Acts 4:17
Acts · New Testament · Chapter 4
“But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.”Acts 4:17
What Does Acts 4:17 Mean?
Acts 4:17 is found in the book of Acts, chapter 4, verse 17 of the New Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (20)
These passages are connected to Acts 4:17 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Psalms 21:11“For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.”Luke 11:52“Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.”Acts 5:28“Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.”Acts 4:29“And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word,”Romans 15:18“For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,”1 Thessalonians 2:15“Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:”Nehemiah 4:7“But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,”Jeremiah 26:9“Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.”Matthew 23:13“But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.”Acts 5:24“Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow.”Acts 5:40“And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.”1 Thessalonians 1:8“For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.”2 Chronicles 25:15“Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people out of thine hand?”Psalms 2:1“Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?”Psalms 83:4“They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.”Isaiah 30:8“Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:”Isaiah 30:10“Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:”Jeremiah 20:1“Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.”Jeremiah 29:25“Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,”Jeremiah 29:27“Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you?”
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