⁵ The next day their rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem,^{(A) 6} with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John,^[a] and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family.^{(B) 7} When they had made the prisoners^[b] stand in their midst, they inquired, “By what power or by what name did you do this?” ⁸ Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders,^{(C) 9} if we are being questioned today because of a good deed done to someone who was sick and are being asked how this man has been healed,^{[c] 10} let it be known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that this man is standing before you in good health by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth,^[d] whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead.^{(D) 11} This Jesus^[e] is

¹² “There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among mortals by which we must be saved.”^(F)

Jews and Gentiles Are Saved by Faith

¹⁵ We ourselves are Jews by birth and not gentile sinners, ¹⁶ yet we know that a person is justified^[a] not by the works of the law but through the faith of Jesus Christ.^[b] And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by the faith of Christ^[c] and not by doing the works of the law, because no one will be justified by the works of the law.^{(A) 17} But if, in our effort to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have been found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not! ¹⁸ But if I build up again the very things that I once tore down, then I demonstrate that I am a transgressor. ¹⁹ For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ,^{(B) 20} and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God,^[d] who loved me and gave himself for me.^{(C) 21} I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness^[e] comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.

¹⁷ “Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world but in order that the world might be saved through him.^{(A) 18} Those who believe in him are not condemned, but those who do not believe are condemned already because they have not believed in the name of the only Son of God.^{(B) 19} And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.^{(C) 20} For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed.^{(D) 21} But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God.”^[a](E)