Acts 4:20

For we cannot help but speak about what we have seen and heard.”

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In The King James Version

For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

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19But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge.

21So after threatening Peter and John further, they released them, finding no way to punish them, because all the people were glorifying God for what had happened.

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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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