Acts 4:21
So they threatened them more severely, and let them go; not finding how to punish them, because of the people: for they all glorified God for that which was done.
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
In Context
20for we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
22For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miraculous cure was wrought.
Cross References
Matthew 9:33and when the demon was cast out, the dumb man spake; and the multitudes were amazed, saying, there had never been seen the like in Israel:
Matthew 21:46and would have seized Him, but that they were afraid of the people; because they took Him for a prophet.
Luke 5:26And they were all amazed and glorified God, and were filled with awe, saying, we have seen wonderful things to-day.
Luke 19:47And He was teaching daily in the temple: but the chief priests and the scribes and the rulers of the people sought to destroy Him;
Luke 20:19And the chief priests and the scribes would have laid hands on Him at that very time, but were afraid of the people: for they perceived that He had spoken this parable against them.
John 12:18and for this reason the people went to meet Him, because they heard that He had done 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 →