Acts 4:3-18

3So they seized them and took them into custody until the next day since it was already evening.

4But many of those who heard the message believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand.

5The next day, their rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem

6with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and all the members of the high-priestly family.

7After they had Peter and John stand before them, they began to question them: “By what power or in what name have you done this?”

8Then Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit and said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders:

9If we are being examined today about a good deed done to a disabled man, by what means he was healed,

10let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified and whom God raised from the dead — by him this man is standing here before you healthy.

11This Jesus is the stone rejected by you builders, which has become the cornerstone.

12There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to people by which we must be saved.”

13When they observed the boldness of Peter and John and realized that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed and recognized that they had been with Jesus.

14And since they saw the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say in opposition.

15After they ordered them to leave the Sanhedrin, they conferred among themselves,

16saying, “What should we do with these men? For an obvious sign has been done through them, clear to everyone living in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.

17But so that this does not spread any further among the people, let’s threaten them against speaking to anyone in this name again.”

18So they called for them and ordered them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.