Believers pray for boldness
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Date: c. AD 30–35. Between Pentecost and the conversion of Saul; Acts gives no exact dates.
Released, Peter and John report to the believers, who pray in the words of Psalm 2 and ask for boldness. The place where they meet is shaken, and they are filled with the Holy Spirit and speak the word of God boldly.
Primary Scripture
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.
4:24 When the believers heard this, they lifted up their voices to God with one accord. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “You made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them.
4:25 You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
4:26 The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against His Anointed One.’
4:27 In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed.
4:28 They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.
4:29 And now, Lord, consider their threats, and enable Your servants to speak Your word with complete boldness,
4:30 as You stretch out Your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of Your holy servant Jesus.”
4:31 After they had prayed, their meeting place was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.
Related Scripture
Quoted in their prayer (Acts 4:25–26).
Location evidence
Event map marker: Identified site; [longitude, latitude] = [35.23494, 31.77744]. This is a teaching marker, not an exact event venue.
Jerusalem: Identified site. Coordinates [longitude, latitude]: [35.23494, 31.77744]. Classification source: rule.
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