10. be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands before you whole.
11. He is ‘the stone you builders rejected,which has become the cornerstone.’
12. There is no salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
13. When they saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceived that they were illiterate and uneducated men, they marveled. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus.
14. But seeing the man who was healed standing with them, they had nothing to say against it.
15. So when they had commanded them to go outside of the Sanhedrin, they conferred among themselves,
16. saying, “What shall we do to these men? For, indeed, that an acknowledged miracle has been done through them is revealed to all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.
17. But lest it spread further among the people, let us threaten them that they no longer speak to anyone in this name.”
18. Then they called them and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.
19. But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge.
20. For we cannot help but declare what we have seen and heard.”
21. When they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people. For all glorified God for what was done,
22. for the man on whom this miracle of healing was performed was over forty years old.
23. On being released, they went to their own people and reported what the chief priests and elders had said to them.
24. When they heard this, they lifted their voices in unity to God and prayed, “Lord, You are God, who has made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them,