KJ3 Literal Translation
Acts 4
1 The rulers of the Jews, offended with Peter’s sermon, 4 imprison him and John. 18 They command him and John to preach no more in the name of Jesus.
1And as they were speaking to the people, the priests, and the temple commander, and the Sadducees,
2being distressed because of their teaching of the people, and continuing to proclaim in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
3And they laid hands on them, and put them into custody until the morrow, for it was already evening.
4But many of the ones hearing the Word believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.
5And it happened on the next day that the rulers and elders and scribes gathered into Jerusalem;
6also Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the high priestly family.
7And standing them in the midst, they were inquiring, By what sort of power, or by what kind of name did you do this?
8Then being filled of the Holy Spirit, Peter said to them, Rulers of the people and elders of Israel,
9if we are being examined today on a good work of an infirm man, by what this one has been healed,
10let it be known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised up from the dead ones, in this name this one stands before you whole.
11”This One is the Stone” having been despised by you, the ones building, the One coming to be into “the Head of the Corner;” Psa. 118:22
12and there is salvation in no other One, for neither is there another name under Heaven having been given among men by which it is necessary for us to be saved.
13But beholding the boldness of Peter and John, and having perceived that they are uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they recognized them, that they were with Jesus.
14But seeing the man standing with them, the one having been healed, they had nothing to speak against him.
15But commanding them to go outside the sanhedrin, they conferred together with one another,
16saying, What may we do to these men? For that a known miraculous sign indeed has occurred through them is evident to all the ones living in Jerusalem, and we are not able to deny it.
17But that it may not be spread abroad further to the people, let us threaten them with a threat that they no longer speak on this name, to no one of men.
18And calling them, they ordered them not at all to speak, nor to teach on the name of Jesus.
19But answering them Peter and John said, Whether it is right before God to listen to you rather than God, you judge.
20For we are not able not to speak what we saw and heard.
21But having threatened them again, they released them, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people, because all glorified God on the thing happening.
22For the man on whom this miraculous sign of healing had occurred was more than forty years of age.
23And being set free, they came to their own and reported to them as many things as the chief priests and elders said.
24And hearing they with one passion lifted voice to God and said, Master, You are the God, the One “making the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all things in them,” Ex. 20:11
25who through the mouth of Your servant David said, “Why did the nations rage, and the peoples meditate vain things?
26The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were assembled on the same day against the Lord, and against His Anointed One.” Psa. 2:1, 2
27For on a truth both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the nations and the peoples of Israel, were assembled against Your holy Servant, Jesus, whom You anointed,
28to do as many things as Your hand and Your purpose before determined to occur.
29And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings and give to Your slaves to speak Your Word with all boldness,
30in Your hand to stretch out unto healing and miraculous signs and wonders to happen through the name of Your holy Servant, Jesus.
31And they having petitioned, the place in which they were gathered was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the Word of God with boldness.
32And of the multitude of those who believed, the heart and the soul were one. And no one said any of the possessions belonging to him to be his own, but all things were common to them.
33And with great power the apostles gave testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.
34For neither was anyone needy among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses, selling them, they brought the value of the things being sold,
35and laid them at the feet of the apostles. And it was distributed to each one according as any had need.
36And Joses, the one being named Barnabas by the apostles, which being translated is, Son of Consolation, a Levite, a Cypriot by nation,
37a field being his, having sold it, he brought the money and placed it by the feet of the apostles.
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