4. But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.
5. In the morning, their rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem.
6. Annas the high priest was there, with Caiaphas, Yochanan, Alexander, and as many as were relatives of the high priest.
7. When they had stood Peter and Yochanan in the middle of them, they enquired, “By what power, or in what name, have you done this?”
8. Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “You rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,
9. if we are examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,
10. may it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Yeshua the Messiah of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, in him does this man stand here before you whole.
11. He is ‘the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.’
12. There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given amongst men, by which we must be saved!”
13. Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and Yochanan, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled. They recognised that they had been with Yeshua.
14. Seeing the man who was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
15. But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred amongst themselves,