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Acts 5:6-19 Modern English Version (MEV)

6. The young men rose and wrapped him up and carried him out and buried him.

7. About three hours later his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.

8. Peter said to her, “Tell me whether you sold the land for this amount?”She said, “Yes, for that much.”

9. Peter said to her, “How is it that you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look! The feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”

10. At once she fell down at his feet and died. Upon entering, the young men found her dead and carried her out and buried her beside her husband.

11. Great fear came on the entire church and on all those who heard these things.

12. Many signs and wonders were performed among the people by the hands of the apostles. And they were all together in Solomon’s Porch.

13. No one else dared join them, but the people respected them.

14. Believers were increasingly added to the Lord, crowds of both men and women,

15. so that they even brought the sick out into the streets and placed them on beds and mats, that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might touch some of them.

16. Crowds also came out of the cities surrounding Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those who were afflicted by evil spirits, and they were all healed.

17. Then the high priest and all those who were with him (that is, the sect of the Sadducees) rose up and were filled with jealousy.

18. They seized the apostles and put them in the common prison.

19. But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and led them out, and said,

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