Acts 4:1-17

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

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

³and they laid hands upon them, and did put them in custody unto the morrow, for it was evening already;

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

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

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

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

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

⁹if we to-day are examined concerning the good deed to the ailing man, by whom he hath been saved,

¹⁰be it known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye did crucify, whom God did raise out of the dead, in him hath this one stood by before you whole.

¹¹'This is the stone that was set at nought by you — the builders, that became head of a corner;

¹²and there is not salvation in any other, for there is no other name under the heaven that hath been given among men, in which it behoveth us to be saved.'

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

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

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

¹⁶saying, 'What shall we do to these men? because that, indeed, a notable sign hath been done through them, to all those dwelling in Jerusalem is manifest, and we are not able to deny it;

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