Acts 5:20

New Century Version

"Go stand in the Temple and tell the people everything about this new life."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Go and stand in the temple, and tell the people all about this life.”

King James Version (1611)
Goe, stand and speake in the Temple to the people all the words of this life.

King James Version
Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.

English Standard Version
"Go and stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this Life."

New American Standard Bible
"Go, stand and speak to the people in the temple area the whole message of this Life."

Amplified Bible
"Go, stand and continue to tell the people in the temple [courtyards] the whole message of this Life [the eternal life revealed by Christ and found through faith in Him]."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Go, stand and speak to the people in the temple the whole message of this Life."

Legacy Standard Bible
"Go, stand and speak to the people in the temple the whole message of this Life."

Berean Standard Bible
"Go, stand in the temple courts and tell the people the full message of this new life."

Contemporary English Version
"Go to the temple and tell the people everything about this new life."

Complete Jewish Bible
"Go, stand in the Temple court and keep telling the people all about this new life!"

Darby Translation
Go ye and stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.

Easy-to-Read Version
"Go and stand in the Temple area. Tell the people everything about this new life."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Go your way, & stand in the Temple, and speake to the people, all the wordes of this life.

George Lamsa Translation
Go, stand in the temple and speak to the people all these words of life.

Good News Translation
"Go and stand in the Temple, and tell the people all about this new life."

Lexham English Bible
"Go and stand in the temple courts and proclaim to the people all the words of this life."

Literal Translation
Go! And standing in the temple, speak to the people all the words of this Life.

American Standard Version
Go ye, and stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this Life.

Bible in Basic English
Go, take your place in the Temple and give the people all the teaching about this Life.

Hebrew Names Version
"Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life."

International Standard Version
"Go and stand in the temple and keep on telling the people the whole message about this life."John 6:68; 17:3; 1 John 5:11;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
Go stand in the temple and speak to the people all these words of salvation.

Murdock Translation
Go, stand in the temple, and speak to the people all these words of life.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Go, and stande & speake in the temple to the people, all the wordes of this lyfe.

English Revised Version
Go ye, and stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this Life.

World English Bible
"Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
said, Go, stand and speak in the temple the words of this life.

Weymouth's New Testament
"Go and stand in the Temple, and go on proclaiming to the people all this Message of Life."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and stonde ye, and speke in the temple to the puple alle the wordis of this lijf.

Update Bible Version
Go, and stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.

Webster's Bible Translation
Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.

New English Translation
"Go and stand in the temple courts and proclaim to the people all the words of this life."

New King James Version
"Go, stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this life."

New Living Translation
"Go to the Temple and give the people this message of life!"

New Life Bible
"Go, stand where you have been standing in the house of God. Keep on telling the people about this new life."

New Revised Standard
"Go, stand in the temple and tell the people the whole message about this life."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Be going your way, and, taking your stand, be speaking, in the temple, unto the people, all the declarations of this Life.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Go, and standing speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.

Revised Standard Version
"Go and stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this Life."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
goo steppe forthe and speake in the temple to the people all the wordes of this lyfe.

Young's Literal Translation
`Go on, and standing, speak in the temple to the people all the sayings of this life;'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Go youre waye and steppe vp, and speake in the temple to the people all the wordes of this life.

Mace New Testament (1729)
go, stand in the temple, and declare to the people, the whole doctrine of life.

Simplified Cowboy Version
"Go to the main church and give people the good news about the new life that is available to all."

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ The high priest and all his friends (a group called the Sadducees) became very jealous. ¹⁸ They took the apostles and put them in jail. ¹⁹ But during the night, an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and led the apostles outside. The angel said, ²⁰ "Go stand in the Temple and tell the people everything about this new life." ²¹ When the apostles heard this, they obeyed and went into the Temple early in the morning and continued teaching. When the high priest and his friends arrived, they called a meeting of the leaders and all the important elders. They sent some men to the jail to bring the apostles to them. ²² But, upon arriving, the officers could not find the apostles. So they went back and reported to the leaders. ²³ They said, "The jail was closed and locked, and the guards were standing at the doors. But when we opened the doors, the jail was empty!" ²⁴ Hearing this, the captain of the Temple guards and the leading priests were confused and wondered what was happening. ²⁵ Then someone came and told them, "Listen! The men you put in jail are standing in the Temple teaching the people."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

stand: Isaiah 58:1, Jeremiah 7:2, Jeremiah 19:14, Jeremiah 19:15, Jeremiah 20:2, Jeremiah 20:3, Jeremiah 22:1, Jeremiah 22:2, Jeremiah 26:2, Jeremiah 36:10, Matthew 21:23, John 18:20

all: Acts 11:14, Exodus 24:3, John 6:63, John 6:68, John 12:50, John 17:3, John 17:8, 1 John 1:1-3, 1 John 5:11, 1 John 5:12

Reciprocal: Proverbs 1:21 - General Proverbs 8:3 - General Jeremiah 17:19 - General Jeremiah 19:2 - and proclaim Jeremiah 43:1 - all the words Ezekiel 33:7 - thou shalt Ezekiel 37:7 - I prophesied as Daniel 6:10 - as he Amos 3:8 - who can Amos 7:15 - Go Matthew 10:27 - that preach Acts 4:5 - on Acts 4:18 - not to speak Acts 5:42 - daily Acts 8:1 - except Acts 10:42 - he commanded

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people,.... They were not delivered out of prison, in order to go and secure themselves from danger; but to go about the work they were called to, to preach the Gospel "in the temple", the place of worship; and a proper place to meet with persons to preach to, being a public place, whither the Jews always resorted; and there they were to stand, and continue with courage and intrepidity, not fearing the reproach and wrath of men, seeing they had both Christ and truth on their side; and there declare it "to the people", the common people, the multitude, even all that came to hear: the Gospel is to be preached to all; the Spirit of God makes it effectual to some, and others are rendered inexcusable: the substance of what they were to speak follows,

all the words of this life; all the doctrines of the Gospel; none of them are to be dropped or concealed, but to be spoken out, fully, freely, and faithfully, with all boldness and constancy; though they cannot be comprehended by reason, and are rejected by learned men, and the majority of the people; though charged with novelty and licentiousness, and attended with reproach and persecution: and these may be called, "the words of life", even of eternal life, as in John 6:68 because they show the nature of it, and point out the way unto it; not by the law, and obedience to that, but by Christ and his righteousness; and are the means of quickening dead sinners, of reviving drooping saints, and of nourishing them up unto eternal life: and also the words of "this" life; not of this present frail, mortal, and sinful life; but of life by Christ, which is begun to be enjoyed now, and will be perfectly enjoyed hereafter: and particularly the doctrine of the resurrection unto life may be intended; in opposition to the Sadducees, who denied it, and were the men that, being filled with indignation against them for preaching it, had seized them, and put them into prison; and being now delivered from prison, they are bid to go and preach this same doctrine again, in the most public manner: though some think there is an hypallage in the words; and so the Syriac version renders them, "all these words of life"; and the Ethiopic version, "this word of life"; meaning the Gospel, and the doctrines of it, they had in commission to preach, and for which they were reproached and persecuted.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In the temple - In a public and conspicuous place. In this way there would be a most striking exhibition of their boldness; a proof that “God” had delivered them, and a manifestation of their purpose to obey God rather than man.

All the words - All the doctrines. Compare John 6:68, “Thou hast the words of eternal life.”

Of this life - Pertaining to life, to the eternal life which they taught through the resurrection of Jesus. The word “life” is used sometimes to express “the whole of religion,” as opposed to the spiritual “death” of sin. See John 1:4; John 3:36. Their deliverance from prison was not that they might be idle, and escape to a place of safety. Again they were to engage in the toils and perils which they had just before encountered. God delivers us from dangers sometimes that we may plunge “into” new dangers; he preserves us from one form of calamity that we may be tried in some new furnace of affliction; he calls us to encounter trials simply “because” he demands it, and as an expression of gratitude to him for his gracious interposition.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 5:20. All the words of this life. — All the doctrines of life eternal, founded on the word, death, and resurrection of Christ Jesus. This is another periphrasis for Gospel. Go to the temple-the most public place, and speak to the people-who come there to worship according to the law, the words of this life-the whole doctrine of salvation from sin and death; and show that the law is fulfilled in the sacrifice of Jesus, and that, by his resurrection, he has brought life and immortality to light.