Acts 5:38

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:

Refrain

Acts 5:35

John 11:48

For

General references

Jeremiah 26:16

Matthew 7:20

Bible References

Refrain

And he said to them, Men, Israelites, attend to yourselves on account of these men, what ye are about to do.

If we let him thus go, all will believe on him: and the Romans will come and take away also our place and nation.

For

And it will be that when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God will disperse their counsel, and we shall turn back all of us to the wall, each to his work.

Bringing to nought the purposes of the crafty, and their hand shall not do an undertaking.

Jehovah made vain the counsel of the nations: he brought the purposes of the peoples to nought

No wisdom and no understanding, and no counsel against Jehovah.

Because Aram, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, will counsel evil against thee, saying,

Make friendship, ye peoples, and be broken in pieces; and give ear, every land from afar; be girded and be broken in pieces; be girded and be broken in pieces.

To break Assur in my land, and upon my mountain I will tread him down: and his yoke was removed from off them, and his burden shall remove from off their shoulder.

Who this saying, And it shall be Jehovah commanding not?

And having answered, he said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father has not planted, shall be rooted up.

For ye see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many powerful, not, many well born:

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it has been written, He seizing the wise in their deceptions.

General references

And the chiefs will say, and all the people to the priests and to the prophets: Not for this man the judgment of death, for in the name of Jehovah his God he spake to us.

Wherefore from their fruits shall ye know them.