" So they brought them and stood them in the Sanhedrin hall. And the high priest questioned them and said: “We positively ordered YOU not to keep teaching upon the basis of this name, and yet, look! YOU have filled Jerusalem with YOUR teaching, and YOU are determined to bring the blood of this man upon us.”  In answer Peter and the [other] apostles said: “We must obey God as ruler rather than men.  The God of our forefathers raised up Jesus, whom YOU slew, hanging him upon a stake.  God exalted this one as Chief Agent and Savior to his right hand, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.  And we are witnesses of these matters, and so is the holy spirit, which God has given to those obeying him as ruler.” Ac5:27