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 27:25). They are not so eager to accept their guilt now! The people might rebel against them because they had killed Christ.
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...
BEFORE. In. App-104. ASKED. See note on Acts 1:6....
_And when they had brought them_ i.e. to the judgment hall....
ARREST OF THE TWELVE. THEIR MIRACULOUS DELIVERANCE AND THEIR DEFENCE BEFORE THE SANHEDRIN...
_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...
ΆΓΑΓΌΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part., см._ Acts 5:21. ΈΣΤΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΪΣΤΗΜΙ (G2476) помещать, ставить, ΈΠΗΡΏΤΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΠΕΡΩΤΆΩ (G1905) задавать вопросы, расспрашивать, допрашивать....
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...
27, 28. We have now a very lively and graphic description of the arraignment and trial of the apostles. (27) "_And having brought them, they placed them in the Sanhedrim, and the high priest asked the...
And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them, AND WHEN THEY HAD BROUGHT THEM, THEY SET THEM BEFORE THE COUNCIL: AND THE HIGH PRIEST ASKED THEM,...
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...
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...
ἔστησαν, _cf._ Acts 4:7, during the investigation the judges would sit, Acts 6:15; Acts 23:3, the accused, the witnesses, and those speaking, stood, Mark 14:57;...
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...
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...
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 WHEN THEY HAD BROUGHT THEM,.... From the temple, to the place where the sanhedrim sat, which, by this, seems to have been not in the room Gazith, nor in the shops, which were both in the temple, b...
And when they had brought them, they set _them_ before the council: and the high priest asked them, Ver. 27. _They set them before the council_] Where the high priest might well have done, as the pro...
_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...
AND WHEN THEY HAD BROUGHT THEM, THEY SET THEM BEFORE THE COUNCIL; AND THE HIGH PRIEST ASKED THEM,...
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...
And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest asked them,...
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...
When they are about to do the greatest injuries, they pretend to right; and will not judge them, without giving them leave to answer for themselves....
27, 28. We have now a very lively and graphic description of the arraignment and trial of the apostles. (27) "_ And having brought them, they placed them in the Sanhedrim, and the high priest asked th...
Acts 5:27 And G1161 brought G71 (G5631) them G846 set G2476 (G5627) before G1722 council G4892 And...
‘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...
THEY SET THEM (εστησαν). First aorist active indicative (transitive) of ιστημ....
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...
_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,...
Acts 22:30; Acts 23:1; Acts 4:7; Acts 6:12; Luke 22:66...
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...