004:017 But to prevent the matter spreading any further among the people, let us stop them by threats from speaking in the future in this name to any one whatever."
004:018 So they recalled the Apostles, and ordered them altogether
to give up speaking or teaching in the name of Jesus.
004:019 But Peter and John replied, "Judge whether it is right in God's
sight to listen to you instead of listening to God.
004:020 As for us, what we have seen and heard we cannot
help speaking about."
004:021 The Court added further threats and then let them go, being quite unable to find any way of punishing them on account of the people, because all gave God the glory for the thing that had happened.
004:022 For the man was over forty years of age on whom this miracle
of restoration to health had been performed.
004:023 After their release the two Apostles went to their friends,
and told them all that the High Priests and Elders had said.
004:024 And they, upon hearing the story, all lifted up their voices
to God and said, "O Sovereign Lord, it is Thou who didst make
Heaven and earth and sea, and all that is in them,
004:025 and didst say through the Holy Spirit by the lips of our forefather
David Thy servant, "`Why have the nations stamped and raged,
and the peoples formed futile plans?
004:026 The kings of the earth came near, and the rulers assembled together against the Lord and against His Anointed.'"