1. While Peter and John were speaking to the people, they were confronted by the priests, the captain of the Temple guard, and some of the Sadducees.
2. These leaders were very disturbed that Peter and John were teaching the people that through Jesus there is a resurrection of the dead.
3. They arrested them and, since it was already evening, put them in jail until morning.
4. But many of the people who heard their message believed it, so the number of believers now totaled about 5,000 men, not counting women and children.
5. The next day the council of all the rulers and elders and teachers of religious law met in Jerusalem.
6. Annas the high priest was there, along with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and other relatives of the high priest.
7. They brought in the two disciples and demanded, “By what power, or in whose name, have you done this?”