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Acts 4:7
And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name have ye done this?
Acts 4:7 · Webster 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 them who heard the word, believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.
5 And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes,
6 And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest, were assembled at Jerusalem.
7 And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name have ye done this?
8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,
9 If we this day are examined concerning the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made sound.
10 Be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, [even] by him doth this man stand here before you sound.
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