Acts 4:21
So threatening them some more they released them, not finding any way to punish them, because of the people, since they were all glorifying God over what had happened;
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20because we cannot help but speak the things we have seen and heard.”
22because the man on whom this miracle of healing had been performed was over forty years old.
Cross References
Matthew 9:33And when the demon was cast out, the mute spoke. And the crowds marveled saying, “Never was it seen like this in Israel!”
Matthew 21:46And although they wanted to seize Him, they were afraid of the crowds, because they considered Him as a prophet.
Luke 5:26Amazement gripped them all and they kept glorifying God; they were also 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 scribes, as also the leaders of the people, were trying to destroy Him,
Luke 20:19The chief priests and the scribes wanted to lay hands on Him right then, but they were afraid —they knew He had spoken this parable against them.
John 12:18That is also why the crowd met Him, because they heard that He had performed 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 →