16. saying, “What should we do with these men? For that a remarkable sign has taken place through them is evident to all those who live in Jerusalem, and we are not able to deny it!
17. But in order that it may not spread much further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more in this name to anyone at all.”
18. And they called them back and commanded them not to speak or to teach at all in the name of Jesus.
19. But Peter and John answered and said to them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than God, you decide!
20. For we are not able to refrain from speaking about the things that we have seen and heard.”
21. So after threatening them further, they released them, finding no way to punish them on account of the people, because they were all praising God for what had happened.
22. For the man on whom this sign of healing had been performed was more than forty years old.
23. And when they were released, they went to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
24. And when they heard it, they lifted their voices with one mind to God and said, “Master, you are the one who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things in them,
25. the one who said by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of our father David, your servant, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples conspire in vain?