Acts 5:38 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁸And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:

Acts 5:38 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 15:13
But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.
Lamentations 3:37
Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
Psalms 33:10-11
The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect. …
Isaiah 8:9-10
Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. …
Job 5:12-14
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. …

Topics

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Commentary

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 th…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 38)

35-39. Theudas--not the same with a deceiver of that name whom Josephus mentions as heading an insurrection some twelve years after this [Antiquities, 20.5.1], but some other of whom he makes no mention. Such insurrections were frequent.