17But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
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Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.
For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed, …
Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow.
Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: …
For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-22)We have here the issue of the trial of Peter and John before the council. They came off now with flying colours, because they must be trained up to sufferings by degrees, and by less trials be prepared for greater. They now but run with the footmen ; hereafter we shall have them contending with horses , Jer. 12:5. I. Here is the consultation and resolution of the court about this matter, and their…
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