Acts 4:7-28

⁷And they brought them forward and began to inquire, “By what power or by what name have you done this?”

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

⁹If we today are being judged for a good work to a weak man, by what means he has been made well,

¹⁰let it be 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 this name this man stands here before you whole.

¹¹This is the ‘stone which was rejected by you, the builders, which became the chief cornerstone.’

¹²Nor is there salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven which has been given among men by which we must be saved.”

¹³Now when they observed the boldness of Peter and John, and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus.

¹⁴But seeing the man that had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say against them.

¹⁵And they commanded them to go away outside the council, and began to confer among themselves,

¹⁶saying, “What shall we do to these men? For indeed, that a known sign has come to pass by them is evident to all those who are dwelling in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.

¹⁷But lest it be spread further among the people, let us threaten them with a threat, that they speak no longer to any man in this name.”

¹⁸And summoning them, they commanded them not to speak at all nor to teach in the name of Jesus.

¹⁹But Peter and John answered them and said, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than God, you be the judge.

²⁰For we can do none other but to speak the things which we have seen and heard.”

²¹So having threatened them further, they released them, finding no way of punishing them, on account of the people, because they all were glorifying God over that which had occurred.

²²For the man was over forty, on whom had come about this sign of healing.

²³And being released, they came to their own, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them.

²⁴So when they heard that, they raised their voice to God with one mind and said: “Lord, You are God, who made heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them,

²⁵who by the mouth of Your servant David have said: ‘Why did the nations rage, and the people conspired vain things?

²⁶The kings of the earth took their stand, and the rulers were assembled together against the Lord and against His Christ.’

²⁷“For truly they were assembled against Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel,

²⁸to do all that Your hand and Your counsel foreordained to come to pass.