1
And as they are speaking unto the people, there came to them the priests, and the magistrate of the temple, and the Sadducees --
2
being grieved because of their teaching the people, and preaching in Jesus the rising again out of the dead --
3
and they laid hands upon them, and did put them in custody unto the morrow, for it was evening already;
4
and many of those hearing the word did believe, and the number of the men became, as it were, five thousand.
5
And it came to pass upon the morrow, there were gathered together of them the rulers, and elders, and scribes, to Jerusalem,
6
and Annas the chief priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the chief priest,
7
and having set them in the midst, they were inquiring, `In what power, or in what name did ye do this?'
8
Then Peter, having been filled with the Holy Spirit, said unto them: `Rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,
9
if we to-day are examined concerning the good deed to the ailing man, by whom he hath been saved,