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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

眾人因著所發生的事，都頌讚　神，於是公議會為了群眾的緣故，也因為找不到藉口懲罰他們，就恐嚇一番，把他們放了。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
官 长 为 百 姓 的 缘 故 ， 想 不 出 法 子 刑 罚 他 们 ， 又 恐 吓 一 番 ， 把 他 们 释 放 了 。 这 是 因 众 人 为 所 行 的 奇 事 都 归 荣 耀 与 神 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ After the leaders ordered them to leave the meeting, they began to talk to each other. ¹⁶ They said, "What shall we do with these men? Everyone in Jerusalem knows they have done a great miracle, and we cannot say it is not true. ¹⁷ But to keep it from spreading among the people, we must warn them not to talk to people anymore using that name." ¹⁸ So they called Peter and John in again and told them not to speak or to teach at all in the name of Jesus. ¹⁹ But Peter and John answered them, "You decide what God would want. Should we obey you or God? ²⁰ We cannot keep quiet. We must speak about what we have seen and heard." ²¹ The leaders warned the apostles again and let them go free. They could not find a way to punish them, because all the people were praising God for what had been done. ²² The man who received the miracle of healing was more than forty years old.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

when: Acts 4:17, Acts 5:40

how: Acts 5:26, Matthew 21:46, Matthew 26:5, Luke 19:47, Luke 19:48, Luke 20:6, Luke 20:19, Luke 22:2

for all: Acts 3:6-9, Matthew 9:33, Matthew 15:31, Luke 5:26, Luke 13:17, John 12:18, John 12:19

Reciprocal: Exodus 7:16 - Let my Matthew 9:8 - and Matthew 14:5 - when Mark 2:12 - glorified Luke 18:43 - followed John 9:3 - but Acts 2:47 - having Acts 3:10 - they knew Acts 4:14 - they Acts 4:29 - behold Acts 5:13 - but Acts 5:24 - they Acts 16:35 - General Acts 21:20 - they glorified 2 Corinthians 6:8 - honour 2 Corinthians 9:13 - they

Cross-References

Genesis 4:11
And now you will be cursed in your work with the ground, the same ground where your brother's blood fell and where your hands killed him.

Genesis 4:12
You will work the ground, but it will not grow good crops for you anymore, and you will wander around on the earth."

Genesis 31:27
Why did you run away secretly and trick me? Why didn't you tell me? Then I could have sent you away with joy and singing and with the music of tambourines and harps.

Job 21:12
They sing to the music of tambourines and harps, and the sound of the flute makes them happy.

Isaiah 5:12
At their parties they have lyres, harps, tambourines, flutes, and wine. They don't see what the Lord has done or notice the work of his hands.

Amos 6:5
You make up songs on your harps, and, like David, you compose songs on musical instruments.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So when they had further threatened them,.... Either repeated the same, as before; or added some more severe ones, to terrify them, if possible; not being able to answer their arguments, or invalidate their reasoning:

they let them go; they did not acquit them as innocent persons, but dismissed them from custody:

finding nothing how they might punish them; not being able, though they sought most diligently for it, to fix anything upon them, which might be a cause, or occasion, or pretence of inflicting any punishment upon them:

because of the people: they would not have stuck at the injustice of it, or have been under any concern about offending God; but they were afraid of the people, of losing their credit among them, and lest they should rise up against them, and on the side of the apostles:

for all men glorified God for that which was done; they saw the hand of God in it, and ascribed it to his mercy, goodness, and power, and gave him the glory of it; and therefore to punish the instruments of so great and good a work, would have been esteemed barbarous and wicked, and would have been highly resented by them; since, on the contrary, they judged them worthy of great honour and respect.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Finding nothing ... - That is, not being able to devise any way of punishing them without exciting a tumult among the people, and endangering their own authority. The Sanhedrin was frequently influenced by this fear; and it shows that their own authority was much dependent on the caprice of the multitude. Compare Matthew 21:26.

All men - That is, the great mass or body of the people.

Glorified God - Praised God for the miracle. This implies:

1. That they believed that the miracle was genuine.

(2)That they were grateful to God for so signal a mercy in conferring health and comfort on a man who had been long afflicted. We may add further, that here is the highest evidence of the reality of the miracle. Even the Sanhedrin, with all their prejudice and opposition, did not call it in question; and the common people, who had doubtless been acquainted with this man for years, were convinced that it was real. It would have been impossible to impose on keensighted and jealous adversaries in this manner if this had been an imposture.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 4:21. When they had farther threatened them — προσαπειλησαμενοι, When they had added to their former threatenings, repeating the former menaces, and adding new penalties.

Finding nothing how they might punish them — Or, as the Codex Bezae reads, μηεὑρισκοντες αιτιαν, πως κολασωνται, not finding, a cause why they might punish them. This reading is supported by the Syriac and Arabic. Bp. Pearce says, "This is better sense and better Greek."

Because of the people — The people saw the miracle, confessed the finger of God, believed on the Lord Jesus, and thus became converts to the Christian faith; and the converts were now so numerous that the sanhedrin was afraid to proceed to any extremities, lest an insurrection should be the consequence.