As for us, we cannot help but speak of what we have seen and heard.' — the apostles' refusal is grounded in eyewitness necessity (ou dynametha, we are not able, we cannot) and personal knowledge (what we have seen and heard, heoraka akouō, perfect tenses indicating ongoing knowledge). They have seen the risen Jesus; they have heard his teaching; they must speak. The compulsion is internal and irresistible; truth demands utterance.

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