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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871). CCEL expanded electronic edition states it is in the public domain.
Acts Chapter 4 1 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Acts Chapter 4 4 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
4. the number of the men--or males, exclusive of women; though the word sometimes includes both.
about five thousand--and this in Jerusalem, where the means of detecting the imposture or crushing the fanaticism, if such it had been, were within everyone's reach, and where there was every inducement to sift it to the bottom.
Acts Chapter 4 5 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
5. their rulers, &c.--This was a regular meeting of the Sanhedrim (see on
Mt 2:4).
Acts Chapter 4 6 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
6. Annas . . . and Caiaphas--(See on
Lu 3:2).
John and Alexander--of whom nothing is known.
Acts Chapter 4 7 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
7. By what power or . . . name have ye done this--thus admitting the reality of the miracle, which afterwards they confess themselves unable to deny
(Ac 4:16).
Acts Chapter 4 8 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
8. Then, filled with the Holy Ghost, said--(See
Mr 13:11; Lu 21:15).
Acts Chapter 4 10 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
10. Be it known unto you . . . and to all the people of Israel--as if emitting a formal judicial testimony to the entire nation through its rulers now convened.
by the name of Jesus, &c.--(See on
Ac 3:13,
&c.).
even by him doth this man stand before you whole--for from
Ac 4:14
it appears that the healed man was at that moment before their eyes.
Acts Chapter 4 11 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
11. This is the stone which was set at naught of you builders, &c.--This application of
Ps 118:22,
already made by our Lord Himself before some of the same "builders"
(Mt 21:42),
is here repeated with peculiar propriety after the deed of rejection had been consummated, and the rejected One had, by His exaltation to the right hand of the Majesty on high, become "the head of the corner."
Ac 4:1-13.
PETER AND JOHN BEFORE THE SAMHEDRIM.
1-12. the captain--of the Levitical guard.
of the temple--annoyed at the disturbance created around it.
and the Sadducees--who "say that there is no resurrection"
(Ac 23:8),
irritated at the apostles "preaching through (rather, 'in') Jesus the resurrection from the dead"; for the resurrection of Christ, if a fact, effectually overthrew the Sadducean doctrine.