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

Numbers 23:26

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 other tongues, according as the Spirit was giving them to declare.

and Paul waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, beholding the city wholly given to idolatry,

And when both Silas and Timotheus came down from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the Spirit, testifying fully to the Jews Jesus the Christ;

And Balaam saith unto Balak, 'Lo, I have come unto thee; now -- am I at all able to speak anything? the word which God setteth in my mouth -- it I do speak.'

Lo, to bless I have received: Yea, He blesseth, and I can not reverse it.

The Spirit of Jehovah hath spoken by me, And His word is on my tongue.

For I have been full of words, Distressed me hath the spirit of my breast,

And Jehovah saith unto me, 'Do not say, I am a youth, for to all to whom I send thee thou goest, and all that I command thee thou speakest.

My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at the walls of my heart, Make a noise for me doth My heart, I am not silent, For the voice of a trumpet I have heard, O my soul -- a shout of battle!

And with the fury of Jehovah I have been filled, (I have been weary of containing,) To pour it on the suckling in the street, And on the assembly of youths together, For even husband with wife are captured, An elder with one full of days,

And I said, 'I do not mention Him, Nor do I speak any more in His name,' And it hath been in my heart As a burning fire shut up in my bones, And I have been weary of containing, And I am not able.

and go, enter in unto the Removed, unto the sons of thy people, and thou hast spoken unto them, and hast said unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: whether they hear, or whether they forbear.'

And yet I have been full of power by the Spirit of Jehovah, And of judgment, and of might, To declare to Jacob his transgression, And to Israel his sin.

for if I may proclaim good news, it is no glorying for me, for necessity is laid upon me, and woe is to me if I may not proclaim good news;

The things

but ye shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.'

and the Prince of the life ye did kill, whom God did raise out of the dead, of which we are witnesses;

and we are His witnesses of these sayings, and the Holy Spirit also, whom God gave to those obeying him.'

and we -- we are witnesses of all things that he did, both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem, -- whom they did slay, having hanged upon a tree.

because thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard;

as they did deliver to us, who from the beginning became eye-witnesses, and officers of the Word, --

how shall we escape, having neglected so great salvation? which a beginning receiving -- to be spoken through the Lord -- by those having heard was confirmed to us,

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we did behold, and our hands did handle, concerning the Word of the Life --

General references

and Balaam answereth and saith unto Balak, 'Have I not spoken unto thee, saying, All that Jehovah speaketh -- it I do?'

for there is not anything hid that may not be manifested, nor was anything kept hid but that it may come to light.

and the spiritual gift of prophets to prophets are subject,