Quotes About Faith

As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, so that at least Peterís shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by.

Crowds also gathered from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those tormented by unclean spirits, and all of them were healed.

Then the high priest and all his associates, who belonged to the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy. They went out

and arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.

But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought them out, saying,

“Go, stand in the temple courts and tell the people the full message of this new life.”

But on arriving at the jail, the officers did not find them there. So they returned with the report:

“We found the jail securely locked, with the guards posted at the doors; but when we opened them, we found no one inside.”

When the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests heard this account, they were perplexed as to what was happening.

Then someone came in and announced, “Look, the men you put in jail are standing in the temple courts teaching the people!”

At that point, the captain went with the officers and brought the apostles—but not by force, for fear the people would stone them.

They brought them in and made them stand before the Sanhedrin, where the high priest interrogated them.

“We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us responsible for this manís blood.”

But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you had killed by hanging Him on a tree.

We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him.”

When the Council members heard this, they were enraged, and they resolved to put the apostles to death.

“Men of Israel,” he said, “consider carefully what you are about to do to these men.

So in the present case I advise you: Leave these men alone. Let them go! For if their purpose or endeavor is of human origin, it will fail.

But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop them. You may even find yourselves fighting against God.”

At this, they yielded to Gamaliel. They called the apostles in and had them flogged. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and released them.

The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name.

Every day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Christ.

So the Twelve summoned all the disciples and said, “It is unacceptable for us to neglect the word of God in order to wait on tables.