Acts 5:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Go, take your place in the Temple and give the people all the teaching about this Life.

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  • John 6:63 : 63 The spirit is the life giver; the flesh is of no value: the words which I have said to you are spirit and they are life.
  • John 6:68 : 68 Then Simon Peter gave this answer: Lord, to whom are we to go? you have the words of eternal life;
  • John 12:50 : 50 And I have knowledge that his order is eternal life: so that the things which I say, I say them even as the Father says them to me.
  • John 17:3 : 3 And this is eternal life: to have knowledge of you, the only true God, and of him whom you have sent, even Jesus Christ.
  • John 17:8 : 8 Because I have given them the words which you gave to me; and they have taken them to heart, and have certain knowledge that I came from you, and they have faith that you sent me.
  • John 18:20 : 20 Jesus made answer, I said things openly to the world at all times; I have given my teaching in the Synagogues and in the Temple to which all the Jews come; and I have said nothing secretly.
  • Acts 11:14 : 14 Who will say words to you through which you and all your family may get salvation.
  • 1 John 1:1-3 : 1 That which was from the first, which has come to our ears, and which we have seen with our eyes, looking on it and touching it with our hands, about the Word of life 2 (And the life was made clear to us, and we have seen it and are witnessing to it and giving you word of that eternal life which was with the Father and was seen by us); 3 We give you word of all we have seen and everything which has come to our ears, so that you may be united with us; and we are united with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ:
  • 1 John 5:11-12 : 11 And his witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.
  • Exod 24:3 : 3 Then Moses came and put before the people all the words of the Lord and his laws: and all the people, answering with one voice, said, Whatever the Lord has said we will do.
  • Isa 58:1 : 1 Make a loud cry, do not be quiet, let your voice be sounding like a horn, and make clear to my people their evil doings, and to the family of Jacob their sins.
  • Jer 7:2 : 2 Take your place in the doorway of the Lord's house, and give out this word there, and say, Give ear to the word of the Lord, all you of Judah who come inside these doors to give worship to the Lord.
  • Jer 19:14-15 : 14 Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to give the prophet's word; and he took his place in the open square of the Lord's house, and said to all the people, 15 The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, I will send on this town and on all her towns all the evil which I have said; because they made their necks stiff, so that they might not give ear to my words.
  • Jer 20:2-3 : 2 And Pashhur gave blows to Jeremiah and had his feet chained in a framework of wood in the higher doorway of Benjamin, which was in the house of the Lord. 3 Then on the day after, Pashhur let Jeremiah loose. Then Jeremiah said to him, The Lord has given you the name of Magor-missabib (Cause-of-fear-on-every-side), not Pashhur.
  • Jer 22:1-2 : 1 This is what the Lord has said: Go down to the house of the king of Judah and there give him this word, 2 And say, Give ear to the word of the Lord, O king of Judah, seated on the seat of David, you and your servants and your people who come in by these doors.
  • Jer 26:2 : 2 This is what the Lord has said: Take your place in the open square of the Lord's house and say to all the towns of Judah, who come into the Lord's house for worship, everything I give you orders to say to them: keep back not a word;
  • Jer 36:10 : 10 Then Baruch gave a public reading of the words of Jeremiah from the book, in the house of the Lord, in the room of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher square, as one goes in by the new doorway of the Lord's house, in the hearing of all the people.
  • Matt 21:23 : 23 And when he had come into the Temple, the chief priests and those in authority over the people came to him while he was teaching, and said, By what authority do you do these things? and who gave you this authority?

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    21 And hearing this, they went into the Temple at dawn, and were teaching. But the high priest and those who were with him got together the Sanhedrin and the representatives of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to get them.

    22 But the men who were sent saw that they were not in the prison, and came back with the news,

    23 Saying, The doors of the prison were safely shut, and the keepers were at the doors, but when they were open, there was nobody inside.

    24 Now, at these words, the captain of the Temple and the chief priests were greatly troubled about what might be the end of this business.

    25 And someone came and said to them, The men, whom you put in prison, are in the Temple teaching the people.

    26 Then the captain and some of the police went and took them, but not violently, for fear that they might be stoned by the people.

    27 And they took them into the Sanhedrin, and the high priest said to them,

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    15 But when they had given them orders to go out of the Sanhedrin, they had a discussion among themselves,

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    39 But if it is of God, you will not be able to overcome them, and you are in danger of fighting against God.

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