Discovery BoxActs 5:20 
Context5:20 “Go and stand in the temple courts 1 and proclaim 2 to the people all the words of this life.”
Acts 5:29
Context5:29 But Peter and the apostles replied, 3 “We must obey 4 God rather than people. 5
Acts 5:40-42
Context5:40 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
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.
