Acts 4:17-37

17But that it be not further spread among the people, let us threaten them severely no longer to speak to any man in this name. 18And having called them, they charged [them] not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. 19But Peter and John answering said to them, If it be righteous before 1God to listen to you rather than to 2God, judge ye; 20for as for us we cannot refrain from speaking of the things which we have seen and heard. 21But they, having further threatened them, let them go, finding no way how they might punish them, on account of the people, because all glorified 3God for what had taken place; 22for the man on whom this sign of healing had taken place was above forty years old. 23And having been let go, they came to their own [company], and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them. 24And they, having heard [it], lifted up [their] voice with one accord to 4God, and said, Lord, thou art the 5God who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them; 25who hast said by the mouth of thy servant David, Why have [the] nations raged haughtily and [the] peoples meditated vain things? 26The kings of the earth were there, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ. 27For in truth against thy holy servant Jesus, whom thou hadst anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with [the] nations, and peoples of Israel, have been gathered together in this city 28to do whatever thy hand and thy counsel had determined before should come to pass. 29And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings, and give to thy bondmen with all boldness to speak thy word, 30in that thou stretchest out thy hand to heal, and that signs and wonders take place through the name of thy holy servant Jesus. 31And when they had prayed, the place in which they were assembled shook, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and spoke the word of 6God with boldness. 32And the heart and soul of the multitude of those that had believed were one, and not one said that anything of what he possessed was his own, but all things were common to them; 33and with great power did the apostles give witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all. 34For neither was there any one in want among them; for as many as were owners of lands or houses, selling them, brought the price of what was sold 35and laid it at the feet of the apostles; and distribution was made to each according as any one might have need. 36And Joseph, who had been surnamed Barnabas by the apostles (which is, being interpreted, Son of consolation), a Levite, Cyprian by birth, 37being possessed of land, having sold [it], brought the money and laid it at the feet of the apostles.