Acts 5:20

5:20 “Go and stand in the temple courts ¹  and proclaim ²  to the people all the words of this life.”

Acts 5:29

5:29 But Peter and the apostles replied, ³  “We must obey ⁴  God rather than people. ⁵ 

Acts 5:40-42

5:40 and they summoned the apostles and had them beaten. ⁶  Then ⁷  they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus and released them. 5:41 So they left the council rejoicing because they had been considered worthy ⁸  to suffer dishonor for the sake of the name. ⁹  5:42 And every day both in the temple courts ¹⁰  and from house to house, they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the good news ¹¹  that Jesus was the Christ. ¹² 

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¹ tn Grk “the temple.” This is actually a reference to the courts surrounding the temple proper, and has been translated accordingly.

² tn Or “speak.”

³ tn Grk “apostles answered and said.”

⁴ sn Obey. See 4:19. This response has Jewish roots (Dan 3:16-18; 2 Macc 7:2; Josephus, Ant. 17.6.3 [17.159].

⁵ tn Here ἀνθρώποις (anqrwpoi") has been translated as a generic noun (“people”).

⁶ sn Had them beaten. The punishment was the “forty lashes minus one,” see also Acts 22:19; 2 Cor 11:24; Mark 13:9. The apostles had disobeyed the religious authorities and took their punishment for their “disobedience” (Deut 25:2-3; m. Makkot 3:10-14). In Acts 4:18 they were warned. Now they are beaten. The hostility is rising as the narrative unfolds.

⁷ tn The word “Then” is supplied as the beginning of a new sentence in the translation. The construction in Greek has so many clauses (most of them made up of participles) that a continuous English sentence would be very awkward.

⁸ sn That is, considered worthy by God. They “gloried in their shame” of honoring Jesus with their testimony (Luke 6:22-23; 2 Macc 6:30).

⁹ sn The name refers to the name of Jesus (cf. 3 John 7).

¹⁰ tn Grk “temple.” This is actually a reference to the courts surrounding the temple proper and has been translated accordingly.

¹¹ tn Grk “teaching and evangelizing.” They were still obeying God, not men (see 4:18-20; 5:29).

¹² tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”

sn See the note on Christ in 2:31.