The Believers Pray for Continued Bold Witness

23 And when they[a] were released, they went to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them. 24 And when they[b] heard it,[c] they lifted their voices with one mind to God and said, “Master, you are the one who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things in them, 25 the one who said by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of our father David, your servant,

‘Why do the nations[d] rage,
    and the peoples conspire in vain?

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 4:23 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“were released”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Acts 4:24 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal
  3. Acts 4:24 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  4. Acts 4:25 Or “Gentiles”; the same Greek word can be translated “nations” or “Gentiles” depending on the context