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)

¹⁸ The Jews^(A) then responded to him, “What sign^(B) can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?”^(C)

¹⁰ then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth,^(A) whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead,^(B) that this man stands before you healed.

¹⁴ The man said, “Who made you ruler and judge over us?^(A) Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “What I did must have become known.”

⁹ At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there.

³ The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group