They could say nothing against it (ουδεν ειχον αντειπειν). Imperfect again, they kept on having nothing to say against it. The lam…

They could say nothing. The presence of the man who was healed was an unanswerable fact proving the truth of what the apostles alleged. Th…

They could say nothing against it.—Literally, they had nothing to say against it.

Converts shut the mouths of adversaries. The good done by the gospel will always be a dumbfounding argument to the ungodly.

While literacy was high among Jews of the first century, theological disputations required rabbinic training. Since the common people had not had s…

And beholding the man which was healed. Who either was taken into custody, and brought before the sanhedrim, along with t…

Peter, being filled with the Holy Ghost, wanted everyone to understand that the miracle had been performed by the name, or power, of Jesus of Nazar…