Acts 4:8-22

⁸Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “You rulers of the people and elders of Israel,

⁹if we are examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,

¹⁰may it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Yeshua the Messiah of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, this man stands here before you whole in him.

¹¹He is ‘the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.’

¹²There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given amongst men, by which we must be saved!”

¹³Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and Yochanan, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled. They recognised that they had been with Yeshua.

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

¹⁵But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred amongst themselves,

¹⁶saying, “What shall we do to these men? Because indeed a notable miracle has been done through them, as can be plainly seen by all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we can’t deny it.

¹⁷But so that this spreads no further amongst the people, let’s threaten them, that from now on they don’t speak to anyone in this name.”

¹⁸They called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Yeshua.

¹⁹But Peter and Yochanan answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,

²⁰for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”

²¹When they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people; for everyone glorified God for that which was done.

²²For the man on whom this miracle of healing was performed was more than forty years old.