Acts 4:8-21

⁸Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said to them: Ye princes of the people, and ancients, hear:

⁹If we this day are examined concerning the good deed done to the infirm man, by what means he hath been made whole:

¹⁰Be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God hath raised from the dead, even by him this man standeth here before you whole.

¹¹This is the stone which was rejected by you the builders, which is become the head of the corner.

¹²Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved.

¹³Now seeing the constancy of Peter and of John, understanding that they were illiterate and ignorant men, they wondered; and they knew them that they had been with Jesus.

¹⁴Seeing the man also who had been healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.

¹⁵But they commanded them to go aside out of the council; and they conferred among themselves,

¹⁶Saying: What shall we do to these men? for indeed a known miracle hath been done by them, to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem: it is manifest, and we cannot deny it.

¹⁷But that it may be no farther spread among the people, let us threaten them that they speak no more in this name to any man.

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

¹⁹But Peter and John answering, said to them: If it be just in the sight of God, to hear you rather than God, judge ye.

²⁰For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

²¹But they threatening, sent them away, not finding how they might punish them, because of the people; for all men glorified what had been done, in that which had come to pass.