Acts 5:39 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁹But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.

Acts 5:39 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 21:30
There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
Isaiah 46:10
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
Matthew 16:18
And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Acts 7:51
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
1 Corinthians 1:25
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

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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. 39)

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.