Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible
Acts 4:23-31
God's Response To The Warnings of the Sanhedrin (4:23-31).
God's Response To The Warnings of the Sanhedrin (4:23-31).
Verse Acts 4:23. _THEY WENT TO THEIR OWN COMPANY_] This was properly the first persecution that had been raised up against the Church since the resurrection of Christ; and as the rest of the disciple...
THEIR OWN COMPANY - They joined the other apostles and Christians, Acts 2:44. AND REPORTED ... - It doubtless became a subject of interesting inquiry what they should do in this case. They had been th...
CHAPTER 4 __ 1. Their Arrest (Acts 4:1). 2. The Result of the Testimony (Acts 4:4). 3. Peter and John before the Rulers and Elders (Acts 4:5). 4. Peter's bold witness ...
RETURN OF THE APOSTLES TO THEIR OWN PEOPLE. The Christians are spoken of as if they lived together (_cf. Acts 1:14_, Acts 2:44) or at least had a hall where they could all meet. The prayer (Acts 4:24)...
ARREST (Acts 4:1-4)...
When they had been released, they came to their own people and they told them all that the chief priests and elders had said to them. When they had heard the story, with one accord, they lifted up the...
The Apostles released. Their Prayer and its Answer 23. _to their own company_ Perhaps still abiding in the upper room which they had occupied before Pentecost. Because St Peter on a later occasion (Ac...
THE APOSTLES RELEASED. THEIR PRAYER AND ITS ANSWER...
ΠΡῸΣ ΤΟῪΣ ἸΔΊΟΥΣ, _to their own company_, who were perhaps still abiding in the upper room which they had occupied before Pentecost. Because St Peter on a later occasion (Acts 12:12) made his way, aft...
_THE APOSTLES IN THEIR OWN COMPANY ACTS 4:23-37:_ When the apostles came back to their own company they: (1) reported what commands and injunctions their accusers had lain upon them, (2) reported what...
ΑΠΟΛΥΘΈΝΤΕΣ _aor. pass._part, _(temp.), см._ Acts 4:21. ΉΛΘΟΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G1096) приходить, идти, ΆΠΉΓΓΕΙΛΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΠΑΓΓΈΛΛΩ (G518) сообщать....
23-30. The apostles had now humbled the pride of their adversaries, and went away from the assembly in triumph. But they were uninflated by their present prosperity, as they had been undaunted by thei...
And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them. AND BEING LET GO, THEY WENT TO THEIR OWN [COMPANY]. How sweet is the contras...
5 This was the supreme spiritual judiciary in Israel. It comprised the heads of the twenty-four courses of priests, the scribes, and elders, said to have been in all seventy-one. The names of the chie...
PRAYER OF THE APOSTLES ON THEIR RELEASE. 24. WITH ONE ACCORD] The prayer was probably led by St. Peter, the others repeating the words after him....
ARREST OF PETER AND JOHN 1-22. Arrest of Peter and John. Peter's speech before the Sanhedrin. The proceedings of the Apostles displeased the authorities, (1) because they taught the people (Acts 4:2)...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 4 THE *JEWISH LEADERS ARREST PETER AND JOHN, 4:1-4 V1 Peter and John were speaking to the people. As they spoke, the priests, the captain of th...
THEY WENT TO THEIR OWN COMPANY. — Literally, _their own people._ The statement implies a recognised place of meeting, where the members of the new society met at fixed times. ALL THAT THE CHIEF PRIEST...
τοὺς ἰδίους : not necessarily limited to their fellow-Apostles (so Meyer, Blass, Weiss), but as including the members of the Christian community (so Overbeck, Wendt, Hilgenfeld, Zöckler), _cf._ Acts 2...
HELP FROM ON HIGH Acts 4:23-35 Like draws to like; Judas went to his own place, and the Apostles to their own company. The best answer to threats is prayer. The Apostles' one petition just then was...
Opposition to apostolic preaching and work seems to have originated mostly from the influence of the Sadducees. The preaching of the apostles contradicted all the cardinal elements in the Sadducean ph...
Compelled to Preach Peter and John made it clear that in their view the Sanhedrin had no authority to countermand a command from God. Further, they felt compelled, by the power of the things they had...
(9) And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them. (9) The apostles share their troubles with the congregation....
_Being let go, they came to their own [3] company, relating with simplicity all that had happened._ [BIBLIOGRAPHY] Ad suos, _Greek: pros tous idious._...
SECOND PENTECOST 23-31. During the imprisonment and trial of Peter and John the one hundred and eighteen, with quite a host of the Pentecostal converts, are pushing the battle for God and souls on the...
And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them. (24) And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accor...
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...
23._Furthermore when they were let go. _It shall appear by and by to what end they declared to the other disciples what things had befallen them, to wit, that they might be the more emboldened and enc...
In a word, they are invited to return by repentance, and enjoy all the promises made to Israel. The Messiah Himself should return from heaven to establish their blessing. The whole nation is here addr...
AND BEING LET GO,.... Or dismissed from custody, by the order of the sanhedrim: THEY WENT TO THEIR OWN COMPANY; or "to their own men", as the Ethiopic version reads; or "to their own brethren", as th...
And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them. Ver. 23. _And being let go_] For there was no hope of altering them. The heave...
_And being let go_ Being dismissed from their examination by the rulers; _they went to their own company_ Who, probably, were at this time met together, praying for them; _and reported all that the ch...
THEIR OWN COMPANY; the company of believers....
AND BEING LET GO, THEY WENT TO THEIR OWN COMPANY, AND REPORTED ALL THAT THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND ELDERS HAD SAID UNTO THEM....
THE PRAYER AND THE FURTHER ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CONGREGATION. The report of the apostles and the prayer:...
The religious leaders were greatly agitated by the public speaking of the apostles, and the Sadducees particularly, for one of their cardinal doctrines was the denial of any resurrection. They were ev...
AND BEING LET GO, THEY WENT TO THEIR OWN _COMPANIONS_ AND REPORTED ALL THAT THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND ELDERS HAD SAID TO THEM. 1. Peter and John went to the brethren and reported what was done. They told...
And being let go, they came to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said unto them. 'TO THEIR OWN COMPANY'-The fact that the Holy Spirit comes upon this compan...
23-31 Christ's followers do best in company, provided it is their own company. It encourages God's servants, both in doing work, and suffering work, that they serve the God who made all things, and t...
THEY WENT TO THEIR OWN COMPANY, the rest of the apostles and believers, who have a special propriety and delight in one another; sheep with sheep, and goats with goats: though the separation will be m...
23-30. The apostles had now humbled the pride of their adversaries, and went away from the assembly in triumph. But they were uninflated by their present prosperity, as they had been undaunted by thei...
Acts 4:23 And G1161 go G630 (G5685) went G2064 (G5627) to G4314 companions G2398 and G2532 reported...
Acts 4:23. THEY WENT TO THEIR OWN PEOPLE. The Greek word here translated ‘their own people' has been understood by some to signify ‘their brother apostles,' by others ‘the church in the apostles' hous...
_The Apostles with their own People after their Release,_ 23-31. The prayer of the Church of Jerusalem to God to support and defend the threatened and persecuted followers of His Son, and the answer...
TO THEIR OWN COMPANY (προς τους ιδιους). Their own people as in John 1:11; John 13:1; Acts 24:23; 1 Timothy 5:8;...
Acts 4 Before the Council From this section of Apostolic history we may draw the following practical inferences: I. We may learn that if we are Christ's disciples we may expect to encounter antagon...
Acts 4:23 I. The whole Church is interested in the proceedings of its individual members. II. The right method of treating opposition to the Kingdom of Christ. III. The spiritual and social results...
Peter and John were summoned before the priests to give an account for having healed the lame man, and for having preached in the name of Jesus of Nazareth. In the eighth verse we read: Acts 4:8. The...
CONTENTS: The first persecution. Peter's address to the Sanhedrin. Preaching in Jesus' name forbidden. Christians again filled with the Spirit. State of the Church at Jerusalem. CHARACTERS: God, Jesu...
Acts 4:1. _The captain of the temple_ was the captain of the watch, and saw that the levites performed their duty day and night. He beat them and set fire to their garments, if he found them asleep on...
RETURNED TO THEIR GROUP. The Christians met together daily (Acts 2:46). Peter and John give their report of all that has happened....
_And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor to teach in the name of Jesus._ CHRISTIAN COURAGE I. Its test. The apostles did not wish to separate themselves from the Jewish Churc...
_And being let go, they went to their own company._ BEING LET GO We do not know what we or other people are until the restraint is taken off. We call ourselves free, but there is not an absolutely f...
LIKE TO LIKE And being let go, they went to their own company. Acts 4:23 (AV). Who were the men who “went to their own company”? They were Peter and John, the disciples of Jesus. Do you remember the...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 4:23. THEIR OWN COMPANY.—Not the apostles merely, but their friends in the faith generally. Acts 4:24. O LORD!—Addressed not to Christ, as in Acts 1:24, who, however, is also...
EXPOSITION ACTS 4:1 THE CAPTAIN OF THE TEMPLE. Only here and Acts 5:24, and Luke 22:4, Luke 22:52 in the plural some
Now as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them, being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection...
2 Corinthians 6:14; Acts 1:13; Acts 1:14; Acts 12:11; Acts 12:12;...
THE RESULTS OF A FAITHFUL TESTIMONY Acts 4:13 INTRODUCTORY WORDS A real problem presented itself to the rulers of the Jews. They were greatly perturbed by the preaching of the disciples, and by the...