Acts 4:4-28

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.'

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

¹⁹and Peter and John answering unto them said, 'Whether it is righteous before God to hearken to you rather than to God, judge ye;

²⁰for we cannot but speak what we did see and hear.'

²¹And they having further threatened them, let them go, finding nothing how they may punish them, because of the people, because all were glorifying God for that which hath been done,

²²for above forty years of age was the man upon whom had been done this sign of the healing.

²³And being let go, they went unto their own friends, and declared whatever the chief priests and the elders said unto them,

²⁴and they having heard, with one accord did lift up the voice unto God, and said, 'Lord, thou art God, who didst make the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all that are in them,

²⁵who, through the mouth of David thy servant, did say, Why did nations rage, and peoples meditate vain things?

²⁶the kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against His Christ;

²⁷for gathered together of a truth against Thy holy child Jesus, whom Thou didst anoint, were both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with nations and peoples of Israel,

²⁸to do whatever Thy hand and Thy counsel did determine before to come to pass.