Acts 4:19
and Peter and John answering to them said, “Whether it is righteous before God to listen to you rather than to God, judge;
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18And having called them, they charged them not to speak at all, nor to teach, in the Name of Jesus,
20for we cannot but speak what we saw and heard.”
Cross References
1 Kings 12:30and this thing becomes a sin, and the people go before the one—to Dan.
1 Kings 14:16and He gives up Israel because of the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned, and that he caused Israel to sin.”
1 Kings 22:14And Micaiah says, “YHWH lives; surely that which YHWH says to me—it I speak.”
2 Kings 16:16And Urijah the priest does according to all that King Ahaz commanded.
Psalms 58:1TO THE OVERSEER. “DO NOT DESTROY.” A MIKTAM OF DAVID. Is it true, O silent one, that you speak righteously? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?
Daniel 6:10And Daniel, when he has known that the writing is signed, has gone up to his house, and the window being opened for him, in his upper chamber, toward Jerusalem, three times in a day he is kneeling on his knees, and praying, and confessing before his God, because that he was doing [it] before this.
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 →