Acts 4:7

and set the other before them and axed: by what power or what name have ye done this syrs?

Tyndale New Testament

In The King James Version

And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have ye done this?

In Context

6as Annas the chefe Prest and Cayphas and Iohn and Alexander and as many as were of the kynred of the hye prestes gadered to geder at Ierusalem

8Then Peter full of the holy goost sayd vnto them: ye rulars of the people and elders of Israel

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Cross References

Mark 11:28and sayd vnto him: by what auctorite doest thou these thinges? and who gave the this auctorite to do these thinges?

John 8:3And the scribes and the pharises brought vnto him a woman taken in advoutry and set hyr in the myddes

Acts 4:10be that knowen vnto you all and to the people of Israel that in the name of Iesus Christ of Nazareth whom ye crucified and whom God raysed agayne from deeth: even by him doth this man stonde here present before you whoale.

Acts 5:40And to him they agreed and called the Apostles and bet them and commaunded that they shuld not speake in the name of Iesu and let them goo.

Matthew Henry on Acts 4:6-15

Peter and John Examined before the Sanhedrim. 5 And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes, 6 And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem. 7 And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have ye done this? 8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, 9 If we this day be… Read the whole commentary →

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