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8 Then Peter, filled with the holy Spirit, said to them, "Leaders of the people and members of the council,
9 if it is for a benefit conferred upon a helpless man, and as to how he was cured, that we are called to account here today,
10 you and the people of Israel must all know that it is through the power of Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that he stands here before you well.
11 He is the stone that you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.
12 There is no salvation through anyone else, for there is no one else in the world who has been named to men as their only means of being saved."
13 They were amazed to see how outspoken Peter and John were, and to find that they were uneducated men with no advantages. They recognized them as companions of Jesus,
14 and seeing the man who had been cured standing beside them, they had nothing to say.
15 But they ordered them out of the presence of the council and conferred together.
16 They said, "What are we to do with these men? For it is plain to everyone in Jerusalem that an extraordinary wonder has been done by them. We cannot deny that.
17 But to keep it from spreading farther among the people, let us warn them to say nothing to anyone else at all about this person."
18 So they called them in and ordered them not to speak or teach at all about the name of Jesus.
19 But Peter and John answered them, "You must decide whether it is right in the sight of God to obey you instead of him,
20 for we cannot help telling of what we have seen and heard."
21 But after further threats they let them go, as they could find no way to punish them, on account of the people, who were all giving honor to God for what had happened,
22 for the man on whom this wonder of healing had been done was more than forty years old.