Acts 4:19
and Peter and John answering unto them said, 'Whether it is righteous before God to hearken to you rather than to God, judge ye;
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
18And having called them, they charged them not to speak at all, nor to teach, in the name of Jesus,
20for we cannot but speak what we did see and hear.'
Cross References
1 Kings 12:30and this thing becometh a sin, and the people go before the one — unto Dan.
1 Kings 14:16and He giveth up Israel because of the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned, and that he caused Israel to sin.'
1 Kings 22:14And Micaiah saith, 'Jehovah liveth; surely that which Jehovah saith unto me — it I speak.'
2 Kings 16:16And Urijah the priest doth according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
Psalms 58:1To the Overseer. — 'Destroy not.' — A secret treasure, by David. Is it true, O dumb one, righteously ye speak? Uprightly ye judge, O sons of men?
Daniel 6:10And Daniel, when he hath known that the writing is signed, hath gone up to his house, and the window being opened for him, in his upper chamber, over-against Jerusalem, three times in a day he is kneeling on his knees, and praying, and confessing before his God, because that he was doing [it] before this.
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 →