Acts 4:21
And they having further threatened [them], let them go, finding no way how they may punish them, because of the people, because all were glorifying God for that which has been done,
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20for we cannot but speak what we saw and heard.”
22for above forty years of age was the man on whom had been done this sign of the healing.
Cross References
Matthew 9:33and the demon having been cast out, the mute spoke, and the multitude wondered, saying that “It was never so seen in Israel,”
Matthew 21:46and seeking to lay hold on Him, they feared the multitudes, seeing they were holding Him as a prophet.
Luke 5:26and astonishment took all, and they were glorifying God, and were filled with fear, saying, “We saw strange things today.”
Luke 19:47And He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes were seeking to destroy Him—also the chiefs of the people—
Luke 20:19And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on Him in that hour, and they feared the people, for they knew that He spoke this allegory against them.
John 12:18because of this the multitude also met Him, because they heard of His having done 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 →