[please support the official release] After they were set free, Peter and John came to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them. When they heard it, they raised their voices with one purpose to God and said, "Lord, you made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them. You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father David, 'Why did the Gentile nations rage, and the peoples imagine useless things?' You said, 'The kings of the earth set themselves together, and the rulers gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.' Indeed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, gathered together in this city against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed. They gathered together to do all that your hand and your plan had decided in advance would happen. Now, Lord, look upon their warnings and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness. Stretch out your hand to heal and to give signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus." After they had prayed, the place where they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and they spoke the word of God with boldness. The great number of those who believed were of one heart and soul. No one said that anything he possessed was his own, but they had everything in common. With great power the apostles were proclaiming their testimony about the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all. There was no person among them who lacked anything, for all who owned title to lands or houses sold them and brought the money from the things that were sold and laid it at the apostles' feet, and it was distributed to each one according to their need. Joseph, whom the apostles called Barnabas (which is translated Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man from Cyprus, sold a field that belonged to him and brought the money and laid it at the apostles' feet.
