Acts 5:29

Peter and the other Apostles answered and sayde: We ought moare to obey God then men.

Tyndale 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

28sayinge: dyd not we straytely commaunde you that ye shuld not teache in this name? And beholde ye have filled Ierusalem with youre doctrine and ye intende to brynge this mans bloud vpon vs.

30The God of oure fathers raysed vp Iesus whom ye slewe and hanged on tre.

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Cross References

Mark 7:7In vayne they worshippe me teachinge doctryns which are nothinge but the comaundementes of men.

Revelation 14:8And there folowed another angell sayinge: Babilon is fallen is fallen that gret cite for she made all nacions drynke of the wyne of hyr fornicacion.

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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