Acts 4:24 (DBY)

Passage

And they, having heard [it], lifted up [their] voice with one accord to God, and said, Lord, *thou* art the God who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;

Nearby Context

Acts 4:22 for the man on whom this sign of healing had taken place was above forty years old.

Acts 4:23 And having been let go, they came to their own [company], and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them.

Acts 4:24 And they, having heard [it], lifted up [their] voice with one accord to God, and said, Lord, *thou* art the God who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;

Acts 4:25 who hast said by the mouth of thy servant David, Why have [the] nations raged haughtily and [the] peoples meditated vain things?

Acts 4:26 The kings of the earth were there, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "having", "heard", "lifted", "voice", "accord", "said", "lord", and "thou". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "having" and "heard", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 23's "And having been let go they came..." into verse 25's "who hast said by the mouth of...", so "having" and "heard" belong inside that flow. In Acts context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "having" and "heard" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.