Acts 4:21
And when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing for which they could punish them, because of the people; for they all glorified God on account of that which had been done;
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
20For we can not but speak the things that we have seen and heard.
22for the man on whom this sign of healing had been performed was more than forty years old.
Cross References
Matthew 9:33And after the demon had been cast out, the dumb man spoke. And the multitudes were astonished, and said: Never was it seen thus in Israel.
Matthew 21:46And when they sought to lay hold of him, they feared the multitude, because they regarded him as a prophet.
Luke 5:26And astonishment seized upon all, and they glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying: We have seen strange things to-day.
Luke 19:47And he was teaching daily in the temple. But the chief priests, and the scribes, and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,
Luke 20:19And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him, the same hour; (and yet they feared the people;) for they knew that he spoke this parable against them.
John 12:18For this reason, also, the multitude met him, because they had heard that he had done 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 →