Acts 4:20
For we are not able not to speak what we saw and heard.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
In Context
Cross References
Numbers 23:20Behold, I have received to bless. And he has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.
Job 32:18for I am full of words. The spirit within me compels me.
Jeremiah 1:17Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command thee. Be not dismayed at them, lest I dismay thee before them.
Jeremiah 6:11Therefore I am full of the wrath of LORD. I am weary with holding in. Pour it out upon the sons in the street, and upon the assembly of young men together. For even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him who is
Ezekiel 3:11And go, get thee to those of the captivity, to the sons of thy people, and speak to them, and tell them, Thus says lord LORD, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.
Micah 3:8But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
Matthew Henry on Acts 4:16-23
The Resolution of Peter and John. 15 But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves, 16 Saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them is manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it. 17 But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name. 18 And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the… Read the whole commentary →