Acts 4:23
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New International Version (©2011)
On their release, Peter and John went back to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

New Living Translation (©2007)
As soon as they were freed, Peter and John returned to the other believers and told them what the leading priests and elders had said.

English Standard Version (©2001)
When they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
When they had been released, they went to their own companions and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
After they were released, they went to their own people and reported everything the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

International Standard Version (©2012)
After they were released, Peter and John went to their fellow believers and told them everything the high priests and the elders had said.

NET Bible (©2006)
When they were released, Peter and John went to their fellow believers and reported everything the high priests and the elders had said to them.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
And when they were dismissed, they came to their brethren, and they related to them everything whatever The Priests and the Elders had said.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
When Peter and John were released, they went to the other apostles and told them everything the chief priests and leaders had said.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.

American King James Version
And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them.

American Standard Version
And being let go, they came to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said unto them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And being let go, they came to their own company, and related all that the chief priests and ancients had said to them.

Darby Bible Translation
And having been let go, they came to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them.

English Revised Version
And being let go, they came to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said unto them.

Webster's Bible Translation
And being dismissed, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them.

Weymouth New Testament
After their release the two Apostles went to their friends, and told them all that the High Priests and Elders had said.

World English Bible
Being let go, they came to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

Young's Literal Translation
And being let go, they went unto their own friends, and declared whatever the chief priests and the elders said unto them,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

4:23-31 Christ's followers do best in company, provided it is their own company. It encourages God's servants, both in doing work, and suffering work, that they serve the God who made all things, and therefore has the disposal of all events; and the Scriptures must be fulfilled. Jesus was anointed to be a Saviour, therefore it was determined he should be a sacrifice, to make atonement for sin. But sin is not the less evil for God's bringing good out of it. In threatening times, our care should not be so much that troubles may be prevented, as that we may go on with cheerfulness and courage in our work and duty. They do not pray, Lord let us go away from our work, now that it is become dangerous, but, Lord, give us thy grace to go on stedfastly in our work, and not to fear the face of man. Those who desire Divine aid and encouragement, may depend upon having them, and they ought to go forth, and go on, in the strength of the Lord God. God gave a sign of acceptance of their prayers. The place was shaken, that their faith might be established and unshaken. God gave them greater degrees of his Spirit; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, more than ever; by which they were not only encouraged, but enabled to speak the word of God with boldness. When they find the Lord God help them by his Spirit, they know they shall not be confounded, Isa 1.7.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 23. - Came for went, A.V.; the elders for elders, A.V. To their own company (comp. Malachi 3:16). The chief priests (οἱ ἀρχειρεῖς); evidently the same as those who were described as being "of the kindred of the high priest," in ver. 6 (where see note).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And being let go,.... Or dismissed from custody, by the order of the sanhedrim:

they went to their own company; or "to their own men", as the Ethiopic version reads; or "to their own brethren", as the Syriac; either to the other ten apostles; or to the hundred and twenty, who first met together; or the whole multitude of them that believed, Acts 4:32 the eight thousand that had been added to them, the whole church. Saints love to be together, and delight in the company of each other; and especially when they have anything to communicate, that may be for their mutual good, or for the honour of God:

and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them; what commands and injunctions they had lain upon them, and what threatenings they had given them, and, no doubt likewise, what answers they had returned to them.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

Ac 4:23-37. Peter and John Dismissed from the Samhedrim, Report the Proceedings to the Assembled Disciples—They Engage in Prayer—The Astonishing Answer and Results.

23-30. being let go, they went to their own company—Observe the two opposite classes, representing the two interests which were about to come into deadly conflict.

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The Believers' Prayer for Boldness
23And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them. 24And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, you are God, which have made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is: 25Who by the mouth of your servant David have said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things? …

Acts 4:22 For the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old.
Acts 4:24 When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. "Sovereign Lord," they said, "you made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and everything in them.