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Matthew Henry Commentary on the Bible

Acts 5 - Introduction

* The death of Ananias and Sapphira. (1-11) The power which accompanied the preaching of the gospel. (12-16) The apostles imprisoned, but set free by an angel. (17-25) The apostles testify to Christ before the council. (26-33) The advice of Gamaliel, The council let the apostles go. (34-42)

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See also Acts 5 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Charles Box Commentaries

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    After that Ananias and Sapphira his wife, for their hypocrisy, at Peter's rebuke, had fallen down dead, and that the rest of the apostles had wrought many miracles, to the increase of the faith; the a...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE CHURCH IN JERUSALEM Acts 1:1, Acts 7:60 All the events of the first seven Chapter s can be summed up under the heading: THE CHURCH IN JERUSALEM. In the picture of the preceding page you can obser...

  • Combined Bible Commentary

    V: 1, 2. In close connection with this unprecedented liberality of the brethren, we are now introduced to a remarkable case of corruption, of which it was the occasion. The praise always lavished on d...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:2 up; (a-21) The word means 'receiving,' but with the prefix ( _ ana_ ) 'up,' as here, it has the active sense of 'taking up.' It is so translated except in 1 Timothy 3:16 . The more passive recepti...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    THE BOOK OF ACTS. CHAPTER. OUTLINE AND COMMENTARY. MARK DUNAGAN I. OUTLINE OF CHAPTER 5: I. The Deception And Deaths Of Ananias and Sapphira: Acts 5:1-10 II. The Effects And Aftermath: Acts 5:11-1...

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    V: 1, 2. In close connection with this unprecedented liberality of the brethren, we are now introduced to a remarkable case of corruption, of which it was the occasion. The praise always lavished on d...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    EXCURSUS A. The Hebrew Doctrine respecting Angels before the captivity. In the Jerusalem Talmud we read how ‘the names of the angels went up by the hand of Israel out of Babylon,' and the date of the...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CHAPTER 5 DANGERS BOTH WITHIN AND WITHOUT THE CHURCH—FALSE FRIENDS AND OPEN FOES § 1. The Story of Ananias and Sapphira; or, Hypocrisy unveiled (Acts 5:1). § 2. A Page from the Church’s Life Histo...

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