Acts 4:20

New American Bible - revised edition

It is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 23:2

The spirit of the Lord spoke through me; his word was on my tongue.

Jeremiah 1:7

But the Lord answered me, Do not say, “I am too young.” To whomever I send you, you shall go; whatever I command you, you shall speak.

Jeremiah 20:9

I say I will not mention him, I will no longer speak in his name. But then it is as if fire is burning in my heart, imprisoned in my bones; I grow weary holding back, I cannot!

Jeremiah 4:19

My body! my body! how I writhe! The walls of my heart! My heart beats wildly, I cannot be still; For I myself have heard the blast of the horn, the battle cry.

Jeremiah 6:11

But the wrath of the Lord brims up within me, I am weary of holding it in. I will pour it out upon the child in the street, upon the young men gathered together. Yes, husband and wife will be taken, elder with ancient.

Ezekiel 3:11

Now go to the exiles, to your own people, and speak to them. Say to them, whether they hear or refuse to hear: Thus says the Lord God!

Amos 3:8

The lion has roared, who would not fear? The Lord God has spoken, who would not prophesy?

Micah 3:8

But as for me, I am filled with power, with the spirit of the Lord, with justice and with might; To declare to Jacob his crimes and to Israel his sins.

Numbers 22:38

Balaam answered Balak, “Well, I have come to you after all. But what power have I to say anything? I can speak only what God puts in my mouth.”

Numbers 23:20

I was summoned to bless; I will bless; I cannot revoke it!

Luke 1:2

just as those who were eyewitnesses from the beginning and ministers of the word have handed them down to us,

Acts 1:22

beginning from the baptism of John until the day on which he was taken up from us, become with us a witness to his resurrection.”

Acts 1:8

But you will receive power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

Acts 18:5

When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul began to occupy himself totally with preaching the word, testifying to the Jews that the Messiah was Jesus.

Acts 2:32

God raised this Jesus; of this we are all witnesses.

Acts 2:4

And they were all filled with the holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to proclaim.

Acts 22:15

for you will be his witness before all to what you have seen and heard.

Acts 3:15

The author of life you put to death, but God raised him from the dead; of this we are witnesses.

Acts 5:32

We are witnesses of these things, as is the holy Spirit that God has given to those who obey him.”