Acts 5:20
18 and arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.
19 But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought them out, saying,
“Go, stand in the temple courts and tell the people the full message of this new life.”
21 At daybreak the apostles entered the temple courts as they had been told and began to teach the people. When the high priest and his associates arrived, they convened the Sanhedrin—the full assembly of the elders of Israel—and sent to the jail for the apostles.
22 But on arriving at the jail, the officers did not find them there. So they returned with the report:
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “Go, stand in the temple courts and tell the people the full message of this new life.”
- KJV
- Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.
- WEB
- “Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.”
- ASV
- Go ye, and stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this Life.
- DARBY
- Go ye and stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.
- BLB
- “Go, and having stood in the temple, speak to the people all the words of this life.”
- ÅB
- Gå avsted, og stå fram og tal i templet alle dette livs ord for folket!
- OTB
- “Gå, stå i tempelgårdene,” sa han, “og del med folket om dette nye livet.”
- B1930
- Gå avsted, og stå frem og tal i templet alle dette livs ord for folket!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
John 6:63
The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
Read in contextJohn 6:68
Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
Read in context1 John 5:11–12
And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
Read in context1 John 1:1–3
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our own eyes, which we have gazed upon and touched with our own hands—this is the Word of life.
Read in contextMatthew 21:23
When Jesus returned to the temple courts and began to teach, the chief priests and elders of the people came up to Him. “By what authority are You doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave You this authority?”
Read in contextJohn 12:50
And I know that His command leads to eternal life. So I speak exactly what the Father has told Me to say.”
Read in contextJohn 17:3
Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
Read in contextJeremiah 36:10
From the chamber of Gemariah son of Shaphan the scribe, which was in the upper courtyard at the opening of the New Gate of the house of the LORD, Baruch read from the scroll the words of Jeremiah in the hearing of all the people.
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