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 5:28Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.
• Rom 15:18–22For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,
• 1 Th 1:8For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
• 1 Th 2:15–16Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
• Acts 5:24Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow.
• Acts 4:29–30And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word,
• Amos 2:12But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
• John 11:47–48Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.
• 2 Chr 25:15–16Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people out of thine hand?
• Acts 4:21So 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.
• Rom 10:16–18But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?
• Matt 27:64Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.
• Jer 38:4Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
• Jer 20:1–3Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.
• Ps 2:1–4Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
• Mic 2:6–7Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.
• Jer 29:25–32Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,
• Acts 5:39–40But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
• Isa 30:8–11Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
• Dan 2:34–35Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
• Amos 7:12–17Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:

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