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Acts 5:27-29
1599 Geneva Bible

27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the Council, and the chief Priest asked them,

28 [a]Saying, Did we not straightly command you, that ye should not teach in this name? and behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and ye would [b]bring this man’s blood upon us.

29 [c]Then Peter and the Apostles answered, and said, We ought rather to obey God than men.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 5:28 It is the property of tyrants to set out their own commandments as right and reason, be they never so wicked.
  2. Acts 5:28 Make us guilty of murdering, that man whom yet they will not vouchsafe to name.
  3. Acts 5:29 We ought to obey no man, but so far forth as obeying him, we may obey God.
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