Acts 4:13-22 (Epistle)
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- Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus.
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- And seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
- 15
- But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,
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- saying, “What shall we do to these men? For, indeed, that a notable miracle has been done through them is evident to all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.
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- But so that it spreads no further among the people, let us severely threaten them, that from now on they speak to no man in this name.”
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- So they called them and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
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- But Peter and John answered and said to them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge.
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- For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.”
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- So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way of punishing them, because of the people, since they all glorified God for what had been done.
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- For the man was over forty years old on whom this miracle of healing had been performed.