Acts 4 (NET)

Acts 4:1¹While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the commander of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 22:4Acts 23:6-9Acts 6:12Acts 5:24Acts 5:262 Chr 23:4-9Matt 22:23-24Matt 3:7Acts 4:6John 15:20

Acts 4:2²angry because they were teaching the people and announcing in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 17:181 Thess 4:13-14Acts 24:14-151 Cor 15:12-201 Cor 15:232 Cor 4:13-14Acts 10:40-43Acts 13:45Acts 17:31-32Acts 24:21

Acts 4:3³So they seized them and put them in jail until the next day (for it was already evening).Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 5:18Acts 16:19-24Matt 10:16-17Acts 12:1-3Acts 6:12Acts 8:3Acts 9:2John 18:12Luke 22:52Luke 22:54

Acts 4:4⁴But many of those who had listened to the message believed, and the number of the men came to about 5,000.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 2:412 Cor 2:14-172 Tim 2:9-10Phil 1:12-18Acts 28:24John 12:24Gen 49:10Isa 45:24Isa 53:12

Acts 4:5⁵On the next day, their rulers, elders, and experts in the law came together in Jerusalem.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 4:8Acts 5:20-21Acts 5:34Acts 6:12Isa 1:10Luke 20:1Luke 22:66Luke 23:13Luke 24:20Mark 15:1

Acts 4:6⁶Annas the high priest was there, and Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and others who were members of the high priest’s family.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 3:2John 18:24Matt 26:3John 11:49John 18:13-14

Acts 4:7⁷After making Peter and John stand in their midst, they began to inquire, “By what power or by what name did you do this?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 21:23Mark 11:28Acts 5:40Acts 5:27-28John 2:181 Kgs 21:12-14Acts 4:10Exod 2:14

Acts 4:8⁸Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, replied, “Rulers of the people and elders,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 12:11-12Matt 10:19-20Acts 2:4Luke 21:14-15Acts 4:31Acts 7:55Luke 23:13Acts 4:5

Acts 4:9⁹if we are being examined today for a good deed done to a sick man—by what means this man was healed —Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 3:15-17Acts 3:7John 10:321 Pet 4:14John 7:23

Acts 4:10¹⁰let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, this man stands before you healthy.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 3:6Acts 5:29-32Acts 2:36Acts 10:40-42Acts 2:22-24Acts 28:28Acts 3:13-16Dan 3:18Matt 27:63-66Acts 13:29-41

Acts 4:11¹¹This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, that has become the cornerstone.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 118:22-23Isa 28:16Mark 12:10-12Matt 21:42-451 Pet 2:6-8Eph 2:20-22Luke 20:16-18Zech 3:9Zech 4:6-72 Cor 3:12

Acts 4:12¹²And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 14:61 Cor 3:11John 3:361 Tim 2:5-61 John 5:11-12Acts 10:42-43Luke 24:47Mark 16:15-16Matt 1:21Heb 2:3

Acts 4:13¹³When they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and discovered that they were uneducated and ordinary men, they were amazed and recognized these men had been with Jesus.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 1:27John 7:15Matt 11:25Acts 2:7-12Matt 26:73John 18:16-17Matt 26:71Matt 4:18-22

Acts 4:14¹⁴And because they saw the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say against this.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 19:36Acts 3:8-12Acts 4:10Acts 4:16Acts 4:21

Acts 4:15¹⁵But when they had ordered them to go outside the council, they began to confer with one another,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 26:30-32Acts 5:34-42Matt 5:22

Acts 4:16¹⁶saying, “What should we do with these men? For it is plain to all who live in Jerusalem that a notable miraculous sign has come about through them, and we cannot deny it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 6:10John 12:18Luke 21:15Acts 3:7-10Dan 8:5Dan 8:8John 11:47-48Luke 6:10-11Matt 27:16

Acts 4:17¹⁷But to keep this matter from spreading any further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more to anyone in this name.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 5:28Rom 15:18-221 Thess 1:81 Thess 2:15-16Acts 5:242 Chr 25:15-16Acts 4:21Acts 4:29-30Acts 5:39-40Amos 2:12

Acts 4:18¹⁸And they called them in and ordered them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 5:40Luke 24:46-48Acts 5:20Acts 1:8

Acts 4:19¹⁹But Peter and John replied, “Whether it is right before God to obey you rather than God, you decide,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 5:29Exod 1:171 Cor 10:151 Tim 2:31 Kgs 22:14John 7:241 Kgs 12:301 Kgs 14:161 Kgs 21:112 Chr 26:16-20

Acts 4:20²⁰for it is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 22:15Jer 20:91 Cor 9:16-171 John 1:1-3Acts 5:32Ezek 3:11Acts 1:8Acts 10:39-41Jer 1:17-192 Sam 23:2

Acts 4:21²¹After threatening them further, they released them, for they could not find how to punish them on account of the people, because they were all praising God for what had happened.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 5:26Luke 20:19Luke 20:6Luke 22:2Matt 21:46Matt 9:8Acts 3:6-9Acts 4:17Acts 5:40John 12:18-19

Acts 4:22²²For the man, on whom this miraculous sign of healing had been performed, was over forty years old.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 9:33John 5:5Acts 3:2John 9:1Luke 13:11Matt 9:20

Acts 4:23²³When they were released, Peter and John went to their fellow believers and reported everything the high priests and the elders had said to them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 6:14-17Acts 12:11-12Ps 119:63Ps 42:4Mal 3:16Prov 13:20Ps 16:3Acts 1:13-14Acts 16:40Acts 2:44-46

Acts 4:24²⁴When they heard this, they raised their voices to God with one mind and said, “Master of all, you who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 20:11Jer 32:17Neh 9:62 Kgs 19:15Jer 10:10-12Ps 146:5-61 Thess 5:16-182 Tim 4:17-18Isa 51:122 Kgs 19:19

Acts 4:25²⁵who said by the Holy Spirit through your servant David our forefather, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot foolish things?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 2:1-6Acts 1:16Acts 2:30

Acts 4:26²⁶The kings of the earth stood together, and the rulers assembled together, against the Lord and against his Christ.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 2:2Rev 17:12-14Dan 9:24Ps 83:2-8Acts 10:38Heb 1:9Joel 3:9-14Luke 4:18Rev 17:17Rev 11:15

Acts 4:27²⁷“For indeed both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, assembled together in this city against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 27:2Acts 4:30Luke 9:22Acts 10:38Acts 2:27Acts 3:13-14Heb 7:26Isa 49:7Isa 53:3Isa 61:1

Acts 4:28²⁸to do as much as your power and your plan had decided beforehand would happen.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 2:23Gen 50:20Isa 46:10Matt 26:24Acts 13:27-29Acts 3:18Isa 53:10Luke 24:44-461 Pet 2:7-8Eph 1:11

Acts 4:29²⁹And now, Lord, pay attention to their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your message with great courage,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 4:13Acts 14:3Phil 1:142 Tim 4:17Acts 28:31Acts 4:312 Tim 1:7-8Acts 13:46Acts 19:8Acts 4:17-18

Acts 4:30³⁰while you extend your hand to heal, and to bring about miraculous signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 3:6Acts 4:27Acts 2:22Acts 3:16Acts 5:12Acts 9:40-42Acts 2:43Acts 5:15-16Acts 6:8Acts 9:34-35

Acts 4:31³¹When they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God courageously.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 21:22Acts 2:4Acts 2:2Isa 65:24Acts 16:25-26Jas 1:5Acts 4:29John 14:12John 15:7John 16:23-24

Acts 4:32³²The group of those who believed were of one heart and mind, and no one said that any of his possessions was his own, but everything was held in common.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 1:10Eph 4:2-61 Pet 3:8John 17:21-23Phil 2:1-21 Cor 12:12-142 Cor 13:11Acts 2:44-46Jer 32:39Rom 15:5-6

Acts 4:33³³With great power the apostles were giving testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was on them all.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 1:16Acts 1:22Acts 1:8Acts 4:30Mark 16:201 Thess 1:5Luke 2:52Heb 2:4Rom 15:18-19Acts 2:32-33

Acts 4:34³⁴For there was no one needy among them, because those who were owners of land or houses were selling them and bringing the proceeds from the salesCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 2:45Luke 12:33Luke 16:9Deut 2:7Luke 22:35Mark 10:21Matt 19:21Ps 34:9-101 Tim 6:19Acts 4:37-5:3

Acts 4:35³⁵and placing them at the apostles’ feet. The proceeds were distributed to each, as anyone had need.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 5:2Acts 2:452 Cor 8:20-21Acts 4:37Acts 3:6Acts 6:1-6

Acts 4:36³⁶So Joseph, a Levite who was a native of Cyprus, called by the apostles Barnabas (which is translated “son of encouragement”),Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 2:1Gal 2:13Gal 2:9Acts 15:391 Cor 9:6Acts 11:22-25Acts 11:30Acts 12:25-13:1Acts 15:37Acts 21:16

Acts 4:37³⁷sold a field that belonged to him and brought the money and placed it at the apostles’ feet.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 4:34-35Acts 5:1-2Matt 19:29