And while Peter and John were talking to the people, the priests and the captain [who was in charge of the temple area and] of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,
On the next day, their magistrates and elders and scribes (Sanhedrin, Jewish High Court) were gathered together in Jerusalem;
After Peter and John were released, they returned to their own [people] and reported everything that the chief priests and elders had said to them.
‘WHY DID THE NATIONS (Gentiles) BECOME ARROGANT and RAGE,
AND THE PEOPLES DEVISE FUTILE THINGS [against the Lord]?
‘THE KINGS OF THE EARTH TOOK THEIR STAND [to attack],
AND THE RULERS WERE ASSEMBLED TOGETHER
AGAINST THE LORD AND AGAINST HIS ANOINTED (the Christ, the Messiah).’
“For in this city there were gathered together against Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel,
Now the company of believers was of one heart and soul, and not one [of them] claimed that anything belonging to him was [exclusively] his own, but everything was common property and for the use of all.
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