in perfect health.
004:011 This Jesus is the Stone treated with contempt by you the builders,
but it has been made the Cornerstone.
004:012 And in no other is the great salvation to be found; for, in fact,
there is no second name under Heaven that has been given
among men through which we are to be saved."
004:013 As they looked on Peter and John so fearlessly outspoken--
and also discovered that they were illiterate persons,
untrained in the schools--they were surprised; and now they
recognized them as having been with Jesus.
004:014 And seeing the man standing with them--the man who had been cured--
they had no reply to make.
004:015 So they ordered them to withdraw from the Sanhedrin while they
conferred among themselves.
004:016 "What are we to do with these men?" they asked one another;
for the fact that a remarkable miracle has been performed
by them is well known to every one in Jerusalem, and we
cannot deny it.
004:017 But to prevent the matter spreading any further among the people,
let us stop them by threats from speaking in the future
in this name to any one whatever."
004:018 So they recalled the Apostles, and ordered them altogether
to give up speaking or teaching in the name of Jesus.
004:019 But Peter and John replied, "Judge whether it is right in God's
sight to listen to you instead of listening to God.
004:020 As for us, what we have seen and heard we cannot
help speaking about."
004:021 The Court added further threats and then let them go,
being quite unable to find any way of punishing them on account
of the people, because all gave God the glory for the thing