1. As they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,
2. being greatly disturbed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
3. And they laid hands on them and put them in jail until the next day, for it was already evening.
4. But many of those who had heard the message believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.
5. On the next day, their rulers and elders and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem;
6. and Annas the high priest was there, and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all who were of high-priestly descent.
7. When they had placed them in the center, they began to inquire, "By what power, or in what name, have you done this?"
8. Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "Rulers and elders of the people,
9. if we are on trial today for a benefit done to a sick man, as to how this man has been made well,