Acts 4:1-22

Peter and John Arrested

1 As they were speaking to the people, the priests and ¹the captain of the temple guard and ²the Sadducees ³came up to them,

2 being greatly disturbed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming ⁴in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

3 And they laid hands on them and ⁵put them in jail until the next day, for it was already evening.

4 But many of those who had heard the message believed; and ⁶the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

5 On the next day, their ⁷rulers and elders and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem;

6 and ⁸Annas the high priest was there, and ⁹Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all who were of high-priestly descent.

7 When they had placed them in the center, they began to inquire, "By what power, or in what name, have you done this?"

8 Then Peter, ¹⁰filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "¹¹Rulers and elders of the people,

9 if we are on trial today for ¹²a benefit done to a sick man, as to how this man has been made well,

10 let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that ¹³by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom ¹⁴God raised from the dead -by this name this man stands here before you in good health.

11 "¹⁵He is the ¹⁶STONE WHICH WAS ¹⁷REJECTED by you, THE BUILDERS, but WHICH BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER stone.

12 "And there is salvation in ¹⁸no * one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved."

Threat and Release

13 Now as they observed the ¹⁹confidence of ²⁰Peter and John and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed, and ²¹began 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 ²²Council, they began to confer with one another,

16 saying, "²³What shall we do with these men? For the fact that a ²⁴noteworthy 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 ²⁵in this name."

18 And when they had summoned them, they ²⁶commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.

19 But ²⁷Peter and John answered and said to them, "²⁸Whether it is right in the sight of God to give heed to you rather than to God, you be the judge;

20 for ²⁹we 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) ³⁰on account of the people, because they were all ³¹glorifying God for what had happened;

22 for the man was more than forty years old on whom this miracle of healing had been performed.

Cross References

• 1. Luke 22:4
• 2. Matthew 3:7
• 3. Luke 20:1; Acts 6:12
• 4. Acts 3:15; Acts 17:18
• 5. Acts 5:18
• 6. Acts 2:41
• 7. Luke 23:13; Acts 4:8
• 8. Luke 3:2
• 9. Matthew 26:3
• 10. Acts 2:4; Acts 13:9
• 11. Luke 23:13; Acts 4:5
• 12. Acts 3:7
• 13. Acts 2:22; Acts 3:6
• 14. Acts 2:24
• 15. Matthew 21:42
• 16. Psalms 118:22
• 17. Mark 9:12
• 18. Matthew 1:21; Acts 10:43; 1 Timothy 2:5
• 19. Acts 4:31
• 20. Luke 22:8; Acts 4:19
• 21. John 7:15
• 22. Matthew 5:22
• 23. John 11:47
• 24. Acts 3:7-10
• 25. John 15:21
• 26. Acts 5:28
• 27. Acts 4:13
• 28. Acts 5:28
• 29. 1 Corinthians 9:16
• 30. Acts 5:26
• 31. Matthew 9:8

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "in the case of"
• [b]. Lit "word"
• [c]. Or "having" just "been filled"
• [d]. Lit "Rulers of the people and elders"
• [e]. Lit "answering"
• [f]. Or "by whom"
• [g]. Or "in"
• [h]. Or "in"
• [i]. Or "Him"
• [j]. Lit "This One"
• [k]. Lit "that they had been"
• [l]. Or "Sanhedrin"
• [m]. Or "sign"
• [n]. Or "on the basis of"
• [o]. Or "sign"