Acts 4:20

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 23:2

“The Spirit of the Lord speaks by me, his word is upon my tongue.

Jeremiah 1:7

But the Lord said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am only a youth’; for to all to whom I send you shall go, and whatever I command you shall speak.

Jeremiah 20:9

If I say, “I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name,” there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.

Jeremiah 4:19

My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the walls of my heart! My heart is beating wildly; I cannot keep silent; for I hear the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

Jeremiah 6:11

Therefore I am full of the wrath of the Lord; I am weary of holding it in. “Pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the gatherings of young men, also; both husband and wife shall be taken, the old folk and the very aged.

Ezekiel 3:11

And go, get you to the exiles, to your people, and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God’; whether they hear or refuse to hear.”

Amos 3:8

The lion has roared; who will not fear? The Lord God has spoken; who can but prophesy?”

Micah 3:8

But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the Lord, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.

Numbers 22:38

Balaam said to Balak, “Lo, I have come to you! Have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that must I speak.”

Numbers 23:20

Behold, I received a command to bless: he has blessed, and I cannot revoke it.

Luke 1:2

just as they were delivered to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word,

Acts 1:22

beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us—one of these men must become with us a witness to his resurrection.”

Acts 1:8

But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth.”

Acts 18:5

When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with preaching, testifying to the Jews that the Christ was Jesus.

Acts 2:32

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

Acts 2:4

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Acts 22:15

for you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard.

Acts 3:15

and killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.

Acts 5:32

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