Matthew(i)
26 Then went the ruler of the temple with ministers, and brought them without violence. For they feared the people: least they should haue bene stoned.
27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the counsell. And the chiefe prieste axed them
28 saiynge: dyd not we straytely commaunde you, that ye shoulde not teach in this name. And behold ye haue fylled Hierusalem with your doctrine, and ye intended to brynge this mannes bloude vpon vs.
29 Peter and the other Apostles aunswered & saied. We ought more to obey God, then men.
30 The God of our father raysed vp Iesus whom ye slewe and hanged on tree.
31 Hym hath God lyfte vp with his ryght hand to be a ruler and a sauiour, for to geue repentaunce to Israell and forgeuenes of synnes?
32 And we are hys recordes concerninge these thinges, & also the holy ghost, whom God hath geuen to them that obey him.
33 When they heard that they claue a sunder, & sought meanes to slea them.
34 Then stode ther vp one in the counsel, a pharisey named Gamaliel, a doctoure af law, had in aucthorite amonge all the people, and commaunded to put the Apostles a syde a litel space,
35 and saide vnto them: Men of Israel take hede to youre selues what ye entende to do as touching these men.
36 Before these dayes rose vp one Theudas bostynge him selfe: to whom resorted a numbre of men, aboute a foure hundred which was slaine, and they all which beleued him: were scatred abroade, & brought to nought.
37 After this man, arose ther vp one Iudas of Galile in the tyme when tribute began, and drewe awaie muche people after him. He also perished, and all euen as manye as harkened to hym: are scattered abroade.
38 And nowe I saye vnto you: refrayne youre selues from these men, let them alone. For if the counsel of this worke be of men, it wil come to nought.
39 But and if it be of God ye can not destroye it, leaste haply ye be found to striue against god.
40 And to him they agreed, and called the Apostles, and beate them, and commaunded that they shoulde not speake in the name of Iesu, and let them go.
41 And they departed from the counsel, reioysinge that they were counted worthy, to suffer rebuke for his name.
42 And dayly in the temple and in euerye house they ceased not, teachinge and preachinge Iesus Christe.