Acts 4:19

But Kefa and Yochanan in reply said to them, If it is tov before Hashem to listen to you rather than to Hashem, you be the Beit Din Dayan;

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.

In Context

18And, having summoned them, they commanded them not to say drashot or shiurim b'shem Yehoshua at all. + 4:18 Am 7:13

20For we are not able to cease speaking about what we saw and heard + 4:20 as edei re'iyah (eyewitnesses). + 4:20 Job 32:18; Jer 20:9; Am 3:8

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Cross References

1 Kings 12:30And this thing became chattat (sin); for the people went to worship before the one, even as far as Dan.

1 Kings 14:16And He shall give up Yisroel because of the chattot Yarov'am, who did sin, and who made Yisroel to sin.

1 Kings 22:14And Mikhay'hu said, As Hashem liveth, what Hashem saith unto me, that will I speak.

2 Kings 16:16Thus did Uriyah HaKohen, according to all that HaMelech Achaz commanded.

Psalms 58:1(For the one directing. Set to Do Not Destroy. Mikhtam Dovid) 1

Daniel 6:10Wherefore king Daryavesh signed the written decree.

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 →

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