17but that it may spread no further toward the people, let us strictly threaten them no more to speak in this name to any man.`
18And having called them, they charged them not to speak at all, nor to teach, in the name of Jesus,
19and Peter and John answering unto them said, `Whether it is righteous before God to hearken to you rather than to God, judge ye;
20for we cannot but speak what we did see and hear.`
21And they having further threatened [them], let them go, finding nothing how they may punish them, because of the people, because all were glorifying God for that which hath been done,
22for above forty years of age was the man upon whom had been done this sign of the healing.
23And being let go, they went unto their own friends, and declared whatever the chief priests and the elders said unto them,