1. As Peter and John were speaking to the people, the kohanim and the captain of the Temple and the Sadducees came up to them.
2. They were indignant because Peter and John were teaching the people and announcing in Yeshua the resurrection of the dead.
3. So they grabbed them and put them in jail until the next day, for it was already evening.
4. But many who heard the message believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand.
5. On the next day, the rulers and elders and Torah scholars were gathered together in Jerusalem.
6. Annas the kohen gadol was there, and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all those who were of high-priestly descent.
7. When they had placed Peter and John in their midst, they began to inquire, “By what power or in what name did you do this?”
8. Then Peter, filled with the Ruach ha-Kodesh, said to them, “Rulers and elders of the people!
9. If we are on trial today for a mitzvah done for a sick man, as to how this fellow was healed,