Acts 4:21
And they having threatened them, in addition sent them away, finding nothing to the end that they can punish them, on account of the people, because all continued to glorify God over that which had taken place;
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
20for we are not able not to speak those things which we have seen and heard.
22for the man on whom this miracle of healing was wrought was more than forty years old.
Cross References
Matthew 9:33And the demon having been cast out, the dumb spoke. And the multitudes were astonished, saying,
Matthew 21:46And seeking to arrest Him, they feared the multitudes, since they held Him as a prophet.
Luke 5:26And rapture seized them all, and they continued to glorify God; and they were filled with fear, saying, that, We have seen the paradoxical this day.
Luke 19:47And He was teaching daily in the temple, and the chief priests and scribes and the first men of the people were seeking to destroy Him.
Luke 20:19And the chief priests and scribes sought to lay hands on Him at this hour, and feared the people; for they knew that He spoke this parable against them.
John 12:18Therefore the multitude also went to meet Him, because they heard that He had wrought 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 →