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(Acts 4:13–22; John 5:17–24) “Judge whether it is right before God to listen to you more than to listen to God? We cannot help but speak what we have seen and heard” (Acts 4:19–20). This is what they told the authorities of St. the apostles Peter and John, when they were forbidden to speak about the risen Lord Jesus, after they healed a lame man from childhood in His name. They were not afraid of threats, for the evidence of the truth did not allow them to remain silent: we saw and heard, they said, and our hands touched, as St. John (1 John 1:1). They are eyewitnesses: eyewitnesses, according to the principles of human knowledge, are the first reliable witnesses of the truth. In this regard, no area of ​​human knowledge has such witnesses. Because 18 1/2 centuries have passed since that time (now 20 - ed.), the power of their testimony has not diminished in the least, and therefore, the obviousness of the truth testified by them has not diminished. If they fall away through unbelief—and there are many who fall away now—then they fall away for no other reason than through a lack of sanity. They do not want to discuss and are carried away by ghosts, to which the flattery of a vicious heart willingly gives some probability. Poor souls! They die, imagining that they have finally found the right trail, and especially rejoicing that they were the first to enter this rut ​​and became advanced leaders for others. But there is no great joy in sitting on the seat of the destroyers. You might be interested in: