believers simply through the teaching of God’s word, cite Gordon Clark What is Saving Faith?) 21And having heard, they entered into the temple at daybreak and began to teach (inceptive imperfect 3PIAI). Now when the high priest (Annas) and those with him had arrived (from the upper city, priestly section, they came across the bridge and through the Kiponus’ Gate), they called together (3PAAI) the Sanhedrin (70+the high priest) and all the Senate of the sons of Israel and sent (3PAAI) to the jail to have them brought (PAInf). 22But when the officers arrived, they did not find (3PAAI) then in the prison, so they returned and reported (3PAAI), 23saying that, “We found (1PAAI) the jail in all security locked and the guards standing at the doors, but having opened them we found (1PAAI) no one inside. 24Now when they heard these words, the captain of the temple and the chief priests were greatly perplexed (3PIAI) concerning them, wondering what had happened (3SAOptDep, great uncertainty Wallace’s note in NET Bible). 25And someone arrived and reported to them that, “Look! The men whom you put (2PAMI) in the prison are (3PPAI) standing in the temple (ieron) and teaching (more teaching) the people.” 26Then the captain with the officers went and were bringing (3SIAI), not with force, for they feared they might be stoned by (3PAPSubj) the people. 27And having brought them, they stood them among the Sanhedrin.
Acts 5:12-27a At the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were taking place among the people; and they were all with one accord in Solomon’s portico. 13But none of the rest dared to associate with them; however, the people held them in high esteem. 14And all the more believers in the Lord, multitudes of men and women, were constantly added to their number, 15to such an extent that they even carried the sick out into the streets and laid them on cots and pallets, so that when Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on any one of them. 16Also the people from the cities in the vicinity of Jerusalem were coming together, bringing people who were sick or afflicted with unclean spirits, and they were all being healed. 17But the high priest rose up, along with all his associates (that is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy. 18They laid hands on the apostles and put them in a public jail. 19But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the gates of the prison, and taking them out he said, 20“Go, stand and speak to the people in the temple the whole message of this Life.” 21Upon hearing this, they entered into the temple about daybreak and began to teach. Now when the high priest and his associates came, they called the Council together, even all the Senate of the sons of Israel, and sent orders to the prison house for them to be brought. 22But the officers who came did not find them in the prison; and they returned and reported back, 23saying, “We found the prison house locked quite securely and the guards standing at the doors; but when we had opened up, we found no one inside.” 24Now when the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests heard these words, they were greatly perplexed about them as to what would come of this. 25But someone came and reported to them, “The men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people!” 26Then the captain went along with the officers and proceeded to bring them back without violence (for they were afraid of the people, that they might be stoned). 27When they had brought them, they stood them before the Council. (NASB95)

Now we resume where we left off last time in Acts 5:12.  Remember in verse 11 we had the first mention of ekklesia, the word “church” in the book of Acts, and this is because the Book of Acts is a book of transition. We have to understand the transitional nature of the Book of Acts. Acts starts out with Peter and the apostles proclaiming the kingdom.  As the Book of Acts goes on watch what happens; the kingdom becomes less and less prominent, the Church becomes more and more prominent. 

Now in the next section beginning in verse 12 on through, we are going to see the persecution increase in intensity. And persecution of the church is the formula for growth of the church. It’s always been that way in church history that you have long periods where the church kind of just meanders on and then when persecution strikes you have rapid growth which is what we see in this passage. So the Church begins to take on its own identity and reputation in Jerusalem to the point that it’s becoming a force to reckon with and the civil authorities are hesitant to make any kind of move against the apostles in a violent way. Beginning with verse 12. At the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were taking place among the people; and they were all with one accord in Solomon’s portico. 13But none of the rest dared to associate with them; however, the people held them in high esteem. This section is strangely placed until you recall the prayer meetings in chapter 4. In v 23, remember, Peter and John had been arrested and had to go to trial before the Sadducees, the civil authorities in the Temple Compound, and they gave such a brilliant defense that they totally silenced the opposition. And in v 23 they go back and go and tell everyone, “Boy you should have seen it, the Lord enabled us to stand up to the authorities and we aced them,” and in v 24 “they lifted their voices to God with one accord” and they begin with the Creator-creature distinction, that He created the state and is superior to the state, and in v 25-26 they quote from Psalm 2 to highlight how futile the Sadducees attempts were to oppose them, for in their opposition of Peter and John they were really opposing God and Jesus Christ. In v 29 they ask, “grant that Your bond-servants may speak Your word with all confidence, while You extend Your hand to heal, and signs and wonders take place through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus.” Now with that terminology in mind what is v 12 but Luke’s record of answered prayer? At the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were taking place among the people; were taking place is imperfect tense in the Greek which means a continuous action in the past. It goes on, it’s a verb of movement in the past time.  So the apostles were executing signs and wonders all the time they’re doing it and, mind you, in an atmosphere of civil disobedience.  They are doing this in defiance of the state who decreed you cannot speak in this name and if you speak in this name we’re going to put you in jail. So you have to stop this.  But the apostles prayed Lord, help us continue to defy the state, and so they are. God is answering the prayer, because the apostles don’t have the power to do signs and wonders, only God the Spirit can do that. So obviously God the Spirit is right in line with their plan of civil disobedience, and they were all with one accord in Solomon’s portico. Now the portico of Solomon we’ve seen before, this was a popular teaching area, they kind of made this there spot, this was the spot Jesus taught at in John 10, this is where Peter gave his second sermon in Acts 3 and so this becomes their meeting place and obviously from this diagram of the Temple you can see it’s very strategic, everyone who enters the Temple is going to come by this point. The portico ran along the eastern side of the Temple Compound and they were teaching right in this area here. Keep this area in mind because it’s going to figure in the story a bit later. And they were all of one accord because now the problem believers, Ananias and Sapphira have been surgically removed from the group.  

Verse 13, But none of the rest dared to associate with them; however, the people held them in high esteem. So you have a very strict line of division and just who are the rest who dared not associate with them, these were the people that kept entering the temple day after day and they’d see the group over their teaching and say, “Oh yes, those are the people who teach Yeshua is the Messiah,” and they would just go right on into the temple because there they were right in the temple defying the civil authority and these people feared the civil authority. So they kept their distance. But at the same time these people held them in high esteem. They spoke very highly of the group and what this shows is that the Church had begun to get a reputation and it was a good reputation. So don’t think that because they kept their distance nobody was becoming a believer. The report of what was happening as a result is given in v 14. And all the more believers in the Lord, multitudes of men and women, were constantly added to their number. So they were hearing the message as they walked by, we’d say they were listening in but when their fear of the Lord toppled their fear of the Sadducees they were believing. And the point of v 14 is not that you had numerical growth like we’ve had before in Acts 2 and Acts 4, what this verse means in the Greek is that the rate of growth increased. So now you have people converting at a faster rate than ever before and this has got to be terribly disturbing to the Sadducees because look, if we have 30,000 inhabitants of Jerusalem and 10-15,000 were already believers then you’ve got to imagine that if the rate increases what’s going to happen pretty soon, the whole city is going to convert. So what this shows is a principal of growth in the church. The church has been persecuted from the outside by the state in chapter 4, and from the inside with Ananias and Sapphira in chapter 5 and what’s the result? Increased growth rate. When pressure is applied to the church this is when it grows most rapidly. And who were they being added to? The NASB really does us a disfavor translating it this way. The true rendering gives us some insight, “And now more than ever believers were added (3PIPI) to the Lord,” to the Lord, that’s a dative, it’s the idea of reception, that they were received to the Lord. Now how is it that as they believed they were received to the Lord. Real simple, sometimes you here that we had to wait for Paul to teach us about the Church, the body of Christ, but there are hints in early Acts that this doctrine of the body of Christ, that of believers being added to the Lord, was in its infantile stages and this phrase “to the Lord” is one of them, because what it signifies is addition to Jesus Christ and that addition is to the body of Christ. There’s no other explanation for this odd expression. Another thing that we see here is the word Lord and this is the Greek word kurios. At the time of Christ they had a translation of the OT called the Septuagint, they just symbolized that with the Roman numerals LXX because supposedly it was a translation done by 70 rabbi’s, but this was a common translation of the Hebrew OT into Greek and when the rabbi’s came to the OT name YHWH they had to find a noun to translate it and they chose this noun kurios, i’ts come down to be Caesar, Kaiser, Czar and so forth, so whenever the Jews wanted to talk about God they would never use the name YHWH, that became the unpronounced name out of respect they never uttered it, but they came to use this name kurios to refer to Him. Now, if this is the name used to substitute for YHWH and Peter and the apostles are applying it to Jesus who are they saying He is? Aren’t they saying Jesus is YHWH. Of course they are, this is all over the NT so when someone comes to your door, the JW’s or the Mormons and starts arguing with you over the whether Jesus was Jehovah or not they haven’t got a clue. The NT always and everywhere affirms that Jesus is YHWH, every time you have the OT quoted in the NT kurios will be substituted for YHWH and when applied to Jesus, that means He is God. So don’t buy into this Jesus isn’t God bit. They were being added unto God which is an early expression indicating they were added to the body of Christ and that body was growing. So the people who want to start the Church in Acts 9 with Paul are wrong, the people that want to put it off to Acts 13 or 28 are more wrong. The Church started in Acts 2.

Now verse 15, the church was growing so fast, the word was so widespread that they even carried the sick out into the streets and laid them on cots and pallets, so that when Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on any one of them. It sounds strange but what you have here is pagans hearing about all the signs and miracles of verse 12 and they get their friends and relatives to carry them out on the streets, in the Greek these are the broad streets, or what we’d call the main roads in Jerusalem, we know what they were, they were called the Cardo, every Roman city and by this time Jerusalem was thoroughly Roman, but every Roman city had two major streets, the Cardo which ran north and south and the Decumanus which ran east and west, these were the main roads, in Jerusalem you had a second Cardo called the eastern Cardo that ran right next to the Western Wall of the Herod’s Temple Mount. So these were the main roads where the apostles would be walking every day and these people would be laying out there on cots and pallets hoping that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on one of them. What is this about the shadow? Well the ancient pagan believe was that a persons shadow had magical healing powers. So as Peter is the leader of the church these pagans think his shadow must have healing powers so they’re all out on the main drags and in the morning they’d line them up on the east side of the Cardo in the evening they’d move over to the west side of the Cardo hoping to be healed. And verse 16 says they were coming from the cities in the vicinity of Jerusalem, so that includes Bethany, Jericho, Emmaus, lots of other small towns and villages were bringing people who were sick or afflicted with unclean spirits, and they were all being healed. And you want to note of the distinction between being sick and being tormented by unclean spirits because every once in a while you get a group coming along that attributes all sickness to demonic spirits but they have no Scripture to back that up because, on one hand you’ve got some people who were just sick and you had others who were tormented by demonic spirits. Don’t confuse the two, some people may be sick because of a demonic spirit but it’s not usually the case or else antibiotics wouldn’t work. But these were all being healed and again this is an imperfect, continuous action in past time, it’s saying this was going on day after day after day people were being laid out and healed. And what’s remarkable is that your seeing real miracles here. There’s nobody foaming at the mouth, being slain in the spirit. What the faith healers can never answer is how it is that these pagans were being healed because there’s not a single mention that any of these people had faith or not. There’s no mention of, “Oh brother if you just have enough faith you’ll be healed.” This was simply God healing through the apostles any and everybody who was brought to them. 

Verse 17, now we see the persecution really come on strong. But the high priest rose up, along with all his associates (that is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy. 18They laid hands on the apostles and put them in a public jail. Alright, this is the same group that got upset last time. Last time it was because they were preaching the resurrection from the dead and the Sadducees don’t believe in the resurrection from the dead. This time it’s something else. This time it’s just plain jealousy because the apostles are having so much success teaching the word of God and healing people that their following is gaining all this momentum and as they gain momentum what naturally happens to the Sadducees following. It diminishes. So that creates a little political pressure. They say politics is dirty, well it was dirty in the ancient world too. The reason; simple everyone has a sin nature and people just love to hang it out for the whole world to see. So they laid hands on the apostles and put them in a public jail. Same tactics as earlier, trying operation quarantine again, have to confine the movement, we’ve got civil disobedience. So they throw then in what was apparently an area of maximum security.  

Now it’s very interesting that in verse 18 Luke shows us something else’s that’s happening. Who was arrested back in chapter 4? It wasn’t all the apostles, was it? It was just Peter and John, just two men. Now who’s arrested? All the apostles. Do you see the expanding area of persecution; it’s growing and growing and growing.  By the time we get in chapter 6 not only are the apostles being arrested, the deacons are being arrested. So persecution against the Church is increasing. 

Notice something else about verse 18, the only people that are arrested are the apostles.  Why is that?  It must mean only the apostles are in civil disobedience.  Then what does that imply as to who’s doing the witnessing and teaching?  Only the apostles.  And that’s something else that’s interesting in the book of Acts, all the way to Acts 6 you do not have every Christians witnessing, you only have the trained apostles doing the evangelism.  You have only people who have adequate training on the front lines.  The problem today is we have lots of Christians trying to witness but they’re too incompetent to know what to say. Now obviously God wants every Christian to witness but the point is that we ought to have the patience to get the training to witness. Some of us, myself included, came out of a Christian organizations that taught this song and dance about you accept Christ today and tomorrow you’re going to go out witnessing for Christ. Well there are some things you can share but most of it you can’t, so don’t get a guilt complex because you haven’t witnessed to 50 people in the last 24 hours. In this early stage of the Church it was the apostles alone who witnessed because the apostles alone had the training. They’d received personal training by the Lord Jesus Christ himself for 3 ½ years. And as they trained the new converts gradually they’d join in. I can assure you once you get the training you won’t have to be looking for witnessing opportunities; God will send them to you.

Then in verse 19, we find them in maximum security and so an angel shows up; this angel was very busy in the early years of the Church, he was a jail buster angel and he comes in three or four times before Acts is finished, every time they’d lock them up he’d get in there and open it up, he had a little game going with the jailors. So this angel storms into the cell and notice in v 20 what he tells them. He commissions them to defy the authorities in the most direct manner imaginable, “Go,” says the angel, “stand and speak in the temple,” right where you were arrested, I’m letting you out of jail tonight and by morning when they open that temple gate at sunrise I want you to go in there and I want you to stand exactly where you were standing yesterday when you were arrested and I want you to be teaching exactly what you were teaching yesterday and do it right under their noses. And notice what he says, “speak… all the words of this life,” what’s “this life?” In the Greek it’s articular, meaning there’s a definite article there, speak all the words of this, the life. And that’s a reference to resurrection unto life found only in the person who is Life, Jesus Christ. So it fits the theme of the Book of Acts which is what? What’s the witness to be about? The objective historic fact of the resurrection; that He who was crucified for the sins of the whole world was resurrected to life and this eternal life is available now to all who believe in Jesus Christ. It’s not that they are to go out and give a big witness about the angel, it’s startling because you’d think they want to share what the angel did for them, how he busted into the prison, released them and here I am with my glowing testimony. No, the emphasis was on the resurrection. Why? Because the gospel of God is the power of God unto salvation. And while there is a place for personal testimony that place is not in the pulpit, it’s not in the public forum, it’s one to one between believers. Because we have to keep the issues clear with the unbeliever and all you’re going to do is muddy the waters when you try to bring in all your experiences. So stick to the resurrection like the apostles did. They were well-trained, they knew the program and they stuck to the program.

So the very first thing they were to do was charge into the temple and defy civil government by teaching the word of God. So in verse 21, and here’s the answer to their prayer for boldness, they entered into the temple about daybreak and began to teach. There’s no hesitation on the part of the apostles. Now when the high priest and his associates came, they called the Council together, that’s the Sanhedrin, a group of 70 top notch lawyers trained in the finest Ivy League schools plus the high priest who was Caiaphas at the time but his father-in-law Annas still had a strong voice, he was probably there too, even all the Senate of the sons of Israel, now who are they? Well the Greek word for Senate comes from a root that means “old men” so it probably refers to elders from the tribes of Israel, so this group has gathered to interrogate the apostles, everything’s set and so they sent orders to the prison house for them to be brought. 22But the officers who came did not find them in the prison; and they returned and reported back, 23saying, “We found the prison house locked quite securely and the guards standing at the doors; but when we had opened up, we found no one inside.” Now notice the captain of the temple in v 24. This is the top guy on the Temple mount and obviously they have a serious problem here so they call the top policeman over, it’s his guards who were in charge of the maximum security prison. Something is going on here and what is so strange as you read the rest of this chapter is that there’s absolute silence on the angel issue. The Sanhedrin, the elders, the captain of the temple guard, the chief priests apparently never discover how the apostles got out of their jail. So not only are they perplexed but there’s a growing suspicion as to where this is all heading. So in verse 24 we read, 24Now when the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests heard these words, they were greatly perplexed about them as to what would come of this. Where is this going? They haven’t got the foggiest as to what happened and its irony because here are these men who think they are so tough they can march around Jerusalem and lock anyone up they want and have them under their thumb. And the big issue here in this verse is right at the tail end, what would come of this? Where is this movement going because the captain of the temple guard has seen all this transpire and they haven’t a clue how these guys are missing. I put them in the cells, I locked the cell, I go to retrieve them and the cells are still locked. So the only conclusion he can come to is that, “Maybe some of the prison guards are in on this, maybe this movement is moving into my own staff and if that’s the case then we have a big problem.” So then in v 25 we find out that the guys the thought they had under their thumb are actually right out the window teaching in the Temple. Talk about bold. They were just arrested 20 hours ago for teaching in the same Portico of Solomon 

So verse 26, Then the captain went along with the officers and proceeded to bring them back without violence (for they were afraid of the people, that they might be stoned). See, this is the principle of a powerful lobby. Obviously the Christians were extremely large group, so large that the government had to be very careful here or they feared they’d end up getting stoned. So from the sound of it the national leaders are in the minority now. And this is one of those principles that would just be great to see in America, that the biblical view point would have such a large following that the government would back off and stop charging into our lives and taking advantage of Christians. 

Finally, verse 27, When they had brought them, they stood them before the Council. So we’re going to have round number two next week, this time it’s not just Peter and John but all the apostles under interrogation. So what we’ve seen is their prayer answered in a big way, the persecution has come from the outside, it’s come from the inside but the more persecution the faster the church grows. Their boldness has increased such that they’re still on the Temple Mount teaching the people all about resurrection life which is the gospel. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.   

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