מעשי השליחים 5:28

Delitzsche Hebrew New Testament

הֲלֹא צַוֹּה צִוִּינוּ עֲלֵיכֶם לְבִלְתִּי לַמֵּד בַּשֵּׁם הַזֶּה וְהִנֵּה מִלֵּאתֶם אֶת־יְרוּשָׁלַיִם תּוֹרַתְכֶם וְתַחְפְּצוּ לְהָבִיא עָלֵינוּ אֶת־דְּמֵי הָאִישׁ הַזֶּה׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Modern Translation
הלא צוה צוינו עליכם לבלתי למד בשם הזה והנה מלאתם את ירושלים תורתכם ותחפצו להביא עלינו את דמי האיש הזה׃

Bible Verse Review
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Did not: Acts 5:40, Acts 4:18-21

intend: Acts 2:23-36, Acts 3:15, Acts 4:10, Acts 4:11, Acts 7:52, 1 Kings 18:17, 1 Kings 18:18, 1 Kings 21:20, 1 Kings 22:8, Jeremiah 38:4, Amos 7:10

blood: Jeremiah 26:15, Matthew 21:44, Matthew 23:35, Matthew 23:36, Matthew 27:25, 1 Thessalonians 2:15, 1 Thessalonians 2:16

Reciprocal: Exodus 1:12 - grieved Numbers 16:41 - Ye have Psalms 21:11 - imagined Ecclesiastes 10:13 - beginning Isaiah 30:10 - say Jeremiah 26:9 - Why Jeremiah 29:27 - therefore Jeremiah 36:29 - Why Jeremiah 37:15 - the princes Jeremiah 38:1 - heard Daniel 3:12 - not regarded thee Amos 2:11 - and Amos 7:13 - prophesy Micah 2:6 - Prophesy ye Matthew 10:27 - that preach Matthew 23:13 - for ye shut Mark 12:7 - This Luke 9:49 - we saw John 1:24 - Why John 2:18 - seeing John 7:7 - because John 11:48 - we let John 12:19 - Perceive Acts 4:7 - by what name Acts 4:17 - let Acts 6:1 - when

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Saying, did not we straitly command you,.... Or give you strict orders, with severe threatenings,

that you should not teach in this name? the Ethiopic version reads, "in the name of Jesus"; which is what is meant, but was not expressed by the sanhedrim; see Acts 4:17

and behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine; they disregarded the council, and its orders, its commands and threatenings, and preached the doctrines of the Gospel; and particularly that concerning the resurrection of Christ, and through him the resurrection of all the dead; and with such success, that great part of the inhabitants of Jerusalem received it; at least there were great numbers in all parts of the city which attended to it, and embraced it: and this they represent as a novel doctrine, devised by the apostles, and peculiarly theirs; and which Moses, and the prophets, were strangers to:

and intend to bring this man's blood upon us; by charging us with the murder of him, and representing us as guilty of shedding innocent blood, and so stirring up the people, and the Romans against us, to take vengeance on us for it: this, as if they should say, seems to be the intention and design of your ministry, particularly in asserting, that Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified, is now risen from the dead, and was a holy, innocent, and righteous person, as his resurrection shows; and therefore, as we have been guilty in shedding his blood, the punishment of it will, one day or other, be inflicted on us; as it accordingly was, and as they themselves imprecated in Matthew 27:25. It is to be observed, that they do not mention the name of Jesus, only by way of contempt, call him "this man", as it is usual with the Jews to do, when they speak of him. So a commentator q on Genesis 27:39 says of some,

"they believed in a man whom they set up for God; and Rome believed, in the days of Constantine, who renewed all that religion, and put upon his banner the form האיש ההוא, "of that man":''

and so another of their writers r uses the phrase several times in a few words. Judah ben Tabai fled to Alexandria,

"that they might not make him president, and in the way, with one disciple; as it happened to Joshua ben Perachiah, with אותו האיש, "that man"; and ye may receive it for a truth, that "that man" was his disciple--and the truth is, that "that man" was born in the fourth year of the kingdom of Jannai the Second.''

So an heretic is said to be one that confesses "that man"; and heretics are the disciples of "that man", who turned to evil the words of the living God s. Thus blasphemously and contemptuously do they speak of Christ.

q Aben Ezra, Vid. ib. in Dan. xi. 14. r Juchasin, fol. 16. 2. s Migdal Oz & Hagehot Maimoniot. in Maimon. Teshuba, c. 3. sect. 7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Straitly command you - Did we not command you with a “threat?” Acts 4:17-18, Acts 4:21.

In this name - In the name of Jesus.

Ye have filled Jerusalem - This, though not so desired, was an honorable tribute to the zeal and fidelity of the apostles. When Chastens are arraigned or persecuted, it is well if the only charge which their enemies can bring against them is that they have been distinguished for zeal and success in propagating their religion. See 1 Peter 4:16, “If any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glory God on this behalf”; also Acts 5:13-15.

Intend to bring this man’s blood upon us - To bring “one’s blood” upon another is a phrase signifying to hold or to prove him guilty of murdering the innocent. The expression here charges them with desiring to prove that they had put Jesus to death when he was innocent; to convince “the people” of this, and thus to enrage them against the Sanhedrin; and also to prove that they were guilty, and were exposed to the divine vengeance for having put the Messiah to death. Compare Acts 2:23, Acts 2:36; Acts 3:15; Acts 7:52. That the apostles “did” intend to charge them with being guilty of murder is clear; but it is observable that on “this occasion” they had said no thing of this, and it is further observable that they did not charge it on them “except in their presence.” See the places just referred to. They took no pains to spread this among the people, “except as the people were accessory to the crime of the rulers,” Acts 2:23, Acts 2:36. Their consciences were not at ease, and the remembrance of the death of Jesus would occur to them at once at the sight of the apostles.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 5:28. Did not we straitly command you — ου παραγγελια παρηγγειλαμεν, With commanding did we not command you; a Hebraism-another proof of the accuracy and fidelity of St. Luke, who seems always to give every man's speech as he delivered it; not the substance, but the very words. See Acts 4:17.

Not teach in this name? — That is, of JESUS as the Christ or Messiah. His saving name, and the doctrines connected with it, were the only theme and substance of their discourses.

Intend to bring this men's blood upon us. — You speak in such a way of him to the people as to persuade them that we have crucified an innocent man; and that we must on that account fall victims to the Divine vengeance, or to the fury of the people, whom, by your teaching, you are exciting to sedition against us.