Acts 4:1-8 Modern English Version (MEV)

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

2. being greatly troubled because they taught the people and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

3. And they seized them and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening.

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

5. On the next day their rulers and elders and scribes

6. were assembled at Jerusalem with Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John and Alexander, and all who were of the family of the high priest.

7. When they had stood them in the midst, they asked, “By what power or by what name have you done this?”

8. Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders of Israel:

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