Acts 4:15-25

15 So they ordered them to withdraw from the Sanhedrin while they conferred among themselves.

16 "What are we to do with these men?" they asked one another; for the fact that a remarkable miracle has been performed by them is well known to every one in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.

17 But to prevent the matter spreading any further among the people, let us stop them by threats from speaking in the future in this name to any one whatever."

18 So they recalled the Apostles, and ordered them altogether to give up speaking or teaching in the name of Jesus.

19 But Peter and John replied, "Judge whether it is right in God's sight to listen to you instead of listening to God.

20 As for us, what we have seen and heard we cannot help speaking about."

21 The Court added further threats and then let them go, being quite unable to find any way of punishing them on account of the people, because all gave God the glory for the thing that had happened.

22 For the man was over forty years of age on whom this miracle of restoration to health had been performed.

23 After their release the two Apostles went to their friends, and told them all that the High Priests and Elders had said.

24 And they, upon hearing the story, all lifted up their voices to God and said, "O Sovereign Lord, it is Thou who didst make Heaven and earth and sea, and all that is in them,

25 and didst say through the Holy Spirit by the lips of our forefather David Thy servant, "`Why have the nations stamped and raged, and the peoples formed futile plans?