¹² Then Peter said, ‘Only Jesus can save people. There has never been another person in the world that could do this. God has not given any other man the authority to save us.’

¹³ The Jewish leaders saw that Peter and John were not afraid of them. They also knew that they were not special people. They had not been to any school.^[a] So the leaders were very surprised about how Peter and John spoke. They understood that Peter and John had been friends with Jesus.

¹⁴ The man who was now well stood in front of the Jewish leaders. They could see that his legs had become strong again. So they could not say anything against Peter and John.