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.’
25. You said by the Ruach ha-Kodesh, through the mouth of our father David Your servant, ‘Why did the nations rage and the peoples plot foolish things?
26. The kings of the earth took their stand and the rulers were gathered together against Adonai and against His Anointed One.’
27. “For truly both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, were gathered together in this city against Your holy Servant Yeshua, whom You anointed.
28. They did whatever Your hand and Your purpose predetermined to happen.
29. And now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant Your servants to speak Your word with utmost courage—