19. But Peter and John answered them, “You yourselves judge which is right in God's sight — to obey you or to obey God.
20. For we cannot stop speaking of what we ourselves have seen and heard.”
21. So the Council warned them even more strongly and then set them free. They saw that it was impossible to punish them, because the people were all praising God for what had happened.
22. The man on whom this miracle of healing had been performed was over forty years old.
23. As soon as Peter and John were set free, they returned to their group and told them what the chief priests and the elders had said.
24. When the believers heard it, they all joined together in prayer to God: “Master and Creator of heaven, earth, and sea, and all that is in them!