“let the future decide” whether Luther and what he preached was of God or not. Luther was referring to that passage in which the Jewish religious leaders in Jerusalem had become furious that Peter and the apostles refused to stop preaching about Jesus and wanted to put them to death. But Gamaliel, who was one of the most respected of them, counseled that they be left alone. “Let them go!” he said. “For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail. But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find yourselves fighting against God.”
