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Selected Verse: Acts 5:30 - American Standard

Verse	Translation	Text
Ac 5:30	American Standard	The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew, hanging him on a tree.
	King James	The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.

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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.

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.

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³¹ The Jews therefore, because it was the Preparation, that the bodies should not remain on the cross upon the sabbath (for the day of that sabbath was a high day), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
³² The soldiers therefore came, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other that was crucified with him:
³³ but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:
³⁴ howbeit one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and straightway there came out blood and water.

²⁹ But Peter and the apostles answered and said, We must obey God rather than men.

²⁹ And when they had fulfilled all things that were written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.

³⁹ And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom also they slew, hanging him on a tree.

²⁴ who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed.

¹³ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become 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 the green tree, what shall be done in the dry?

²¹ For this cause the Jews seized me in the temple, and assayed to kill me.

¹⁰ be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even in him doth this man stand here before you whole.
¹¹ He is the stone which was set at nought of you the builders, which was made the head of the corner.
¹² And in none other is there salvation: for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, wherein we must be saved.