Acts 4:17 Cross References - Living_Oracles

¹⁷ Nevertheless, that it may not spread any further among the people, let us charge them, with the severest threats, to speak no more to any man in this name.

⁶⁴ Command, therefore, that the sepulcher be guarded till the third day, lest his disciples come and steal him, and say to the people, He is raised from the dead; for this last imposture would prove worse than the first.

⁴⁷ Then the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled the Sanhedrim, and said, What are we doing? for this man works many miracles. ⁴⁸ If we let him go on thus, every one will believe on him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our place and our nation.

²¹ And having threatened them again, they dismissed them, on account of the people, finding nothing for which they might punish them; because all the people glorified God for that which was done;

²⁹ And now, O Lord, regard their threatenings; and give to thy servants to speak thy word with all freedom; ³⁰ whilst thou stretchest out thy hand to heal, and signs and wonders are doing through the name of thy holy Son Jesus.

²⁴ Now, when the high priest, and the captain of the temple guard, and the chief priests heard these words, they doubted concerning them, what this could be.

²⁸ saying, Did we not strictly charge you, that you should not teach in this name? and behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and would bring this man's blood upon us.

³⁹ but if it be of God, you can not defeat them: lest, perhaps, you be found fighters against God. ⁴⁰ And they yielded to him; and having called in the Apostles, and scourged them, they charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and dismissed them.

¹⁶ Nevertheless, all have not obeyed the gospel; for Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?" ¹⁷ (So, then, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.) ¹⁸ But I ask, have they not heard? Yes, indeed, "Their sound has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world."

¹⁸ But, I will not dare to speak anything of what Christ has not wrought; but, of what he has wrought, by me, in order to the obedience of the Gentiles in word and deed; ¹⁹ by the power of signs and wonders, and by the power of the Holy Spirit: so that from Jerusalem, and round about, as far as Illyricum, I have fully declared the gospel of Christ; ²⁰ and so, also, that I was strongly desirous to declare the gospel where Christ was not named, that I might not build on another's foundation. ²¹ But, as it is written, "They shall see, to whom nothing has been told concerning him; and they who have not heard, shall understand." ²² For which reason, also, I have been greatly hindered from coming to you.

⁸ Besides, from you the word of the Lord has resounded, not only in Macedonia and Achaia; but also in every place your faith in God is spread abroad, so that we have no need to speak anything.

¹⁵ who both killed the Lord, and the prophets, and have greatly persecuted us, and do not please God, and are contrary to all men; ¹⁶ hindering us to speak to the Gentiles, that they may be saved; so that they fill up their iniquities always: but the wrath of God is coming upon them at length.