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Selected Verse: Acts 5:30 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ac 5:30 |
King James |
The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Raised up Jesus - This refers to his resurrection.
Hanged on a tree - That is, on the "cross," Gal 3:13; Pe1 2:24; Act 10:39; Act 13:29. This is the amount of Peter's defense. He begins with the great principle Act 5:29, which they could not gainsay, that God ought to be obeyed rather than man. He then proceeds to state that they were convinced that God had raised up Jesus from the dead, and as they had such decisive evidence of that, and were commanded by the authority of the Lord Jesus to be "witnesses of that," they were not "at liberty" to be silent. They were bound to obey God rather than the Sanhedrin, and to make known everywhere the fact that the Lord Jesus was risen. The remark that God had raised up Jesus whom they had "slain," does not seem to have been made to irritate or to reproach them, but merely to "identify" him as the person that had been raised. It was also a confirmation of the truth and reality of the miracle. Of his "death" they had no doubt, for they had been at pains to certify it, Joh 19:31-34. It is certain, however, that Peter did not shrink from charging on them their guilt; nor was he at any pains to "soften" or "mitigate" the severe charge that they had murdered their own Messiah. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Ye slew (διεχειρίσασθε)
Only here and Act 26:21. To slay with one's own hands.
Tree
See on Luk 23:31. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Hath raised up Jesus - Of the seed of David, according to the promises made to our fathers. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
The God of our fathers raised up Jesus - It was well to introduce this, that the council might at once see that they preached no strange God; and that he who so highly honored the patriarchs, Moses, and the prophets, had yet more highly honored Jesus Christ in raising him from the dead and seating him at his right hand, and proclaiming him as the only giver of salvation and the repentance which leads to it.
Whom ye slew - They charge them again with the murder of Christ, as they had done before, Act 4:10-12, where see the notes. |
31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
32 Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him.
33 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:
34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
29 And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.
39 And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:
24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
31 For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
21 For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.
10 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
11 This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.