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]?”

Cross References

Matthew 21:23

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?”

Mark 11:28

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?”

Acts 5:40

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.

John 2:18

So, the Jews asked Him, “What [miraculous] sign will you show us, since you are doing these things [i.e., disrupting their merchandising activities]?”

Acts 4:10

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.

John 8:9

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.

John 8:3

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.

Acts 4:6

[They were]: Annas, the head priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and all the head priest’s family [members].

Acts 4:8

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, addressed them, saying, “Rulers and elders of the people,