Acts 5:20

Verse 20. In the temple. In a public and conspicuous place. In this way there would be a most striking exhibition of their boldness; a proof that God had delivered them; and a manifestation of their purpose to obey God rather than man. All the words. All the doctrines. Comp. Joh 6:68, "Thou hast the words of eternal life." Of this life. Pertaining to life, to the eternal life which they taught through the resurrection and life of Jesus. The word life is used sometimes to express the whole of religion, as opposed to the spiritual death of sin. See Joh 1:4; 3:36. Their deliverance from prison was not that they might be idle, and escape to a place of safety.