Acts 4:1-18 ▼

1 And as they are speaking to the people, there came to them the priests, and the magistrate of the temple, and the Sadducees—

2 being grieved because of their teaching the people, and preaching in Jesus the resurrection out of the dead—

3 and they laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was evening already;

4 and many of those hearing the word believed, and the number of the men became, as it were, five thousand.

5 And it came to pass the next day, there were gathered together of them the rulers, and elders, and scribes, to Jerusalem,

6 and Annas the chief priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the family of the chief priest,

7 and having set them in the midst, they were inquiring, “In what power, or in what name did you do this?”

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

9 if we are examined today concerning the good deed to the ailing man, by whom he has been saved,

10 be it known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that in the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised out of the dead, in Him has this one stood by before you whole.

11 This is the stone that was set at nothing by you—the builders, that became head of a corner;

12 and there is not salvation in any other, for there is no other name under Heaven that has been given among men, in which it is required of us to be saved.”

13 And beholding the openness of Peter and John, and having perceived that they are illiterate men and commoners, they were wondering—they were also taking knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus—

14 and seeing the man standing with them who has been healed, they had nothing to say against [it],

15 and having commanded them to go away out of the Sanhedrin, they took counsel with one another,

16 saying, “What will we do to these men? Because that, indeed, a notable sign has been done through them [is] apparent to all those dwelling in Jerusalem, and we are not able to deny [it];

17 but that it may spread no further toward the people, let us strictly threaten them to no longer speak in this Name to any man.”

18 And having called them, they charged them not to speak at all, nor to teach, in the Name of Jesus,