Acts 4:1-13

1While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the commander of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,

2angry because they were teaching the people and announcing in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.

3So they seized them and put them in jail until the next day (for it was already evening).

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

5On the next day, their rulers, elders, and experts in the law came together in Jerusalem.

6Annas the high priest was there, and Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and others who were members of the high priest’s family.

7After making Peter and John stand in their midst, they began to inquire, “By what power or by what name did you do this?”

8Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, replied, “Rulers of the people and elders,

9if we are being examined today for a good deed done to a sick man – by what means this man was healed –

10let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, this man stands before you healthy.

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

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

13When they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and discovered that they were uneducated and ordinary men, they were amazed and recognized these men had been with Jesus.