Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)
Acts 4:3
Acts 4:3. It was now eventide. When Peter and John went up into the Temple to pray, it was three in the afternoon. It was about six o'clock when the captain of the Temple arrested them.
Acts 4:3. It was now eventide. When Peter and John went up into the Temple to pray, it was three in the afternoon. It was about six o'clock when the captain of the Temple arrested them.
ACTS 4:1-4 In these verses codex Bezae makes a number of modifications for reasons that are not always clear. The addition of ta. r`h,mata tau/ta in ver. Acts 4:1 was probably made in the interest of...
PUT THEM IN HOLD - That is, they took them into “custody,” or into safe keeping. Probably they committed them to the care of a guard. EVENTIDE - Evening. It was not convenient to assemble the council...
CHAPTER 4 __ 1. Their Arrest (Acts 4:1). 2. The Result of the Testimony (Acts 4:4). 3. Peter and John before the Rulers and Elders (Acts 4:5). 4. Peter's bold witness ...
PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE SANHEDRIN. Acts 4:1. Peter's speech seems to have reached its conclusion, but Acts 4:1 says it was interrupted by the arrival of persons representing the Sanhedrin and exercisin...
While they were speaking to the people, the priests, the superintendent of the Temple and the Sadducees came upon them. They were annoyed because they were teaching the people, and proclaiming, throug...
ARREST (Acts 4:1-4)...
IN. App-104. HOLD. ward. Greek. _teresis_ Only here, Acts 5:18, and 1 Corinthians 7:19. NOW. already....
_and put them in hold_ i.e. in prison. The word means _ward_, safe keeping. And it is worth noticing on the use of it, that the Jews only employed imprisonment for this precautionary purpose. It was n...
Acts 4:1-12. FIRST ARREST OF THE APOSTLES. THEIR HEARING AND DEFENCE...
ΤΉΡΗΣΙΝ, _ward_, safe keeping, i.e. in a prison-house. And it is worth noticing on the use of it, that the Jews only employed imprisonment for this precautionary purpose. It was not a mode of punishme...
_THE APOSTLES WERE ARRESTED ACTS 4:1-4:_ Peter and John were interrupted as they spoke about Jesus. The priests, captain of the temple and Sadducees caused the trouble. They were grieved because of th...
ΈΠΈΒΑΛΟΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΠΙΒΆΛΛΩ (G1911) накладывать руки на кого-л. ΈΘΕΝΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΤΊΘΗΜΙ (G5087) помещать. ΤΉΡΗΣΙΣ (G5084) темница, тюрьма; охраняемое место, возможно, одно...
FOR IT WAS NOW EVEN-TIDE.— Or, _evening._ As Peter and John went up to the temple at three in the afternoon, this expression makes it probable that some hours might be spent in preaching to the people...
IN THE PRISON ACTS 4:1-4. Acts 4:1 And as they spake unto the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them, Acts 4:2 being sore troubled because they taught th...
See notes on verse 1...
And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide. AND THEY LAID HANDS ON THEM, AND PUT THEM IN HOLD UNTO THE NEXT DAY: FOR IT WAS NOW EVENTIDE - the mir...
13 The word "Boy" is here used because it, like its Greek equivalent, may be used both of a child and a servant. The common version renders it _ servant_, _ child _ and _ son_. Each of these, however,...
ARREST OF PETER AND JOHN 1-22. Arrest of Peter and John. Peter's speech before the Sanhedrin. The proceedings of the Apostles displeased the authorities, (1) because they taught the people (Acts 4:2)...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 4 THE *JEWISH LEADERS ARREST PETER AND JOHN, 4:1-4 V1 Peter and John were speaking to the people. As they spoke, the priests, the captain of th...
IT WAS NOW EVENTIDE. — The narrative started, it will be remembered, from 3 P.M. (Acts 3:1). The “eventide” began at 6 P.M. PUT THEM IN HOLD. — Literally, _in custody._ In Acts 5:18, the word is tran...
ἐπέβαλον αὐτοῖς τὰς χεῖρας : the verb is always as here joined with the same noun in Acts, and twice in the Gospel; the phrase is found once in Matthew and Mark, and twice in John; see Luke 20:19; Luk...
THE NAME ABOVE EVERY NAME Acts 4:1-12 The Sadducees are particularly mentioned, because they were the agnostics of the age, and had no belief in the unseen and eternal. The fact of our Lord's resurre...
Opposition to apostolic preaching and work seems to have originated mostly from the influence of the Sadducees. The preaching of the apostles contradicted all the cardinal elements in the Sadducean ph...
Peter and John Arrested While they were still preaching, armed men came into the temple area and arrested Peter and John. This group included priests, the captain of the temple and the Sadducees. In a...
APOSTOLICAL SUCCESSION 1-3. Here we find Peter is interrupted in the midst of this glorious sermon by the priests and the captain of the Levitical temple guards and the Sadducees, the most wealthy and...
And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them, (2) Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrec...
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...
In a word, they are invited to return by repentance, and enjoy all the promises made to Israel. The Messiah Himself should return from heaven to establish their blessing. The whole nation is here addr...
AND THEY LAID HANDS ON THEM,.... The Arabic version renders it, "on both"; on Peter and John; seized them by force, and drew them out of the temple: AND PUT THEM IN HOLD UNTO THE NEXT DAY; not in the...
And they laid hands on them, and put _them_ in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide. Ver. 3. _Put them in hold_] In the sergeant's ward, τηρησις, not in the jail or dungeon. God doth by de...
_And as they_ Namely, Peter and John; _spake unto the people_ The multitude, who had assembled in the temple, upon occasion of the miraculous cure of the lame man, as related in the preceding chapter;...
IN HOLD; in prison, or under guard, for safe-keeping. EVENTIDE; evening. When the gospel is faithfully preached, and multitudes embrace it, its opposers are greatly grieved. If they have power, they...
ACTS CHAPTER 4 Peter and John before the Council of the Jews. The arrest of the apostles:...
AND THEY LAID HANDS ON THEM, AND PUT THEM IN HOLD UNTO THE NEXT DAY; FOR IT WAS NOW EVENTIDE....
The religious leaders were greatly agitated by the public speaking of the apostles, and the Sadducees particularly, for one of their cardinal doctrines was the denial of any resurrection. They were ev...
AND THEY LAID HANDS ON THEM, AND PUT _THEM_ IN CUSTODY UNTIL THE NEXT DAY, FOR IT WAS ALREADY EVENING. 1. "Laid hands on them" has three meanings in the New Testament. 1. To impart spiritual gifts...
And they laid hands on them, and put them in ward unto the morrow: for it was now eventide. 'PUT THEM'-Peter, John and possibly the lame man. For when the trial begins the next morning, the lame man...
1-4 The apostles preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead. It includes all the happiness of the future state; this they preached through Jesus Christ, to be had through him only. Miserab...
PUT THEM IN HOLD; some think this not to have been so strait a custody as that of a prison, but that rather the apostles were delivered to some who promised that they should be forthcoming. The predic...
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‘And they laid hands on them, and put them in ward until the morrow, for it was now nightfall.' So Peter and John were arrested and locked up overnight so that they could be dealt with the next day....
THE HEARING BEFORE THE SANHEDRIN (4:1-22)....
IN WARD (εις τηρησιν). Probably in one of the chambers of the temple. In safe keeping (from τηρεω, to guard). Old word, in the N.T. only here and Acts 5:18; 1 Corinthians 7:19. So in papyri.NOW EVE...
Acts 4:1 Look at this passage: (1) from the side of the Jewish leaders; (2) from the side of the Apostles. I. On the side of the Jewish leaders there was (1) illiberality; (2) shortsightedness; (3)...
Acts 4 Before the Council From this section of Apostolic history we may draw the following practical inferences: I. We may learn that if we are Christ's disciples we may expect to encounter antagon...
Acts 4:1. And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them, being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the re...
CONTENTS: The first persecution. Peter's address to the Sanhedrin. Preaching in Jesus' name forbidden. Christians again filled with the Spirit. State of the Church at Jerusalem. CHARACTERS: God, Jesu...
Acts 4:1. _The captain of the temple_ was the captain of the watch, and saw that the levites performed their duty day and night. He beat them and set fire to their garments, if he found them asleep on...
BUT MANY WHO HEARD THE MESSAGE BELIEVED. Jailing Peter and John did not change the minds of those who believed what they had said. TO ABOUT FIVE THOUSAND. This must include those men who were "buried...
_And they laid hands upon them … Howbeit many of them which heard the Word believed._ THE IMPOTENCE AND BENEFIT OF PERSECUTION 1. Peter had boasted, “I am ready to go with Thee to prison.” He was no...
_And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them._ THE CAPTAIN OF THE TEMPLE was an officer of a sort which Luke mentions in the plura...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 4:3 The Jewish high court, the Sanhedrin, met in the mornings. ⇐ ⇔...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 4:1. AS THEY SPAKE.—Lit., _they_, the apostles, either Peter for John or John with Peter _speaking_. The discourse was probably interrupted after the utterance of the preceding...
EXPOSITION ACTS 4:1 THE CAPTAIN OF THE TEMPLE. Only here and Acts 5:24, and Luke 22:4, Luke 22:52 in the plural some
Now as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them, being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection...
Acts 12:1; Acts 16:19; Acts 5:18; Acts 6:12; Acts 8:3;...
In hold [ε ι ς τ η ρ η σ ι ν]. A somewhat antiquated rendering. Better, as Rev., in ward. See on 1 Peter 1:4....
FIGHTING AGAINST GOD Acts 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The fourth chapter of Acts continues the account of the third chapter, bringing to a climax the healing of the lame man. The rulers and elders and sc...