Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said The Greek has no word for other. It is quite like the style of the New Testament to say "Peter and the apostles," and it is not implied hereby that Peter was excluded from the number of the Apostles, but, as he probably was the chief speaker, his name is singled out for prominence in the narrative (see note on Acts 4:6). Here again we have evidence that St Luke has made no attempt to do more than produce for us the substance of such speeches as he notices.

We ought to obey God rather than men Better, We must, &c. In substance, though not in words, this is the argument used by Peter and John (Acts 4:19), though here more stress is laid upon the impossibility of doing otherwise than as they had begun.

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