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Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)

Acts 5:42

Acts 5:42. And daily in the temple. Undismayed by any punishment in the past, undeterred by any fear for the future, they did their Master's bidding daily without rest or repose, in public, in the courts of His ancient and beautiful temple.

And in every house they ceased not to teach. In private assemblies, too, held in the now many homes of the faithful, they taught the doctrines of their Crucified and Risen Lord.

And preach Jesus Christ, better translated ‘the Christ.' Here, in one word, the special purpose of their public and private teaching is told us. They proclaimed to all in the crowded Temple courts, as in the little earnest home gatherings of the believers, that Jesus the Crucified was no other than the Christ the Messiah.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Acts 5:42. _DAILY IN THE TEMPLE_] That is at the hours of morning and evening prayer; for they felt it their duty to worship God in _public_, and to help others to make a profitable use of the...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND DAILY ... - Compare 2 Timothy 4:2. See also notes on Acts 2:46....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    TROUBLE IN THE CHURCH (Acts 5:1-11)...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    IN EVERY HOUSE. Greek. _kat'_ (App-104.) _oikon =_ at home. See on Acts 2:46. PREACH. App-121. JESUS CHRIST. Jesus as the Christ (App-98), the name of Acts 5:41....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _And daily in the temple, and in every house_ Read, as in Acts 2:46, _in the temple and at home_. These are their two fields of labour, in the Temple, while they may be there, and then in their own ho...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

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  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

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  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _TRUTH CUTS TO THE HEART ACTS 5:33-42:_ Even those that will not receive truth may be cut to the heart by truth. When the accusers of the apostles heard the resurrection message they wanted to kill th...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΈΠΑΎΟΝΤΟ _impf. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΠΑΎΟΜΑΙ (G3973) прекращать, с _part._...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • Combined Bible Commentary

    See notes on verse 41...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And daily in the (p) temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ. (p) Both publicly and privately....

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

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  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND DAILY IN THE TEMPLE, AND IN EVERY HOUSE,.... Every day, with great constancy and assiduity, both publicly and privately; in the temple, the place of public worship, where the Jews resorted on that...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Gamaliel's suggestion and the result:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Manly Luscombe Commentary on New Testament

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  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

    Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III "And daily," it is said, "in the temple, and from house to house, they ceased not to teach and preach Christ Jesus,"[187]...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Acts 5:42 And G5037 daily G2250 G3956 in G1722 temple G2411 and G2532 every G2596 house G3624 not...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And every day, in the temple and at home, they ceased not to teach and to preach Jesus as the Christ (Messiah).' The final consequence was that the message was now proclaimed unhindered. Wherever the...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Bible Study New Testament

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 2:2; 2 Samuel 6:22; 2 Timothy 4:2; Acts 17:3; Acts 20:20

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