Acts 4 Bible study: With all boldness

The WEB's word boldness comes three times in this chapter, and each time it is the same Greek noun (tap boldness). First the council sees it: "Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled" (4:13). Then, after Peter and John are let go and come to their own company (4:23), the prayer asks for it: "grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness" (4:29). Then Acts tells what happened: "When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness" (4:31). What the council saw in two men, those who had prayed together (4:24, 4:31) asked God for, and Acts says they spoke with it.

Psalms 2:2→leads toActs 4:25-27

The psalm asks, "Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?" (Psalm 2:1), and says the rulers "take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his Anointed" (Psalm 2:2). After Peter and John were let go (Acts 4:21), they "came to their own company" (Acts 4:23) and prayed to God, "who by the mouth of your servant David, said" (Acts 4:25), and gave the psalm's words: "The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers plot together, against the Lord, and against his Christ" (Acts 4:26). Then they said who the words were about: "For truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed" (Acts 4:27). The WEB words the psalm and Acts a little differently: take counsel together and plot together, the LORD and the Lord, his Anointed and his Christ.

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Strong's: "all out-spokenness, i.e. frankness, bluntness, publicity". Thayer, listing 4:13, 4:29 and 4:31: "freedom in speaking, unreservedness in speech". The WEB gives it as boldness each time in this chapter: the council sees "the boldness of Peter and John" (4:13), the prayer asks "to speak your word with all boldness" (4:29), and "they spoke the word of God with boldness" (4:31). Acts has the noun five times (counted in RP2018), and the last is in the book's last verse, where Paul is "teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hindrance" (28:31). The WEB has with all boldness in Acts only at 4:29 and 28:31, and the Greek has the same three words in both, in a different order. Favor's John 7 studies the word too, where the WEB has openly.