Acts 5:26-42

²⁶Then the captain and some of the police went and took them, but not violently, for fear that they might be stoned by the people.

²⁷And they took them into the Sanhedrin, and the high priest said to them,

²⁸We gave you very clear orders not to give teaching in this name: and now Jerusalem is full of your teaching, and you are attempting to make us responsible for this man's death.

²⁹But Peter and the Apostles, answering, said, We have to do the orders of God, not of man.

³⁰The God of our fathers gave Jesus back to life, whom you had put to death, hanging him on a tree.

³¹Him God has put on high at his right hand, as a Ruler and a Saviour, to give to Israel a change of heart and forgiveness of sins.

³²And we are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who keep his laws.

³³But when these words came to their ears, they were cut to the heart, and had a mind to put them to death.

³⁴But one of the Sanhedrin, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a man of learning in the law, of whom all the people had a high opinion, got up and made a suggestion for the men to be put outside for a little time.

³⁵And he said to them, Men of Israel, take care what you do about these men.

³⁶For before this there was Theudas, who said he was someone important, to whom about four hundred men gave their support: he was put to death, and his band was broken up and came to nothing.

³⁷After this man, there was Judas of Galilee, at the time of the numbering, and some of the people went after him: he was put to death, and all his supporters were put to flight.

³⁸And now I say to you, Do nothing to these men, but let them be: for if this teaching or this work is of men, it will come to nothing:

³⁹But if it is of God, you will not be able to overcome them, and you are in danger of fighting against God.

⁴⁰And he seemed to them to be right: and they sent for the Apostles, and, after having them whipped and giving them orders to give no teaching in the name of Jesus, they let them go.

⁴¹So they went away from the Sanhedrin, happy to undergo shame for the Name.

⁴²And every day, in the Temple and privately, they went on teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.