Acts 5:17-26
1599 Geneva Bible
17 ¶ [a]Then the chief Priest rose up, and all they that were with him (which was the [b]sect of the Sadducees) and were full of indignation,
18 And laid hands on the Apostles, and put them in the common prison.
19 [c]But the Angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said,
20 [d]Go your way, and stand in the Temple, and speak to the people, all the [e]words of this life.
21 [f]So when they heard it, they entered into the Temple early in the morning, and taught. And the chief Priest came, and they that were with him, and called the Council together, and all the Elders of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison, to cause them to be brought.
22 But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned and told it,
23 Saying, Certainly we found the prison shut as sure as was possible, and the keepers standing without, before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.
24 Then when the chief Priest and the captain of the Temple, and the high Priests heard these things, they doubted of them, whereunto this would grow.
25 [g]Then came one and showed them, saying, Behold, the men that ye put in prison, are standing in the Temple, and teach the people.
26 [h]Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence (for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.)
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- Acts 5:17 The more that the Church increaseth, the more increaseth the rage of Satan, and therefore they proceed from threatenings, to prisoning.
- Acts 5:17 The word which is used here, is Heresy, which signifieth a choice, and so is taken for a right form of learning, or faction, or study and course of life, which the Latins call a sect: at the first this word was indifferently used, but at length, it came to be taken only in evil part, whereupon came the name of Heretic, which is taken for one that goeth astray from sound and wholesome doctrine after such sort, that he setteth light by the judgment of God and his Church, and continueth in his opinion, and breaketh the peace of the Church.
- Acts 5:19 Angels are made servants of the servants of God.
- Acts 5:20 God doth therefore deliver his, that they may more stoutly provoke his enemies.
- Acts 5:20 Words, whereby the way unto life is showed.
- Acts 5:21 God mocketh his enemies’ attempts from above.
- Acts 5:25 The more openly that Christ’s virtue showeth itself, the more increaseth the madness of his enemies which conspire against him.
- Acts 5:26 Tyrants which fear not God, are constrained to fear his servants.
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