Acts 5:29

And Simon, with the legates, answered and said to them: God is to be obeyed, rather than men.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

28Did we not strictly charge you, to teach no person in this name? And behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine; and ye would bring the blood of this man upon us.

30The God of our fathers hath raised up that Jesus, whom ye slew when ye hanged him on a tree.

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Cross References

Mark 7:7And in vain do they give me reverence, while teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.

Revelation 14:8And another, a second angel followed him, saying: Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, which made all nations drink of the wine of the rage of her whoredom.

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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