1. AND WHILE they [Peter and John] were talking to the people, the high priests and the military commander of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them,
2. Being vexed and indignant through and through because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in [the case of] Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
3. So they laid hands on them (arrested them) and put them in prison until the following day, for it was already evening.
4. But many of those who heard the message believed (adhered to and trusted in and relied on Jesus as the Christ). And their number grew and came to about 5,000.
5. Then on the following day, their magistrates and elders and scribes were assembled in Jerusalem,
6. Including Annas the high priest and Caiaphas and John and Alexander and all others who belonged to the high priestly relationship.
7. And they set the men in their midst and repeatedly demanded, By what sort of power or by what kind of authority did [such people as] you do this [healing]?
8. Then Peter, [because he was] filled with [and controlled by] the Holy Spirit, said to them, Rulers of the people and members of the council (the Sanhedrin),