Acts 4:18-31 And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.… When John Knox heard of the projected marriage of Queen Mary with the Roman Catholic prince of Spain, he rose in the pulpit at St. Giles, Edinburgh, and told the congregation that whenever they, professing the Lord Jesus, consented that a Papist should be head of their sovereign, they did, as far as in them lay, banish Christ from the realm. Mary recognised her enemy. Him alone she had failed to work upon. She sent for him, and her voice shaking between tears and passion, she said that never prince had been handled as she: she bad borne his bitterness, she had admitted him to her presence, she had endured to be reprimanded, and yet she could not be quit of him; she "vowed to God she would be avenged." The queen sobbed violently. Knox stood silent until she collected herself. He then said, "Madam, in God's presence I speak: I never delighted in the weeping of God's creatures; but seeing T have but spoken the truth as my vocation craves of me, I must sustain your Majesty's tears rather than hurt my conscience." (H. O. Mackey.) Parallel Verses KJV: And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.WEB: They called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. |
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