Acts 4:8-22

⁸Then Peter, full of Holy Spirit, said to them: “Rulers of the people and elders of Israel:

⁹If we are being examined today about a good deed done to a helpless man, by what means he has been made well,

¹⁰be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Natsorean, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole.

¹¹This is ‘the stone which was despised by you, the builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.’

¹²Also, the salvation does not exist in anyone else, because there is no other name under heaven, given among men, by which we must be saved.”

¹³Now upon observing the boldness of Peter and John and perceiving that they were uneducated and unskilled men, they marveled; and they recognized that they had been with Jesus.

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

¹⁵So ordering them to go out from the council they began to confer among themselves,

¹⁶saying: “What can we do to these men? Because, indeed, that a notable miracle has been done through them is evident to all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.

¹⁷But so that it spreads no further among the people, let us severely threaten them to no longer speak to anyone in this name.”

¹⁸So summoning them they commanded them absolutely not to speak or teach in the name of ‘Jesus’.

¹⁹But in answer Peter and John said to them: “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves;

²⁰because we cannot help but speak the things we have seen and heard.”

²¹So threatening them some more they released them, not finding any way to punish them, because of the people, since they were all glorifying God over what had happened;

²²because the man on whom this miracle of healing had been performed was over forty years old.