Acts 4:1-22.
Acts 4:1-22 (Good News Translation)
1Peter and John were still speaking to the people when some priests,
the officer in charge of the Temple guards, and some Sadducees
arrived.
2They were annoyed because the two apostles were teaching the
people that Jesus had risen from death, which proved that the dead will
rise to life.
3So they arrested them and put them in jail until the next day,
since it was already late.
4But many who heard the message believed; and the number grew
to about five thousand.
5The next day the Jewish leaders, the elders, and the teachers
of the Law gathered in Jerusalem.
6They met with the High Priest Annas and with Caiaphas, John,
Alexander, and the others who belonged to the High Priest's family.
7They made the apostles stand before them and asked them,
"How did you do this? What power do you have or whose name did
you use?"
8Peter, full of the Holy Spirit, answered them,
Leaders of the people and elders:
9if we are being questioned today about the good deed done to
the lame man and how he was healed,
10then you should all know, and all the people of Israel should
know, that this man stands here before you completely well through the
power of the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth—whom you crucified and
whom God raised from death.
11Jesus is the one of whom the scripture says,
The stone that you the builders despised
turned out to be the most important of all.
12Salvation is to be found through him alone; in all the
world there is no one else whom God has given who can save us.
13The members of the Council were amazed to see how bold Peter
and John were and to learn that they were ordinary men of no education.
They realized then that they had been companions of Jesus.
14But there was nothing that they could say, because they saw
the man who had been healed standing there with Peter and John.
15So they told them to leave the Council room, and then they
started discussing among themselves.
16"What shall we do with these men?" they asked.
Everyone in Jerusalem knows that this extraordinary miracle has
been performed by them, and we cannot deny it.
17But to keep this matter from spreading any further among the
people, let us warn these men never again to speak to anyone in the name
of Jesus.
18So they called them back in and told them that under no
condition were they to speak or to teach in the name of Jesus.
19But Peter and John answered them,
You yourselves judge which is right in God's sight—to obey you
or to obey God.
20For we cannot stop speaking of what we ourselves have seen
and heard.
21So the Council warned them even more strongly and then set
them free. They saw that it was impossible to punish them, because the
people were all praising God for what had happened.
22The man on whom this miracle of healing had been performed
was over forty years old.
God bless you.
1Peter and John were still speaking to the people when some priests,
the officer in charge of the Temple guards, and some Sadducees
arrived.
2They were annoyed because the two apostles were teaching the
people that Jesus had risen from death, which proved that the dead will
rise to life.
3So they arrested them and put them in jail until the next day,
since it was already late.
4But many who heard the message believed; and the number grew
to about five thousand.
5The next day the Jewish leaders, the elders, and the teachers
of the Law gathered in Jerusalem.
6They met with the High Priest Annas and with Caiaphas, John,
Alexander, and the others who belonged to the High Priest's family.
7They made the apostles stand before them and asked them,
"How did you do this? What power do you have or whose name did
you use?"
8Peter, full of the Holy Spirit, answered them,
Leaders of the people and elders:
9if we are being questioned today about the good deed done to
the lame man and how he was healed,
10then you should all know, and all the people of Israel should
know, that this man stands here before you completely well through the
power of the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth—whom you crucified and
whom God raised from death.
11Jesus is the one of whom the scripture says,
The stone that you the builders despised
turned out to be the most important of all.
12Salvation is to be found through him alone; in all the
world there is no one else whom God has given who can save us.
13The members of the Council were amazed to see how bold Peter
and John were and to learn that they were ordinary men of no education.
They realized then that they had been companions of Jesus.
14But there was nothing that they could say, because they saw
the man who had been healed standing there with Peter and John.
15So they told them to leave the Council room, and then they
started discussing among themselves.
16"What shall we do with these men?" they asked.
Everyone in Jerusalem knows that this extraordinary miracle has
been performed by them, and we cannot deny it.
17But to keep this matter from spreading any further among the
people, let us warn these men never again to speak to anyone in the name
of Jesus.
18So they called them back in and told them that under no
condition were they to speak or to teach in the name of Jesus.
19But Peter and John answered them,
You yourselves judge which is right in God's sight—to obey you
or to obey God.
20For we cannot stop speaking of what we ourselves have seen
and heard.
21So the Council warned them even more strongly and then set
them free. They saw that it was impossible to punish them, because the
people were all praising God for what had happened.
22The man on whom this miracle of healing had been performed
was over forty years old.
God bless you.
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