Acts 4:17 Cross References - BLB

¹⁷ But that it might not spread further on among the people, let us warn them to speak no longer to any man in this name.”

⁶⁴ Therefore command the tomb to be secured until the third day, lest ever His disciples having come, steal Him away and say to the people, ‘He is risen from the dead.’ And the last deception will be worse than the first.”

⁴⁷ Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and were saying, “What are we to do? For this man does many signs. ⁴⁸ If we shall let Him alone like this, all will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and will take away both our place and nation.”

²¹ And having further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way they might punish them, on account of the people, because all were glorifying God for that having happened.

²⁹ And now, Lord, look upon their threats, and grant to Your servants to speak Your word with all boldness, ³⁰ in that You stretch out Your hand for healing and signs and wonders to take place through the name of Your holy servant Jesus.”

²⁴ Now when both the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were perplexed concerning them, what this might be.

²⁸ saying, “By a charge we commanded you not to teach in this name, and behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring upon us the blood of this man.”

³⁹ But if it is from God, you will not be able to overthrow it, lest ever also you would be found fighting against God.” ⁴⁰ And they were persuaded by him. And having called in the apostles, having beaten them, they commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and they released them.

¹⁶ But not all heeded the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?” ¹⁷ So faith is from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ. ¹⁸ But I ask, did they not hear? Indeed: “Their voice has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.”

¹⁸ For I will not dare to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me unto the obedience of the Gentiles by word and deed, ¹⁹ in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God, so as for me, from Jerusalem and around unto Illyricum, to have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ, ²⁰ and thus being ambitious to preach the gospel where Christ had not been named, so that I might not build upon another’s foundation. ²¹ Rather, as it has been written: “They will see, to whom it was not proclaimed concerning Him; and those who have not heard will understand.” ²² Therefore also I have been hindered many times to come to you.

⁸ For not only has the word of the Lord sounded forth from you in Macedonia and in Achaia, but in every place your faith toward God has gone abroad, so as for us to have no need to say anything.

¹⁵ who having killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and having driven us out, and not pleasing God, are also set against all men, ¹⁶ forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, so as always to fill up their sins. Now the wrath has come upon them to the utmost.