Acts 4:20
for we cannot help telling the things which we saw and heard."
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
In Context
Cross References
Numbers 23:20Behold, I have received a command to bless.He has blessed, and I can't reverse it.
Job 32:18For I am full of words.The spirit within me constrains me.
Jeremiah 1:17"You therefore put your belt on your waist, arise, and speak to them all that I command you. Do not be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.
Jeremiah 6:11Therefore I am full of the wrath of the Lord. I am weary with holding in."Pour it out on the children in the street,and on the assembly of young men together;for even the husband with the wife shall be taken,the aged with him who is full of days.
Ezekiel 3:11Go to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, 'Thus says the Lord God'; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.
Micah 3:8But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord,and of judgment, and of might,to declare to Jacob his disobedience,and to Israel his sin.
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 →