Acts of the Apostles
The Acts of our fathers the apostles, may their blessings be with us.
Acts 4 : 13 - 22
Chapter 4
| 13 | 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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| 14 | And seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
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| 15 | But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,
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| 16 | 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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| 17 | 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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| 18 | So they called them and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
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| 19 | 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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| 20 | For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard."
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| 21 | 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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| 22 | For the man was over forty years old on whom this miracle of healing had been performed.
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The word of the Lord shall grow, multiply, be mighty, and be confirmed, in the holy Church of God.
Amen.
