Bible Verses About Peter

assuredly, therefore, let all the house of Israel know, that both Lord and Christ did God make him--this Jesus whom ye did crucify.'

And having heard, they were pricked to the heart; they say also to Peter, and to the rest of the apostles, `What shall we do, men, brethren?'

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

for to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.'

Also with many more other words he was testifying and exhorting, saying, `Be saved from this perverse generation;'

And as they are speaking unto the people, there came to them the priests, and the magistrate of the temple, and the Sadducees--

being grieved because of their teaching the people, and preaching in Jesus the rising again out of the dead--

and they laid hands upon them, and did put them in custody unto the morrow, for it was evening already;

and many of those hearing the word did believe, and the number of the men became, as it were, five thousand.

And it came to pass upon the morrow, there were gathered together of them the rulers, and elders, and scribes, to Jerusalem,

and Annas the chief priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the chief priest,

and having set them in the midst, they were inquiring, `In what power, or in what name did ye do this?'

Then Peter, having been filled with the Holy Spirit, said unto them: `Rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

if we to-day are examined concerning the good deed to the ailing man, by whom he hath been saved,

be it known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye did crucify, whom God did raise out of the dead, in him hath this one stood by before you whole.

`This is the stone that was set at nought by you--the builders, that became head of a corner;

and there is not salvation in any other, for there is no other name under the heaven that hath been given among men, in which it behoveth us to be saved.'

And beholding the openness of Peter and John, and having perceived that they are men unlettered and plebeian, they were wondering--they were taking knowledge also of them that with Jesus they had been--

and seeing the man standing with them who hath been healed, they had nothing to say against it ,

and having commanded them to go away out of the sanhedrim, they took counsel with one another,

saying, `What shall we do to these men? because that, indeed, a notable sign hath been done through them, to all those dwelling in Jerusalem is manifest, and we are not able to deny it ;

but that it may spread no further toward the people, let us strictly threaten them no more to speak in this name to any man.'

And having called them, they charged them not to speak at all, nor to teach, in the name of Jesus,

and Peter and John answering unto them said, `Whether it is righteous before God to hearken to you rather than to God, judge ye;

for we cannot but speak what we did see and hear.'