Acts 4:19
But Peter and John answering, said to them: If it be just in the sight of God, to hear you rather than God, judge ye.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
18And calling them, they charged them not to speak at all, nor teach in the name of Jesus.
20For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
Cross References
1 Kings 12:30And this thing became an occasion of sin: for the people went to adore the calf as far as Dan.
1 Kings 14:16And the Lord shall give up Israel for the sins of Jeroboam, who hath sinned, and made Israel to sin.
1 Kings 22:14But Micheas said to him: As the Lord liveth, whatsoever the Lord shall say to me, that will I speak.
2 Kings 16:16So Urias the priest did according to all that king Achaz had commanded him.
Psalms 58:1Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title.
Daniel 6:10Now when Daniel knew this, that is to say, that the law was made, he went into his house: and opening the windows in his upper chamber towards Jerusalem, he knelt down three times a day, and adored, and gave thanks before his God, as he had been accustomed to do before.
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 →