George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Acts 5:28
Commanding, we commanded you. That is, charged you severely. --- You have a mind to bring the blood of this man upon us. You will make us pass for guilty of the murder of the Messias. (Witham)
Commanding, we commanded you. That is, charged you severely. --- You have a mind to bring the blood of this man upon us. You will make us pass for guilty of the murder of the Messias. (Witham)
ACTS 5:28 @Ouv# paraggeli,a| {C} A majority of the Committee interpreted the absence of ouv from several witnesses as due to their copyists’ desire to transform thereby the high priest’s question int...
Verse Acts 5:28. _DID NOT WE STRAITLY COMMAND YOU_] ου παραγγελια παρηγγειλαμεν, _With commanding did we not command you_; a Hebraism-another proof of the accuracy and fidelity of St. Luke, who seems...
STRAITLY COMMAND YOU - Did we not command you with a “threat?” Acts 4:17, Acts 4:21. IN THIS NAME - In the name of Jesus. YE HAVE FILLED JERUSALEM - This, though not so desired, was an honorable trib...
CHAPTER 5 _ 1. Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5:1)._ 2. Signs and wonders by the Apostles (Acts 5:11). 3. The second arrest of the Apostles and their Deliverance (Acts 5:17). 4. Before the Council ...
A HOSTILE ENCOUNTER WITH THE JEWISH AUTHORITIES. This account closely resembles that in ch. 4; the imprisonment is at the hands of the same men, extends over one night, and Peter's two declarations (A...
TROUBLE IN THE CHURCH (Acts 5:1-11)...
But the high priest and his party (the local sect of the Sadducees) were filled with envy, and they laid hands on the apostles and put them under public arrest. But through the night the angel of the...
STRAITLY COMMAND. Literally command with. command. Figure of speech _Polyptoton._ App-6. A Hebraism. NAME. See note on Acts 2:38. INTEND. Greek. _boulomai._ App-102. BRING Greek. _epago._ Only here...
_Did not we straitly command you_ The best authorities have here an affirmative sentence, _We straitly charged you_. The charge had been given only to Peter and John, but the council assume that it wo...
ARREST OF THE TWELVE. THEIR MIRACULOUS DELIVERANCE AND THEIR DEFENCE BEFORE THE SANHEDRIN...
οὐ omitted with אAB, also unrepresented in _Vulg_. 28. ΠΑΡΑΓΓΕΛΊΑΙ Κ.Τ.Λ., _we strictly charged you_. The charge had been given (Acts 4:18) only to Peter and John, but the magistrates assume that it...
_WHEN TRUTH IS OPPOSED ACTS 5:26-32:_ In spite of opposition, Christians must uphold and defend the truth. Even after being put in prison and threatened the apostles continued to preach. They taught o...
ΠΑΡΑΓΓΕΛΊΣΙ (G3852) _dat. sing._ instr., _dat._ имеет значение_евр. inf. abs._ (SA, 151; Barret; MH, 443). ΠΑΡΗΓΓΕΊΛΑΜΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΑΡΑΓΓΈΛΛΩ (G3853) повелевать, давать задание. Часто испол...
THIS MAN'S BLOOD UPON US,— That is, the odium and the guilt of it. See Matthew 27:25....
ON SOLOMON'S PORCH. Acts 5:21 a Acts 5:21 And when they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak, and taught. ACTS 5:21 A As the sun broke over the eastern horizon of the hills of Jud...
See notes on verse 27...
Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us. SAYING, DID NO...
14 The fear of the drawn sword in the King's hand will repress evil and rebellion. The prayer of the disciples, after the threats of the Sanhedrin, seems to have been abundantly answered. Not only was...
TO BRING THIS MAN'S BLOOD UPON US] viz. by causing the people to rise up and avenge the murder of Jesus by slaying us. 29-32. Peter's speech is practically an epitome of previous speeches; see Acts 4:...
Second imprisonment of Peter and John. Speech of Gamaliel. 17. The Sadducees] see on Matthew 3:7; Acts 4:1....
THE APOSTLES AGAIN IMPRISONED 1-16. The sin of Ananias and Sapphira was not keeping back part of the price, which they had a perfect right to do (Acts 5:4), but pretending that the money which they of...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 5 ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA, 5:1-11 V1 But there was a man whose name was Ananias. He and his wife, Sapphira, sold a building and some land. The bui...
DID NOT WE STRAITLY COMMAND YOU...? — The Greek presents the same Hebrew idiom as in Acts 4:17, and suggests again that it is a translation of the Aramaic actually spoken. YE HAVE FILLED JERUSALEM WIT...
παραγγελίᾳ παρηγγείλαμεν : for the Hebraism _cf._ Acts 4:17, “we straitly,” etc., R.V. (and A.V.), expressing intensity “commanding, we commanded you,” Wycliffe. The T.R. makes the clause a question,...
FOLLY OF FIGHTING AGAINST GOD Acts 5:27-42 The high priest and his party could not forget the imprecation of Matthew 27:25. It haunted them. Compare Peter's description of the Cross as _the tree_ wit...
Here we have a terrible story. The account of Ananias and Sapphira stands in vivid contrast to that of Barnabas. The sin was dishonest dealing with the Holy Spirit. The judgment was swift and terrible...
Before the Council It must have been a shock for the council to learn that the men they had charged not to preach in the name of Jesus were, even as they met, preaching in the temple. The captain and...
(9) Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend (k) to bring this man's blood upon us. (9) It i...
Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and were filled with indignation, (18) And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the co...
First of all we see man in an entirely new place man risen from among the dead and ascending to heaven. The risen ascended man, Christ Jesus, is the new starting-point of the dealings of God. The firs...
28.The chief priest layeth two crimes to the charge of the apostles, for he accuseth them of contumacy or stubbornness, (265) because they obeyed not the decree of the council. In the second member he...
Alas! evil shews itself there also (Chapter 5). If the mighty Spirit of God is there, the flesh also is there. There are some who wished to have the credit of devotedness which the Holy Ghost produces...
SAYING, DID NOT WE STRAITLY COMMAND YOU,.... Or give you strict orders, with severe threatenings, THAT YOU SHOULD NOT TEACH IN THIS NAME? the Ethiopic version reads, "in the name of Jesus"; which is...
Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us. Ver. 28. _And in...
_Then went the captain with the officers_ By the direction of the sanhedrim; _and brought them_ Ου μετα βιας, _not by violence; for they feared the people, lest_ If they had offered any violence in th...
THIS NAME; the name of Jesus. BRING THIS MAN'S BLOOD UPON US; prove us guilty of murdering him. Men often shrink from taking the responsibility of their own actions, and are filled with indignation a...
SAYING, DID NOT WE STRAITLY COMMAND YOU THAT YE SHOULD NOT TEACH IN THIS NAME? AND, BEHOLD, YE HAVE FILLED JERUSALEM WITH YOUR DOCTRINE, AND INTEND TO BRING THIS MAN'S BLOOD UPON US. The chief of the...
The arraignment of the apostles:...
Where God is working, however, the opposition of Satan soon becomes apparent. The evil begins (as evil always does) in an underhand manner, but is quickly exposed by God. Ananias and Sapphira certainl...
AND WHEN THEY HAD BROUGHT THEM, THEY SET _THEM_ BEFORE THE COUNCIL. AND THE HIGH PRIEST ASKED THEM, 28 saying, " Did we not strictly command you not to teach in this name? And look, you have filled...
saying, We strictly charged you not to teach in this name: and behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us. 'WE STRICTLY CHARGED YOU'- Acts 4:18....
26-33 Many will do an evil thing with daring, yet cannot bear to hear of it afterward, or to have it charged upon them. We cannot expect to be redeemed and healed by Christ, unless we give up ourselv...
DID NOT WE STRAITLY COMMAND YOU? As indeed they had, ACTS 4:18; hence they aggravated the apostles crime, as done out of malice, and not out of ignorance. THIS NAME, and THIS MAN'S BLOOD, are odious r...
Acts 5:28 saying G3004 (G5723) Did G3853 not G3756 strictly G3852 command G3853 (G5656) you G5213 not...
‘And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest asked them, saying, “We strictly charged you not to teach in this name: and behold, you have filled Jerusalem wit...
THE THIRD ARREST AND SECOND APPEARANCE BEFORE THE SANHEDRIN (5:26-40). Having previously receive their official warning not to preach in the name of Jesus the second appearance before the tribunal was...
Acts 5:28. DID NOT WE STRAITLY COMMAND YOU, THAT YE SHOULD NOT TEACH IN THIS NAME? AND BEHOLD, YE HAVE FILLED JERUSALEM WITH YOUR DOCTRINE, AND INTEND TO BRING THIS MAN'S BLOOD UPON US. A concealed dr...
WE STRAITLY CHARGED (Παραγγελια παρηγγειλαμεν). Like the Hebrew idiom (common in the LXX), though found in Greek, with charging (instrumental case) we charged (cf. same idiom in Luke 22:15). Somewha...
CONTENTS: Sin and death of Ananias and Sapphira. The second persecution and answer of apostles to their persecutors. Warning of Gamaliel. Apostles beaten. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Ananias, Sapph...
Acts 5:3. _Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost._ These words not only indicate that Ananias was a minister of the word, but that he for once had yielded his heart to th...
THE HIGH PRIEST QUESTIONED THEM. He charges they have: (1) defied the Council; (2) spread their teaching all over Jerusalem. YOU WANT TO MAKE US RESPONSIBLE. Read what they had said before (Matthew 27...
_And when they had brought them, they set them before the council._ The accusation this time is simply that the apostles had not complied with the former judgment--they were guilty of contempt of cour...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 5:17. THE HIGH PRIEST.—Annas, as in Acts 4:6. INDIGNATION.—Not envy or jealousy (R.V.), but hot, angry zeal. Acts 5:19. Not THE but AN ANGEL OF THE LORD; _i.e._, sent by the L...
EXPOSITION ACTS 5:1 ANANIAS (Ἀνανίας) In Nehemiah 3:23 the Hebrew name היָנְנַעֲ (God covers or protects) is thus rendered in the LXX. But the name occurs nowhere else. The very common name היָנְנ...
Chapter 5, the book of Acts. At the end of the fourth chapter we have the second mention of the early pure communism that was practiced in the first church. Where those who had possessions sold them,...
1 Kings 18:17; 1 Kings 18:18; 1 Kings 21:20; 1 Kings 22:8;...
Did not. The best texts omit ouj, not, and the question. We straitly charged. So Rev. [π α ρ α γ γ ε λ ι α π α τ η γ γ ε ι λ α μ ε ν]. Lit., we charged you with a charge. See on Luke 22:15, with desi...
THE TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS OF APOSTOLIC TESTIMONY Acts 5:17 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Those were momentous days. On the part of the Apostles they were days of continued testimony, God working with miracles an...
Did not we strictly command you, not to teach? — See the poor cunning of the enemies of the Gospel. They make laws and interdicts at their pleasure, which those who obey God cannot but break; and then...