And someone came and told them, “Look! The men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people.”
Never did any good work go on with any hope of success, but it met with opposition; those that are bent to do mischief cannot be reconciled to those who make it their business to do good. Satan, the destroyer of mankind, ever was, and will be, an adversary to those who are the benefactors of mankind; and it would have been strange if the...
Commenting on Acts 5:17-25
Then went the captain with the offcers,.... That is, the captain of the temple, who had the command of it; he went thither attended with the officers and servants of the chief priests, the same that had been sent to the prison, to fetch the apostles: and brought them without violence; they did not lay hold upon them, and drag them away in a violent...
Then came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people. (7) The more openly that Christ's power shows itself, the more the madness of his enemies who conspire against him increases.