Acts 5:29

To this Peter and the apostles replied, ‘We must obey God rather than people.

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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‘We gave you strict orders,’ he said, ‘not to teach in this name. Yet you have actually flooded Jerusalem with your teaching, and you want to make us responsible for the death of this man.’

30The God of our ancestors raised Jesus, whom you put to death by hanging him on a cross.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:17To Adam he said, ‘Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and ate from the tree about which I ordered you: “You must never eat from it” the ground will be cursed because of you; as long as you live, you will earn a living only by anguished toil.

Mark 7:7but vainly do they worship me, For they teach but human precepts.”

Revelation 14:8Then a second angel followed, crying – “She has fallen! She has fallen – Babylon the Great, who has made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her licentiousness!”

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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