Acts 4:17

To stop the message spreading, they resolved to threaten the apostles into silence about Jesus' name. Their solution was intimidation rather than truth.

Cross-references · 21

• Acts 5:28“We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us responsible for this man’s blood.”
• Rom 15:18–22I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed,
• 1 Th 1:8For not only did the message of the Lord ring out from you to Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone out to every place, so that we have no need to say anything more.
• 1 Th 2:15–16who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,
• Acts 5:24When the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests heard this account, they were perplexed as to what was happening.
• Acts 4:29–30And now, Lord, consider their threats, and enable Your servants to speak Your word with complete boldness,
• Amos 2:12“But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.
• John 11:47–48Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.
• 2 Chr 25:15–16Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against Amaziah, and He sent him a prophet, who said, “Why have you sought this people’s gods, which could not deliver them from your hand?”
• Acts 4:21After 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.
• Rom 10:16–18But not all of them welcomed the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?”
• Matt 27:64So give the order that the tomb be secured until the third day. Otherwise, His disciples may come and steal Him away and tell the people He has risen from the dead. And this last deception would be worse than the first.”
• Jer 38:4Then the officials said to the king, “This man ought to die, for he is discouraging the warriors who remain in this city, as well as all the people, by speaking such words to them; this man is not seeking the well-being of these people, but their ruin.”
• Jer 20:1–3When Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer and the chief official in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things,
• Ps 2:1–4Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
• Mic 2:6–7“Do not preach,” they preach. “Do not preach these things; disgrace will not overtake us.”
• Jer 29:25–32this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “In your own name you have sent out letters to all the people of Jerusalem, to the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, and to all the priests. You said to Zephaniah:
• Acts 5:39–40But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop them. You may even find yourselves fighting against God.”
• Isa 30:8–11Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence and inscribe it on a scroll; it will be for the days to come, a witness forever and ever.
• Dan 2:34–35As you watched, a stone was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and crushed them.
• Amos 7:12–17And Amaziah said to Amos, “Go away, you seer! Flee to the land of Judah; earn your bread there and do your prophesying there.

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