Tuesday, April 21

1Now as they spoke to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came upon them,

2being greatly disturbed that they taught the people and preached in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

3And they laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening.

4However, many of those who heard the word believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

5And it came to pass, on the next day, that their rulers, elders, and scribes,

6as well as 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.

7And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, 'By what power or by what name have you done this?'

8Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, 'Rulers of the people and elders of Israel:

9If we this day are judged for a good deed done to a helpless man, by what means he has been made well,

10let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole.

16For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

17For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

18'He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

19And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

20For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.

21But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.'