Acts 4:19
But Peter and John answered and said to them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to obey you rather than him, you judge.
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18They called Peter and John in and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
20We are not able to stop speaking about the things we have seen and heard.”
Cross References
1 Kings 12:30So this act became a sin. The people went to one or the other, all the way to Dan.
1 Kings 14:16He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, the sins that he has committed, and through which he has led Israel to sin.”
1 Kings 22:14Micaiah replied, “As Yahweh lives, it is what Yahweh says to me that I will say.”
2 Kings 16:16Uriah the priest did just what King Ahaz commanded.
Psalms 58:1Do you rulers speak righteousness? 1 Do you judge uprightly, you people? 1
Daniel 6:10When Daniel learned that the document had been signed into law, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his upper room toward Jerusalem), and he got down on his knees, as he did three times a day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done before.
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 →