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Acts 4:1

Captain of the temple. It was the duty of the Levites to keep guard at the gates of the temple, in order to prevent the unclean from entering. To them the duties of the temple police were entrusted, under the command of an official known in the New Testament as "the captain of the temple," but in Jewish writings chiefly as "the man of the temple mount." Josephus speaks of him as a person of such consequence as to be sent, along with the high - priest, prisoner to Rome.

Came upon [ε π ε σ τ η σ α ν]. Or stood by them, suddenly. Compare Luke 24:4; Acts 22:20; Acts 23:11. Of dreams or visions, to appear to.

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  • A Textual Commentary On The Greek New Testament by Bruce M. Metzger

    ACTS 4:1-4 In these verses codex Bezae makes a number of modifications for reasons that are not always clear. The addition of ta. r`h,mata tau/ta in ver. Acts 4:1 was probably made in the interest of...

  • A Textual Commentary On The Greek New Testament by Bruce M. Metzger

    ACTS 4:1 i`erei/j {B} The word i`ereu,j occurs 31 times in the New Testament; the word avrciereu,j occurs 122 times. It is more likely that scribes would have substituted the more frequently used wor...

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    CHAPTER IV. _The priests And Sadducees are incensed at the apostles'_ _teaching, and put them in prison_, 1-3. _The number of those who believed_, 4. _The rulers, elders, and scribes call the apos...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE PRIESTS - It is probable that these priests were a part of the Sanhedrin, or Great Council of the nation. It is evident that they claimed some authority for preventing the preaching of the apostle...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE SANHEDRIN. Acts 4:1. Peter's speech seems to have reached its conclusion, but Acts 4:1 says it was interrupted by the arrival of persons representing the Sanhedrin and exercisin...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    While they were speaking to the people, the priests, the superintendent of the Temple and the Sadducees came upon them. They were annoyed because they were teaching the people, and proclaiming, throug...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    ARREST (Acts 4:1-4)...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    AND. Now. SPAKE. Greek. _laleo._ App-121. UNTO. Greek. _pros._ App-104. PEOPLE. See Acts 2:47. CAPTAIN. See note on Luke 22:4. TEMPLE. See Acts 2:46. SADDUCEES. App-

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Acts 4:1. First arrest of the Apostles. Their hearing and Defence 1. _And as they spake unto the people_ The movements of the Apostles had by this time become an object of concern to the authorities i...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    Acts 4:1-12. FIRST ARREST OF THE APOSTLES. THEIR HEARING AND DEFENCE...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΛΑΛΟΎΝΤΩΝ ΔΈ. Some little time must have elapsed since Pentecost, for now the movements of the Apostles have become a matter of concern to the Jewish authorities. See their complaint (Acts 5:28). Ther...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _THE APOSTLES WERE ARRESTED ACTS 4:1-4:_ Peter and John were interrupted as they spoke about Jesus. The priests, captain of the temple and Sadducees caused the trouble. They were grieved because of th...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΛΑΛΟΎΝΤΩΝ _praes. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΛΑΛΈΩ (G2980) говорить. _Gen. abs._, "пока они говорили" ΕΠΈΣΤΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΦΊΣΤΗΜΙ (G2186) приходить, с _dat._ Ό ΣΤΡΑΤΗΓΌΣ ΤΟΎ ΙΕΡΟΎ начальник хр...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THE PRIESTS, AND THE CAPTAIN OF THE TEMPLE, AND THE SADDUCEES, &C.— These three kinds of men,on different accounts, were prejudiced against the apostles. The _priests_ were offended, because the apost...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    IN THE PRISON ACTS 4:1-4. Acts 4:1 And as they spake unto the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them, Acts 4:2 being sore troubled because they taught th...

  • Combined Bible Commentary

    IV: 1-3. Just at this point in Peter's discourse: (1) "_And while they were speaking to the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,_ (2) _being indignant...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them, Peter and John Arrested-Prodigious Increase of Disciples (4:1-4) AND AS THEY SPAKE...

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

    13 The word "Boy" is here used because it, like its Greek equivalent, may be used both of a child and a servant. The common version renders it _ servant_, _ child _ and _ son_. Each of these, however,...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    4:1 temple (a-15) _ Hieron_ , as ch. 3.1,8,10....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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)...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    AS THEY SPAKE] Clearly John also addressed the people. THE CAPTAIN OF THE TEMPLE] a priest next in dignity to the high priest, having under him a body of priests and Levites, who maintained order in t...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    IV. (1) THE PRIESTS, AND THE CAPTAIN OF THE TEMPLE. — For the first time in this book, we come across the chief agents in the condemnation passed on our Lord by the Sanhedrin. A few weeks or months ha...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    λαλούντων δὲ αὐτῶν : the speech was interrupted, as the present participle indicates, and we cannot treat it as if we had received it in full. It is no doubt possible to infer from αὐτῶν that St. John...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE NAME ABOVE EVERY NAME Acts 4:1-12 The Sadducees are particularly mentioned, because they were the agnostics of the age, and had no belief in the unseen and eternal. The fact of our Lord's resurre...

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

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    Peter and John Arrested While they were still preaching, armed men came into the temple area and arrested Peter and John. This group included priests, the captain of the temple and the Sadducees. In a...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And (1) as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the (a) captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them, (1) There are none more commonly diligent or bold enemies of the Church than...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _The officer [1] (of the guard) of the temple: literally, the magistrate of the temple. But this magistrate, by the Greek, was an officer over soldiers; we may presume, over those who were to guard th...

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    APOSTOLICAL SUCCESSION 1-3. Here we find Peter is interrupted in the midst of this glorious sermon by the priests and the captain of the Levitical temple guards and the Sadducees, the most wealthy and...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them, (2) Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrec...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    CONTENTS Peter, and John are put into prison. They are examined before the Council, threatened, and dismissed. The Lord gives a gracious Token of his Presence, in answering to their Prayers....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    1._And as they spoke _Hereby it appeareth how watchful the wicked be, because they are always ready at an inch to stop the mouth of the servants of Christ. And, undoubt edly, they came together, as it...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND AS THEY SPAKE UNTO THE PEOPLE,.... For though only mention is made of Peter's preaching in the preceding chapter, yet doubtless John preached as well as he; either in turn, or to a part of the peo...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them, Ver. 1. _The captain of the temple_] The Jews had a band of garrison soldiers deputed...

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

    _And as they_ Namely, Peter and John; _spake unto the people_ The multitude, who had assembled in the temple, upon occasion of the miraculous cure of the lame man, as related in the preceding chapter;...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    THE CAPTAIN; of the guard near the temple. SADDUCEES; MATTHEW 22:23....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AND AS THEY SPAKE UNTO THE PEOPLE, THE PRIESTS, AND THE CAPTAIN OF THE TEMPLE, AND THE SADDUCEES CAME UPON THEM,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ACTS CHAPTER 4 Peter and John before the Council of the Jews. The arrest of the apostles:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Manly Luscombe Commentary on New Testament

    Now as they spoke to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came upon them, 1. Priests - At the time of Christ the tribe of Levi was large. It was decided that each wou...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    CAPTAIN: Or, ruler...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    And as they spake unto the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them, 'AND AS THEY'-Apparently both Peter and John were preaching. 'THE PRIESTS'-'The priests...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-4 The apostles preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead. It includes all the happiness of the future state; this they preached through Jesus Christ, to be had through him only. Miserab...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    ACTS CHAPTER 4 ACTS 4:1 The rulers of the Jews, offended with the teaching of Peter and John, imprison them. ACTS 4:5 Being brought before the council, Peter boldly avouches the late cure to have been...

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    IV: 1-3. Just at this point in Peter's discourse: (1) "_ And while they were speaking to the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,_ (2) _being indignan...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Acts 4:1 Now G1161 they G846 spoke G2980 (G5723) to G4314 people G2992 priests G2409 G2532 captain...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And as they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them, being sore troubled because they taught the people, and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrecti...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE HEARING BEFORE THE SANHEDRIN (4:1-22)....

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

    _Imprisonment of Peter and John, 1-4._ The ever-increasing crowd (see Acts 4:4) seems to have called the attention of the temple authorities to the miracle and the subsequent teaching of Peter and Jo...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    THE CAPTAIN OF THE TEMPLE (ο στρατηγος του ιερου). Twenty-four bands of Levites guarded the temple, one guard at a time. They watched the gates. The commander of each band was called captain (στρατ...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    SADDUCEES (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 3:7). _...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Acts 4:1 In this verse we find, in simple words, the true philosophy of all persecution. I. The authorities were offended because the Apostles taught. (1) They considered that the Apostles were not p...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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)...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Acts 4:1. And 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 re...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    PETER AND JOHN WERE STILL SPEAKING. Probably both are speaking to separate groups of people, as the priests on duty, the officer of the temple police, and the Sadducees [perhaps the High Priest and hi...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 4:1 THE CAPTAIN OF THE TEMPLE was second in rank to the high priest. THE SADDUCEES may have accepted only the Pentateuch as Scripture. They also denied the resurrection (see...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 4:1. AS THEY SPAKE.—Lit., _they_, the apostles, either Peter for John or John with Peter _speaking_. The discourse was probably interrupted after the utterance of the preceding...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 23:4; Acts 23:6; Acts 5:24; Acts 5:26; Acts 4:6;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    FIGHTING AGAINST GOD Acts 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The fourth chapter of Acts continues the account of the third chapter, bringing to a climax the healing of the lame man. The rulers and elders and sc...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    And as they were speaking to the people, the priests — came upon them — So wisely did God order, that they should first bear a full testimony to the truth in the temple, and then in the great council;...

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    Observe here, 1. How the apostles preaching to, and instructing the people, stirs up the devil's rage, and brings upon themselves. severe persecution: Well might Luther say, QUID EST EVANGELIUM PRADIC...

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