Acts 4:14

They could say nothing. Literally, “they had nothing to gainsay.” The evidence could not be disputed. The leaders of the Jews could not charge deception, as they had tried to do in the matter of the Lord’s resurrection, for the very man in question stood before them healed (see v. 16). Judging from subsequent events, probably there were men in that august company who indeed thought that God was working through the apostles. Not long after this event Gamaliel suggested that possibility (see ch. 5:34-39). It is not unlikely that there were others who, though silent, feared lest they also might “be found even to fight against God” (v. 39; cf. v. 40).