Acts 4:1-17

¹And as they spake vnto the people, the Priestes and the Captaine of the Temple, and the Sadduces came vpon them,

²Taking it grieuously that they taught the people, and preached in Iesus Name the resurrection from the dead.

³And they layde handes on them, and put them in holde, vntill the next day: for it was now euentide.

⁴Howbeit, many of them which heard the word, beleeued, and the number of the men was about fiue thousand.

⁵And it came to passe on the morow, that their rulers, and Elders, and Scribes, were gathered together at Hierusalem,

⁶And Annas the chiefe Priest, and Caiaphas, and Iohn, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the hie Priestes.

⁷And whe they had set them before them, they asked, By what power, or in what Name haue ye done this?

⁸Then Peter ful of the holy Ghost, said vnto them, Ye rulers of the people, and Elders of Israel,

⁹For as much as we this day are examined of the good deede done to the impotent man, to wit, by what meanes he is made whole,

¹⁰Be it knowen vnto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye haue crucified, whome God raised againe from the dead, euen by him doth this man stand here before you, whole.

¹¹This is the stone cast aside of you builders which is become the head of the corner.

¹²Neither is there saluation in any other: for among men there is giuen none other Name vnder heauen, whereby we must be saued.

¹³Now when they sawe the boldnes of Peter and Iohn, and vnderstoode that they were vnlearned men and without knowledge, they marueiled, and knew them, that they had bin with Iesus:

¹⁴And beholding also the man which was healed standing with them, they had nothing to say against it.

¹⁵Then they commanded them to goe aside out of the Council, and conferred among themselues,

¹⁶Saying, What shall we doe to these men? for surely a manifest signe is done by them, and it is openly knowen to all them that dwell in Hierusalem: and we cannot denie it.

¹⁷But that it be noysed no farther among the people, let vs threaten and charge them, that they speake hencefoorth to no man in this Name.