Cselekedetek 4:21

Biblia Karoli Gaspar

Amazok pedig nem találván semmi módot, hogyan büntessék meg õket, még megfenyegetvén, elbocsáták õket a nép miatt, mert mindnyájan dicsõítik vala az Istent azért, a mi történt.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

when: Acts 4:17, Acts 5:40

how: Acts 5:26, Matthew 21:46, Matthew 26:5, Luke 19:47, Luke 19:48, Luke 20:6, Luke 20:19, Luke 22:2

for all: Acts 3:6-9, Matthew 9:33, Matthew 15:31, Luke 5:26, Luke 13:17, John 12:18, John 12:19

Reciprocal: Exodus 7:16 - Let my Matthew 9:8 - and Matthew 14:5 - when Mark 2:12 - glorified Luke 18:43 - followed John 9:3 - but Acts 2:47 - having Acts 3:10 - they knew Acts 4:14 - they Acts 4:29 - behold Acts 5:13 - but Acts 5:24 - they Acts 16:35 - General Acts 21:20 - they glorified 2 Corinthians 6:8 - honour 2 Corinthians 9:13 - they

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So when they had further threatened them,.... Either repeated the same, as before; or added some more severe ones, to terrify them, if possible; not being able to answer their arguments, or invalidate their reasoning:

they let them go; they did not acquit them as innocent persons, but dismissed them from custody:

finding nothing how they might punish them; not being able, though they sought most diligently for it, to fix anything upon them, which might be a cause, or occasion, or pretence of inflicting any punishment upon them:

because of the people: they would not have stuck at the injustice of it, or have been under any concern about offending God; but they were afraid of the people, of losing their credit among them, and lest they should rise up against them, and on the side of the apostles:

for all men glorified God for that which was done; they saw the hand of God in it, and ascribed it to his mercy, goodness, and power, and gave him the glory of it; and therefore to punish the instruments of so great and good a work, would have been esteemed barbarous and wicked, and would have been highly resented by them; since, on the contrary, they judged them worthy of great honour and respect.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Finding nothing ... - That is, not being able to devise any way of punishing them without exciting a tumult among the people, and endangering their own authority. The Sanhedrin was frequently influenced by this fear; and it shows that their own authority was much dependent on the caprice of the multitude. Compare Matthew 21:26.

All men - That is, the great mass or body of the people.

Glorified God - Praised God for the miracle. This implies:

1. That they believed that the miracle was genuine.

(2)That they were grateful to God for so signal a mercy in conferring health and comfort on a man who had been long afflicted. We may add further, that here is the highest evidence of the reality of the miracle. Even the Sanhedrin, with all their prejudice and opposition, did not call it in question; and the common people, who had doubtless been acquainted with this man for years, were convinced that it was real. It would have been impossible to impose on keensighted and jealous adversaries in this manner if this had been an imposture.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 4:21. When they had farther threatened them — προσαπειλησαμενοι, When they had added to their former threatenings, repeating the former menaces, and adding new penalties.

Finding nothing how they might punish them — Or, as the Codex Bezae reads, μηεὑρισκοντες αιτιαν, πως κολασωνται, not finding, a cause why they might punish them. This reading is supported by the Syriac and Arabic. Bp. Pearce says, "This is better sense and better Greek."

Because of the people — The people saw the miracle, confessed the finger of God, believed on the Lord Jesus, and thus became converts to the Christian faith; and the converts were now so numerous that the sanhedrin was afraid to proceed to any extremities, lest an insurrection should be the consequence.