Acts 5:28

"When they had brought them, they set them before the council. The high priest questioned them,"

Key Reflection

In Acts 5:28, the high priest and his council are questioning Peter and John after they had been brought before the Sanhedrin for healing a lame man in Solomon's Porch. The original audience would have understood this as part of an escalating conflict between the early Christians and the Jewish religious leadership. This scene follows their arrest for performing miracles in Jesus’s name, setting up the tension that will continue to build as Acts recounts the growing opposition against the nascent Christian community.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Verse 28. Straitly command you. Did we not command you with a threat? Ac 4:17,18,21. In this name. In the name of Jesus. Ye have filled Jerusalem. This, though not so designed, was an honourable tribute to the zeal and fidelity of the apostles. When Christians are arraigned or persecuted, it is well if the only charge which their enemies can bring against them is that they have been distinguished for zeal and success in propagating their religion. See 1 Pe 4:16, "If any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf." Also Ac 5:13-15. Intend to bring this man's blood upon us.

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