28Saying, 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.
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Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. …
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: …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 26-42)We are not told what it was that the apostles preached to the people; no doubt it was according to the direction of the angel— the words of this life ; but what passed between them and the council we have here an account of; for in their sufferings there appeared more of a divine power and energy than even in their preaching. Now here we have, I. The seizing of the apostles a second time. We may t…
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