Acts 4:19

But Peter and John answered them and said, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than God, you be the judge.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.

In Context

18And summoning them, they commanded them not to speak at all nor to teach in the name of Jesus.

20For we can do none other but to speak the things which we have seen and heard.”

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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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