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Acts 4:7
and having placed them in the midst they inquired, In what power or in what name have ye done this?
Acts 4:7 · Darby Bible
Acts 4:7 in other translations
And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have ye done this?
They had Peter and John brought in and began to question them: “By what power or what name did you do this?”
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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In context
4 But many of those who had heard the word believed; and the number of the men had become [about] five thousand.
5 And it came to pass on the morrow that their rulers and elders and scribes were gathered together at Jerusalem,
6 and Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of [the] high priestly family;
7 and having placed them in the midst they inquired, In what power or in what name have ye done this?
8 Then Peter, filled with [the] Holy Spirit, said to them, Rulers of the people and elders [of Israel],
9 if we this day are called upon to answer as to the good deed [done] to the infirm man, how he has been healed,
10 be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazaraean, whom ye have crucified, whom God has raised from among [the] dead, by him this [man] stands here before you sound [in body].
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