⁸ And ^(A)you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the discerning and perverts the words of the righteous.

² saying: “There was in a certain city a judge who did not fear God nor ^[a]regard man. ³ Now there was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying, ^[b]‘Get justice for me from my adversary.’ ⁴ And he would not for a while; but afterward he said within himself, ‘Though I do not fear God nor regard man, ^5 (A)yet because this widow troubles me I will ^[c]avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.’ ”

Addressing the Sanhedrin

⁵ And it came to pass, on the next day, that their rulers, elders, and scribes, ⁶ as well as ^(A)Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the family of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem. ⁷ And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, ^(B)“By what power or by what name have you done this?”

^8 (C)Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders of Israel: ⁹ If we this day are judged for a good deed done to a helpless man, by what means he has been made well, ¹⁰ let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, ^(D)that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, ^(E)whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. ¹¹ This is the ^(F)‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.’

⁴⁶ saying to them, “It is written, ^(A)‘My house ^[a]is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ^(B)‘den of thieves.’ ”