[a]And when they had set them before them, they asked, By what power, or in what [b]Name have ye done this?

Then Peter full of the holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and Elders of Israel,

[c]For as much as we this day are examined, of the good deed done to the impotent man, to wit, by what means he is made whole,

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 4:7 Against such as brag of a succession of persons, without a succession of doctrine, and by that means beat down the true ministers of the word, so far forth as they are able.
  2. Acts 4:7 By what authority.
  3. Acts 4:9 Wolves which succeed true pastors plead their own cause, and not God’s neither the Churches’.

They had Peter and John brought before them and began to question them: “By what power or what name did you do this?”

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit,(A) said to them: “Rulers and elders of the people!(B) If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a man who was lame(C) and are being asked how he was healed,

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