And being let go,.... Or dismissed from custody, by the order of the sanhedrim:they went to their own company; or "to their own men", as the Ethiopic version reads; or "to their own brethren", as the Syriac; either to the other ten apostles; or to the hundred and twenty, who first met together; or the whole multitude of them that believed, Ac 4:32 the eight thousand that had been added to them, the whole church.
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Acts 4:23
Acts 4:23
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