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Acts 4:5

Verse 5 of 37. The 4th of 28 chapters in Acts, in Acts.

1As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,

2being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

3They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening.

4But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

5In the morning, their rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem.

6Annas the high priest was there, with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and as many as were relatives of the high priest.

7When they had stood Peter and John in the middle of them, they inquired, “By what power, or in what name, have you done this?”

8Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “You rulers of the people and elders of Israel,

9if we are examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.