Acts 4:20 “For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.””

Acts 4:20

For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For we can not but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

World English Bible

for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”

American Standard Version

for we cannot but speak the things which we saw and heard.

Geneva Bible 1599

For we cannot but speake the things which we haue seene and heard.

Darby Translation

for as for us we cannot refrain from speaking of the things which we have seen and heard.

Young's Literal Translation

for we cannot but speak what we did see and hear.'

Bible in Basic English

For it is not possible for us to keep from saying what we have seen and have knowledge of.

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Cross references

“we cannot”

Jeremiah 20:9 Ezekiel 3:11 Jeremiah 1:17–19 Acts 2:32 Acts 18:5 Numbers 22:38

Jeremiah 20:9 · BSB

If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.

Ezekiel 3:11 · BSB

Go to your people, the exiles; speak to them and tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says,’ whether they listen or refuse to listen.”

Jeremiah 1:17–19 · BSB

Get yourself ready. Stand up and tell them everything that I command you. Do not be intimidated by them, or I will terrify you before them.

Acts 2:32 · BSB

God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses.

Acts 18:5 · BSB

And when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself fully to the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.

Numbers 22:38 · BSB

“See, I have come to you,” Balaam replied, “but can I say just anything? I must speak only the word that God puts in my mouth.”

“the things”

Acts 22:15 1 John 1:1–3 Acts 5:32 Acts 1:8 Acts 10:39–41 Acts 3:15

Acts 22:15 · BSB

You will be His witness to everyone of what you have seen and heard.

1 John 1:1–3 · BSB

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our own eyes, which we have gazed upon and touched with our own hands—this is the Word of life.

Acts 5:32 · BSB

We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him.”

Acts 1:8 · BSB

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

Acts 10:39–41 · BSB

We are witnesses of all that He did, both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. And although they put Him to death by hanging Him on a tree,

Acts 3:15 · BSB

You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses of this fact.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

19But Peter and John replied, “Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God’s sight to listen to you rather than God.

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.

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