vinhvd749_en_elt_act_book/act/7.json

{
  "1": "Then the high priest said, “Are these things thus?”",
  "2": "Then he said,\n\\p “Men, brothers, and fathers, listen to me: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, even before he lived in Haran;",
  "3": "and he said to him, ‘Go out from your land and from your relatives, and come into the land that I will show you.’\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "4": "Then going out from the land of the Chaldeans, he lived in Haran. And from there, after the death of his father, God brought him into this land, in which you live now.",
  "5": "But he did not give him an inheritance in it—not even a stride of a foot. But he promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him—although he did not have a child.\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "6": "But God spoke to him like this, that his seed would be strangers in a foreign land, and that they would enslave him and treat him badly for 400 years.",
  "7": "‘But I will judge the nation that will enslave him,’ said God, ‘and after that they will come out and serve me in this place.’",
  "8": "And God gave him the covenant of circumcision, and so he became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac of Jacob, and Jacob of the 12 patriarchs.\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "9": "And the patriarchs, being jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt. But God was with him",
  "10": "and he rescued him from all his afflictions, and he gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he appointed him governor over Egypt and over all his household.\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "11": "Then came a famine over all Egypt and Canaan, and great tribulation, and our fathers did not find food.",
  "12": "But when Jacob heard there was grain in Egypt, he first sent our fathers.",
  "13": "And during their second time, Joseph was made known to his brothers, and the family of Joseph became known to Pharaoh.\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "14": "Then sending them back, Joseph summoned Jacob, his father, and all his relatives, 75 souls in all.",
  "15": "So Jacob went down to Egypt, and he and our fathers died.",
  "16": "And they were carried over to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "17": "And as the time of the promise that God had promised to Abraham approached, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,",
  "18": "until there arose over Egypt another king who did not know Joseph.",
  "19": "Taking advantage of our people, he mistreated our fathers, to make their exposed babies to not be kept alive.\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "20": "At that time Moses was born; and he was beautiful to God. He was nourished for three months in the house of his father.",
  "21": "But when he was exposed, the daughter of Pharaoh took him and raised him for herself as a son.\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "22": "And Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and works.",
  "23": "But when he was about 40 years of age, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the sons of Israel.",
  "24": "And seeing a certain one being mistreated, he defended him and made vengeance for the one being oppressed by striking the Egyptian:",
  "25": "and he thought his brothers would understand that God by his hand was giving salvation to them, but they did not understand.\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "26": "And on the next day he appeared to them as they were quarreling, and he urged them to peace, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why is it that you are hurting each other?’",
  "27": "But the one injuring his neighbor pushed him away, and said, ‘Who appointed you a ruler and a judge over us?",
  "28": "You do not want to kill me in the same way you killed the Egyptian yesterday, do you?’\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "29": "Then Moses ran away at this statement, and he became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.",
  "30": "And when 40 years were past, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "31": "And when Moses saw the fire, he marveled at the sight; and as he approached to look at it, there came a voice of the Lord:",
  "32": "‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob.’ And becoming terrified, Moses did not dare to look.\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "33": "And the Lord said to him, ‘Untie the sandals of your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.",
  "34": "I have certainly seen the oppression of my people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their groans, and I have come down to rescue them; so now come, I will send you to Egypt.’\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "35": "This same Moses, whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who appointed you a ruler and a judge?’—God sent him as both a ruler and a redeemer with the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.",
  "36": "He led them out, doing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and at the Sea of Reeds, and in the wilderness during 40 years.",
  "37": "It is this Moses who said to the sons of Israel, ‘God will raise up a prophet like me for you from among your brothers.’\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "38": "This is the one who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who was speaking to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living words to give to us.",
  "39": "Our fathers were not willing to be obedient to him, but instead they pushed him away, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt.",
  "40": "They had said to Aaron, ‘Make for us gods who will lead us. As for this Moses, who brought us from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.’\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "41": "So they made an image of a calf in those days and brought a sacrifice to the idol and rejoiced in the work of their hands.",
  "42": "But God turned away and gave them up to serve the host of heaven, just as it is written in the book of the prophets,\n\\q\n‘You did not offer to me slain beasts and sacrifices\n\\q\nfor 40 years in the wilderness, did you, O house of Israel?\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\q",
  "43": "And you took up the tabernacle of Molech\n\\q\nand the star of your god Rephan,\n\\q\nand the images that you made to worship them:\n\\q\nand I will carry you away beyond Babylon.’\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\m",
  "44": "The tabernacle of the testimony was with our fathers in the wilderness, just as the one speaking to Moses had commanded, to make it according to the pattern that he had seen.",
  "45": "Our fathers, under Joshua, received it and brought it with them when they took possession of the nations whom God drove out from the face of our fathers until the days of David,",
  "46": "who found favor before God, and he asked to find a dwelling place for the house of Jacob.\\f + \\ft Some ancient manuscripts have \\fqa the God of Jacob,\\fqa* but the best ancient manuscripts have \\fq the house of Jacob\\fq*.\\f*\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "47": "However, Solomon built the house for him.",
  "48": "But the Most High does not live in houses made with hands, just as the prophet says,\n\\q",
  "49": "‘Heaven is my throne, and the earth is the footstool for my feet.\n\\q\nWhat kind of house will you build for me? says the Lord,\n\\q\nor what is the place for my rest?\n\\q",
  "50": "Did my hand not make all these things?’\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
  "51": "O stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers—also you.",
  "52": "Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who told in advance about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers,",
  "53": "who received the law as ordained by angels, but did not keep it.”\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
  "54": "Now hearing these things, they were cut to their hearts, and they ground their teeth at him.",
  "55": "But being full of the Holy Spirit and looking intently into heaven, he saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.",
  "56": "And he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "57": "But shouting with a loud voice, they covered their ears and rushed at him all at once.",
  "58": "And throwing him outside the city, they stoned him. And the witnesses laid aside their outer garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "59": "And as they were stoning Stephen, he was calling out and saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”",
  "60": "But having knelt down on his knees, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And having said this, he fell asleep.\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "front": "\\p"
}