⁷ They had Peter and John brought before them and began to question them: “By what power or what name did you do this?”

The Authority of Jesus Questioned^(A)

²³ Jesus entered the temple courts, and, while he was teaching, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him. “By what authority^(B) are you doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave you this authority?”

²⁸ “By what authority are you doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave you authority to do this?”

⁴⁰ His speech persuaded them. They called the apostles in and had them flogged.^(A) Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

²⁷ The apostles were brought in and made to appear before the Sanhedrin^(A) to be questioned by the high priest. ²⁸ “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,”^(B) he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us guilty of this man’s blood.”^(C)