19 But Peter and John replied, “Whether it is right before God to obey you rather than God, you decide,
20 for it is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.”
21 After 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.
22 For the man, on whom this miraculous sign of healing had been performed, was over forty years old.
23 When they were released, Peter and John went to their fellow believers and reported everything the high priests and the elders had said to them.
24 When 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,
25 who said by the Holy Spirit through your servant David our forefather,‘Why do the nations rage,and the peoples plot foolish things?