Acts 4:21
So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.
KJV
οἱ δὲ προσαπειλησάμενοι ἀπέλυσαν αὐτούς, μηδὲν εὑρίσκοντες τὸ πῶς κολάσωνται αὐτούς, διὰ τὸν λαόν, ὅτι πάντες ἐδόξαζον τὸν θεὸν ἐπὶ τῷ γεγονότι·
Greek NT
At illi comminantes dimiserunt eos, non invenientes quomodo punirent eos propter populum : quia omnes clarificabant id quod factum fuerat in eo quod acciderat.
Vulgate
And they, when they had further threatened them, let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people; for all men glorified God for that which was done.
ASV
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.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
17 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- κολάσωνται — SBLGNT
- κολάσωνται — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- κολάσονται — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2640St. Luke in his gospel often expresses wonder and praise at the marvels of Christ and in his Acts of the Apostles stresses them as actions of the Holy Spirit: the community of Jerusalem, the invalid healed by Peter and John, the crowd that gives glory to God for that, and the pagans of Pisidia who "were glad and glorified the word of God."123
Cross-references
- Acts 2:47 — Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.
- Acts 3:9 — And all the people saw him walking and praising God:
- Acts 4:29 — And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word,
- Acts 5:13 — And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them.
- Acts 5:26 — Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.
- Acts 5:26 — Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.
- Luke 5:26 — And they were all amazed, and they glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things to day.
- Luke 20:6 — But and if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for they be persuaded that John was a prophet.
- Luke 20:19 — And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.
- Luke 22:2 — And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.
- Matt 9:8 — But when the multitudes saw it, they marvelled, and glorified God, which had given such power unto men.
- Matt 9:8 — But when the multitudes saw it, they marvelled, and glorified God, which had given such power unto men.
- Matt 21:46 — But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.