Acts 5:29

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We have to obey God rather than men.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

28“Didn't we order you not to teach in this name?” the high priest demanded to know. “Now look—you've filled the whole of Jerusalem with your teaching, and you're trying to blame us for his death!”

30The God of our forefathers raised Jesus from the dead—the one you killed by hanging him on a cross.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:17He told Adam, “Because you did what your wife told you, and ate fruit from the tree after I ordered you, ‘Don't eat fruit from this tree,’ the ground is now cursed because of you. You will have to work painfully hard to grow food from it throughout your whole life.

2 Samuel 24:4But the king was adamant so Joab and the army commanders left the king and went to census the people of Israel.

Mark 7:7There's no point in their worship of me, for what they teach as doctrines are merely human rules.’

Revelation 14:8A second angel followed, calling out, “Babylon the great has collapsed into ruins! She made all the nations drink the wine of her sexual immorality that brings God's furious opposition.”

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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