12The apostles were performing many miraculous signs and wonders among the people. And all the believers were meeting regularly at the Temple in the area known as Solomon’s Colonnade.b
13But no one else dared to join them, even though all the people had high regard for them.
14Yet more and more people believed and were brought to the Lord—crowds of both men and women.
Acts 5 pivots from the church’s internal purity to its external confrontation with the world. The chapter opens with the sobering account of Ananias and Sapphira, whose deceit brings sudden judgment and holy fear upon the community. Then the apostles, now imprisoned and miraculou
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