Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 5:30
Hath raised up Jesus — Of the seed of David, according to the promises made to our fathers.
Hath raised up Jesus — Of the seed of David, according to the promises made to our fathers.
Verse 30. _THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS RAISED UP JESUS_] It was well to introduce this, that the council might at once see that they preached no strange God; and that _he_ who so highly honoured the patria...
RAISED UP JESUS - This refers to his resurrection. HANGED ON A TREE - That is, on the “cross,” Galatians 3:13; 1 Peter 2:24; Acts 10:39;...
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...
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...
TROUBLE IN THE CHURCH (Acts 5:1-11)...
RAISED UP. Greek. _egeiro._ App-178. JESUS. App-98. SLEW. laid hands on. Greek. _diacheirizomai._ Only here and Acts 26:21. AND. having. TREE. App-162....
_The God of our fathers raised up Jesus_ As Peter did in Acts 3:13, so here the Apostles point out that there is no severance of themselves from the worship of the Covenant God of Israel, but that the...
ARREST OF THE TWELVE. THEIR MIRACULOUS DELIVERANCE AND THEIR DEFENCE BEFORE THE SANHEDRIN...
Ὁ ΘΕῸΣ ΤΩ͂Ν ΠΑΤΈΡΩΝ ἩΜΩ͂Ν. The Apostles point out, just as Peter did (Acts 3:13), that there is no severance of themselves from the worship of the Covenant God of Israel. On the contrary they were tea...
_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...
ΉΓΕΙΡΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΕΓΕΊΡΩ (G1453) поднимать, ΔΙΕΧΕΙΡΊΣΑΣΘΕ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΔΙΑΧΕΙΡΊΖΟΜΑΙ (G1315) накладывать руки, покончить с чем-л. Эвфемизм, означающий "убивать" (МН, 302). ΚΡ...
DISCOURSE: 1754 THE ENDS OF CHRIST’S EXALTATION Acts 5:30. _The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Sa...
WHOM YE SLEW AND HANGED ON A TREE,— _Whom ye crucified._ Heylin. Literally, _Whom ye slew, hanging him on a tree._ See Deuteronomy 21:23. Instead of raised up, some read _hath raised up._...
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 29...
The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS RAISED UP JESUS This is understood to mean 'raised Him from the dead ' by THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS RA...
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...
5:30 cross. (d-18) Lit. 'on wood.' used for stocks, cross, and such ignominious and forcible means of punishment....
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...
Second imprisonment of Peter and John. Speech of Gamaliel. 17. The Sadducees] see on Matthew 3:7; Acts 4:1....
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...
WHOM YE SLEW AND HANGED ON A TREE. — This synonym for crucifying comes from the LXX. version of Deuteronomy 21:23, where it is used in a wider sense, including analogous forms of punishment, such as h...
ὁ Θεὸς τῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν, _cf._ Acts 3:13. St. Peter, as before, will not dissociate himself from the common wealth of Israel, or his hearers from the message and works of the Christ. ἤγειρεν : does th...
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...
(11) The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. (11) Christ is appointed and indeed declared Prince and preserver of his Church, in spite of his enemies....
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...
30._The God of our fathers. _They descend unto the matter whereof they are to speak, that they may declare that they made small account of the commandment of the priests, not without cause, nor yet un...
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...
THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS RAISED UP JESUS,.... Not from the dead, though this was true; but called him to the work and office of a Saviour, inverted him with that office, and sent him to perform that wor...
The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. Ver. 30. _Ye slew and hanged on a tree_] Constantine the Great, in honour of our Saviour, took away by a law that custom of...
_Then Peter and the other apostles_ Or, Peter, in the name of the others, who, it seems, were all present; _said_ He does not give them the titles of honour which he did before; (Acts 4:8;) but enters...
ON A TREE; the cross. Galatians 3:13; 1 PETER 2:24....
The defense of Peter:...
THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS RAISED UP JESUS, WHOM YE SLEW AND HANGED ON A TREE....
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...
THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS RAISED UP JESUS WHOM YOU MURDERED BY HANGING ON A TREE. 31 HIM GOD HAS EXALTED TO HIS RIGHT HAND _TO BE_ PRINCE AND SAVIOR, TO GIVE REPENTANCE TO ISRAEL AND FORGIVENESS OF SINS...
The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew, hanging him on. tree. 'GOD OF OUR FATHERS'-The apostles were serving the True God, the God Who revealed Himself to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 'WH...
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...
THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS; this is the rather mentioned by the apostle, that they might not think our Saviour, or they his ministers, preached any other God unto them, but him whom they had worshipped fr...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III And we are in this witnesses of these words; as also is the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that believe in Him."[186]...
Acts 5:30 God G2316 our G2257 fathers G3962 up G1453 (G5656) Jesus G2424 whom G3739 you G5210 murdered...
“The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you slew, hanging him on a tree.” He points out that they themselves (the Apostles) had been preaching nothing but the truth. As all knew it was due to th...
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 5:30. THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS. Identifying himself, in the words ‘our fathers,' with the glorious line of patriarchs, prophets, and kings whom the children of Israel in their then state of humilia...
YE SLEW (διεχειρισασθε). First aorist middle indicative of διαχειριζομα, old verb from δια and χειρ (hand), to take in hand, manage, to lay hands on, manhandle, kill. In the N.T. only here and Acts...
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...
WE MUST OBEY GOD, NOT MEN. What other reason is needed??? Peter says: (1) God raised Jesus from death; (2) to his right side as Leader and Savior; (3) to give Israel the opportunity to repent; (4) "We...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 5:30 HANGING HIM ON A TREE. See note on 10:39; see also Deuteronomy 21:22....
_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 Chronicles 12:17; 1 Chronicles 29:18; 1 Peter 2:24; Acts 10:39;...
Ye slew [δ ι ε χ ε ι ρ ι σ α σ θ ε]. Only here and ch. 26 21. To slay with one's own hands. Tree. See on Luke 23:31....
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...