Acts 5:25-34

²⁵and coming near, a certain one told them, saying — 'Lo, the men whom ye did put in the prison are in the temple standing and teaching the people;'

²⁶then the magistrate having gone away with officers, brought them without violence, for they were fearing the people, lest they should be stoned;

²⁷and having brought them, they set them in the sanhedrim, and the chief priest questioned them,

²⁸saying, 'Did not we strictly command you not to teach in this name? and lo, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and ye intend to bring upon us the blood of this man.'

²⁹And Peter and the apostles answering, said, 'To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;

³⁰and the God of our fathers did raise up Jesus, whom ye slew, having hanged upon a tree;

³¹this one God, a Prince and a Saviour, hath exalted with His right hand, to give reformation to Israel, and forgiveness of sins;

³²and we are His witnesses of these sayings, and the Holy Spirit also, whom God gave to those obeying him.'

³³And they having heard, were cut to the heart, and were taking counsel to slay them,

³⁴but a certain one, having risen up in the sanhedrim — a Pharisee, by name Gamaliel, a teacher of law honoured by all the people — commanded to put the apostles forth a little,