Acts 4:1–9
1As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,↗
2being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.↗
3They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening.↗
4But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.↗
5In the morning, their rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem.↗
6Annas the high priest was there, with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and as many as were relatives of the high priest.↗
7When they had stood Peter and John in the middle of them, they inquired, “By what power, or in what name, have you done this?”↗
8Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “You rulers of the people and elders of Israel,↗
9if we are examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,↗
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