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Acts 4:7
Acts 4:7 is verse 7 of Acts chapter 4, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
They had Peter and John brought in and began to question them: “By what power or what name did you do this?”
King James Version
And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have ye done this?
World English Bible
When they had stood Peter and John in the middle of them, they inquired, “By what power, or in what name, have you done this?”
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Acts 4:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible
5 The next day the rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem,
6 along with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and many others from the high priest’s family.
7 They had Peter and John brought in and began to question them: “By what power or what name did you do this?”
8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers and elders of the people!
9 If we are being examined today about a kind service to a man who was lame, to determine how he was healed,
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Acts 5:27They brought them in and made them stand before the Sanhedrin, where the high priest interrogated them.
1 Kings 21:12They proclaimed a fast and gave Naboth a seat of honor among the people.
1 Kings 21:13And the two scoundrels came in and sat opposite Naboth, and these men testified against him before the people, saying, “Naboth has cursed both God and the king!” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death.
1 Kings 21:14Then they sent word to Jezebel: “Naboth has been stoned to death.”
John 8:3The scribes and Pharisees, however, brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before them
John 8:9When they heard this, they began to go away one by one, beginning with the older ones, until only Jesus was left, with the woman standing there.
Exodus 2:14But the man replied, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you planning to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “This thing I have done has surely become known.”
Matthew 21:23When Jesus returned to the temple courts and began to teach, the chief priests and elders of the people came up to Him. “By what authority are You doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave You this authority?”
Mark 11:28“By what authority are You doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave You the authority to do them?”
John 2:18On account of this, the Jews demanded, “What sign can You show us to prove Your authority to do these things?”
Acts 4:10then let this be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed.
Acts 5:28“We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us responsible for this man’s blood.”
Acts 5:40At this, they yielded to Gamaliel. They called the apostles in and had them flogged. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and released them.