Acts 4:6-35

⁶as Annas the chefe Prest and Cayphas and Iohn and Alexander and as many as were of the kynred of the hye prestes gadered to geder at Ierusalem

⁷and set the other before them and axed: by what power or what name have ye done this syrs?

⁸Then Peter full of the holy goost sayd vnto them: ye rulars of the people and elders of Israel

⁹yf we this daye are examined of the good dede done to the sycke man by what meanes he is made whoale:

¹⁰be that knowen vnto you all and to the people of Israel that in the name of Iesus Christ of Nazareth whom ye crucified and whom God raysed agayne from deeth: even by him doth this man stonde here present before you whoale.

¹¹This is the stone cast a syde of you bylders which is set in the chefe place of the corner.

¹²Nether is ther salvacion in eny other. Nor yet also is ther eny other name geven to men wherin we must be saved.

¹³When they sawe the boldnes of Peter and Iohn and vnderstode that they were vnlerned men and laye people they marveyled and they knew them that they were with Iesu:

¹⁴and beholdinge also the man which was healed stondinge with the they coulde not saye agaynst it.

¹⁵But they commaunded them to go a syde out of the counsell and counceled amonge them selves

¹⁶sayinge: what shall we do to these men? For a manifest signe is done by the and is openly knowen to all them that dwell in Ierusalem and we cannot denye it.

¹⁷But that it be noysed no farther amonge the people let us threaten and charge them that they speake hence forth to no man in this name.

¹⁸And they called them and commaunded them that in no wyse they shuld speake or teache in the name of Iesu.

¹⁹But Peter and Iohn answered vnto them and sayde: whether it be right in the syght of God to obeye you moare then God iudge ye.

²⁰For we cannot but speake that which we have sene and hearde.

²¹So threatened they them and let them goo and founde no thinge how to punysshe them because of the people. For all me lauded God for the myracle which was done:

²²for the man was above fourty yeare olde on whom this myracle of healinge was shewed.

²³Assone as they were let goo they came to their felowes and shewed all that the hye prestes and elders had sayde to them.

²⁴And when they hearde that they lyfte vp their voyces to God with one accorde and sayde: Lorde thou arte God which hast made heaven and erth the see and all that in them is

²⁵which by the mouth of thy servaunt David hast sayd: Why dyd the hethen rage and the people immagen vayne thinges.

²⁶The kynges of the erth stode vp and the rulars came to gedder agaynst the Lorde and agaynst his Christ.

²⁷For of a trueth agaynst thy holy chylde Iesus whom thou hast annoynted bothe Herode and also Poncius Pylate with the Gentils and the people of Israel gaddered them selves to gedder

²⁸forto do whatsoever thy honde and thy counsell determined before to be done.

²⁹And now Lorde beholde their threatenynges and graunte vnto thy servauntes with all confidence to speake thy worde.

³⁰So that thou stretche forth thy honde that healynge and signes and wonders be done by the name of thy holy chylde Iesus.

³¹And assone as they had prayed the place moved wheare they were assembled to gedder and they were all filled with the holy goost and they spake the worde of God boldely.

³²And the multitude of them that beleved were of one hert and of one soule. Also none of them sayde that eny of the thinges which he possessed was his awne: but had all thinges commen.

³³And with greate power gave the Apostles witnes of the resurreccion of the Lorde Iesu. And greate grace was with them all.

³⁴Nether was ther eny amonge them that lacked. For as many as were possessers of londes or housses solde them and brought the pryce of the thinges that were solde

³⁵and layed that doune at the Apostles fete. And distribucion was made vnto every man accordinge as he had nede.