Acts 5:20
18 And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.
19 But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said,
Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.
21 And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.
22 But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told,
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
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Read in contextJohn 6:68
Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
Read in context1 John 5:11–12
And this is the record, that God hath given to 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 eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;
Read in contextMatthew 21:23
And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?
Read in contextJohn 12:50
And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
Read in contextJohn 17:3
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
Read in contextJeremiah 36:10
Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD’s house, in the ears of all the people.
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