17. “But in order that it spreads no further among the people, let us strongly threaten them, to speak no more to anyone in this Name.”
18. And they called them and commanded them not to speak at all nor to teach in the Name of יהושע.
19. But Kĕpha and Yoḥanan answering them, said, “Whether it is right in the sight of Elohim to listen to you more than to Elohim, you judge.
20. “For it is impossible for us not to speak of what we saw and heard.”
21. And having threatened them further, they released them, finding no way of punishing them, because of the people, because they were all praising Elohim for what had been done.
22. For the man was over forty years old on whom this miracle of healing had been done.
23. And having been released, they went to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and elders said to them.
24. And having heard that, they lifted up their voice to Elohim with one mind and said, “יהוה, You are Elohim, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them,
25. who by the mouth of Your servant Dawiḏ have said, ‘Why did the gentiles rage, and the people plot in vain?
26. ‘The sovereigns of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against יהוה and against His Messiah.’
27. “For truly, in this city there were gathered together against Your set-apart Servant יהושע, whom You anointed, both Herodes and Pontius Pilate, with the gentiles and the people of Yisra’ĕl
28. to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose decided before to be done.