1While they were speaking to the people, the priests and the officer of the temple and the Sadducees approached them.2being grieved because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.3And they laid hands on them and placed them in custody until the next day, for evening had already come.4Many of those who heard the word trusted, and the number of the men became about five thousand.5It came to pass then upon the next day that their rulers and elders and scribes assembled in Jerusalem.6And Annas the high priest and Caiaphas and John and Alexander and all who were of the high-priestly family.7And standing them in the midst they inquired, By what power or by what name did you do this?8Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, Rulers of the people and elders.9If we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a weak man, by which this one has been saved.10Let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, this one stands before you healthy.11This is the stone rejected by you the builders that has become the head of the corner.12And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.13When they saw the boldness of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled and unlearned men, they marveled and recognized that they had been with Jesus.14And seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say in reply.15They ordered them to go outside the council and conferred with one another.16They said, What shall we do with these men? For a notable sign has been performed through them, manifest to all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.17But in order that it may not spread further among the people, let us warn them never again to speak to anyone in this name.18And they called them and ordered them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.19But Peter and John answering said to them, If it is just before God to hear you rather than God, you judge.20For we are not able not to speak what we have seen and heard.21They threatened them further and released them, finding no way to punish them because of the people, because all were glorifying God for what had happened.22For the man upon whom this sign of healing had occurred was more than forty years old.