Living_Oracles(i)
8 Then Peter, full of the Holy Spirit, said to them, Rulers of the people, and elders of Israel;
9 if we are this day examined about the benefit conferred on the impotent man, by what means he is healed;
10 be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that through the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God has raised from the dead: yes, by HIM this man stands before you hale.
11 This is the stone which was set at nought by you builders, that is become the head of the corner:
12 and there is salvation in no other; for there is no other name under heaven given among men, by which we can be saved.
13 Now, when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and understood that they were illiterate men, and in private stations in life, they were astonished, and recollected their having been with Jesus.
14 And seeing the man that was cured standing with them, they had nothing to say against it.
15 But having ordered them to withdraw out of the council, they conferred among themselves,
16 saying, What shall we do with these men? for that indeed a signal miracle has been wrought by them, is manifest to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and we can not deny it.
17 Nevertheless, that it may not spread any further among the people, let us charge them, with the severest threats, to speak no more to any man in this name.
18 And having called them, they charged them neither to speak nor teach any more in the name of Jesus.
19 But Peter and John, answering them, said, Whether it be just in the sight of God, to obey you rather than God, judge you:
20 for we can not but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
21 And having threatened them again, they dismissed them, on account of the people, finding nothing for which they might punish them; because all the people glorified God for that which was done;
22 for the man on whom this miracle of healing was wrought, was more than forty years old.