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Selected Verse: Acts 5:24 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ac 5:24 |
King James |
Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| they doubted--"were in perplexity." |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The captain of the temple - See the notes on Act 4:1.
Doubted of them - They were in "perplexity" about these things. The word rendered "doubted" denotes "that state of anxiety which arises when a person has lost his way, or when he does not know what to do to escape from a difficulty." See Luk 9:7.
Whereunto this would grow - What this "would be"; or, what would be the result or end of these events. For:
(1) Their authority was disregarded.
(2) God had opposed them by a miracle.
(3) the doctrines of the apostles were gaining ground.
(4) their efforts to resist them had been in vain. They need "not" have doubted; but sinners are not disposed to be convinced of the truth of religion. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
They doubted (διηπόρουν)
See on Luk 9:5. Rev., were much perplexed, giving the force of διά, thoroughly at a loss. Compare Luk 24:4. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| They doubted what this should be - They were even at their wits' end. The world, in persecuting the children of God, entangle themselves in numberless difficulties. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| They doubted of them whereunto this would grow - They did not know what to think of the apostles, whether they had saved themselves by magic, or whether they were delivered by a real miracle; and they were at a loss to tell what the issue of these things would be. |
7 Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him: and he was perplexed, because that it was said of some, that John was risen from the dead;
1 And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,
4 And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments:
5 And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.