Handelingen 5:40

40 En zij gaven hem gehoor; en als zij de apostelen tot zich geroepen hadden, geselden zij dezelve, en geboden hun, dat zij niet zouden spreken in den Naam van Jezus; en lieten hen gaan.

Handelingen 5:40 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 5:40

And to him they agreed
They were convinced and persuaded by his reasonings, approved of his advice, and agreed to follow it:

and when they had called the apostles;
into the council again, having sent their servants for them, or ordered them to be brought in:

and beaten them;
or scourged and whipped them with forty stripes save one, whereby was fulfilled what Christ had foretold, ( Matthew 10:17 )

they commanded they should not speak in the name of Jesus;
as they had strictly commanded them before, ( Acts 4:18 ) . Perhaps both in this, as well as in bearing the apostles, they did not closely attend to Gamaliel's counsel, who advised them to keep their hands off of them, and not hinder them, but let them alone in what they were about: but this might be thought by them not to their reputation, nor sufficiently asserting their authority, to dismiss them, without saying or doing anything to them:

and let them go;
from the council to their own company: they released them, and loosed them from their bonds; they set them at liberty, and let them go where they would; and so far they followed Gamaliel's advice.

Handelingen 5:40 In-Context

38 En nu zeg ik ulieden: Houdt af van deze mensen, en laat hen gaan; want indien deze raad, of dit werk uit mensen is, zo zal het gebroken worden.

39 Maar indien het uit God is, zo kunt gij dat niet breken; opdat gij niet misschien bevonden wordt ook tegen God te strijden.

40 En zij gaven hem gehoor; en als zij de apostelen tot zich geroepen hadden, geselden zij dezelve, en geboden hun, dat zij niet zouden spreken in den Naam van Jezus; en lieten hen gaan.

41 Zij dan gingen heen van het aangezicht des raads, verblijd zijnde, dat zij waren waardig geacht geweest, om Zijns Naams wil smaadheid te lijden.

42 En zij hielden niet op, allen dag, in den tempel en bij de huizen, te leren, en Jezus Christus te verkondigen.