 1 As Peter and John spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them. 2 They were upset+ that they taught the people and proclaimed+ through Jesus the resurrection from the dead. 3 So they laid hands on them and put them in holding until the next day. For it was now evening. 4 However, many of those who heard the Word believed. The number of the men was about five thousand. 5 On the next day, the rulers, elders, and scribes, 6 Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and all+ who were of the family+ of the high priest, gathered together at Jerusalem. 7 They stood+ Peter and John before them and asked, By what power or by what name have you done this? 8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: You rulers of the people and elders of Israel, 9 If we this day are being examined for the good deed done to the disabled+ man, by what means he is made whole, 10 May it be known to you all and to all the people of Israel that it is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom you crucified and whom God raised from the dead, it is by Him that this man stands here before you whole. 11 This is the stone that was rejected+ by you builders and it has become the head of the corner. Psalm 118:22 12 There is no salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. 13 When they saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceived that they were uneducated+ and unsophisticated+ men, they marveled, for they knew that they had been with Jesus. 14 Seeing the man who was now healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it. 15 But then they commanded them to go aside away from the council and they conferred among themselves. 16 They said: What shall we do to these men? For indeed a notable miracle~ has been done by them. It is known+ to all who dwell in Jerusalem and we cannot deny it. 17 But so that it spreads no further among the people, let us strictly+ threaten them so that they will not speak, hereafter, to anyone in this name. 18 So they called them and commanded them to not speak at all or teach in the name of Jesus. 19 But Peter and John answered and said to them: Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge. 20 For we cannot but speak the things that we have seen and heard. 21 So, after they further threatened them, they let them go, finding no basis for punishing them. For all people glorified God for what had been done. 22 For the man on whom this miracle~ of healing was shown was more than forty years old. 23 Being let go, they went to their own company and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them. 24 When they heard that, they raised+ their voices to God with one accord and said: Lord, you are God who has made Heaven and Earth and the sea and all that in them is. 25 By the mouth of your servant David, you have said: Why did the heathen rage and the people imagine vain things? Psalm 2:1 26 The kings of the Earth stood up and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against His Christ. Psalm 2:2 27 For truly against your holy child Jesus, whom you have anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel were gathered together 28 to do whatever your hand and your counsel determined before to be done. 29 Now Lord, behold their threatenings. Grant to your servants that with all boldness they may speak your Word. 30 Stretch forth your hand to heal so that signs and wonders may be done by the name of your holy child Jesus. 31 When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and they spoke the Word of God with boldness. 32 The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and of one soul. None of them said that any of the things that they possessed was their own, but they had everything+ in common. 33 With great power, the apostles gave witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Great grace was upon them all. 34 Neither was there any among them who lacked, for all+ who were possessors of lands or houses sold them and brought the prices of the things that were sold 35 and laid them down at the apostles' feet, and distribution was made to everyone+ as they had need. 36 Joses, who was surnamed Barnabas by the apostles, as that name means+ son of consolation~, a Levite from the country of Cyprus, 37 had some land, sold it, and brought the money and laid it at the apostles' feet.
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