Acts 4:21
So when they had further threatened them they let the apostles go, being quite unable to find any way of punishing them because of the people, for everybody was glorifying God over what had happened.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
20but for our part, we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard."
22For the man on whom this miracle of healing had been wrought was over forty years old.
Cross References
Matthew 9:33and when he had driven out the demon, the dumb spoke. The crowds were amazed, saying, "Never was such a thing seen in Israel!"
Matthew 21:46but although they longed to apprehend him, they were afraid of the crowds, because they held him to be a prophet.
Luke 5:26Astonishment fell upon them all, and they began to glorify God, and they were filled with awe, and they said, "We have seen strange things today."
Luke 19:47Day after day he continued to teach in the Temple. The high priests and scribes tried to have him put to death, so did the rulers of the people.
Luke 20:19At this the Scribes and the high priests were seeking to arrest him; only they were afraid of the people. For they perceived that he had referred to them in this parable.
John 12:18For this reason, too, the crowd came to meet him, because they had heard about this sign which he had done.
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 →