Acts 4:1–12 · BSB
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While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,
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greatly disturbed that they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.
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They seized Peter and John, and because it was evening, they put them in custody until the next day.
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But many who heard the message believed, and the number of men grew to about five thousand.
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The next day the rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem,
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along with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and many others from the high priest’s family.
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They had Peter and John brought in and began to question them: “By what power or what name did you do this?”
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Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers and elders of the people!
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If we are being examined today about a kind service to a man who was lame, to determine how he was healed,
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then let this be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed.
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This Jesus is ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’
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Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”
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