Cselekedetek 4:17

Biblia Karoli Gaspar

De hogy tovább ne terjedjen a nép között, fenyegetéssel fenyegessük meg õket, hogy többé egy embernek se szóljanak ebben a névben.

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that it: Acts 5:39, Psalms 2:1-4, Daniel 2:34, Daniel 2:35, Romans 10:16-18, Romans 15:18-22, 1 Thessalonians 1:8

let: Acts 4:21, Acts 4:29, Acts 4:30, Acts 5:24, Acts 5:28, Acts 5:40, 2 Chronicles 25:15, 2 Chronicles 25:16, Isaiah 30:8-11, Jeremiah 20:1-3, Jeremiah 29:25-32, Jeremiah 38:4, Amos 2:12, Amos 7:12-17, Micah 2:6, Micah 2:7, Matthew 27:64, John 11:47, John 11:48, 1 Thessalonians 2:15, 1 Thessalonians 2:16

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 12:26 - Now shall 2 Kings 1:11 - Again Nehemiah 4:7 - then Psalms 21:11 - are not Psalms 62:4 - consult Psalms 83:4 - General Isaiah 30:10 - say Jeremiah 26:9 - Why Jeremiah 29:27 - therefore Daniel 6:10 - when Amos 7:13 - prophesy Matthew 23:13 - for ye shut Luke 11:52 - for John 3:2 - for John 12:19 - Perceive

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But that it spread no further among the people,.... Meaning not in Jerusalem; for the fame of this miracle was spread among all the inhabitants of that city; but in other parts of the nation:

let us straitly threaten them; or "in threatening threaten them"; that is, severely threaten them with imprisonment, or with the scourging of forty stripes save one, or with death itself.

That they speak henceforth to no man in this name; which through indignation and contempt they do not mention, but mean the name of Jesus: and their sense is, that the apostles, from this time forward, should not teach, or preach the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, or any other doctrine of the Gospel, in the name of Jesus, to any man, Jew or Gentile; or perform any miracle in his name, or call upon his name, and make use of it, for the healing of any person, or doing any miraculous work. The Ethiopic version is a very odd one, and quite contrary to the sense of the sanhedrim, "that they should not speak any more but in the name of the man Jesus".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

What shall we do to these men? - The object which they had in view was evidently to prevent their preaching. The miracle was performed, and it was believed by the people to have been made. This they could not expect to be able successfully to deny. Their only object, therefore, was to prevent the apostles from making the use which they saw they would to convince the people that Jesus was the Messiah. The question was, in what way they should prevent this; whether by putting them to death, by imprisoning them, or by scourging them; or whether by simply exerting theft authority and forbidding them. From the former they were deterred, doubtless, by fear of the multitude; and they therefore adopted the latter, and seemed to suppose that the mere exertion of their authority would be sufficient to deter them from this in future.

The council - Greek: The “Sanhedrin.” This body was composed of 71 or 72 persons, and was entrusted with the principal affairs of the nation. It was a body of vast influence and power, and hence they supposed that their command might be sufficient to restrain ignorant Galileans from speaking. Before this same body, and probably the same men, our Saviour was arraigned, and by them condemned before he was delivered to the Roman governor, Matthew 26:59, etc. And before this same body, and in the presence of the same men, Peter had just before denied his Lord, Matthew 26:70, etc. The fact that the disciples had fled on a former occasion, and that Peter had denied his Saviour, may hate operated to induce them to believe that they would be terrified by their threats, and deterred from preaching publicly in the name of Jesus.

A notable miracle - A known, undeniable miracle.

That it spread - That the knowledge of it may not spread among them any further.

Let us straitly threaten them - Greek: “Let us threaten them with a threat.” This is a “Hebraism” expressing intensity, certainty, etc. The threat was a command Acts 4:18 not to teach, implying their displeasure if they did do it. This threat, however, was not effectual. On the next occasion, which occurred soon after Acts 5:40, they added beating to their threats in order to deter them from preaching in the name of Jesus.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 4:17. But that it spread no farther — Not the news of the miraculous healing of the lame man, but the doctrine and influence which these men preach and exert. More than a thousand people had already professed faith in Christ in consequence of this miracle, (see Acts 4:4,) and if this teaching should be permitted to go on, probably accompanied with similar miracles, they had reason to believe that all Jerusalem (themselves excepted, who had steeled their hearts against all good) should be converted to the religion of him whom they had lately crucified.

Let us straitly threaten them — απειλη απειλησωμεθα, Let us threaten them with threatening, a Hebraism, and a proof that St. Luke has translated the words of the council into Greek, just as they were spoken.

That they speak - to no man in this name. — Nothing so ominous to them as the name of Christ crucified, because they themselves had been his crucifiers. On this account they could not bear to hear salvation preached to mankind through him of whom they had been the betrayers and murderers, and who was soon likely to have no enemies but themselves.