Book of Common Prayer

The Jewish Leaders Jail Peter And John For Proclaiming The Resurrection

4 And while they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple [guard] and the Sadducees suddenly-came-upon them, ² being greatly-disturbed because of their teaching the people and proclaiming the resurrection from the dead in^[a] Jesus. ³ And they put their hands on them, and put them in jail^[b] until the next day. For it was already evening. ⁴ But many of the ones having heard the word believed. And the number of the men became about five thousand.

Peter Responds: Jesus, Whom You Crucified And God Raised, Healed This Man

⁵ And it came about on the next day that their rulers and elders and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem— ⁶ and Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family. ⁷ And having stood them in the middle, they were inquiring, “By what power or by what name did you do this?” ⁸ Then Peter, having been filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people, and elders: ⁹ If we are being examined today for a good-deed to a weak^[c] man, by what means^[d] this one has been restored, ¹⁰ let it be known to you all and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene— Whom you crucified, Whom God raised from the dead— by this One^[e] this one stands before you healthy. ¹¹ This One is the stone— the One having been treated-with-contempt^[f] by you, the builders; the One having become the head^[g] of the corner. ¹² And there is no salvation in^[h] any other, for neither is there another name under heaven having been given among people by which we must be saved”.

Jesus Finds Philip, Who Finds Nathanael. They Follow The Son of God, The King of Israel

⁴³ On the next day He wanted^[a] to go forth to Galilee. And He finds Philip. And Jesus says to him, “Be following Me”. ⁴⁴ Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter. ⁴⁵ Philip finds Nathanael and says to him, “We have found the One of whom Moses wrote in the Law, and the Prophets wrote— Jesus, son of Joseph, from Nazareth”. ⁴⁶ And Nathanael said to him, “Is anything good able to be out of Nazareth?” Philip says to him, “Come and see”. ⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him, and says about him, “Look— truly an Israelite in whom there is no deceit”. ⁴⁸ Nathanael says to Him, “From where do You know me?” Jesus responded and said to him, “Before Philip called you, while being^[b] under the fig tree, I saw you”. ⁴⁹ Nathanael responded to Him, “Rabbi, You are the Son of God. You are the King of Israel”. ⁵⁰ Jesus responded and said to him, “Do^[c] you believe because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than these!” ⁵¹ And He says to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you^[d] all, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man”.