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The Apostles Before the Sanhedrin

Acts 4:1-22

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Chapter 4
1 Now as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them, 2 indignant because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead, 3 They laid hands on them and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening. 4 But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand. 5 And it came about that the next day their rulers, elders, and scribes gathered together in Jerusalem. 6 7 And having placed them in the middle, they asked, "By what power or by what name did you do this?" 8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: "Rulers of the people and elders, 9 if we are being examined today concerning a benefit done to a sick man, by what means he has been saved, 10 Let it be known to you all and to all the people of Israel that in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene—whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—this one stands before you healthy. 11 This is the stone rejected by you builders, which has become the cornerstone. 12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. 13 Seeing the boldness of Peter and John and realizing that they were uneducated and ordinary men, they marveled and recognized them as men who had been with Jesus. 14 Seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to contradict. 15 But they ordered them to go outside the council, and they conferred with one another. 16 saying, "What shall we do with these men? For a well-known sign has occurred through them, evident to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it." 17 but so that it might not spread further among the people, let us threaten them no longer to speak in this name to any human being. 18 After calling them, they commanded them not to speak or teach in the name of Jesus on any account at all. 19 But Peter and John answered and said to them: "Whether it is righteous before God to listen to you rather than to God, you judge." 20 For we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard. 21 But they, after threatening them further, released them, finding no way they might punish them because of the people, since all were glorifying God for what had happened. 22 For he was more than forty years old, the man on whom this sign of healing had come.