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Selected Verse: Acts 5:30 - Basic English
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ac 5:30 |
Basic English |
The God of our fathers gave Jesus back to life, whom you had put to death, hanging him on a tree. |
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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 Now it was the day of getting ready for the Passover, and so that the bodies might not be on the cross on the Sabbath (because the day of that Sabbath was a great day), the Jews made a request to Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
32 So the men of the army came, and the legs of the first were broken and then of the other who was put to death on the cross with Jesus:
33 But when they came to Jesus, they saw that he was dead by this time, and so his legs were not broken;
34 But one of the men made a wound in his side with a spear, and straight away there came out blood and water.
29 But Peter and the Apostles, answering, said, We have to do the orders of God, not of man.
29 And when they had done all the things said in the Writings about him, they took him down from the tree, and put him in the place of the dead.
39 And we are witnesses of all the things which he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem; whom they put to death, hanging him on a tree.
24 He took our sins on himself, giving his body to be nailed on the tree, so that we, being dead to sin, might have a new life in righteousness, and by his wounds we have been made well.
13 Christ has made us free from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us: because it is said in the Writings, A curse on everyone who is put to death by hanging on a tree:
31 For if they do these things when the tree is green, what will they do when it is dry?
21 For this reason, the Jews took me in the Temple, and made an attempt to put me to death.
10 Take note, all of you, and all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you put to death on the cross, whom God gave back from the dead, even through him is this man now before you completely well.
11 He is the stone which you builders had no use for, but which has been made the chief stone of the building.
12 And in no other is there salvation: for there is no other name under heaven, given among men, through which we may have salvation.