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Acts 5 - NIV, NAB - in Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VII

and Ananias, and Sapphira his wife, who stole their own goods, and "tempted the Spirit of the Lord," were immediately, at the sentence of Peter our fellow-apostle, struck dead.[38]

Acts 5 - NIV, NAB - in Recognitions of Clement I

stated briefly, in the hearing of the people, What we had done in every place.[43]

Acts 5:1 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I

And the mystics say that he slew the Egyptian by a word only; as, certainly, Peter in the Acts is related to have slain by speech those who appropriated part of the price of the field, and lied.[308]

Acts 5:1 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On Modesty

which none but Christ (can do); nay, they inflicted plagues too, which Christ would not do. For it did not beseem Him to be severe who had come to suffer. Smitten were both Ananias[272]

Acts 5:1 - NIV, NAB - in The Epistle of Pope Urban First

And the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband. And great fear came upon all the Church, and upon as many as heard these things."[7]

Acts 5:3 - NIV, NAB - in Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews

Of this same thing in the Acts of the Apostles: "Why hath Satan filled thine heart, that thou shouldst lie to the Holy Ghost, when thy estate was in thine own power? Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God."[565]

Acts 5:10 - NIV, NAB - in Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes

but also put Sapphira to death?[710]

Acts 5:13 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On Modesty

which God alone (can do), and restored the debilitated to their integrity,[271]

Acts 5:15 - NIV, NAB - in Acts of the Holy Apostle Thomas

Some also they laid on the road by which he was to pass, and he healed them all by the power of the Lord.[61]

Acts 5:20 - NIV, NAB - in Acts of Andrew and Matthias

And straightway they went, and reported to the rulers of the city, saying: We found the prison opened, and having gone inside we found nobody;[23]

Acts 5:20 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Commentary on John Book X

and that temple was made in honour of Him who made heaven and earth, why are we not at once told that He is the Son of no one else than the Maker of heaven and earth, that He is the Son of God? To this house of the Father of Jesus, as being the house of prayer, the Apostles of Christ also. as we find in their "Acts," are told[96]

Acts 5:29 - NIV, NAB - in Dionysius Extant Fragments Part II

From this, therefore, he commanded me to desist, thinking, doubtless, that if I myself should recant, the others would also follow me in that. But I answered him neither unreasonably nor in many words, "We must obey God rather than men."[85]

Acts 5:29 - NIV, NAB - in Polycrates of Ephesus

the leaven-I myself, brethren, I say, who am sixty-five years old in the Lord, and have fallen in with the brethren in all parts of the world, and have read through all Holy Scripture, am not frightened at the things which are said to terrify us. For those who are greater than I have said, "We ought to obey God rather than men."[11]

Acts 5:29 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Commentary on John Book X

But they came to the house of prayer, through the Beautiful Gate, to pray there, a thing they would not have done had they not known Him to be the same with the God worshipped by those who had dedicated that temple. Hence, too, they say, those who obeyed God rather than men, Peter and the Apostles, "The God[97]

Acts 5:30 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III

And we are in this witnesses of these words; as also is the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that believe in Him."[186]

Acts 5:31 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On Baptism

, which is in man's power.[100]

Acts 5:31 - NIV, NAB - in 2 Clement

the Father of truth, who sent forth to us the Saviour and Prince of incorruption,[155]

Acts 5:35 - NIV, NAB - in Recognitions of Clement I

Which when Gamaliel, a chief of the people, saw-who was secretly our brother in the faith, but by our advice remained among them-because they were greatly enraged and moved with intense fury against us, he stood up, and said,[60]

Acts 5:36 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Against Celsus Book VI

The Dositheans, again, even in former times, did not rise to any eminence, and now they are completely extinguished, so that it is said their whole number does not amount to thirty. Judas of Galilee also, as Luke relates in the Acts of the Apostles,[59]

Acts 5:36 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Commentary on John Book VI

Hence it was, in all likelihood, that as the scribes and lawyers had deduced the time from Holy Scripture and were expecting the Coming One, the idea was taken up by Theudas, who came forward as the Messiah and brought together a considerable multitude, and after him by the famous Judas of Galilee in the days of the taxing.[33]

Acts 5:38 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Against Celsus Book I

Now Gamaliel, in the passage referred to, said: "If this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought" (as also did the designs of those men already mentioned after their death); "but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow this doctrine, lest haply ye be found even to fight against God."[111]

Acts 5:38 - NIV, NAB - in Gospel of Nicodemus I The Acts of Pilate

Let him go, and do not wish any evil against him. If the miracles which he does are of God, they will stand; but if man, they will come to nothing.[21]

Acts 5:38 - NIV, NAB - in Gospel of Nicodemus I The Acts of Pilate

Let him go, therefore; and if indeed what he does be from God, it will stand; but if from man, it will be destroyed.[83]

Acts 5:39 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian To Scapula

We who are without fear ourselves are not seeking to frighten you, but we would save all men if possible by warning them not to fight with God.[8]

Acts 5:39 - NIV, NAB - in Acts of Saint Philip the Apostle When He Went to Upper Hellas

And they reviled and cursed the high priest, saying: Coming oat of Jerusalem we said to thee Refrain: for, being men, we cannot fight against God[15]

Acts 5:40 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Scorpiace

The prisons there, and the bonds, and the scourges, and the big stones, and the swords, and the onsets by the Jews, and the assemblies of the heathen, and the indictments by tribunes, and the hearing of causes by kings, and the judgment-seats of proconsuls and the name of Cµsar, do not need an interpreter. That Peter is struck,[110]

Acts 5:40 - NIV, NAB - in Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book V

And if any one who accompanies with them is caught, and falls into misfortune, he is blessed, because he is partaker with the martyr, and is one that imitates the sufferings of Christ; for we ourselves also, when we oftentimes received stripes from Caiaphas, and Alexander, and Annas, for Christ's sake, "went out rejoicing that we were counted worthy to suffer such things for our Saviour."[3]

Acts 5:41 - NIV, NAB - in Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians

Let us then be imitators of His patience; and if we suffer[51]

Acts 5:41 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Against Celsus Book II

, to which the Scripture adds, "This spake He, signifying by what death he should glorify God; "nor how James the brother of John-an apostle, the brother of an apostle-was slain with the sword by Herod for the doctrine of Christ; nor even the many instances of boldness displayed by Peter and the other apostles because of the Gospel, and "how they went forth from the presence of the Sanhedrim after being scourged, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name,"[107]

Acts 5:41 - NIV, NAB - in 2 Clement

but also the men that are without, by our righteousness, that the Name[89]

Acts 5:42 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III

"And daily," it is said, "in the temple, and from house to house, they ceased not to teach and preach Christ Jesus,"[187]

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