18. So they called the apostles back in and commanded them never again to speak or teach in the name of Jesus.
19. But Peter and John replied, “Do you think God wants us to obey you rather than him?
20. We cannot stop telling about everything we have seen and heard.”
21. The council then threatened them further, but they finally let them go because they didn’t know how to punish them without starting a riot. For everyone was praising God
22. for this miraculous sign—the healing of a man who had been lame for more than forty years.
23. As soon as they were freed, Peter and John returned to the other believers and told them what the leading priests and elders had said.