Acts 5:27-39

²⁷And when they had brought them they set them before the counsell. And the chefe preste axed them

²⁸sayinge: dyd not we straytely commaunde you that ye shuld not teache in this name? And beholde ye have filled Ierusalem with youre doctrine and ye intende to brynge this mans bloud vpon vs.

²⁹Peter and the other Apostles answered and sayde: We ought moare to obey God then men.

³⁰The God of oure fathers raysed vp Iesus whom ye slewe and hanged on tre.

³¹Him hath god lifte vp with his right hand to be a ruler and a savioure for to geve repentaunce to Israell and forgevenes of synnes.

³²And we are his recordes concernynge these thinges and also the holy goost whom God hath geve to them that obey him.

³³When they hearde that they clave asunder: and sought meanes to slee them.

³⁴Then stode ther vp one in the counsell a Pharisey named Gamaliel a doctoure of lawe had in auctorite amonge all the people and commaunded to put the Apostles a syde a lytell space

³⁵and sayde vnto them: Men of Israel take hede to youre selves what ye entende to do as touchinge these men.

³⁶Before these dayes rose vp one Theudas bostinge him selfe to whom resorted a nombre of men about a foure hondred which was slayn and they all which beleved him were scatred a broode and brought to nought.

³⁷After this man arose ther vp one Iudas of Galile in the tyme when tribute began and drewe awaye moche people after him. He also perisshed: and all even as many as harkened to him are scattered a brood.

³⁸And now I saye vnto you: refrayne youre selves from these men let them alone. For yf the consell or this worke be of men it will come to nought.

³⁹But and yf it be of God ye can not destroye it lest haply ye be founde to stryve agaynst God.