20. There's nothing else we can do. We have to speak about the things we've seen and heard."
21. The leaders warned them again. Then they let them go. They couldn't decide how to punish Peter and John. They knew that all the people were praising God for what had happened.
22. The man who had been healed by the miracle was over 40 years old.
23. Peter and John were allowed to leave. They went back to their own people. They reported everything the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
24. When the believers heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. "Lord and King," they said, "you made the heavens, the earth and the sea. You made everything in them.
25. Long ago you spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of our father David, who served you. You said, " 'Why are the nations angry? Why do the people make useless plans?
26. The kings of the earth take their stand against the Lord. The rulers of the earth gather together against his Anointed King.' (Psalm 2:1,2)