Acts 5:29

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

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

In Context

28saying: Did we not strictly charge you not to teach in this name? And behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.

30The God of our fathers has raised up Jesus, whom you slew by hanging him on a tree.

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Cross References

Mark 7:7In vain do they worship me, teaching precepts, the commandments of men.

Revelation 14:8And another angel followed, saying: Babylon the great has fallen, has fallen; because she has made all nations drink of the maddening wine of her lewdness.

Matthew Henry on Acts 5:27-42

The Seizing of the Apostles; The Examination of the Apostles; The Advice of Gamaliel. 26 Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned. 27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them, 28 Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us. 29… Read the whole commentary →

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