Verse 29
29. Then To the charge of disobedience the apostles take the high ground that obedience to them would be disobedience to God. This was in fact declaring that, though they might be magistrates of secular Israel, yet they were not authority in the present kingdom of God, the new theocracy. Caiaphas was no high priest, for the only high priest was at the right hand of God. The Sanhedrin were no judges in the new theocracy; for these twelve apostles, by them falsely judged, were now in spirit and in truth sitting upon twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of the true Israel.
Peter and… apostles… said Either Luke gives a summary of the utterances of all the apostles, or the words of Peter alone in the name of all the apostles.
We ought The apostles here explicitly affirm what they submit to the judges in Acts 4:19.
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