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So they made the Apostles stand in the centre, and demanded of them, "By what power or in what name have you done this?"
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Then Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit, and he replied, "Rulers and Elders of the people,
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if we to-day are under examination concerning the benefit conferred on a man helplessly lame, as to how this man has been cured;
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be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that through the name of Jesus the Anointed, the Nazarene, whom *you* crucified, but whom *God* has raised from among the dead-- through that name this man stands here before you in perfect health.
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This Jesus is the Stone treated with contempt by you the builders, but it has been made the Cornerstone.
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And in no other is the great salvation to be found; for, in fact, there is no second name under Heaven that has been given among men through which we are to be saved."
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As they looked on Peter and John so fearlessly outspoken--and also discovered that they were illiterate persons, untrained in the schools--they were surprised; and now they recognized them as having been with Jesus.
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And seeing the man standing with them--the man who had been cured--they had no reply to make.
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So they ordered them to withdraw from the Sanhedrin while they conferred among themselves.
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"What are we to do with these men?" they asked one another; for the fact that a remarkable miracle has been performed by them is well known to every one in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.
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But to prevent the matter spreading any further among the people, let us stop them by threats from speaking in the future in this name to any one whatever."