Acts 4:29
'And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings, and grant to Thy servants with all freedom to speak Thy word,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
28to do whatever Thy hand and Thy counsel did determine before to come to pass.
Cross References
Isaiah 58:1Call with the throat, restrain not, As a trumpet lift up thy voice, And declare to My people their transgression, And to the house of Jacob their sins;
Lamentations 3:50Till Jehovah looketh and seeth from the heavens,
Ezekiel 2:6'And thou, son of man, thou art not afraid of them, yea, of their words thou art not afraid, for briers and thorns are with thee, and near scorpions thou art dwelling, of their words thou art not afraid, and of their faces thou art not affrighted, for they [are] a rebellious house,
Micah 3:8And yet I have been full of power by the Spirit of Jehovah, And of judgment, and of might, To declare to Jacob his transgression, And to Israel his sin.
Acts 4:17but that it may spread no further toward the people, let us strictly threaten them no more to speak in this name to any man.'
Acts 4:31And they having prayed, the place was shaken in which they were gathered together, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and were speaking the word of God with freedom,
Matthew Henry on Acts 4:24-32
The Apostles Return to Their Company; The Devout Appeal of the Apostles. 23 And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them. 24 And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is: 25 Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things? 26 The kings of the earth… Read the whole commentary →