Peter and John and Sanhedrin 1 (Acts 4:7-22)
In contrast to the previous proclamations of the gospel to the receptive masses, this is the first defense of the gospel in the presence of the Sanhedrin. The apostles had been arrested over the preaching of the resurrection and not necessarily about Jesus (4:2, cf. 23:8, Mt 22:23, recall the Sanhedrin was made up mostly of Sadducees).
 
Text Observations
AC 4:7 And when they had placed them in the center, they began to inquire, "By what power, or in what name, have you done this?" [8] Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "Rulers and elders of the people, [9] if we are on trial today for a benefit done to a sick man, as to how this man has been made well, [10] let it be known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead--by this name this man stands here before you in good health.  As the hearing before the Sanhedrin begins, the apostles are asked "by what power or in what name" had they acted the previous day. 

Peter responds with attributing the healing to the name of Jesus. Yet even in making this connection, Peter cannot resist mentioning that they crucified Jesus and that God raised him from the dead. 
AC 4:11 "He is the STONE WHICH WAS REJECTED by you, THE BUILDERS, but WHICH BECAME THE VERY CORNER stone. [12] "And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men, by which we must be saved." Peter identifies Jesus as the "stone the builders rejected" of Psalm 118:22. As the cornerstone, Peter plainly state that there is no other name given for the salvation of man. 
AC 4:13 Now as they observed the confidence of Peter and John, and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were marveling, and began to recognize them as having been with Jesus. [14] And seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say in reply. [15] But when they had ordered them to go aside out of the Council, they began to confer with one another, [16] saying, "What shall we do with these men? For the fact that a noteworthy miracle has taken place through them is apparent to all who live in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it. [17] "But in order that it may not spread any further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more to any man in this name." The Sanhedrin confers, ultimately rendering a decision prohibiting further proclamation of the name of Jesus. 
AC 4:18 And when they had summoned them, they commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. [19] But Peter and John answered and said to them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to give heed to you rather than to God, you be the judge; [20] for we cannot stop speaking what we have seen and heard."  Interestingly, Peter and John attribute their proclamation to simply "what they have seen and heard."

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