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Peter and John "came to their own company" (4:23). Who were they?

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Acts doesn't name them. It says, "Being let go, they came to their own company and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them" (4:23). Then, "When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord" (4:24), and "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). Acts doesn't say who they were or how many, and these notes call them only what the verses do: Peter and John's own company, and those who had prayed together (4:24, 4:31).

The verses

“Being let go, they came to their own company and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them. When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord and said, “O Lord, you are God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;”
Acts 4:23-24 · World English Bible
“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.”
Acts 4:31 · World English Bible

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Acts 4: With all boldness

Boldness is one Greek word three times in Acts 4: the council sees it in two unlearned men who "had been with Jesus" (4:13), the prayer asks for it (4:29), and "they spoke the word of God with boldness" (4:31). The WEB's Acts has "with all boldness" once more, in the book's very last verse (28:31).

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Last reviewed October 7, 2026. Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain. Every answer cites the verses it rests on. What we believe · All Bible questions