Acts 4:21

So they threatened them, and let them goe, and found nothing how to punish them, because of the people: for all men praised God for that which was done.

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In The King James Version

So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.

In Context

20For we cannot but speake the things which we haue seene and heard.

22For the man was aboue fourtie yeeres olde, on whome this miracle of healing was shewed.

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Cross References

Matthew 9:33And when the deuill was cast out, the domme spake: then the multitude marueiled, saying, The like was neuer seene in Israel.

Matthew 21:46And they seeking to laye handes on him, feared the people, because they tooke him as a Prophet.

Luke 5:26And they were all amased, and praysed God, and were filled with feare, saying, Doutlesse we haue seene strange things to day.

Luke 19:47And he taught dayly in the Temple. And the hie Priests and the Scribes, and the chiefe of the people sought to destroy him.

Luke 20:19Then the hie Priests, and the Scribes the same houre went about to lay hands on him: (but they feared the people) for they perceiued that he had spoken this parable against them.

John 12:18Therefore mette him the people also, because they heard that he had done this miracle.

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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