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Gevurot 4:4-15 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

4. And many of the ones having listened to the dvar Hashem had emunah; and the number of the men came to be lav davka (approximately) chameshet alafim.

5. And it came about on the next day their manhigim and Zekenim and the Sofrim were gathered together in Yerushalayim,

6. And also Anan the Kohen Gadol and Caiapha and Yochanan and Alexander and as many as were of the mishpochah of the Kohen Gadol.

7. And when they had placed the Moshiach's Shlichim in their midst, they were inquiring, "By what ko'ach or in what Shem have you done this?"

8. Then Kefa, having been filled with the Ruach Hakodesh, said to them, "Sarei HaAm and Zekenim,

9. "If we today are being examined on account of a ma'aseh tov done to a handicapped man, as to by what means this one has been given refuah shleimah,

10. "Let it be known to all of you and to Klal Yisroel, that b'Shem Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yeshoshua of Natzeret, whom you hanged on HaEtz (DEVARIM 21:22), whom Hashem made to stand up alive again from HaMesim --by this Shem this man stands here before you shalem b'guf (healthy).

11. "He [Yehoshua] is HAEVEN MA'ASU ("the Stone which was rejected") by you, HABONIM ("the builders"), which HAY'TAH LEROSH PINNAH ("became the very corner") stone. [Ps 118:22; Isa 28:16; Zech 10:4]

12. "And there is no Yeshu'at Eloheinu in any other, for there is no other Shem under Shomayim that has been given among Bnei Adam, by which it is necessary for you to be spared [the Mishpat Hashem in the Yom HaDin]."

13. Now observing the boldness of Kefa and Yochanan, and having perceived that they are not yeshiva-trained Torah teachers, they were marveling and began to recognize them, that they had been with Yehoshua.

14. And seeing the man who had received refuah shleimah standing with them, they had nothing to say keneged to it.

15. And having ordered the Shlichim to step outside the Sanhedrin chambers, they began conferring with one another,

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