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Acts 4:20

We are not able to stop speaking about the things 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.

In Context

19But 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.

21After further warning Peter and John, they let them go. They were unable to find any excuse to punish them, because all of the people were praising God for what had been done.

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Cross References

Numbers 23:20Look, I have been commanded to bless. 2 God has given a blessing, and I cannot reverse it. 1

Job 32:18For I am full of words; 1 the spirit in me compels me. 1

Jeremiah 1:17Get yourself ready! Stand up and say to them whatever I command you. Do not be shattered before them, or I will shatter you before them!

Jeremiah 6:11But I am filled with Yahweh's fury. I am tired of holding it in. He said, to me, “Pour it out on the children in the streets 1 and on the groups of young men. For every man will be taken away with his wife; 1 and every old person heavy with years. 1

Ezekiel 3:11Then go to the captives, to your people, and speak to them. Say to them, 'This is what the Lord Yahweh says,' whether they will listen or not.”

Micah 3:8But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Yahweh, 1 and am full of justice and might, 1 to declare to Jacob his transgression, 1 and to Israel his sin. 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 →

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