Acts 4:21
After 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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20We are not able to stop speaking about the things we have seen and heard.”
22The man who had experienced this miracle of healing was more than forty years old.
Cross References
Matthew 9:33When the demon had been driven out, the mute man spoke. The crowds were astonished and said, “This has never been seen before in Israel!”
Matthew 21:46Seeking to arrest him, they were afraid of the crowd, because the people regarded him as a prophet.
Luke 5:26Everyone was amazed and they glorified God. They were filled with fear, saying, “We have seen extraordinary things today.”
Luke 19:47So Jesus was teaching daily in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes and the leaders of the people wanted to kill him,
Luke 20:19So the scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him in that very hour, for they knew that he had spoken this parable against them. But they were afraid of the people.
John 12:18It was also for this reason that the crowd went out to meet him, because they heard that 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 →