Acts 4:21
So 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.
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
In Context
20For we cannot help but speak about what we have seen and heard.”
22For the man on whom this sign of healing had been performed was more than forty years old.
Cross References
Matthew 9:33When the demon had been cast out, the mute man spoke, and the crowds were amazed, saying, “Such a thing has never been seen in Israel.”
Matthew 21:46Although they were looking for a way to arrest him, they were afraid of the crowds, because the people regarded him as a prophet.
Luke 5:26Amazement seized them all, and they too began glorifying God. Filled with awe, they said, “We have seen extraordinary things today.”
Luke 19:47Every day Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, but the chief priests and the scribes were seeking to destroy him, and so were the prominent leaders among the people.
Luke 20:19Then the chief priests and the scribes wanted to arrest him at that very hour, for they knew he had spoken this parable against them, but they were afraid.
John 12:18That is why a crowd went out to meet him, because they heard he had done 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 →