1 As they continued speaking to the people {laos: gathered crowd}, the priests, the temple captain, and the Sadducees suddenly confronted {epestesan: sudden official arrival} them.
2 They were deeply disturbed because they were teaching the people and announcing in Jesus {Iesous, Risen Messiah} the resurrection {anastasin: bodily rising} from among the dead.
3 So they seized them and placed them under guard {teresin: guarded confinement} until the next day, since it was already evening {hespera: late hours}.
4 Yet many who had heard {akousanton: attentive listening} the word believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand {chiliades: approximate count}.
5 And it came about on the next day {aurion: following day} that their rulers {archontas: leading officials} and elders and scribes assembled in Jerusalem.
6 There were also Annas the high priest {archiereus: chief religious authority}, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and all who belonged to the high-priestly lineage {genos: hereditary priestly family}.
7 After placing them in the middle, they questioned them: “By what power {dynamei: miraculous ability} or under what name have you done this {touto: evident miracle}?”
8 Then Peter {Petros: Bold Spokesman}, filled with the Holy Spirit {pneuma hagion: Divine Empowering Presence}, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders.”
9 If we are being questioned {anakrinometha: official hearing} today about a beneficial act shown to a crippled man {asthenous: physically weak}, by what means this man has been healed—
10 Know this, all of you, and let all the people of Israel hear: it is by the name of Jesus Christ {Iesous Christos, Exalted Healer} the Nazarene—whom you crucified and whom God {Theos, Resurrection Source} raised from the dead—that by Him this man stands before you healed.
11 This {Christos, Rejected Cornerstone} is the stone rejected by you, the builders {oikodomoi: spiritual leaders}, which has become the head of the corner.
12 And salvation {soteria: complete deliverance} is not found in anyone else, for under heaven no other name has been given among people by which we must {dei: absolute necessity} be saved.
13 But when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and understood that they were uneducated men and laymen {idiotai: non-expert in religious matters}, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus {Iesous, Forming Courageous Witnesses}.
14 And since they saw the man {anthropos: healed individual} who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing {ouden: no possible charge} to say against it.
15 So they ordered them to leave the council {synedriou: ruling assembly}, and they conferred with one another {allelous: mutual consultation}.
16 They said, “What are we to do with these men? For a known sign {semeion: confirming wonder} has indeed been done through them, plain to everyone living in Jerusalem {Ierousalēm: city of peace}, and we cannot deny it.”
17 But so that it does not spread further among the people {laos: gathered community}, let us issue a strict threat so they will no longer speak to anyone in this name {onoma: binding allegiance}.
18 Then they summoned them and gave them orders {parenggeilan: strict official order} not to speak at all or teach in the name of Jesus {Iesous, Proclaimed Messiah}.
19 But Peter and John answered them, “If it is right in the sight of God {Theos, Supreme Authority} to listen to you rather than to God, you judge {krinate: render a decision}.”
20 For we {hemeis: firsthand witnesses} are not able to stop speaking {lalein: public testimony} about what we have seen and heard.
21 After threatening them again, they let them go, since they found no way {pos: method of punishment} to punish them because of the people; for everyone was glorifying God {Theos, Praiseworthy Sovereign} for what had happened.
22 For the man {anthropos: human being} on whom this sign of healing {iaseos: restoration to health} had occurred was more than forty years old.
23 When they were released, they went to their own people {idios: close associates} and reported everything the chief priests {archiereis: temple authorities} and the elders had said to them.
24 When they heard this, they raised their voice together to God {Theos, Hearer of Prayer} and said, “Sovereign Lord {Despota, Sovereign Creator}, You made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them.”
25 You spoke through the Holy Spirit {pneuma hagion, Prophetic Inspirer} by the mouth of our father David Your servant, saying, “Why did the nations {ethne: Gentile nations} rage, and the peoples plan empty things?”
26 The kings of the earth took their stand, and the rulers gathered together as one against the Lord {Kyrios, Sovereign Authority} and against His Christ {Christos, Anointed King}.
27 For in truth in this city they assembled against Your {Theos, Sovereign Planner} holy servant Jesus {Iesous, Anointed Servant}, whom You anointed: both Herod and Pontius Pilate together with the nations and the peoples of Israel.
28 They did what Your {Theos, Sovereign Planner} hand and Your purpose {boule: Deliberate Counsel} had foreordained to happen.
29 And now, Lord {Kyrie, Prayer-Hearing Sovereign}, take notice of their threats and grant that Your servants {doulois: devoted servants} may speak Your word with all boldness.
30 While You stretch out Your hand {kheira: divine agency} to bring healing, may signs and wonders take place through the name of Your holy servant Jesus {Iesous, Exalted Servant}.
31 And when they had prayed, the place where they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit {pneuma hagion: Empowering Presence}, and they kept speaking the word of God {Theos: Giver of Boldness} with boldness.
32 The multitude of those who believed were of one heart {kardia: inner self} and one soul, and not one of them claimed that anything belonging to him was his own; rather, everything was common {koina: jointly held} among them.
33 With great power the apostles were bearing witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus {Kyrios Iesous, Exalted Master}, and great grace {charis: divine favor} was upon them all.
34 There was no one needy {endees: lacking essentials} among them, because those who owned fields or houses, when they sold them, brought the proceeds of what was sold {pipraskomenon: items on sale}.
35 They were laying it at the feet of the apostles {apostoloi: Commissioned Leaders}, and it was distributed to each one according to need {chreia: genuine necessity}.
36 Now Joseph, whom the apostles called Barnabas {Barnabas: nickname given}—a name translated Son of Encouragement {paraklesis: strengthening support}—was a Levite, a native of Cyprus by birth.
37 Owning a field {agros: tract of land}, he sold it, brought the money {chrēma: financial resource}, and placed it at the feet of the apostles.