ACTS

The Name of Jesus Forbidden

Pastor Scott Brenner Acts 4:13-22
[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.
[4:14] And seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
[4:15] But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,
[4:16] 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.
[4:17] "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."
[4:18] And they called them and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
[4:19] 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.
[4:20] "For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard."
[4:21] 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.
[4:22] For the man was over forty years old on whom this miracle of healing had been performed.

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