Acts 5:20

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Summary

Acts 5:20

Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.

Stand

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1 John 5:11

General references

Proverbs 1:21

Proverbs 8:3

Jeremiah 17:19

Bible References

Stand

Cry aloud! Do not hold back! Raise your voice like a ram's horn. Tell my people about their rebellion and the descendants of Jacob about their sins.

Stand at the gate of Jehovah's house and proclaim there this word: 'Hear the word of Jehovah, all you of Judah who enter by these gates to worship Jehovah!

Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where Jehovah had sent him to prophesy. He stood in the court of Jehovah's house and said to all the people:

Pashhur had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put him in the stocks that were at the upper Benjamin Gate, which was by the house of Jehovah.

This is what Jehovah says: Go to the palace of the king of Judah, and speak this message there:

Jehovah said to me: Stand in the court of the Temple and proclaim all I have commanded you to say to the people who come from the towns of Judah to worship there. Do not omit anything.

Then Baruch read the scroll containing the words of Jeremiah. Baruch read it to all the people in Jehovah's temple in the room of the scribe Gemariah, son of Shaphan, in the upper courtyard at the entrance of New Gate of Jehovah's Temple.

When he went into the Temple, the chief priests and those in authority over the people came to him while he was teaching. They asked: By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?

Jesus answered him: I have spoken openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple where all the Jews gathered. I spoke nothing in secret.

All

He will bring you a message so that you and your household shall be saved.

Moses told the people all Jehovah's words and legal decisions. Then all the people answered with one voice: We will do everything Jehovah told us to do.

It is the spirit that gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I spoke to you are spirit and life.

I know that his commandment means everlasting life. Therefore I say the things the Father tells me to say.

This is everlasting life that they should have *deep, intimate knowledge of you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have commissioned. *(Greek: ginosko: know, perceive, be sure, understand)

We have heard that which was from the beginning. We have also seen it with our own eyes. We looked at it and touched it with our hands. It is the Word of life.

The testimony is this that God gave us everlasting life and this life is in his Son.

General references

She calls in the streets, in the opening of the gates: in the city she utters her words. She says:

She cries out at the gates, at the entrance by the doors:

Jehovah said to me: Go and stand in the public gate, through which the kings of Judah come in and go out, as well as in all the gates of Jerusalem.