Book of Common Prayer

¹⁸ And they called them and ordered them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. ¹⁹ But Peter and John answered them and said, Whether it is right in the sight of God to obey you more than God, you judge. ²⁰ For we cannot but speak that which we have seen and heard.

²¹ So they threatened them and let them go, and found no way to punish them, because of the people. For all the people lauded God for the miracle that was done. ²² For the man was over forty years old on whom this miracle of healing had been shown.

²³ As soon as they were let go, they went to their companions and told them all that the high priests and elders had said to them. ²⁴ And when they heard that, they lifted up their voices to God with one accord and said, Lord, you are God who has made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, ²⁵ who by the mouth of your servant David has said: Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things? ²⁶ The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers came together against the Lord and against his Christ. ²⁷ For of a truth, against your holy child Jesus, whom you have anointed, both Herod and also Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, gathered themselves together, ²⁸ to do whatever your hand and your counsel determined before to be done. ²⁹ And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all confidence, ³⁰ and stretch forth your hand so that healing and signs and wonders may be done by the name of the holy child Jesus.

³¹ And as soon as they had prayed, the place moved where they were assembled together, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God boldly.

³¹ Then the Jews again took up stones, to stone him. ³² Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shown you from my Father. For which of them would you stone me? ³³ The Jews answered him, saying, We do not stone you for your good works, but for your blasphemy, and because you, being a man, make yourself God.

³⁴ Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law: I say, you are gods? ³⁵ If he called them gods to whom the word of God was spoken (and the scripture cannot be broken), ³⁶ do you then say to him whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, You blaspheme, because I said I am the Son of God? ³⁷ If I do not do the works of my Father, believe me not. ³⁸ But if I do, then though you do not believe me, yet believe the works, so that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in him.

³⁹ Again they went about to seize him, but he escaped out of their hands. ⁴⁰ And he went away again beyond the Jordan, into the place where John before had baptized, and stayed there. ⁴¹ And many people resorted to him and said, John did no miracle, but all the things that John spoke about this man are true.

⁴² And many believed on him there.