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Acts 4:23

Fellowship and the church

21 After further threats they let them go. They could not find a way to punish them, because all the people were glorifying God for what had happened.

22 For the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old.

On their release, Peter and John returned to their own people and reported everything that the chief priests and elders had said to them.

24 When the believers heard this, they lifted up their voices to God with one accord. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “You made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them.

25 You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
On their release, Peter and John returned to their own people and reported everything that the chief priests and elders had said to them.
KJV
And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.
WEB
Being let go, they came to their own company and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
ASV
And being let go, they came to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said unto them.
DARBY
And having been let go, they came to their own [company], and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them.
BLB
Now having been let go, they came to [their] own and reported how much the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
ÅB
Da de nå var løslatt, kom de til sine egne og fortalte dem alt det yppersteprestene og de eldste hadde sagt til dem.
OTB
Da de ble løslatt, vendte Peter og Johannes tilbake til sine egne og rapporterte alt det yppersteprestene og de eldste hadde sagt til dem.
B1930
Da de nu var løslatt, kom de til sine egne og fortalte dem alt det yppersteprestene og de eldste hadde sagt til dem.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 2 Corinthians 6:14–17

    Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

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  • Psalms 42:4

    These things come to mind as I pour out my soul: how I walked with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God with shouts of joy and praise.

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  • Psalms 119:63

    I am a friend to all who fear You, and to those who keep Your precepts.

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  • Acts 12:11–12

    Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from Herod’s grasp and from everything the Jewish people were anticipating.”

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  • Psalms 16:3

    As for the saints in the land, they are the excellence in whom all my delight resides.

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  • Malachi 3:16

    At that time those who feared the LORD spoke with one another, and the LORD listened and heard them. So a scroll of remembrance was written before Him regarding those who feared the LORD and honored His name.

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  • Proverbs 13:20

    He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.

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  • Acts 2:44–46

    All the believers were together and had everything in common.

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