<p>4:19<i>But Peter and John answered and said to them: Whether it is right in the sight of God</i>- Luke has used this phrase earlier when saying that Zacharias and Elisabeth were 'right before God'. We too can focus upon Biblical characters and make them programmatic for our life decisions, wishing to emulate them in the decisions we face. The seven previous New Testament references to the presence / sight of God are all in Luke.</p><p><em>To listen to you rather than to God, you must judge</em>- This is quite rightly the flagship proof text for the Christian refusal to obey Governments in ways which break God's commandments. &quot;To listen&quot; suggests that Peter saw God's word as living and speaking to him in an ongoing sense, just as much as those Jewish leaders were speaking to him. He had made the judgment to listen to God and not men, and he invites them to make a similar judgment.</p><p>In saying this, Peter is showing that he had learnt the lesson of the transfiguration, &quot;hear Him&quot;. So he told the Jewish authorities that he had to hear God&rsquo;s word rather than theirs.</p>