Acts:4:1-31

---

Seeker Overlay ON

* And while they were speaking to the people , the priests , the captain of the temple guard , and the Sadducees , came upon them ; * being grieved that they taught the people , and announced , through Jesus , the resurrection from the dead . * And they laid hands on them , and committed them into custody to the next day ; for it was now evening . * But many of those who had heard the word , believed : and the number of the men was about five thousand . * And the next day their rulers , elders , and scribes , gathered together at Jerusalem : * both Annas , the high priest , and Caiaphas ; also John , and Alexander , and as many as were of the high priest 's kindred . * And having set them in the midst , they inquired , By what power , or in what name , have you done this ? * Then Peter , full of the Holy Spirit , said to them , Rulers of the people , and elders of Israel ; * if we are this day examined about the benefit conferred on the impotent man , by what means he is healed ; * be it known to you all , and to all the people of Israel , that through the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth , whom you crucified , whom God has raised from the dead : yes , by HIM this man stands before you hale . * This is the stone which was set at nought by you builders , that is become the head of the corner : * and there is salvation in no other ; for there is no other name under heaven given among men , by which we can be saved . * Now , when they saw the boldness of Peter and John , and understood that they were illiterate men , and in private stations in life , they were astonished , and recollected their having been with Jesus . * And seeing the man that was cured standing with them , they had nothing to say against it . * But having ordered them to withdraw out of the council , they conferred among themselves , * saying , What shall we do with these men ? for that indeed a signal miracle has been wrought by them , is manifest to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem ; and we can not deny it . * Nevertheless , that it may not spread any further among the people , let us charge them , with the severest threats , to speak no more to any man in this name . * And having called them , they charged them neither to speak nor teach any more in the name of Jesus . * But Peter and John , answering them , said , Whether it be just in the sight of God , to obey you rather than God , judge you : * for we can not but speak the things which we have seen and heard . * And having threatened them again , they dismissed them , on account of the people , finding nothing for which they might punish them ; because all the people glorified God for that which was done ; * for the man on whom this miracle of healing was wrought , was more than forty years old . * And being dismissed , they came to their own company , and related all that the chief priests and elders had said to them . * And when they heard it , they lifted up their voice with one accord to God , and said , Lord , thou art the God who didst make heaven and earth ; and the sea , and all things that are in them : * «who didst say by the mouth of thy servant David ,» 'Why did the heathen rage , and the people imagine vain things ?' * «The kings of the earth set themselves , and the rulers combined together against the Lord , and against his anointed .» * For of a truth , against thy holy Son Jesus , whom thou hast anointed , both Herod , and Pontius Pilate , with the heathen , and the people of Israel , * have combined to do what thy hand and thy counsel marked out before to be done . * And now , O Lord , regard their threatenings ; and give to thy servants to speak thy word with all freedom ; * whilst thou stretchest out thy hand to heal , and signs and wonders are doing through the name of thy holy Son Jesus . * And while they were praying , the place in which they were assembled was shaken : and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit , and they spoke the word of God with freedom .

---