Acts 4:21
However, after further warnings, the Council set them at liberty, not seeing any safe way of punishing them, because of the people, for they were all praising God for what had occurred;
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20for we cannot help speaking of what we have seen and heard.”
22for the man who was the subject of this miraculous cure was more than forty years old.
Cross References
Matthew 9:33and, as soon as the demon had been driven out, the dumb man spoke. The people were astonished at this, and exclaimed, “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!”
Matthew 21:46yet, although eager to arrest him, they were afraid of the crowds, who regarded him as a prophet.
Luke 5:26The people, one and all, were lost in amazement, and praised God; and in great awe they said, “We have seen marvelous things today!”
Luke 19:47Jesus continued to teach each day in the Temple Courts; but the chief priests and teachers of the Law were eager to take his life, and so also were the leaders of the people.
Luke 20:19After this the teachers of the Law and the chief priest were eager to lay hands on Jesus then and there, but they were afraid of the people; for they saw that it was at them that he had aimed this parable.
John 12:18This, indeed, was why the crowd met him – because people had heard that he had given this sign of his mission.
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 →