Acts 4:21

And they, having further threatened, released them, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people. Since all glorified God for that which happened.

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In The King James Version

So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.

In Context

20For we are not able not to speak what we saw and heard.

22For the man was more than forty years old on whom this sign of healing had occurred.

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Cross References

Matthew 9:33And when the demon was cast out, the mute man spoke. And the multitudes marveled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel.

Matthew 21:46And when they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they held him as a prophet.

Luke 5:26And amazement gripped all, and they glorified God. And they were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things today.

Luke 19:47And he was teaching daily in the temple. But the chief priests, and the scholars sought to destroy him, even the foremost men of the people.

Luke 20:19And the chief priests and the scholars sought to throw hands on him in the same hour. And they were afraid, for they knew that he spoke this parable against them.

John 12:18Also because of this the multitude met him, because they heard of him doing this sign.

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 →

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