Acts 4:11-21

11 "¹He is the ²STONE WHICH WAS ³REJECTED by you, THE BUILDERS, but WHICH BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER stone.

12 "And there is salvation in ⁴no * one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved."

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13 Now as they observed the ⁵confidence of ⁶Peter and John and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed, and ⁷began to recognize them as having been with Jesus.

14 And seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say in reply.

15 But when they had ordered them to leave the ⁸Council, they began to confer with one another,

16 saying, "⁹What shall we do with these men? For the fact that a ¹⁰noteworthy miracle has taken place through them is apparent to all who live in Jerusalem, and we cannot * deny it.

17 "But so that it will not spread any further * among the people, let us warn them to speak no longer to any man ¹¹in this name."

18 And when they had summoned them, they ¹²commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.

19 But ¹³Peter and John answered and said to them, "¹⁴Whether it is right in the sight of God to give heed to you rather than to God, you be the judge;

20 for ¹⁵we cannot * stop speaking about what we have seen and heard."

21 When they had threatened them further, they let them go (finding no basis on which to punish them) ¹⁶on account of the people, because they were all ¹⁷glorifying God for what had happened;

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1. Matthew 21:42
2. Psalms 118:22
3. Mark 9:12
4. Matthew 1:21; Acts 10:43; 1 Timothy 2:5
5. Acts 4:31
6. Luke 22:8; Acts 4:19
7. John 7:15
8. Matthew 5:22
9. John 11:47
10. Acts 3:7-10
11. John 15:21
12. Acts 5:28
13. Acts 4:13
14. Acts 5:28
15. 1 Corinthians 9:16
16. Acts 5:26
17. Matthew 9:8

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[a]. Lit "This One"
[b]. Lit "that they had been"
[c]. Or "Sanhedrin"
[d]. Or "sign"
[e]. Or "on the basis of"

Acts 4:11-21

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