Atti 5:33

33 Ma essi, udendo queste cose, fremevano d’ira, e facevan proposito d’ucciderli.

Atti 5:33 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 5:33

When they heard that
This defence of the apostles, in which they still insisted upon it, that they had been the crucifiers of Christ, and yet that he was raised from the dead, and exalted in heaven, and was a spiritual Saviour of men:

they were cut; to the heart,
as if they had been cut asunder with a saw; the Ethiopic version renders it, "they were angry", and "gnashed with their teeth", as if a saw was drawn to and fro; they were filled with rage and madness:

and took counsel to slay them;
not in a legal and judicial way, but in a private manner, or by force; stirring up the zealots to rise up against them, and dispatch them at once, as blasphemers and heretics.

Atti 5:33 In-Context

31 Esso ha Iddio esaltato con la sua destra, costituendolo Principe e Salvatore, per dare ravvedimento a Israele, e remission dei peccati.

32 E noi siam testimoni di queste cose; e anche lo Spirito Santo, che Dio ha dato a coloro che gli ubbidiscono.

33 Ma essi, udendo queste cose, fremevano d’ira, e facevan proposito d’ucciderli.

34 Ma un certo Fariseo, chiamato per nome Gamaliele, dottor della legge, onorato da tutto il popolo, levatosi in piè nel Sinedrio, comandò che gli apostoli fossero per un po’ messi fuori.

35 Poi disse loro: Uomini Israeliti, badate bene, circa questi uomini, a quel che state per fare.