Acts 4:20

For we cannot refrain from speaking the things which we have seen and heard.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

In Context

19But Peter and John, answering them, said, If it be right in the sight of God to obey you rather than God, be yourselves the judges.

21Then they with many additional threatenings dismissed them, finding no pretext how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for what had been done.

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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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