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Text -- Acts 4:1-24 (NET)

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The Arrest and Trial of Peter and John
4:1 While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the commander of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them, 4:2 angry because they were teaching the people and announcing in Jesus the resurrection of the dead. 4:3 So they seized them and put them in jail until the next day (for it was already evening). 4:4 But many of those who had listened to the message believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand. 4:5 On the next day, their rulers, elders, and experts in the law came together in Jerusalem. 4:6 Annas the high priest was there, and Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and others who were members of the high priest’s family. 4:7 After making Peter and John stand in their midst, they began to inquire, “By what power or by what name did you do this?” 4:8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, replied, “Rulers of the people and elders, 4:9 if we are being examined today for a good deed done to a sick man– by what means this man was healed4:10 let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, this man stands before you healthy. 4:11 This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, that has become the cornerstone. 4:12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved.” 4:13 When they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and discovered that they were uneducated and ordinary men, they were amazed and recognized these men had been with Jesus. 4:14 And because they saw the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say against this. 4:15 But when they had ordered them to go outside the council, they began to confer with one another, 4:16 saying, “What should we do with these men? For it is plain to all who live in Jerusalem that a notable miraculous sign has come about through them, and we cannot cannot deny it. 4:17 But to keep this matter from spreading any further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more to anyone in this name.” 4:18 And they called them in and ordered them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. 4:19 But Peter and John replied, “Whether it is right before God to obey you rather than God, you decide, 4:20 for it is impossible impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.” 4:21 After threatening them further, they released them, for they could not find how to punish them on account of the people, because they were all praising God for what had happened. 4:22 For the man, on whom this miraculous sign of healing had been performed, was over forty years old.
The Followers of Jesus Pray for Boldness
4:23 When they were released, Peter and John went to their fellow believers and reported everything the high priests and the elders had said to them. 4:24 When they heard this, they raised their voices to God with one mind and said, “Master of all, you who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them,
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Alexander the son of Simon the Cyrenian who was compelled to carry the cross of Jesus,a leading man of Jerusalem when Peter and John were tried there,a man who was converted but who afterwards apostatised
 · Annas a son of Seth; the father-in-law of Caiaphas the high priest
 · Caiaphas the son-in-law of Annas; a high priest of the Jews
 · Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel
 · Jerusalem the capital city of Israel,a town; the capital of Israel near the southern border of Benjamin
 · John a son of Zebedee; younger brother of James; the beloved disciple of Christ,a relative of Annas the high priest,a son of Mary the sister of Barnabas, and surnamed Mark,the father of Simon Peter
 · Nazareth a town in lower Galilee about halfway between the Sea of Galilee and the Mediterranean Sea
 · Peter a man who was a leader among the twelve apostles and wrote the two epistles of Peter
 · Sadducee a group/sect of the Jews


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Peter | ACTS OF THE APOSTLES, 13-OUTLINE | Caiaphas | Sanhedrim | COURTS, JUDICIAL | Government | John | Persecution | Priest | Court | Zeal | Intolerance | Minister | Courage | Sadducees | Defense | SANHEDRIN | MIRACLE | Alexander | PUNISHMENTS | more
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NET Notes: Act 4:1 Or “approached.” This verb often denotes a sudden appearing (BDAG 418 s.v. ἐφίστημι 1).

NET Notes: Act 4:2 Or “proclaiming.”

NET Notes: Act 4:3 Or “prison,” “custody.”

NET Notes: Act 4:4 In the historical setting it is likely that only men are referred to here. The Greek term ἀνήρ (anhr) usually refers to males or...

NET Notes: Act 4:5 For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

NET Notes: Act 4:6 The high priest’s family. This family controlled the high priesthood as far back as a.d. 6. Annas, Caiaphas, and Alexander were all high priests...

NET Notes: Act 4:7 By what name. The issue of the “name” comes up again here. This question, meaning “by whose authority,” surfaces an old disput...

NET Notes: Act 4:8 The Western and Byzantine texts, as well as one or two Alexandrian witnesses, read τοῦ ᾿Ισραήλ (t...

NET Notes: Act 4:9 Or “delivered” (σέσωται [seswtai], from σώζω [swzw]). See 4:12.

NET Notes: Act 4:10 Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.̶...

NET Notes: Act 4:11 A quotation from Ps 118:22 which combines the theme of rejection with the theme of God’s vindication/exaltation.

NET Notes: Act 4:12 Must be saved. The term used here (δεῖ, dei, “it is necessary”) reflects the necessity set up by God’s directive pla...

NET Notes: Act 4:13 For the translation of ἰδιῶται (idiwtai) as “ordinary men” see L&N 27.26.

NET Notes: Act 4:14 Or “nothing to say in opposition.”

NET Notes: Act 4:15 Or “the Sanhedrin” (the highest legal, legislative, and judicial body among the Jews).

NET Notes: Act 4:16 Or “has been done by them.”

NET Notes: Act 4:17 Or “speak no longer.”

NET Notes: Act 4:18 In the name of Jesus. Once again, the “name” reflects the person. The person of Jesus and his authority is the “troubling” top...

NET Notes: Act 4:19 Grk “hear,” but the idea of “hear and obey” or simply “obey” is frequently contained in the Greek verb ἀ_...

NET Notes: Act 4:20 Grk “for we are not able not to speak about what we have seen and heard,” but the double negative, which cancels out in English, is emphat...

NET Notes: Act 4:21 Or “glorifying.”

NET Notes: Act 4:22 Or “had been done.”

NET Notes: Act 4:23 Grk “to their own [people].” In context this phrase is most likely a reference to other believers rather than simply their own families an...

NET Notes: Act 4:24 Grk “and the earth, and the sea,” but καί (kai) has not been translated before “the earth” and “the sea&#...

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