Acts 4:16-24

¹⁶Saying, What are we to do with these men? for certainly it is clear to all who are living in Jerusalem that a most important sign has been done by them, and it is not possible to say that it is not so.

¹⁷But so that it may not go farther among the people, let us put them in fear of punishment if they say anything in future in this name.

¹⁸And they sent for them, and gave them orders not to make statements or give teaching in the name of Jesus.

¹⁹But Peter and John in answer said to them, It is for you to say if it is right in the eyes of God to give attention to you more than to God:

²⁰For it is not possible for us to keep from saying what we have seen and have knowledge of.

²¹And when they had said more sharp words to them, they let them go, not seeing what punishment they might give them, because of the people; for all men were giving praise to God for what had taken place.

²²For the man on whom this act of power was done was more than forty years old.

²³And when they had been made free, they came back to their friends, and gave an account of all the things which the chief priests and the authorities had said to them.

²⁴And hearing it, they all, with one mind, made prayer to God and said, O Lord, maker of heaven and earth and the sea and all things in them: