Acts 5:29
But Peter and the Apostles responded by saying: “It is necessary to obey God, more so than men.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
In Context
30The God of our fathers has raised up Jesus, whom you put to death by hanging him on a tree.
Cross References
Genesis 3:17Yet truly, to Adam, he said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, from which I instructed you that you should not eat, cursed is the land that you work. In hardship shall you eat from it, all the days of your life.
2 Samuel 24:4But the words of the king prevailed over the words of Joab and the leaders of the army. And so Joab and the leaders of the military departed from the face of the king, so that they might number the people of Israel.
Mark 7:7And in vain do they worship me, teaching the doctrines and precepts of men.’
Revelation 14:8And another Angel followed, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who inebriated all nations with the wine of her wrath and of fornication.”
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 →