Acts 4:6-16

6 and ¹Annas the high priest was there, and ²Caiaphas 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, ³filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "⁴Rulers and elders of the people,

9 if we are on trial today for ⁵a 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 ⁶by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom ⁷God raised from the dead -by this name this man stands here before you in good health.

11 "⁸He is the ⁹STONE WHICH WAS ¹⁰REJECTED by you, THE BUILDERS, but WHICH BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER stone.

12 "And there is salvation in ¹¹no * 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 ¹²confidence of ¹³Peter and John and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed, and ¹⁴began 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 ¹⁵Council, they began to confer with one another,

16 saying, "¹⁶What shall we do with these men? For the fact that a ¹⁷noteworthy miracle has taken place through them is apparent to all who live in Jerusalem, and we cannot * deny it.

Cross References

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

Footnotes

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