Albert Barnes Commentary Acts 5:20

"Go ye, and stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this Life." — Acts 5:20 (ASV)

In the temple. In a public and conspicuous place. In this way, there would be a most striking exhibition of their boldness; a proof that God had delivered them; and a manifestation of their purpose to obey God rather than man.

All the words. All the doctrines. Compare to John 6:68: Thou hast the words of eternal life.

Of this life. This pertains to life—to the eternal life they taught through the resurrection and life of Jesus. The word life is sometimes used to express the whole of religion, as opposed to the spiritual death of sin. See John 1:4; John 3:36.

Their deliverance from prison was not so that they might be idle and escape to a place of safety. Again, they were to engage at once in the toils and perils which they had just before encountered.

God sometimes delivers us from danger so that we may plunge into new dangers; he preserves us from calamity so that we may be tried in some new furnace of affliction; and he calls us to encounter trials simply because he demands it, and as an expression of gratitude to him for his gracious interposition.