Acts 5 Footnotes

5:29 Although Christians should, as best they can, obey civil laws, human laws may conflict with God’s law (e.g., proclaiming the gospel).

5:34 Gamaliel (Gamaliel I) was Paul’s teacher (22:3), a major rabbinic leader, a member of the Sanhedrin, and a grandson of Hillel, one of the major interpreters of the Jewish law during the Roman era.

5:36-37 Many Jewish revolts against Roman rule, some with messianic dimensions, occurred in the first century, but they all failed. Jewish historian Josephus recorded a number of them. In Antiquities 18:1, he mentioned this Judas the Galilean (Judas of Gamala) who rebelled against Quirinius’s census (Lk 2:1).