2. They were greatly disturbed because the apostles were teaching the people, proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.
3. They seized Peter and John and, because it was evening, they put them in jail until the next day.
4. But many who heard the message believed; so the number of men who believed grew to about five thousand.
5. The next day the rulers, the elders and the teachers of the law met in Jerusalem.
6. Annas the high priest was there, and so were Caiaphas, John, Alexander and others of the high priest’s family.
7. They had Peter and John brought before them and began to question them: ‘By what power or what name did you do this?’
8. Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: ‘Rulers and elders of the people!
9. If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a man who was lame and are being asked how he was healed,