Acts 4:21
So, having further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, on account of the people; because all were glorifying God for that which had been done.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
20For we cannot but speak the things which we saw and heard.
22For the man was above forty years old, on whom this sign of the healing had been wrought.
Cross References
Matthew 9:33And when the demon was cash out, the dumb man spoke. And the multitudes marveled, saying, Never was the like seen in Israel.
Matthew 21:46And they sought to seize him, but feared the multitudes, because they regarded him as a prophet.
Luke 5:26And amazement seized them all, and they gave glory to God, and were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things to-day.
Luke 19:47And he was teaching daily in the temple; but the chief priests, and the scribes, and the leading men of the people sought to destroy him.
Luke 20:19And the scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him in that hour, but they feared the people; for they knew that he spoke this parable against them.
John 12:18For this cause also the multitude met him, because they had heard that he had wrought, 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 →