14. Seeing the man also who had been healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
15. But they commanded them to go aside out of the council; and they conferred among themselves,
16. Saying: What shall we do to these men? for indeed a known miracle hath been done by them, to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem: it is manifest, and we cannot deny it.
17. But that it may be no farther spread among the people, let us threaten them that they speak no more in this name to any man.
18. And calling them, they charged them not to speak at all, nor teach in the name of Jesus.
19. But Peter and John answering, said to them: If it be just in the sight of God, to hear you rather than God, judge ye.
20. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
21. But they threatening, sent them away, not finding how they might punish them, because of the people; for all men glorified what had been done, in that which had come to pass.
22. For the man was above forty years old, in whom that miraculous cure had been wrought.