Acts 4:20
For 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
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
In Context
Cross References
Numbers 23:20Hinei, I have received commandment to make brocha; 1 and He hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it. 1
Job 32:18For I am full of millim (words), 1 the ruach within me compelleth me. 1
Jeremiah 1:17Thou therefore tighten thy gartel of readiness, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee; be not fearful before them, lest I make thee fearful before them.
Jeremiah 6:11Therefore I am full of the chamat Hashem; 1 I am weary with holding in; 1 I will pour it out upon the olal in the street, 1 and upon the assembly of bocherim together; 1 for even the ish with the isha shall be caught, 1 the zaken, those weighed down with yamim (days). 1
Ezekiel 3:11And go, get thee to them of the Golus, unto the Bnei Amecha, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith Adonoi Hashem; whether they will hear, or whether they will refrain.
Micah 3:8But truly I am full of ko'ach 1 by the Ruach + 3:8 Hakodesh of Hashem, and of mishpat, and of gevurah (might), 1 to preach unto Ya'akov his peysha, 1 and to Yisroel his chattat. + 3:8 Isa 53:5,8,12 1
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 →