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Acts 5:40
and when they had called the apostles i.e. back again to the judgment-hall.
and beaten them As the guilty parties in the controversy (see Deuteronomy 25:1-3).
and when they had called the apostles i.e. back again to the judgment-hall.
and beaten them As the guilty parties in the controversy (see Deuteronomy 25:1-3).
Verse 40. _TO HIM THEY AGREED_] That is, not to _slay_ the apostles, nor to attempt any farther to _imprison_ them; but their malevolence could not be thus easily satisfied; and therefore they _beat_...
AND TO HIM THEY AGREED - Greek: They were “persuaded” by him; or they trusted to him. They agreed only so far as their design of putting them to death was concerned. They abandoned that design. But th...
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)...
When they heard this they were torn with vexation and planned to destroy them. But a certain Pharisee called Gamaliel stood up in the Sanhedrin, a teacher of the law held in honour by all the people,...
AGREED, as Acts 5:36. BEATEN. Compare Deuteronomy 25:1.Mark 13:9. LET THEM GO. See on Acts 4:21....
αὐτούς omitted with אABC. _Vulg_. ‘eos.’ 40. ΠΡΟΣΚΑΛΕΣΆΜΕΝΟΙ Κ.Τ.Λ., _having called the Apostles_, i.e. to return again into the judgment-hall. ΔΕΊΡΑΝΤΕΣ, _having beaten them_, as being the guilty p...
EFFECT OF THE APOSTLES’ DEFENCE. COUNSEL OF GAMALIEL. RELEASE AND SUBSEQUENT CONDUCT OF THE TWELVE...
_TRUTH CUTS TO THE HEART ACTS 5:33-42:_ Even those that will not receive truth may be cut to the heart by truth. When the accusers of the apostles heard the resurrection message they wanted to kill th...
ΠΡΟΣΚΑΛΕΣΆΜΕΝΟΙ _aor. med. (dep.) part. (temp.) от_ ΠΡΟΣΚΑΛΈΟΜΑΙ (G4341) призывать кого-л. Судебный термин: "приглашать войти" (BAGD). ΔΕΊΡΑΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΔΈΡΩ (G1194) сечь, бить. Это было...
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...
40. There was no opposition to Gamaliel's advice. (40) "_And they obeyed him; and having called the apostles, and scourged them, they commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go....
And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. AND TO HIM THEY AGREED: AND WHEN THE...
36 The fact that this Theudas is not mentioned in profane literature is no reason for doubting the truthfulness and accuracy of the narrative. Josephus, in his Antiquities, hints at many disturbances...
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....
BEATEN _them_] Probably with 'forty stripes save one,' a penalty inflicted upon St. Paul five times (2 Corinthians 11:24). They were punished for disobedience: see Acts 4:18....
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...
AND TO HIM THEY AGREED. — The Sadducees, after their manner, would probably have preferred a more violent course, but the Pharisees were strong in the Sanhedrin, and the _via media_ recommended by Gam...
CHAPTER 12 GAMALIEL AND HIS PRUDENT ADVICE. Acts 5:38 WE have set forth in these verses an incident in the second appearance before the council of the Apostle Peter and the other Apostles, conspicuo...
ἐπείσθησαν δὲ αὐτῷ : whatever scruples Gamaliel may have had in pressing matters against the Apostles, or even if the teaching of Christ, as some have conjectured, with much of which he might have sym...
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...
The Council Actions and the Apostles' Response Having accepted Gamaliel's council as good advice, the council called for the apostles to be brought back into their chambers. They had them beaten and ...
DIVINE INTERVENTION 33-42. Now they reach a grand culmination. The Preachers in charge and the official board are signally defeated, _“cut through,”_ so they are counseling to kill the apostles. They...
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...
40._Having beaten them, they commanded. _He saith that Gamaliel’s counsel was allowed; yet the apostles are beaten, and forbidden to preach. (293) Hereby we gather how great the rage of the enemies wa...
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...
AND TO HIM THEY AGREED,.... They were convinced and persuaded by his reasonings, approved of his advice, and agreed to follow it: AND WHEN THEY HAD CALLED THE APOSTLES; into the council again, having...
And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten _them_, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. Ver. 40. _And to him they agreed_] S...
_And to him they agreed_ Acknowledging his advice to be safe and wise. They, therefore, dropped the design of putting the apostles to death; yet they could not forbear giving vent to their rage, (so o...
THEY AGREED; so far as not further to pursue measures for putting them to death, though they scourged them, and again commanded them not to preach....
Gamaliel's suggestion and the result:...
AND TO HIM THEY AGREED; AND WHEN THEY HAD CALLED THE APOSTLES AND BEATEN THEM, THEY COMMANDED THAT THEY SHOULD NOT SPEAK IN THE NAME OF JESUS, AND LET THEM GO....
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 THEY AGREED WITH HIM, AND WHEN THEY HAD CALLED FOR THE APOSTLES AND BEATEN _THEM,_ THEY COMMANDED THAT THEY SHOULD NOT SPEAK IN THE NAME OF JESUS, AND LET THEM GO. 1. The situation calmed down....
And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles unto them, they beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. 'THEY BEAT THEM'-A common mode of punishmen...
34-42 The Lord still has all hearts in his hands, and sometimes directs the prudence of the worldly wise, so as to restrain the persecutors. Common sense tells us to be cautious, while experience and...
TO HIM THEY AGREED; they yielded to his reason and argument, being persuaded and convinced by it. BEATEN THEM; this was what our Saviour had foretold them, MATTHEW 10:17; and thus the husbandmen took...
40. There was no opposition to Gamaliel's advice. (40) " And they obeyed him; and having called the apostles, and scourged them, they commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go....
Tertullian Scorpiace The prisons there, and the bonds, and the scourges, and the big stones, and the swords, and the onsets by the Jews, and the assemblies of the heathen, and the indictments by trib...
Acts 5:40 And G1161 agreed G3982 (G5681) him G846 and G2532 called G4341 (G5666) apostles G652 beaten...
‘And to him they agreed, and when they had called the apostles to them, they beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.' His wiser counsels prevailed and the Sanhed...
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 5:40. AND TO HIM THEY AGREED. How bitterly many of that council must have reproached themselves for the past! The present vote, which dismissed the apostles with a comparatively light penalty, si...
TO HIM THEY AGREED (επεισθησαν αυτω). First aorist passive indicative of πειθω, to persuade, the passive to be persuaded by, to listen to, to obey. Gamaliel's shrewd advice scored as against the Sa...
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...
THEY CALLED THE APOSTLES IN. The fact that most of the Council are Pharisees may have helped them decide to do what Gamaliel says. HAD THEM WHIPPED. The whip had bits of bone or stone tied in the end...
_When they heard that they were cut to the heart._ CUT TO THE HEART The strict meaning of the verb describes the action of a saw, as in Hebrews 11:37. Used figuratively, it seems to imply a more lace...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 5:40 This time the Sanhedrin enforced their command by beating the APOSTLES. The text does not say whether it was with the maximum of 39 stripes prescribed by Jewish law (see...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 5:33. CUT TO THE HEART.—Lit. _sawn asunder_, torn in pieces, _sc_. in their hearts. Compare Acts 7:54—a much stronger expression than that used in Acts 4:2 or...
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,...
2 Corinthians 11:24; Acts 4:18; Acts 4:17; Acts 5:28; Amos 2:12;...