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,
24and they having heard, with one accord did lift up the voice unto God, and said, `Lord, thou [art] God, who didst make the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all that [are] in them,
25who, through the mouth of David thy servant, did say, Why did nations rage, and peoples meditate vain things?