Scriptures

New Living Translation (NLT)

Acts 3
²³ Then Moses said, ‘Anyone who will not listen to that Prophet will be completely cut off from God’s people.’
²⁴ “Starting with Samuel, every prophet spoke about what is happening today.
²⁵ You are the children of those prophets, and you are included in the covenant God promised to your ancestors. For God said to Abraham, ‘Through your descendants all the families on earth will be blessed.’
²⁶ When God raised up his servant, Jesus, he sent him first to you people of Israel, to bless you by turning each of you back from your sinful ways.”
Acts 4
¹ While Peter and John were speaking to the people, they were confronted by the priests, the captain of the Temple guard, and some of the Sadducees.
² These leaders were very disturbed that Peter and John were teaching the people that through Jesus there is a resurrection of the dead.
³ They arrested them and, since it was already evening, put them in jail until morning.
⁴ But many of the people who heard their message believed it, so the number of believers now totaled about 5,000 men, not counting women and children.
⁵ The next day the council of all the rulers and elders and teachers of religious law met in Jerusalem.
⁶ Annas the high priest was there, along with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and other relatives of the high priest.
⁷ They brought in the two disciples and demanded, “By what power, or in whose name, have you done this?”