Verse Acts 5:21. Called the council together] συνεδριον The sanhedrin, all the senate; την γερουσιαν, the elders, or what we would call the aldermen. How these differed from the πρεσβυτεριον, presbytery, if they did differ, is not now known.
ACTS 5:21-22 The Western text of these verses is variously preserved in D E and other witnesses. Instead of the opening words avkou,santej de,, E reads evxelqo,ntej de. evk th/j fulakh/j, which is re...
EARLY IN THE MORNING - Greek: at the break of day. Compare Luke 24:1; John 8:2. CALLED THE COUNCIL TOGETHER - The Sanhedrin, or the Great Council of the nation. This was clearly for the purpose of “t...
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...
INTO. Greek. _eis._ App-104. EARLY IN THE MORNING. towards (App-104) daybreak. Greek. _tou orthrou._ Compare Luke 24:1. Joh 8:2. TAUGHT. were teaching. SENATE. assembly of the elders. Only here in...
_early in the morning_ The words indicate a time as soon as possible after day dawn. They lost no time in obeying the command. How early it was possible for them to come to the Temple we find from the...
ARREST OF THE TWELVE. THEIR MIRACULOUS DELIVERANCE AND THEIR DEFENCE BEFORE THE SANHEDRIN...
ὙΠῸ ΤῸΝ ὌΡΘΡΟΝ, _at break of day_. The words indicate a time as soon as possible after day dawn. They lost no time in obeying the command. How early it was possible for them to come to the Temple we f...
_THE POWER OF A PURIFIED CHURCH ACTS 5:12-25:_ During this period of progress for the church miracles were worked by the apostles. The people were fearful of the apostles. Amazingly, the result was gr...
ΆΚΟΎΣΑΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part._ (сопутств.) от ΆΚΟΎΩ (G191) слышать, повиноваться. ΕΊΣΉΛΘΟΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Acts 5:7. ΌΡΘΡΟΝ _асс. sing. от_ ΌΡΘΡΟΣ (G3722) рассвет, раннее утро, начало дня. _асс._...
CALLED THE COUNCIL—AND, ALL THE SENATE, &C.— _The whole Sanhedrim, and all the elders of Israel,_ πασαν την γερουσιαν. Some render it _the Sanhedrim, even,_ or _that is to say, the whole senate of the...
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...
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And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of...
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...
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....
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...
EARLY IN THE MORNING. — Probably at day-break, when the worshippers would be going up to the Temple for their early devotions, or, though less probable, at the third hour, the time of the morning sacr...
ὑπὸ τὸν ὄρθρον, “about day-break,” R.V., _i.e._, without delay they obeyed the angel's command (Weiss). The words may also indicate the customary usage of Palestine where the heat was great in the day...
DELIVERED TO TESTIFY Acts 5:12-26 While the Holy Spirit works mightily _within_ the Church, He co-operates with it in its _outward_ operations by adding men and women to the Lord. None should be adde...
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 Apostles Imprisoned Seeing the high regard the apostles were held in by the people and knowing the number being added to the church moved the high priest and the Sadducees to jealousy. They caused...
(6) And when they heard [that], they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senat...
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...
21._And when the chief priest came. _The chief priest calleth all the council together now, lest, if giving the honor to his own sect, he omit others, and be not able to bear the burden; therefore, he...
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 HEARD THAT,.... Or "his word", as the Arabic version supplies; that is, the word of the angel, the orders enjoined them by him, to go to the temple, and there preach the Gospel; this cla...
And when they heard _that_, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of...
_But the angel of the Lord opened the prison doors_ In spite of all the locks and bars that were upon them, and without giving any alarm to the keepers, or any of the other prisoners; _and brought the...
THE SENATE OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL; men of age and influence, called elsewhere elders of the Jews, and the estate of the elders. Chap Acts 4:5; Acts 22:5; Acts 25:15....
THE IMPRISONMENT, DELIVERANCE, AND DEFENSE OF THE APOSTLES. Arrest and deliverance:...
AND WHEN THEY HEARD THAT, THEY ENTERED INTO THE TEMPLE EARLY IN THE MORNING AND TAUGHT. One storm had been safely weathered, chap. 4, but a second one was coming on which would prove a little severer...
The Sadducees receive a surprise:...
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 HEARD _THAT,_ THEY ENTERED THE TEMPLE EARLY IN THE MORNING AND TAUGHT. BUT THE HIGH PRIEST AND THOSE WITH HIM CAME AND CALLED THE COUNCIL TOGETHER, WITH ALL THE ELDERS OF THE CHILDREN OF...
And when they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the chi...
17-25 There is no prison so dark, so strong, but God can visit his people in it, and, if he pleases, fetch them out. Recoveries from sickness, releases out of trouble, are granted, not that we may en...
WHEN THEY HEARD THAT; having received a command from God, they resolved to obey him rather than man. EARLY IN THE MORNING; taking the first opportunity, though they could not but be sensible of the da...
Acts 5:21 And G1161 heard G191 (G5660) entered G1525 (G5627) G1519 temple G2411 morning G5259...
‘And when they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak, and were teaching (or ‘began to teach'). But the high priest came, and those who were with him, and called the council together,...
THE SECOND ARREST. THE KINGLY RULE OF GOD IS REVEALED BY THE OPENING OF PRISON DOORS (5:17-24). In view of the fact that the Apostles were openly defying the stricture of the previous council, and wer...
Acts 5:21. THEY ENTERED INTO THE TEMPLE EARLY IN THE MORNING, AND TAUGHT. During many months of the year in the Holy Land the heat becomes too oppressive for the ordinary labour of the day soon after...
ABOUT DAYBREAK (υπο τον ορθρον). From ορνυμ, to stir up, to arouse, so the dawn (Luke 24:1; John 8:2). Old word, but in the N.T. only these three passages. "Under the dawn" or "about dawn." _Sub luc...
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...
FOR A FULL MEETING OF THE COUNCIL. Notice this was called for the trial of the apostles, and the Council sends to the prison to have the prisoners brought before them....
_Then the high priest rose up._ VAIN EFFORTS TO OPPOSE THE GOSPEL I. The effort in this case; by the imprisonment of the leaders of the gospel (Acts 5:17). The whole Jewish authority was in oppositi...
_And when they heard that they entered into the temple … But the high priest … called the council together._ THE CHARACTERISTICS OF OPPOSITION TO THE TRUTH The contrast is very graphic. The apostles...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 5:21 It was DAYBREAK, and a crowd would be gathering at the temple for the morning sacrifices. COUNCIL, ALL THE SENATE. The Sanhedrin....
_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 12:18; Acts 12:19; Acts 4:7; Acts 22:15; Acts 22:2;...
Early in the morning [υ π ο τ ο ν ο ρ θ ρ ο ν]. 'Upo, beneath, is often used in the sense of just about, or near. Orqron is from ornumi, to cause to arise : the dawn. See on Luke 24:1. Render as Rev.,...
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...
Observe here, 1. No sooner were the apostles out of prison, but they enter into the temple and preach, with. redoubled zeal and diligence; no doubt, Satan had better have let these holy men alone, tha...