WPNT(i)
1 Now as they were speaking to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came at them,
2 being upset because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
3 And they laid hands on them and put them in custody until the next day, because it was already evening.
4 (However, many of those who heard the message believed; the number of the men came to be about five thousand.)
5 So the next day an assembly of their rulers, both elders and scribes, occurred in Jerusalem,
6 along with Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, John and Alexander, and as many as were of high-priestly descent.
7 And having placed them in the middle [of the assembly] they started questioning: “By what power, or by what name did you do this?”
8 Then Peter, full of Holy Spirit, said to them: “Rulers of the people and elders of Israel:
9 If we are being examined today about a good deed done to a helpless man, by what means he has been made well,
10 be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Natsorean, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole.
11 This is ‘the stone which was despised by you, the builders, which has become the chief cornerstone’.
12 Also, the salvation does not exist in anyone else, because there is no other name under heaven, given among men, by which we must be saved.”
13 Now upon observing the boldness of Peter and John and perceiving that they were uneducated and unskilled men, they marveled; and they recognized that they had been with Jesus.
14 Further, seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
15 So ordering them to go out from the council they began to confer among themselves,
16 saying: “What can we do to these men? Because, indeed, that a notable miracle has been done through them is evident to all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we can’t deny it.
17 But so that it spreads no further among the people, let us severely threaten them to no longer speak to anyone in this name.”
18 So summoning them they commanded them absolutely not to speak or teach in the name of ‘Jesus’.
19 But in answer Peter and John said to them: “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves;
20 because we cannot help but speak the things we have seen and heard.”
21 So threatening them some more they released them, not finding any way to punish them, because of the people, since they were all glorifying God over what had happened;