Acts 4:5-22 - Peter And John On Trial Before The Sanhedrin

⁵ There was held in Jerusalem, next morning, a meeting of their rulers, the elders and scribes, ⁶ and Annas, the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and all the members of the high priests family were present. ⁷ Then they made the men stand before them and demanded, "By what power, or in what name, have you fellows done this?"

⁸ Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, answered them. ⁹ "Rulers and elders of the people, if we are being examined today concerning a benefit conferred upon a cripple, as to how has this man been cured, ¹⁰ "be it known to all of you, 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, in him does this man stand before you strong and well. ¹¹ "For he is the Stone, cast aside by you builders, which has become the head stone of the corner.

¹² "There is no salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men, in which we must be saved."

¹³ Now when they beheld the glad fearlessness of Peter and John and had perceived that they were amazed; and they began to recognize them, that they were companions of Jesus. ¹⁴ But since they saw the man standing with them who had been healed, they had nothing to answer. ¹⁵ So they bade them withdraw from the Sanhedrin, while they conferred together. ¹⁶ "What," said they, "shall we do with these men? For it is well known throughout Jerusalem that a notable miracle has been performed by them, and we cannot deny it. ¹⁷ "But that the matter may spread no further among the people, let us threaten them not to speak to any one hereafter about this name." ¹⁸ So they summoned them, and ordered them not to speak at all, nor to teach in the name of Jesus.

¹⁹ But Peter and John said in reply. "Do you decide whether in the sight of God it is right to obey you rather than God; ²⁰ but for our part, we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard."

²¹ So when they had further threatened them they let the apostles go, being quite unable to find any way of punishing them because of the people, for everybody was glorifying God over what had happened. ²² For the man on whom this miracle of healing had been wrought was over forty years old.