Acts 5:20

Πορεύεσθε : characteristic of St. Luke both in Gospel and Acts. The word appears here in Acts for the first time, and it is found in St. Luke's Gospel about fifty times, and in this book nearly forty (Friedrich, Lekebusch). σταθέντες, Acts 2:14, on this pictorial use of the word, see Page's note, and Friedrich, Das Lucasevangelium, p. 42; so also ἀναστάς, ἐπιστάς, ἐγερθείς, καθίσας, στραφείς here it intimates the boldness with which the Apostles were to proclaim their message. ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ : they were to speak not only boldly but publicly. τῆς ζωῆς ταύτης (cf. Acts 13:26, τῆς σωτηρίας ταύτης, and Romans 7:24), i.e., the life to which the whole Apostolic preaching referred, the life which the Sadducees denied, bestowed by Him who was Himself the Resurrection and the Life, cf. Acts 3:15; Acts 4:12. This or a similar explanation is accepted by Holtzmann, Wendt, Weiss, Zöckler, Blass. On the attempt to explain the words as simply = these words of life, see Winer-Moulton, xxxiv. 3, b., and see also Grimm, sub v. ῥῆμα.