Peter and John before the Sanhedrin
Acts 4:7
In 9 translations
- BSB
- They had Peter and John brought in and began to question them: “By what power or what name did you do this?”
- KJV
- And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have ye done this?
- WEB
- When they had stood Peter and John in the middle of them, they inquired, “By what power, or in what name, have you done this?”
- ASV
- And when they had set them in the midst, they inquired, By what power, or in what name, have ye done this?
- LSV
- and having set them in the midst, they were inquiring, “In what power, or in what name did you do this?”
- YLT
- and having set them in the midst, they were inquiring, 'In what power, or in what name did ye do this?'
- DBY
- and having placed them in the midst they inquired, In what power or in what name have ye done this?
- DRC
- And setting them in the midst, they asked: By what power, or by what name, have you done this?
- GNV
- And whe they had set them before them, they asked, By what power, or in what Name haue ye done this?
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- In STEPBible’s comparison, NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles, Textus Receptus include τῷ (“the”); Byzantine text do not include this wording.
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- SBLGNT: τῷ. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read τῷ; Robinson–Pierpont omit this wording.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- καὶ στήσαντες αὐτοὺς ἐν τῷ μέσῳ ἐπυνθάνοντο· Ἐν ποίᾳ δυνάμει ἢ ἐν ποίῳ ὀνόματι ἐποιήσατε τοῦτο ὑμεῖς;
- RP2018
- Καὶ στήσαντες αὐτοὺς ἐν μέσῳ ἐπυνθάνοντο, Ἐν ποίᾳ δυνάμει ἢ ἐν ποίῳ ὀνόματι ἐποιήσατε τοῦτο ὑμεῖς;
- TR-Boyd
- Καὶ στήσαντες αὐτοὺς ἐν τῷ μέσῳ ἐπυνθάνοντο, Ἐν ποίᾳ δυνάμει ἢ ἐν ποίῳ ὀνόματι ἐποιήσατε τοῦτο ὑμεῖς;
- SCR1894
- και στησαντες αυτους εν τω μεσω επυνθανοντο εν ποια δυναμει η εν ποιω ονοματι εποιησατε τουτο υμεις
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- Matthew 21:23When Jesus returned to the temple courts and began to teach, the chief priests and elders of the people came up to Him. “By what authority are You doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave You this authority?”
- Mark 11:28“By what authority are You doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave You the authority to do them?”
- Acts 5:40At this, they yielded to Gamaliel. They called the apostles in and had them flogged. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and released them.
- Acts 5:27–28They brought them in and made them stand before the Sanhedrin, where the high priest interrogated them. “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching…
- John 2:18On account of this, the Jews demanded, “What sign can You show us to prove Your authority to do these things?”
- Exodus 2:14But the man replied, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you planning to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “This thing I have done has surely become known.”
- Acts 4:10then let this be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed.
- 1 Kings 21:12–14They proclaimed a fast and gave Naboth a seat of honor among the people. And the two scoundrels came in and sat opposite Naboth, and these men testified against him before the people, saying, “Naboth has cursed both…
- John 8:3The scribes and Pharisees, however, brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before them
- John 8:9When they heard this, they began to go away one by one, beginning with the older ones, until only Jesus was left, with the woman standing there.
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