Acts 4:1-11 ▼

1 While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,

2 greatly disturbed that they were teaching {didaskein} the people and proclaiming in Jesus (YHWH saves) the resurrection (rising again) of the dead.

3 They seized Peter and John, and because it was evening, they put them in custody until the next day.

4 But many who heard the message believed (had faith), and the number of men grew to about five thousand.

5 The next day the rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem (city of peace),

6 along with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John (YHWH is gracious), Alexander (defending men), and many others from the high priest’s family.

7 They had Peter and John brought in and began to question them: “By what power {dynamei} or what name did you⁺ do this?

8 Then Peter (rock), filled with the Holy Spirit {Hagiou Pneumatos}, said to them, “Rulers and elders of the people!

9 If we are being examined today about a kind service to a man who was lame, to determine how he was healed,

10 then let this be known to all of you⁺ and to all the people of Israel (He wrestles with God): It is by the name of Jesus (YHWH saves) Christ (the Anointed One) of Nazareth (branch), whom you⁺ crucified but whom God {Theos} raised from the dead, that this man stands before you⁺ healed.

11 This Jesus is ‘the stone you⁺ builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone .’