Afraid Along Apostles Bring Captain Commander Fear Feared Fearing Force Lest Magistrate Officers Police Proceeded Stone Stoned Using Violence Violently
5:26 {8} Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.
(8) Tyrants who do not fear God are forced to fear his servants.
5:26 Brought them without violence. The favor of the people for the apostles was so shown that they feared a tumult.
5:26-33 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.
Afraid Apostles Captain Commander Fear Feared Fearing Force Magistrate Officers Police Proceeded Stone Stoned Use Using Violence Violently
Afraid Apostles Captain Commander Fear Feared Fearing Force Magistrate Officers Police Proceeded Stone Stoned Use Using Violence Violently
