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28 “We gave you strict orders [did we not?] to stop teaching in that name. Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and want to bring this man’s blood upon us.”(A) 29 But Peter and the apostles said in reply, “We must obey God rather than men.(B) 30 [a]The God of our ancestors raised Jesus,(C) though you had him killed by hanging him on a tree.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:30 Hanging him on a tree: that is, crucifying him (cf. also Gal 3:13).

28 “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,”(A) he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us guilty of this man’s blood.”(B)

29 Peter and the other apostles replied: “We must obey God rather than human beings!(C) 30 The God of our ancestors(D) raised Jesus from the dead(E)—whom you killed by hanging him on a cross.(F)

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