Acts 4:1-5:42 reverse parallelism:
1a) Act 4:1-31, The apostles, the Sadducees, and the council of elders;
1) Act 4:1-2, As the apostles spoke, the priests + Sadducees came upon them, being greatly disturbed;
2) Act 4:3-4, The apostles arrested: they laid hands on them + put them in custody;
3) Act 4:5-14, The apostles brought before the council of elders;
4) Act 4:15-20, The council conferred/ the name of Yeshua forbidden + is it right to listen to you more than to God;
5) Act 4:21-22, They threatened them, then let them go without punishing them;
6) Act 4:23-29a, And being let go, they reported to the ekklesia/ raised their voice to God with one accord;
7) Act 4:29b-31, Boldness: O God, grant to Your servants boldness to speak your word;
1a) Act 4:29b, Grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word;
1b) Act 4:30, By stretching out Your hand to heal/ signs + wonders done through the name of Jesus;
central axis) Act 4:31a, And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken;
2b) Act 4:31b, And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit;
2a) Act 4:31c, And they spoke the word of God with boldness;
1b) Act 4:32-33, Multitude of those who believed of one heart + soul/ with great power the apostles witnessed;
1c) Act 4:34-37, Barnabas sold his land + laid the money at the Apostles’ feet;
1a) Act 4:34-35a, None lacked, for they sold lands + houses/ laid the proceeds at the apostles’ feet;
central axis) Act 4:35b, And they distributed to each as anyone had need;
2a) Act 4:36-37, Barnabas, having land, sold it/ laid the money at the apostles’ feet;
2c) Act 5:1-11, Ananias + Sapphira sold their land + laid the money at the Apostles’ feet;
2c.1) Act 5:1-6, Ananias’ lie and his fate;
1) Act 5:1-2, Ananias + Sapphira his wife, sold land + kept back part/ laid part at the apostles’ feet;
2) Act 5:3-4, Peter: Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit;
3) Act 5:5a, Then Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and breathed his last;
4) Act 5:5b-6, Great fear came upon those who heard these things/ the young men carried him out;
2c.2) Act 5:7-11, Sapphira’s lie and her fate;
1) Act 5:7-8, Sapphira came in, not knowing what had happened/ she confirmed Ananias’ lie;
2) Act 5:9, Peter: How have you agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord;
3) Act 5:10a, Then immediately she fell down at his feet and breathed her last;
4) Act 5:10b-11, The young men carried her out + buried her beside her husband/ great fear came upon all;
2b) Act 5:12-16, Through the apostles many signs done/ multitude of believers with one accord + increasing daily;
1a) Act 5:12a, Through the hands of the apostles many signs + wonders were done among the people;
1b) Act 5:12b-15a, Believers with one accord + multitudes of men, women added daily/ they brought the sick;
central axis) Act 5:15b, That at least the shadow of Peter passing by might fall on some of them;
2b) Act 5:16a, A multitude gathered to Jerusalem, bringing the sick + tormented by unclean spirits;
2a) Act 5:16b, And they were all healed;
2a) Act 5:17-42, The apostles, the Sadducees, and the council of elders;
1) Act 5:17, The high priest rose up with the Sadducees, filled with indignation:
2) Act 5:18-26, The apostles arrested: they laid their hands on the apostles + put them in prison;
1a) Act 5:18, And laid their hands on the apostles and put them in the common prison;
1b) Act 5:19-21a, But an angel opened the prison doors + brought them out/ Go stand in the temple + teach the people;
1c) Act 5:21b, The high priest called the council together, with all the elders of the children of Israel;
central axis) Act 5:21c-23, “And sent to the prison to have them brought. But when the officers came and did not find them in the prison, they returned and reported, saying, ‘Indeed we found the prison shut securely, and the guards standing outside before the doors; but when we opened them, we found no one inside!’”
2c) Act 5:24, When the high priest + chief priests heard it, they wondered;
2b) Act 5:25, They were told:: The men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple + teaching the people;
2a) Act 5:26, The captain + officers brought them without violence, for they feared the people;
3) Act 5:27a, And when they had brought them, they set them before the council;
4) Act 5:27b-39, The name of Yeshua forbidden + we ought to obey God rather than men/ the council conferred;
5) Act 5:40, They let them go after punishing + threatening them;
6) Act 5:41, They departed from the council, rejoicing that they suffered shame for the sake of Yeshua;
7) Act 5:42, Boldness: Daily in the temple + houses, they did not cease teaching + preaching Yeshua the Messiah.
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