Acts 4:19–27
19But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,↗
20for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”↗
21When they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people; for everyone glorified God for that which was done.↗
22For the man on whom this miracle of healing was performed was more than forty years old.↗
23Being let go, they came to their own company and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.↗
24When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord and said, “O Lord, you are God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;↗
25who by the mouth of your servant David, said, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?↗
26The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers plot together, against the Lord, and against his Christ.’↗
27“For truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed,↗
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