They therefore (ο μεν ουν). No answering δε.

They were counted worthy to suffer dishonour for the Name (κα…

Rejoicing. Nothing to most men would seem more disgraceful than a public whipping. It is a punishment inflicted usually not so much becaus…

Rejoicing that they were counted worthy.—The emotion is probably, in one sense, natural to all who have an intense conviction of t…

Luke stresses the fact that just as the apostles performed miracles through the power of the name of Jesus (cf. 3:6) and proclaimed that name befor…

Then they went rejoicing. We must not think that the apostles were so unfeeling that they did not also experience some shame and lament wh…

And they departed from the presence of the council

Having been threatened and beaten by them:

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The Lord still has all hearts in His hands, and sometimes directs the prudence of the worldly wise, so as to restrain the persecutors. Common sense…