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## Acts 4:17-21 in Context (Verses 14–24 KJV)
 
 [14 ](/kjv/acts/4/14) And beholding the man which was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/acts/4/15) But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,
 
 [16 ](/kjv/acts/4/16) Saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them *is* manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem; and we can not deny *it*.
 
 [17 ](/kjv/acts/4/17) But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
 
 [18 ](/kjv/acts/4/18) And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/acts/4/19) But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.
 
 [20 ](/kjv/acts/4/20) For we can not but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
 
 [21 ](/kjv/acts/4/21) So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all *men* glorified God for that which was done.
 
 [22 ](/kjv/acts/4/22) For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.
 
 [23 ](/kjv/acts/4/23) ¶ And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.
 
 [24 ](/kjv/acts/4/24) And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou *art* God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:
 
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