Acts 4:21
After making more threats they let them go. They couldn't work out how to punish them because everyone was glorifying God for what had happened.
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20We can't help talking about what we've seen and heard!”
22For the man who received this miracle of healing was more than forty years old.
Cross References
Matthew 9:33Once the demon had been thrown out of him, the dumb man spoke, and the crowds were amazed. “Nothing ever happened like this before in Israel,” they said.
Matthew 21:46They wanted him arrested, but they were afraid of what the people would do because the people believed he was a prophet.
Luke 5:26Everyone was completely astonished at what had happened, and in great awe they praised God, saying, “What we saw today was amazing!”
Luke 19:47He was teaching in the Temple every day. The chief priests, the religious teachers, and the leaders of the people were trying to kill him.
Luke 20:19Immediately the religious teachers and the chief priests wanted to arrest him because they realized that the story Jesus told was aimed at them, but they were afraid of what the people would do.
John 12:18That was the reason so many people went to meet Jesus—because they had heard about this miracle.
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 →