Acts 4:19-26

¹⁹But Peter and John replied, “Whether it is right, in the sight of God, to listen to you rather than to him —

²⁰judge for yourselves, for we cannot help speaking of what we have seen and heard.”

²¹However, after further warnings, the Council set them at liberty, not seeing any safe way of punishing them, because of the people, for they were all praising God for what had occurred;

²²for the man who was the subject of this miraculous cure was more than forty years old.

²³After they had been set at liberty, the apostles went to their friends and told them what the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

²⁴All who heard their story, moved by a common impulse, raised their voices to God in prayer: “Sovereign Lord, it is you who has made the heavens, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them,

²⁵and who, by the lips of our ancestor, your servant David, who spoke under the influence of the Holy Spirit, have said — ‘Why did the nations rage, and the peoples form vain designs?

²⁶The kings of the earth set their array, and its rulers gathered together, against the Lord and against his Christ.’