19. But Peter and John replied, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you decide.
20. For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”
21. After threatening them again, they let them go—finding no way they could punish them on account of the people, because they all were glorifying God for what had happened.
22. For the man in whom this miracle of healing had happened was more than forty years old.
23. As soon as they were released, Peter and John went to their own people and reported all that the ruling kohanim and elders had said to them.
24. When they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, “O Sovereign Master, ‘You made heaven and earth and the sea, and everything in them.’