When He had come into the Temple, the leading priests and elders of the [Jewish] people came to Him while He was teaching, and said, “By what authority are you doing these things [i.e., miracles and teaching]? And who gave you this authority?”
Acts 4:7 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) And when these men had Peter and John brought before them, they asked, “By whose authority or in what name have you done this thing [i.e., healed the crippled man]?” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have ye done this? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And they set the men in their midst and repeatedly demanded, By what sort of power or by what kind of authority did [such people as] you do this [healing]? American Standard Version (1901) And when they had set them in the midst, they inquired, By what power, or in what name, have ye done this? Common English Bible They had Peter and John brought before them and asked, “By what power or in what name did you do this?” Catholic Public Domain Version And stationing them in the middle, they questioned them: "By what power, or in whose name, have you done this?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And setting them in the midst, they asked: By what power, or by what name, have you done this? |
When He had come into the Temple, the leading priests and elders of the [Jewish] people came to Him while He was teaching, and said, “By what authority are you doing these things [i.e., miracles and teaching]? And who gave you this authority?”
and said, “By what authority are you doing these things [i.e., miracles and teaching]? Or who gave you the authority to do these things?”
So, the Jews asked Him, “What [miraculous] sign will you show us, since you are doing these things [i.e., disrupting their merchandising activities]?”
Some experts in the Law of Moses and Pharisees brought [to Him] a woman who had been caught committing an immoral sexual act and stood her in the middle of the group.
And when they heard [what He had said], they [all] left, one at a time, beginning with the oldest men. So, Jesus was left alone with the woman [still standing] there where she was.
we want you men and all the people of Israel to know that this man was made completely well through the name of Jesus Christ from Nazareth. [He is the One] whom you people put to death on the cross, but God raised from the dead.
[They were]: Annas, the head priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and all the head priest’s family [members].
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, addressed them, saying, “Rulers and elders of the people,
And so the Council agreed [with Gamaliel's advice] and when they called the apostles back in, they had them beaten and ordered them never to speak in the name of Jesus [again]; then they released them.