Acts 4:16-24

¹⁶saying, 'What shall we do to these men? because that, indeed, a notable sign hath been done through them, to all those dwelling in Jerusalem is manifest, and we are not able to deny it;

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.'

¹⁸And having called them, they charged them not to speak at all, nor to teach, in the name of Jesus,

¹⁹and Peter and John answering unto them said, 'Whether it is righteous before God to hearken to you rather than to God, judge ye;

²⁰for we cannot but speak what we did see and hear.'

²¹And they having further threatened them, let them go, finding nothing how they may punish them, because of the people, because all were glorifying God for that which hath been done,

²²for above forty years of age was the man upon whom had been done this sign of the healing.

²³And being let go, they went unto their own friends, and declared whatever the chief priests and the elders said unto them,

²⁴and they having heard, with one accord did lift up the voice unto God, and said, 'Lord, thou art God, who didst make the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all that are in them,