After ¹  making Peter and John ²  stand in their midst, they began to inquire, “By what power or by what name ³  did you do this?”

biblegateway Act 4:7

When they had placed them in the center, they began to inquire, "By what power, or in what name, have you done this?"

After they had Peter and John stand before them, they asked the question: "By what power or in what name have you done this?"

And they made them stand in [their] midst [and] began to ask, "By what power or by what name did you do this?

biblegateway Act 4:7

They had Peter and John brought before them and began to question them: "By what power or what name did you do this?"

And when they had set them in the midst, they inquired, "By what power or by what name did you do this?"

bibleoremus Act 4:7

When they had made the prisoners stand in their midst, they inquired, "By what power or by what name did you do this?"

They brought the apostles before the court and began to interrogate them. “By what power”, they asked, “or by what name have such men as you done this?”

biblegateway Act 4:7

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

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

biblegateway Act 4:7

After ¹  making Peter and John ²  stand in their midst, they began to inquire, “By what power or by what name ³  did you do this?”

¹ tn Grk “And after.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new sentence is begun in the translation at the beginning of v. 7.

² tn Grk “making them”; the referents (Peter and John) have been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ sn By what name. The issue of the “name” comes up again here. This question, meaning “by whose authority,” surfaces an old dispute (see Luke 20:1-8). Who speaks for God about the ancient faith?