Acts 4:1-16 ▼

1 While they were speaking to the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came upon them,

2 being vexed because they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

3 And they laid hands on them, and put them in prison till the next day, for it was already evening.

4 But many of those who heard the word, believed: and the number of the men was about five thousand.

5 And it came to pass, on the next day, that their rulers and elders and scribes,

6 and Annas the chief priest, and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and as many as were of the family of the chief priest, met together in Jerusalem.

7 And when they had made them stand in the midst, they asked: By what power, or by what name have you done this?

8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: Rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

9 if we are this day examined with respect unto the good deed done to the infirm man, by what means he has been saved,

10 be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by him does this man stand before you in health.

11 This is the stone that was rejected with contempt by you builders, which has become the head of the corner.

12 And there is salvation in no other; nor, indeed, is there another name under heaven, given among men, by which we must be saved.

13 Now, when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and plain men, they were astonished; and they also recognized them, that they had been with Jesus;

14 and, seeing the man who had been cured standing with them, they had nothing to say in reply.

15 But, having commanded them to go aside out of the Sanhedrin, they consulted with one another,

16 saying: What shall we do with these men? For that an evident sign has been done by them, is manifest to all that dwell in Jerusalem, and we can not deny it.