Acts 4:17

Bishops' Bible (1568)

But that it be noysed no farther among the people, let vs threaten and charge them that they speake hencefoorth to no man in this name.

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  • Acts 5:28 : 28 Saying: dyd not we strayghtly commaunde you, that ye shoulde not teache in this name? And beholde, ye haue fylled Hierusalem with your doctrine, and intende to bryng this mans blood vpon vs.
  • Acts 5:39-40 : 39 But and yf it be of God, ye can not destroy it, lest haply ye be founde to stryue agaynst God. 40 And to hym agreed the other: And when they had called the Apostles, they beat them, and commaunded that they shoulde not speake in the name of Iesu, and let them go.
  • Rom 10:16-18 : 16 But they haue not all obeyed ye Gospel. For Esaias sayth: Lorde, who hath beleued our sayinges? 17 So then fayth commeth by hearyng, and hearyng commeth by the worde of God. 18 But I aske: Haue they not hearde? No doubt, their sounde went out into all landes, and their wordes into the endes of the worlde.
  • Rom 15:18-22 : 18 For I dare not speake of any of those thinges which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the gentiles obedient with worde and deede, 19 In myghtie signes and wonders, by the power of the spirite of God: so that from Hierusalem, & the coastes rounde about, vnto Illyricum, I haue fullye preached the Gospell of Christe. 20 So haue I enforced my selfe to preach the Gospell, not where Christe was named, lest I shoulde haue buylt vpon an other mans foundation. 21 But as it is written: To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see: and they that hearde not, shall vnderstande. 22 For this cause I haue ben oft let, that I coulde not come vnto you.
  • 1 Thess 1:8 : 8 For from you, sounded out the worde of the Lorde, not only in Macedonia & Achaia: but also in euery place your faith to Godwarde is spread abroade, so that we neede not to speake any thyng.
  • 1 Thess 2:15-16 : 15 Who both kylled the Lorde Iesus, and their owne prophetes, & haue persecuted vs: and God they please not, and are contrarie to all men: 16 And hynder vs to speake to the gentiles that they myght be saued, to fulfyll their sinnes alway. For the wrath of God is come on them to the vtmost.
  • 2 Chr 25:15-16 : 15 Wherfore the Lorde was wroth with Amaziahu, & sent vnto him a prophete, which saide vnto him: Why hast thou sought the gods of the people which were not able to delyuer their owne people out of thyne hande? 16 And it chaunced, that as ye prophete talked with him, the king saide vnto him: Haue men made thee of the kinges counsel: Ceasse, why wylt thou be beaten? And the prophete ceassed, and said: I am sure that God is minded to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and agreest not vnto my counsell.
  • Ps 2:1-4 : 1 Why do the Heathen so furiously rage together? and why do the people imagine a vayne thing? 2 The kynges of the earth stande vp: and the rulers take counsell together against god, and against his annointed. 3 Let vs breake say they their bondes a sunder: and cast away their cordes from vs. 4 He that dwelleth in heauen wyll laugh them to scorne: the Lorde wyll haue them in derision.
  • Isa 30:8-9 : 8 Nowe therefore go thy way, and write this before them in a table, and note it in a booke: that it may finally remaine and be kept styll for euer. 9 For this is an obstinate people, and dissembling chyldren, chyldren that refuse to heare the lawe of the Lorde. 10 For they say vnto the seers, see not, and to them that be cleare of iudgement, loke not out right thinges for vs: but speake fayre wordes vnto vs, loke out errours. 11 Get you out of this way, depart out of this path, and turne the holy one of Israel from vs.
  • Jer 20:1-3 : 1 When Phashur the priest the sonne of Emmer, chiefe in the house of the Lorde, hearde Ieremie preache these wordes so stedfastly 2 He smote Ieremie, and put hym in the prison that is in the hye gate of Beniamin towardes the house of the Lorde. 3 The next day folowing Phashur brought Ieremie out of the prison agayne: Then saide Ieremie vnto him, The Lorde shall call thee no more Phashur that is excellent and increasing but Magor that is fearefull and afraide euery where.
  • Jer 29:25-32 : 25 Thus saith the Lorde of hoastes the God of Israel, Because thou hast sent letters in thine owne name vnto all the people that is at Hierusalem, and to Sophoniah the sonne of Maasiah the priest, yea & sent them to all the priestes, wherin thou writest thus vnto hym: 26 The Lorde hath ordeyned thee to be priest in the steade of Iehoiada the priest, that thou shouldest be chiefe in the house of the Lorde aboue all prophetes and preachers, and that thou mightest set them vpon the pyllory, or in the stockes: 27 Howe happeneth it then that thou hast not reproued Hieremie of Anathoth, which neuer leaueth of his propheciyng. 28 And beside all this, he hath sent vs worde vnto Babylon, and tolde vs playnely that our captiuitie shall long endure, that we should builde vs houses to dwel therin, and to plant vs gardens, that we may enioy the fruites therof. 29 Which letter Sophonias the priest read, and let Ieremie the prophete heare it. 30 Then came the worde of the Lorde vnto Ieremie, saying: 31 Sende worde to all them that be in captiuitie, on this maner, Thus hath the Lorde spoken concerning Semeiah the Nehelamite: Because that Semeiah hath prophecied vnto you without my commission, and brought you into a false hope: 32 Therfore thus the Lorde doth certifie you, Beholde, I wyll visite Semeiah the Nehelamite and his seede, so that none of his shall remayne among this people, and none of them shall see the good that I wyll do for my people, saith the Lorde: for he hath preached falsely of the Lorde.
  • Jer 38:4 : 4 Then saide the princes vnto the kyng, Sir, we beseche you let this man be put to death: for thus he discourageth the handes of the souldiours that be in this citie, and the handes of all the people, when he speaketh such wordes vnto them: This man laboureth not for peace of the people, but mischiefe.
  • Dan 2:34-35 : 34 Thou beheldest it till a stone was cut without handes, which smote the image vpon his feete that were of iron & clay, and brake them to peeces. 35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brasse, the siluer and gold broken al together, & became like ye chaffe of sommer floores, and the winde caryed them away, that no place was found for them: & the stone that smote the image became a great mountayne, and filled the whole earth.
  • Amos 2:12 : 12 But ye gaue the Nazarites wine to drinke, and commaunded the prophetes, saying, Prophecie not.
  • Amos 7:12-17 : 12 Also Amazia sayde to Amos, O thou the sear, Go, flee thou away into the lande of Iuda, and there eate thy bread, and prophecie there. 13 But prophecie no more at Bethel: for it is the kinges chappell, & it is the kinges court. 14 Then aunswered Amos, and sayde to Amazia, I was no prophete, neither was I a prophetes sonne: but I was an heardeman, and a gatherer of wilde figges. 15 And the Lorde toke me as I folowed the flocke, and the Lord sayde vnto me, Go, prophecie vnto my people Israel. 16 Now therfore heare thou the word of the Lorde: Thou sayest, Prophecie not against Israel, and speake nothing against the house of Isaac. 17 Therfore thus sayth the Lorde, Thy wyfe shalbe an harlot in the citie, and thy sonnes and thy daughters shall fall by the sworde, and thy land shalbe deuided by line, and thou shalt die in a polluted land, and Israel shall surely go into captiuitie foorth of his lande.
  • Mic 2:6-7 : 6 Ye shal not prophecie say they to them that prophecie: they shal not prophecie to them, neither shall they take shame. 7 O thou that art named the house of Iacob, is the spirite of the Lorde shortened? are these his workes? are not my words good vnto him that walketh vprightly?
  • Matt 27:64 : 64 Commaunde therfore, that the sepulchre be made sure, vntyll the thirde day: lest his disciples come by nyght & steale hym away, and say vnto the people, he is rysen from the dead: & the last error shalbe worse then the first.
  • John 11:47-48 : 47 Then gathered the hye priestes and the pharisees a councell, and sayde: What do we? For this man doth many miracles. 48 If we let hym scape thus, all men wyll beleue on him, and the Romaynes shall come, and take away both our rowme and the people.
  • Acts 4:21 : 21 So threatned they them, and let them go, and founde nothyng how to punishe them, because of the people: For all men praysed God, because of that which was done.
  • Acts 4:29-30 : 29 And nowe Lorde, beholde their threatnynges, & graunt vnto thy seruauntes, that with all boldensse they may speake thy worde. 30 So that thou stretch foorth thyne hande, that healyng, and signes, and wonders, be done by the name of thy holy chylde Iesus.
  • Acts 5:24 : 24 Then when the chiefe priest and the ruler of the temple, and the hye priestes hearde these thynges, they doubted of them, whervnto this woulde growe.

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  • Acts 4:18-21
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    18And they called them, and commaunded them, that in no wyse they shoulde speake, nor teache in the name of Iesu.

    19But Peter and Iohn aunswered, and sayde vnto them: Whether it be ryght in the syght of God, to hearken vnto you more then to God, iudge ye.

    20For we cannot but speake that, which we haue seene and hearde.

    21So threatned they them, and let them go, and founde nothyng how to punishe them, because of the people: For all men praysed God, because of that which was done.

  • Acts 4:13-16
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    13Nowe when they sawe the boldnesse of Peter and Iohn, and vnderstoode that they were vnlearned and lay men, they marueyled, and they knewe them that they had ben with Iesu:

    14And beholdyng also the man which was healed, standyng with them, they coulde not say agaynst it,

    15But commaundyng them to go asyde out of the counsel, and counseled among them selues,

    16Saying: What shall we do to these men? For a manifest signe is done by them, and is openly knowen to all them that dwell in Hierusalem, and we can not denie it.

  • Acts 5:25-29
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    25Then came one and shewed them, saying: Beholde, the men that ye put in pryson, stande in the temple, and teache the people.

    26Then went the ruler of the temple, with the officers, and brought them without violence: (For they feared the people, lest they should haue ben stoned)

    27And when they had brought them, they set them before the counsell. And the chiefe priest asked them,

    28Saying: dyd not we strayghtly commaunde you, that ye shoulde not teache in this name? And beholde, ye haue fylled Hierusalem with your doctrine, and intende to bryng this mans blood vpon vs.

    29Then Peter and the other Apostles aunswered, and sayde: We ought more to obey God then men.

  • Acts 5:38-40
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    38And nowe I saye vnto you, refrayne your selues fro these men, and let them alone: For yf this counsell or this worke be of men, it wyll come to naught.

    39But and yf it be of God, ye can not destroy it, lest haply ye be founde to stryue agaynst God.

    40And to hym agreed the other: And when they had called the Apostles, they beat them, and commaunded that they shoulde not speake in the name of Iesu, and let them go.

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    29And nowe Lorde, beholde their threatnynges, & graunt vnto thy seruauntes, that with all boldensse they may speake thy worde.

    30So that thou stretch foorth thyne hande, that healyng, and signes, and wonders, be done by the name of thy holy chylde Iesus.

  • Acts 4:7-9
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    7And when they had set them before them, they asked: by what power, or in what name haue ye done this?

    8Then Peter, full of the holy ghost, sayde vnto them: Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

    9If we this day be examined of the good deede done to the sicke man, by what meanes he is made whole:

  • Luke 9:21
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    21And he warned & commaunded them, that they should tell no man that thing,

  • 1 Thess 2:16
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    16And hynder vs to speake to the gentiles that they myght be saued, to fulfyll their sinnes alway. For the wrath of God is come on them to the vtmost.

  • Acts 5:33-35
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    33When they hearde that, they claue asunder, and sought meanes to slea the.

    34Then stoode there vp one in the counsell, a pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctour of lawe, had in reputation among all the people, and commaunded the Apostles to go asyde a litle space,

    35And sayde vnto them: Ye men of Israel, take heede to your selues, what ye entende to do, as touchyng these men.

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    16And charged them that they shoulde not make him knowen:

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    30And he charged them, that they should tell no man of hym.

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    12And he straytely charged them, that they shoulde not make hym knowen.

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    36And he commaunded them, that they shoulde tell no man: But the more he forbad them, so much the more a great deale they published it.

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    18And with these sayinges, scarce refrayned they the people, that they had not done sacrifice vnto them.

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    40For we are in ieopardie to be accused of this dayes vprore, forasmuch as there is no cause, wherby we may geue a reckenyng of this concourse of people.

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    1And as they spake vnto ye people, the priestes & the ruler of the temple, and the saducees, came vpon them,

    2Takyng it greuously that they taught the people, and preached in Iesus the resurrection from the dead.

    3And they layde handes on them, and put them in holde, vntyll the next day: for it was nowe euentyde.

  • Acts 15:24
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    24The Apostles, and elders, & brethren, sende greetinges vnto ye brethren, which are of the gentiles in Antiochia, Syria, & Cilicia. Forasmuch as we haue heard, that certayne which departed from vs, haue troubled you with wordes, & cumbred your myndes, saying ye must be circumcised and kepe the lawe, to who we gaue no such commaundent:

  • Acts 6:12
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    12And they moued the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came vppon hym, and caught him, and brought him to the counsell.

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    22And the people ran agaynst them, and the officers rent their clothes, and commaunded them to be beaten with roddes.

  • Mark 9:39
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    39But Iesus sayde, forbyd hym not: For there is no man, whiche, yf he do a miracle in my name, can lyghtly speake euyll of me.

  • Matt 16:20
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    20Then charged he his disciples, that they shoulde tell no man, that he was Iesus Christe.

  • Acts 2:14
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    14But Peter standyng foorth with the eleuen, lyft vp his voyce, and sayde vnto them: Ye men of Iurie, and all ye that dwell at Hierusalem, be this knowen vnto you, and with your eares heare my wordes.

  • Acts 17:8
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    8And they troubled the people, and the officers of the citie, when they hearde these thynges.

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    14And here he hath aucthoritie of ye hye priestes, to bynde all yt call on thy name.

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    13And of other durst no man ioyne hym selfe to them, neuerthelesse, the people magnified them.

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    19Wherfore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the gentiles, are turned to God:

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    14For we hearde hym say, that this Iesus of Nazareth shal destroy this place, & shall chaunge the ordinaunces which Moyses gaue vs:

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    22The vpper captayne then let ye young man depart, and charged hym, see thou tell it out to no man, that thou hast shewed these thynges to me.

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    21And when they hearde that, they entred into the temple early in ye mornyng, and taught: But the chiefe priest came, and they that were with hym, & called a counsayle together, and all the elders of the chyldren of Israel, and sent to the pryson to fet them.

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    21And they said vnto him: We neither receaued letters out of Iurie concernyng thee, neither any of the brethren that came, shewed or spake any harme of thee.

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    14And yf this come to the deputies eares we wyll perswade hym, and saue you harmelesse.