Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 4:21
They all glorified God — So much wiser were the people than those who were over them.
They all glorified God — So much wiser were the people than those who were over them.
Verse Acts 4:21. _WHEN THEY HAD FARTHER THREATENED THEM_] προσαπειλησαμενοι, When they had added to their former threatenings, repeating the former menaces, and adding new penalties. _FINDING NOTHIN...
FINDING NOTHING ... - That is, not being able to devise any way of punishing them without exciting a tumult among the people, and endangering their own authority. The Sanhedrin was frequently influenc...
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 ...
DILEMMA OF THE RULERS: THEIR VERDICT. The promise of Luke 21:15 is at once literally fulfilled, and the reasoning is given by which the judges felt themselves overborne. It is that Peter and John are...
ARREST (Acts 4:1-4)...
When they saw how boldly Peter and John spoke, and when they had grasped the fact that they were men with no special knowledge and no special qualifications, they were amazed; and they recognized them...
SO WHEN, &C.. But having further threatened. Only here. LET... GO. Greek. _apoluo._ App-174. NOTHING, &C.. no further means of punishing. BECAUSE OF Greek. _dia._ App-104.Acts 4:2. GLORIFIED. Gree...
_further threatened_ This was all they could venture on, because the multitude knew that the lame man had been healed, and that there was no charge against the Apostles for which they deserved punishm...
ΠΡΟΣΑΠΕΙΛΗΣΆΜΕΝΟΙ, _having further threatened_. The first threats must have been made as soon as the Apostles were called back into the council-hall, as was suggested in Acts 4:17. They did not see th...
THE APOSTLES ARE DISMISSED UNPUNISHED...
_THE APOSTLES WERE THREATENED ACTS 4:13-22:_ Their persecutors were perplexed by the boldness of Peter and John. They had perceived of Peter and John as being unlearned, ignorant men. However, that is...
ΠΡΟΣΑΠΕΙΛΗΣΆΜΕΝΟΙ _aor. med. (dep.) part. (temp.) от_ ΠΡΟΣΑΠΕΙΛΈΩ (G4324) угрожать дальше. Предложное сочетание имеет значение "дополнительно" (Bruce; Jos., Ant. 14:170). ΑΠΈΛΥΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_...
THEY LET THEM GO, &C.— This dismission was not intended as an acquittal; for it was customary among the Jews to try any accused person after his discharge, when new proofs started up against him. The...
BEFORE THE SANHEDRIN. Acts 4:5-22. Acts 4:5 And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers and elders and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem; Acts 4:6 and Annas the high priest was t...
21, 22. It was a sore trial to the haughty spirits of the Sanhedrim to brook such defiance; but a desire to conciliate the people, mingled, no doubt, with a secret fear of the consequences of putting...
So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done. SO, WHEN THEY HAD...
5 This was the supreme spiritual judiciary in Israel. It comprised the heads of the twenty-four courses of priests, the scribes, and elders, said to have been in all seventy-one. The names of the chie...
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...
ALL MEN GLORIFIED GOD... — The tense implies continued action. It is specially characteristic of St. Luke thus to note the impression made upon the people by signs and wonders (Luke 2:20; Luke 4:15; a...
προσαπειλησάμενοι : “when they had further threatened them” R.V., or the word may mean “ _added_ threats to their warning” Acts 4:18 (“prius enim tantum præceperunt,” Erasmus). So Wendt as against Mey...
BRAVING MEN TO OBEY GOD Acts 4:13-22 Do people realize that there is something about us which cannot be accounted for except that we have been with Jesus? Our company always influences us. A man is k...
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...
Compelled to Preach Peter and John made it clear that in their view the Sanhedrin had no authority to countermand a command from God. Further, they felt compelled, by the power of the things they had...
(8) So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all [men] glorified God for that which was done. (8) The wicked...
Threatening them. Here commences the history of the first persecution of religious opinion, which the passions of men have continued, and swelled to such a frightful length. But on this, as on all oth...
ECCLESIASTICAL USURPATION 15-22. Here we see the preachers in authority at Jerusalem determine to crush out the holiness movement started by Jesus of Nazareth and perpetuated by His Apostles. So they...
Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus. (14) And behol...
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 they had threatened them. _And here is the end of sedition, that the wicked cease not to breathe out their fury, yet are they bridled by the secret power of God, so that they cannot tell...
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...
SO WHEN THEY HAD FURTHER THREATENED THEM,.... Either repeated the same, as before; or added some more severe ones, to terrify them, if possible; not being able to answer their arguments, or invalidate...
So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all _men_ glorified God for that which was done. Ver. 21. _Finding n...
_So when they had further threatened them_ Namely, in severer terms than before; _they let them go_ Not thinking it proper, all circumstances considered, to proceed to any further extremities at that...
BECAUSE OF THE PEOPLE; should they punish the apostles, they feared that the people would rise, and give them trouble....
The resolution announced to Peter and John:...
SO WHEN THEY HAD FURTHER THREATENED THEM, THEY LET THEM GO, FINDING NOTHING HOW THEY MIGHT PUNISH THEM, BECAUSE OF THE PEOPLE; FOR ALL MEN GLORIFIED GOD FOR THAT WHICH WAS DONE....
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...
SO WHEN THEY HAD FURTHER THREATENED THEM, THEY LET THEM GO, FINDING NO WAY OF PUNISHING THEM, BECAUSE OF THE PEOPLE, SINCE THEY ALL GLORIFIED GOD FOR WHAT HAD BEEN DONE. 1. What were the "threats" gi...
And they, when they had further threatened them, let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people; for all men glorified God for that which was done. 'FURTHER THREATENED...
15-22 All the care of the rulers is, that the doctrine of Christ spread not among the people, yet they cannot say it is false or dangerous, or of any ill tendency; and they are ashamed to own the tru...
THEY LET THEM GO for the present; for amongst them no acquittal was so peremptory or asolute, but that they might be tried again for the same fact upon further evidence. BECAUSE OF THE PEOPLE; it was...
21, 22. It was a sore trial to the haughty spirits of the Sanhedrim to brook such defiance; but a desire to conciliate the people, mingled, no doubt, with a secret fear of the consequences of putting...
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‘And they, when they had further threatened them, let them go, finding no reason why they might punish them, because of the people; for all men glorified God for what had been done.' But the supreme...
THE HEARING BEFORE THE SANHEDRIN (4:1-22)....
Acts 4:21. FINDING NOTHING HOW THEY MIGHT PUNISH THEM, BECAUSE OF THE PEOPLE. The evident good-will of the people no doubt procured the dismissal of the apostles this time without punishment. FOR ALL...
_The Answer of Peter and John to the Threats of the Sanhedrim,_ 19-22. They say obedience must be shown to God rather than to men; as for them, they were only witnesses. After being again threatened,...
WHEN THEY HAD FURTHER THREATENED THEM (προσαπειλησαμενο). The "further" is in "pros" (in addition),FINDING NOTHING HOW THEY MIGHT PUNISH THEM (μηδεν ευρισκοντες το πως κολασωντα αυτους). Note the...
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 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)...
Peter and John were summoned before the priests to give an account for having healed the lame man, and for having preached in the name of Jesus of Nazareth. In the eighth verse we read: Acts 4:8. The...
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...
BECAUSE THE PEOPLE. Note the power of public opinion! THE MAN. The man who had been healed was over forty years old, therefore known as a life-long cripple....
_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...
_And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor to teach in the name of Jesus._ CHRISTIAN COURAGE I. Its test. The apostles did not wish to separate themselves from the Jewish Churc...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 4:13. PERCEIVED.—Lit., _having perceived_ from what they saw and heard at the time, or from previous inquiry. It would certainly have been strange if the Sanhedrists, and in pa...
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 3:6; Acts 5:26; Acts 4:17; Acts 5:40; John 12:18;...
Punish [κ ο λ α σ ω ν τ α ι]. Originally, to curtail or dock; to prune as trees : thence to check, keep in bounds, punish....
THE RESULTS OF A FAITHFUL TESTIMONY Acts 4:13 INTRODUCTORY WORDS A real problem presented itself to the rulers of the Jews. They were greatly perturbed by the preaching of the disciples, and by the...
Here observe, 1. That notwithstanding this rational plea, which the apostles used, the council added further threatenings and so dismissed them, BECAUSE OF THE PEOPLE, who looked upon the miracle with...