Acts 4:20
New International Version
As for us, we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

New Living Translation
We cannot stop telling about everything we have seen and heard.”

English Standard Version
for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.”

Berean Standard Bible
For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

Berean Literal Bible
For we are not able to stop speaking about what we have seen and heard."

King James Bible
For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

New King James Version
For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.”

New American Standard Bible
for we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

NASB 1995
for we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

NASB 1977
for we cannot stop speaking what we have seen and heard.”

Legacy Standard Bible
for we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

Amplified Bible
for we, on our part, cannot stop telling [people] about what we have seen and heard.”

Christian Standard Bible
for we are unable to stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
for we are unable to stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

American Standard Version
for we cannot but speak the things which we saw and heard.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“For we are unable not to speak whatever we see and hear.”

Contemporary English Version
We cannot keep quiet about what we have seen and heard."

Douay-Rheims Bible
For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

English Revised Version
for we cannot but speak the things which we saw and heard.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
We cannot stop talking about what we've seen and heard."

Good News Translation
For we cannot stop speaking of what we ourselves have seen and heard."

International Standard Version
for we cannot stop talking about what we've seen and heard."

Literal Standard Version
for we cannot but speak what we saw and heard.”

Majority Standard Bible
For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

New American Bible
It is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.”

NET Bible
for it is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard."

New Revised Standard Version
for we cannot keep from speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

New Heart English Bible
for we cannot help telling the things which we saw and heard."

Webster's Bible Translation
For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

Weymouth New Testament
As for us, what we have seen and heard we cannot help speaking about."

World English Bible
for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”

Young's Literal Translation
for we cannot but speak what we did see and hear.'

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
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19But Peter and John replied, “Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God’s sight to listen to you rather than God. 20For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.” 21After further threats they let them go. They could not find a way to punish them, because all the people were glorifying God for what had happened.…

Cross References
Jeremiah 20:9
If I say, "I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name," His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.

Amos 3:8
The lion has roared--who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken--who will not prophesy?

1 Corinthians 9:16
Yet when I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am obligated to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

1 John 1:1
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our own eyes, which we have gazed upon and touched with our own hands--this is the Word of life.

1 John 1:3
We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And this fellowship of ours is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ.


Treasury of Scripture

For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

we cannot.

Acts 2:4,32
And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance…

Acts 17:16,17
Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry…

Acts 18:5
And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.

the things.

Acts 1:8,22
But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth…

Acts 3:15
And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.

Acts 5:32
And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.

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Acts 4
1. The rulers of the Jews, offended with Peter's sermon,
3. imprison him and John.
5. After, upon examination
8. Peter boldly avouching the lame man to be healed by the name of Jesus,
11. and that only by the same Jesus we must be eternally saved,
13. they threaten him and John to preach no more in that name,
23. whereupon the church flees to prayer.
31. And God, by moving the place where they were assembled, testifies that he heard their prayer;
34. confirming the church with the gift of the Holy Spirit, and with mutual love and charity.














(20) We cannot but speak . . .--The pronoun is emphatic: "we, for our part" . . . The question at issue was one of bearing witness, and that witness they had received a special command to bear (Acts 1:8).

Verse 20. - Saw and heard for have seen and heard, A.V. We cannot but speak, etc. We have here another instance of Peter's boldness of speech under the influence of the Holy Ghost.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
For
γὰρ (gar)
Conjunction
Strong's 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.

we
ἡμεῖς (hēmeis)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 1st Person Plural
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

cannot
δυνάμεθα (dynametha)
Verb - Present Indicative Middle or Passive - 1st Person Plural
Strong's 1410: (a) I am powerful, have (the) power, (b) I am able, I can. Of uncertain affinity; to be able or possible.

stop
μὴ (mē)
Adverb
Strong's 3361: Not, lest. A primary particle of qualified negation; not, lest; also (whereas ou expects an affirmative one) whether.

speaking about
λαλεῖν (lalein)
Verb - Present Infinitive Active
Strong's 2980: A prolonged form of an otherwise obsolete verb; to talk, i.e. Utter words.

what
(ha)
Personal / Relative Pronoun - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3739: Who, which, what, that.

we have seen
εἴδαμεν (eidamen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural
Strong's 3708: Properly, to stare at, i.e. to discern clearly; by extension, to attend to; by Hebraism, to experience; passively, to appear.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

heard.”
ἠκούσαμεν (ēkousamen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural
Strong's 191: To hear, listen, comprehend by hearing; pass: is heard, reported. A primary verb; to hear.


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