Holman Christian Standard Bible

Acts 4:10-19 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

10. let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene — whom you crucified and whom God raised from the dead — by Him this man is standing here before you healthy.

11. This Jesus isthe stone rejected by you builders,which has become the cornerstone.

12. There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to people, and we must be saved by it.”

13. When they observed the boldness of Peter and John and realized that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed and recognized that they had been with Jesus.

14. And since they saw the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say in response.

15. After they had ordered them to leave the Sanhedrin, they conferred among themselves,

16. saying, “What should we do with these men? For an obvious sign, evident to all who live in Jerusalem, has been done through them, and we cannot deny it!

17. However, so this does not spread any further among the people, let’s threaten them against speaking to anyone in this name again.”

18. So they called for them and ordered them not to preach or teach at all in the name of Jesus.

19. But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it’s right in the sight of God for us to listen to you rather than to God, you decide;