Acts 4:21
But they, having further threatened them, let them go, finding no way how they might punish them, on account of the people, because all glorified God for what had taken place;
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
20for as for us *we* cannot refrain from speaking of the things which we have seen and heard.
22for the man on whom this sign of healing had taken place was above forty years old.
Cross References
Matthew 9:33And the demon having been cast out, the dumb spake. And the crowds were astonished, saying, It has never been seen thus in Israel.
Matthew 21:46And seeking to lay hold of him, they were afraid of the crowds, because they held him for a prophet.
Luke 5:26And astonishment seized all, and they glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things to-day.
Luke 19:47And he was teaching day by day in the temple: and 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 the same hour to lay hands on him, and they feared the people; for they knew that he had spoken this parable of them.
John 12:18Therefore also the crowd 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 →