Acts 4:20

New English Translation

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 23:2

The Lord’s spirit spoke through me; his word was on my tongue.

Jeremiah 1:7

The Lord said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am too young.’ But go to whomever I send you and say whatever I tell you.

Jeremiah 20:9

Sometimes I think, “I will make no mention of his message. I will not speak as his messenger any more.” But then his message becomes like a fire locked up inside of me, burning in my heart and soul. I grow weary of trying to hold it in; I cannot contain it.

Jeremiah 4:19

I said, “Oh, the feeling in the pit of my stomach! I writhe in anguish. Oh, the pain in my heart! My heart pounds within me. I cannot keep silent. For I hear the sound of the trumpet; the sound of the battle cry pierces my soul!

Jeremiah 6:11

I am as full of anger as you are, Lord, I am tired of trying to hold it in.” The Lord answered, “Vent it, then, on the children who play in the street and on the young men who are gathered together. Husbands and wives are to be included, as well as the old and those who are advanced in years.

Ezekiel 3:11

Go to the exiles, to your fellow countrymen, and speak to them – say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says,’ whether they pay attention or not.”

Amos 3:8

A lion has roared! Who is not afraid? The sovereign Lord has spoken! Who can refuse to prophesy?

Micah 3:8

But I am full of the courage that the Lord’s Spirit gives, and have a strong commitment to justice. This enables me to confront Jacob with its rebellion, and Israel with its sin.

Numbers 22:38

Balaam said to Balak, “Look, I have come to you. Now, am I able to speak just anything? I must speak only the word that God puts in my mouth.”

Numbers 23:20

Indeed, I have received a command to bless; he has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.

Luke 1:2

like the accounts passed on to us by those who were eyewitnesses and servants of the word from the beginning.

Acts 1:22

beginning from his baptism by John until the day he was taken up from us – one of these must become a witness of his resurrection together with us.”

Acts 1:8

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the farthest parts of the earth.”

Acts 18:5

Now when Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul became wholly absorbed with proclaiming the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

Acts 2:32

This Jesus God raised up, and we are all witnesses of it.

Acts 2:4

All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak in other languages as the Spirit enabled them.

Acts 22:15

because you will be his witness to all people of what you have seen and heard.

Acts 3:15

You killed the Originator of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this fact we are witnesses!

Acts 5:32

And we are witnesses of these events, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him.”