Acts 4:20

New Century Version

We cannot keep quiet. We must speak about what we have seen and heard.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 23:2

“The Lord’s Spirit spoke through me, and his word was on my tongue.

Jeremiah 1:7

But the Lord said to me, “Don’t say, ‘I am only a boy.’ You must go everywhere I send you, and you must say everything I tell you to say.

Jeremiah 20:9

Sometimes I say to myself, “I will forget about the Lord. I will not speak anymore in his name.” But then his message becomes like a burning fire inside me, deep within my bones. I get tired of trying to hold it inside of me, and finally, I cannot hold it in.

Jeremiah 4:19

Oh, how I hurt! How I hurt! I am bent over in pain. Oh, the torture in my heart! My heart is pounding inside me. I cannot keep quiet, because I have heard the sound of the trumpet. I have heard the shouts of war.

Jeremiah 6:11

But I am full of the anger of the Lord, and I am tired of holding it in. “Pour out my anger on the children who play in the street and on the young men gathered together. A husband and his wife will both be caught in his anger, as will the very old.

Ezekiel 3:11

Then go to the captives, your own people, and say to them, ‘The Lord God says this.’ Tell them this whether they listen or not.”

Amos 3:8

The lion has roared! Who wouldn’t be afraid? The Lord God has spoken. Who will not prophesy?

Micah 3:8

But I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the Lord, and with justice and strength, to tell the people of Jacob how they have turned against God, and the people of Israel how they have sinned.

Numbers 22:38

But Balaam answered, “I have come to you now, but I can’t say just anything. I can only say what God tells me to say.”

Numbers 23:20

He told me to bless them, so I cannot change the blessing.

Luke 1:2

They have written the same things that we learned from others—the people who saw those things from the beginning and served God by telling people his message.

Acts 1:8

But when the Holy Spirit comes to you, you will receive power. You will be my witnesses—in Jerusalem, in all of Judea, in Samaria, and in every part of the world.”

Acts 18:5

Silas and Timothy came from Macedonia and joined Paul in Corinth. After this, Paul spent all his time telling people the Good News, showing them that Jesus is the Christ.

Acts 2:32

So Jesus is the One whom God raised from the dead. And we are all witnesses to this.

Acts 2:4

They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak different languages by the power the Holy Spirit was giving them.

Acts 22:15

You will be his witness to all people, telling them about what you have seen and heard.

Acts 3:15

And so you killed the One who gives life, but God raised him from the dead. We are witnesses to this.

Acts 5:32

We saw all these things happen. The Holy Spirit, whom God has given to all who obey him, also proves these things are true.”