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Ask a QuestionBut Peter and John replied, “Do you think God wants us to obey you rather than him?
So they ordered Peter and John out of the council chamber and conferred among themselves.
They arrested them and, since it was already evening, put them in jail until morning.
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers and elders of our people,
We cannot stop telling about everything we have seen and heard.”
These leaders were very disturbed that Peter and John were teaching the people that through Jesus there is a resurrection of the dead.
The next day the council of all the rulers and elders and teachers of religious law met in Jerusalem.
They brought in the two disciples and demanded, “By what power, or in whose name, have you done this?”
So they called the apostles back in and commanded them never again to speak or teach in the name of Jesus.
are we being questioned today because we’ve done a good deed for a crippled man? Do you want to know how he was healed?
For Jesus is the one referred to in the Scriptures, where it says, ‘The stone that you builders rejected has now become the cornerstone.’
The council then threatened them further, but they finally let them go because they didn’t know how to punish them without starting a riot. For everyone was praising God
for this miraculous sign - the healing of a man who had been lame for more than forty years.
But many of the people who heard their message believed it, so the number of believers now totaled about 5,000 men, not counting women and children.
There is salvation in no one else! God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be saved.”
But to keep them from spreading their propaganda any further, we must warn them not to speak to anyone in Jesus’ name again.”
While Peter and John were speaking to the people, they were confronted by the priests, the captain of the Temple guard, and some of the Sadducees.
Annas the high priest was there, along with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and other relatives of the high priest.
But since they could see the man who had been healed standing right there among them, there was nothing the council could say.
“What should we do with these men?” they asked each other. “We can’t deny that they have performed a miraculous sign, and everybody in Jerusalem knows about it.