Acts 4:21

And they menaced them, and left them, and found not how they should punish them, for the people; for all men clarified (God, for) that thing that was done in that that was befallen. (And they threatened them, and then let them go, for they could not find any way to punish them, because of the people; for all the people glorified God, for what was done in all that befell.)

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In The King James Version

So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.

In Context

20For we must needs speak those things, that we have seen and heard. [Forsooth we may not not speak (about) the things that we have seen and heard.]

22For the man was more than forty years old, in whom this sign of healing [or this sign of health] was made. (For the man was more than forty years old, in whom this miracle of a cure was done.)

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Cross References

Matthew 9:33And when the devil was cast out, the dumb man spake. And the people wondered, and said, It hath not been seen thus in Israel [or It appeared never so in Israel].

Matthew 21:46And they sought to (take) hold (of) him, but they dreaded the people (or but they feared the people), for they had him as a prophet.

Luke 5:26And great wonder took all, and they magnified God; and they were full-filled with great dread, [or and they were filled with great dread], (or and they were filled with much fearful reverence), and said, For we have seen marvelous things today.

Luke 19:47And he was teaching every day in the temple. And the princes of (the) priests, and the scribes, and the princes of the people sought to lose him; (And he was teaching every day in the Temple. And the high priests, and the scribes, and the leaders of the people sought to destroy him;)

Luke 20:19And the princes of (the) priests, and (the) scribes, sought to lay on him hands in that hour, [or And the princes of the priests, and the scribes, sought to lay hands on him in that hour], and they dreaded the people; for they knew that to them he said this likeness. (And the high priests, and the scribes, wanted to lay their hands on him at that time, but they feared the people; for they knew that he had said this parable about them.)

John 12:18And therefore the people came, and met with him, for they heard that he had done this sign (or 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 →

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