20 For we are not able to refrain from speaking about the things that we have seen and heard.”
21 So after threatening them further, they released them, finding no way to punish them on account of the people, because they were all praising God for what had happened.
22 For the man on whom this sign of healing had been performed was more than forty years old.
23 And when they were released, they went to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
24 And when they heard it, they lifted their voices with one mind to God and said, “Master, you are the one who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things in them,
25 the one who said by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of our father David, your servant, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples conspire in vain?
26 The kings of the earth stood opposed, and the rulers assembled together at the same place, against the Lord and against his Christ.’