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Ask a QuestionThe next day the rulers, the elders and the teachers of the law met in Jerusalem.
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: "Rulers and elders of the people!
Cross over to Tarshish; wail, you people of the island.
Before very long, a wind of hurricane force, called the Northeaster, swept down from the island.
When this had happened, the rest of the sick on the island came and were cured.
They were greatly disturbed because the apostles were teaching the people, proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.
Be silent, you people of the island and you merchants of Sidon, whom the seafarers have enriched.
Jesus is " 'the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.'
For the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old.
Every island fled away and the mountains could not be found.
So they ordered them to withdraw from the Sanhedrin and then conferred together.
Then they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.
If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a man who was lame and are being asked how he was healed,
But many who heard the message believed; so the number of men who believed grew to about five thousand.
Nevertheless, we must run aground on some island."
Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without victims!
As for us, we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard."
The priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to Peter and John while they were speaking to the people.
Annas the high priest was there, and so were Caiaphas, John, Alexander and others of the high priest's family.
But Peter and John replied, "Which is right in God's eyes: to listen to you, or to him? You be the judges!