Act 5:27-41 | Abbott

Acts 5:27-41

This man's blood. This contemptuous mode of designating the Savior shows that their feelings towards him remained unchanged.

With his right hand; by his supreme power.

Gamaliel. One or two prominent men of this name appear in the secular history of those times. Gamaliel was the name of the early instructor of Paul. (Acts 22:3.)

Drew away, &c.; in an attempt, probably, to resist the tax.

To him they agreed; that is, so far as to spare the lives of their prisoners.