Quotes About Testimony

Men of Israel, listen to this message: Jesus of Nazareth was a man certified by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs, which God did among you through Him, as you yourselves know.

Brothers, I can tell you with confidence that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses.

With many other words he testified, and he urged them, “Be saved from this corrupt generation.”

they recognized him as the man who used to sit begging at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

While the man clung to Peter and John, all the people were astonished and ran to them in the walkway called Solomonís Colonnade.

But in this way God has fulfilled what He foretold through all the prophets, saying that His Christ would suffer.

Indeed, all the prophets from Samuel on, as many as have spoken, have proclaimed these days.

They seized Peter and John, and because it was evening, they put them in custody until the next day.

But many who heard the message believed, and the number of men grew to about five thousand.

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

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers and elders of the people!

If we are being examined today about a kind service to a man who was lame, to determine how he was healed,

then 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.

And seeing the man who had been healed standing there with them, they had nothing to say in response.

“What shall we do with these men?” they asked. “It is clear to everyone living in Jerusalem that a remarkable miracle has occurred through them, and we cannot deny it.

Then they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.

For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

After further threats they let them go. They could not find a way to punish them, because all the people were glorifying God for what had happened.

For the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old.

On their release, Peter and John returned to their own people and reported everything that the chief priests and elders had said to them.

With great power the apostles continued to give their testimony about the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And abundant grace was upon them all.

and arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.

“Go, stand in the temple courts and tell the people the full message of this new life.”