Deeds (Act) of Apostles 4:6-35

⁶and Annas, prince of priests, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and how many ever were of the kind or of the kindred of priests.

⁷And they set them in the middle, and asked, In what virtue, either in what name, have ye done this thing?

⁸Then Peter filled with the Holy Ghost, said to them, Ye princes of the people, and ye elder men, hear ye.

⁹If we today be deemed in the good deed of a sick man, in whom or in which this man is made safe,

¹⁰be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from death, in this or in him this man standeth whole before you.

¹¹This is the stone, which was reproved of you building, which is made into the head of the corner;

¹²and health is not in any other. For neither other name under heaven is given to men, in which it behooveth us to be made safe.

¹³And they saw the steadfastness of Peter and of John, and when it was found that they were men unlettered or without letters, and lay men, they wondered, and they knew them that they were with Jesus.

¹⁴And they saw the man that was healed, standing with them, and they might nothing gainsay.

¹⁵But they commanded them to go forth without the council. And they spake together,

¹⁶and said, What shall we do to these men? for the sign is made known by them to all men, that dwell at Jerusalem; it is open, and we may not deny.

¹⁷But that it be no more published into the people, menace we to them, that they speak no more in this name to any man.

¹⁸And they called them, and announced to them, that on no manner they should speak, neither teach, in the name of Jesus.

¹⁹But Peter and John answered, and said to them, If it be rightful in the sight of God to hear you rather than God, deem ye.

²⁰For we must needs speak those things, that we have seen and heard. Forsooth we may not not speak the things that we have seen and heard.

²¹And they menaced them, and let them go, and found not how they should punish them, for the people; for all men clarified that thing that was done in that that was befallen.

²²For the man was more than forty years old, in whom this sign of healing or of health was made.

²³And when they were delivered, they came to their fellows, and told to them, how great or how many things the princes of priests and the elder men had said to them.

²⁴And when they heard, with one heart they raised voice to the Lord, and said, Lord, thou that madest heaven and earth, sea, and all things that be in them,

²⁵which saidest by the Holy Ghost, by the mouth of our father David, thy child, Why heathen men gnashed with teeth together or wrathed, and the peoples thought vain things?

²⁶Kings of the earth stood nigh, and princes came together into one, against the Lord, and against his Christ.

²⁷For verily, Herod and Pontius Pilate, with heathen men, and peoples of Israel, came together in this city against thine holy child Jesus, whom thou anointedest,

²⁸to do the things, that thine hand and thy counsel deemed to be done.

²⁹And now, Lord, behold into the threatenings of them, and grant to thy servants to speak thy word with all trust,

³⁰in that thing that thou hold forth thine hand, that healings and signs and wonders be made by the name of thine holy Son Jesus.

³¹And when they had prayed, the place was moved, in which they were gathered; and all were filled with the Holy Ghost, and spake the word of God with trust.

³²And of all the multitude of men believing was one heart and one will; neither any man said anything of those things that he wielded to be his own, but all things were common to them.

³³And with great virtue, the apostles yielded witnessing of the again-rising of Jesus Christ our Lord, and great grace was in all them or in them all.

³⁴For neither any needy man was among them, for how many ever were possessors of fields, either of houses, they sold, and brought the prices of those things that they sold,

³⁵and laid before the feet of the apostles. And it was parted to each, as it was need to each.