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Acts 4:23
On their release, Peter and John returned to their own people and reported everything that the chief priests and elders had said to them.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Peter and John return to their fellow believers immediately after being discharged by the religious authorities. This report bridges their interrogation by the chief priests and elders and the community's immediate corporate prayer.
The words — Ἀπολυθέντες (Apoluthentes) means "having been let go," marking their sudden release from custody. ἀπήγγειλαν (apēngeilan) translates literally to "they reported," emphasizing a direct, factual transmission of the officials' exact words.
The thread — The return to "their own people" establishes the pattern of communal accountability seen in the warning against unequal fellowship in 2 Corinthians 6:14 and the covenant friendship described in Psalms 119:63. The factual report directly triggers the unified prayer recorded in Acts 4:24.
Why it lands — The text requires believers to bring official opposition directly to the faith community rather than processing it in isolation. It demands that accurate reporting precede unified prayer and reliance on God's sovereignty.
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The Greek words
King James Version
And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.
Cross-references
- 2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
- Psalms 42:4 These things come to mind as I pour out my soul: how I walked with the multitude, leading the festive procession to the house of God with shouts of joy and praise.
- Psalms 119:63 I am a friend to all who fear You, and to those who keep Your precepts.
- Acts 12:11 Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from Herod’s grasp and from everything the Jewish people were anticipating.”
- Psalms 16:3 As for the saints in the land, they are the excellence in whom all my delight resides.
- Proverbs 13:20 He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.
- Malachi 3:16 At that time those who feared the LORD spoke with one another, and the LORD listened and heard them. So a scroll of remembrance was written before Him regarding those who feared the LORD and honored His name.
- Acts 1:13 When they arrived, they went to the upper room where they were staying: Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James.
- Acts 2:44 All the believers were together and had everything in common.
- Acts 16:40 After Paul and Silas came out of the prison, they went to Lydia’s house to see the brothers and encourage them. Then they left the city.