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Pentecost, El Greco

Acts 5:40

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Acts 5:40 (WEB)

They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

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  • “That Peter is struck, that Stephen is overwhelmed by stones, that James is slain as is a victim at the altar, that Paul is beheaded has been written in their own blood.” — editor's note: It has been thought that the allusion is to the breaking of the legs of the crucified to hasten their death, not to the beating to which the apostles were…

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