Acts 4:20

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Summary

Acts 4:20

For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

We cannot

The things

General references

Mark 4:22

1 Corinthians 14:32

Bible References

We cannot

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with strange 'tongues' as the Spirit prompted their utterances.

While Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his heart was stirred at seeing the whole city full of idols.

But, when Silas and Timothy had come down from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself entirely to delivering the Message, earnestly maintaining before the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

If I tell the Good News, I have nothing to boast of, for I can but do so. Woe is me if I do not tell it!

The things

But you shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit shall have descended upon you, and shall be witnesses for me not only in Jerusalem, but throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."

The very Guide to Life you put to death! But God raised him from the dead--and of that we are ourselves witnesses.

And we are witness to the truth of this, and so is the Holy Spirit--the gift of God to those who obey him."

We are ourselves, too, witnesses to all that he did in Judea and in Jerusalem; yet they put him to death by hanging him on a cross!

For you shall be a witness for him to all the world of what you have just seen and heard.

Just as they were reported to us by those who from the beginning were eye-witnesses, and afterwards became bearers of the Message.

how can we, of all people, expect to escape, if we disregard so great a Salvation? It was the Master who at the outset spoke of this Salvation, and its authority was confirmed for us by those who heard him,

It is of what has been in existence from the Beginning, of what we have heard, of what we have seen with our eyes, of what we watched reverently and touched with our hands--it is about the Word who is the Life that we are now writing.

General references

Nothing is hidden unless it is some day to come to light, nor was anything ever kept hidden but that it should some day come into the light of day.

(The spirit that moves the preachers is within the preachers' control;