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,
10. let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Yeshua ha-Mashiach ha-Natzrati—whom you had crucified, whom God raised from the dead—this one stands before you whole.
11. This Yeshua is ‘the stone—rejected by you, the builders—that has become the chief cornerstone.’
12. There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved!”
13. Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and figured out they were laymen without training, they were amazed. They began to realize that these men had been with Yeshua.
14. But seeing the healed man standing with them, they had nothing to say in response.