³⁸ And now, therefore, I say to you, refrain from these men, and let them alone; for if this council or this work be of men, it will come to nought;

³⁹ But if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it, lest perhaps you be found even to fight against God. And they consented to him.

⁴⁰ And calling in the apostles, after they had scourged them, they charged them that they should not speak at all in the name of Jesus; and they dismissed them.