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Acts 5:27-32
Second Sunday of Easter C (First Reading) April 19, 1998
Acts 5:27-32
Having brought the apostles, they made them appear before the Sanhedrin to be questioned
by the high priest. [28] "We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,"
he said. "Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make
us guilty of this man's blood."
[29] Peter and the other apostles replied: "We must obey God rather than men! [30]
The God of our fathers raised Jesus from the dead--whom you had killed by hanging him on a
tree. [31] God exalted him to his own right hand as Prince and Savior that he might give
repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel. [32] We are witnesses of these things, and
so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him."
(NIV)
Acts 5:26-33 (The apostles testify to Christ before the council)
Many will do an evil thing with daring, yet cannot bear to hear of it afterward, or to have it charged upon them. We cannot expect to be redeemed and healed by Christ, unless we give up ourselves to be ruled by him. Faith takes the Saviour in all his offices, who came, not to save us in our sins, but to save us from our sins. Had Christ been exalted to give dominion to Israel, the chief priests would have welcomed him. But repentance and remission of sins are blessings they neither valued nor saw their need of; therefore they, by no means, admitted his doctrine. Wherever repentance is wrought, remission is granted without fail. None are freed from the guilt and punishment of sin, but those who are freed from the power and dominion of sin; who are turned from it, and turned against it. Christ gives repentance, by his Spirit working with the word, to awaken the conscience, to work sorrow for sin, and an effectual change in the heart and life. The giving of the Holy Ghost, is plain evidence that it is the will of God that Christ should be obeyed. And He will surely destroy those who will not have Him to reign over them.
(Matthew Henry Concise Commentary)