Acts 5:29-38

²⁹To this Peter and the apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than people.

³⁰The God of our ancestors raised Jesus, whom you put to death by hanging him on a cross.

³¹It is this Jesus whom God has exalted to his right hand, to be a guide and a Saviour, to give Israel repentance and forgiveness of sins.

³²And we are witness to the truth of this, and so is the Holy Spirit — the gift of God to those who obey him.”

³³The members of the Council became frantic with rage on hearing this, and were for putting the apostles to death.

³⁴But Gamaliel, a Pharisee, who was a Doctor of the Law and who was held in universal respect, rose in the Council, and directed that the men should be taken out of court for a little while.

³⁵He then said, “People of Israel, take care as to what you intend to do with these men.

³⁶For not long ago Theudas appeared, professing to be somebody, and was joined by a body of some four hundred men. But he was killed; and all his followers scattered and dwindled away.

³⁷After him, Judas the Galilean appeared at the time of the census, and induced people to follow him; Yet he, too, perished and all his followers were dispersed.

³⁸And, in this present case, my advice to you is not to interfere with these men, but to leave them alone, for, if their designs and their work are merely of human origin, they will come to an end;