Acts 4:21
When they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people; for everyone glorified God for that which was done.
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20for we cannot help telling the things which we saw and heard."
22For the man on whom this miracle of healing was performed was more than forty years old.
Cross References
Matthew 9:33And when the demon was cast out, the mute man spoke. And the multitudes marveled, saying, "Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!"
Matthew 21:46When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.
Luke 5:26Amazement took hold on all, and they glorified God. They were filled with fear, saying, "We have seen strange things today."
Luke 19:47He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.
Luke 20:19The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people-for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.
John 12:18For this cause also the multitude went and met him, because they heard that he had done this sign.
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 →