Acts 5:22-32 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Acts 5:17-25

Never did any good work go on with any hope of success, but it met with opposition; those that are bent to do mischief cannot be reconciled to those who make it their business to do good. Satan, the destroyer of mankind, ever was, and will be, an adversary to those who are the benefactors of mankind; and it would have been strange if the apostles had gone on thus teaching and healing and had had no check. In these verses we have the malice of hell and the grace of heaven struggling about them,... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Acts 5:26-42

We are not told what it was that the apostles preached to the people; no doubt it was according to the direction of the angel?the words of this life; but what passed between them and the council we have here an account of; for in their sufferings there appeared more of a divine power and energy than even in their preaching. Now here we have, I. The seizing of the apostles a second time. We may think, if God designed this, ?Why were they rescued from their first imprisonment?? But this was... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Acts 5:17-32

5:17-32 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 Lord opened the doors of the prison and led them out and said, "Go, stand in the Temple and tell the people all the words of this life." When they heard this they came into the Temple very early and began to teach. When the high priest and those with him arrived, they summoned the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 5:22

But when the officers came ,.... The Arabic version adds, "to it"; that is, to the prison; and found them not in the prison . The Vulgate Latin version reads, "the prison being opened they found them not"; when they came to the prison, they opened the doors of it, or the keepers for them; for though the angel had opened them for the apostles, yet he shut them again, as he brought them out; for these men found the doors shut, as the following verse shows, and who upon opening them and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 5:23

Saying, the prison truly found we shut with all safety ,.... Locked, barred and bolted; and the keepers standing without before the doors ; both inner and outer in their proper places, diligently discharging their office: but when we had opened we found no man within ; that is, none of the apostles, for there might be other prisoners in it, who were not released by this means. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 5:24

Now when the high priest ,.... Or "the priests", as it is read in most copies; the Complutensian edition reads, "the high priest"; and he is certainly designed, since he is distinguished from the chief priests after mentioned: the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Ethiopic versions, leave out this word; as does also the Alexandrian copy: and the captain of the temple ; the same versions read in the plural number; See Gill on Luke 22:4 , Luke 22:52 , Acts 4:1 . and the chief priests... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 5:25

Then came one and told them, saying ,.... Who this man was, is of no consequence to know; it can hardly be thought that he was one of the number of the disciples, or a member of the church, or a professor of the Christian religion; but rather an enemy, and one that sought his own interest, and to obtain the favour and affection of the chief priests and elders, and therefore very officiously came to them, and reported as follows: behold, the men whom ye put in prison , last night, are... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 5:26

Then went the captain with the offcers ,.... That is, the captain of the temple, who had the command of it; he went thither attended with the officers and servants of the chief priests, the same that had been sent to the prison, to fetch the apostles: and brought them without violence ; they did not lay hold upon them, and drag them away in a violent manner; but gave them good words, and allured them, and entreated them to go along with them, and perhaps promised them, that no hurt... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 5:27

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, but in some part of the city of Jerusalem: they set them before the council ; whereby was fulfilled what Christ had foretold, Matthew 10:17 "they will deliver you up to the councils"; they placed them before the whole sanhedrim; in the midst of it; see Gill on Acts 4:7 ; and as the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 5:28

Saying, did not we straitly command you ,.... Or give you strict orders, with severe threatenings, that you should not teach in this name ? the Ethiopic version reads, "in the name of Jesus"; which is what is meant, but was not expressed by the sanhedrim; see Acts 4:17 and behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine ; they disregarded the council, and its orders, its commands and threatenings, and preached the doctrines of the Gospel; and particularly that concerning the... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Acts 5:17-25

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Acts 5:26-42

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Acts 5:17-32

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 5:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 5:23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 5:24

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 5:25

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 5:26

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 5:27

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 5:28

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