Acts 5:34

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space;

Stood

Acts 23:7

Psalm 76:10

John 7:50

Gamaliel

Acts 22:3

A doctor

Luke 2:46

Luke 5:17

And commanded

Acts 4:15

General references

Jeremiah 26:16

Matthew 28:12

Bible References

Stood

When he said this, an angry dispute erupted between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the [whole crowded] assembly was divided [into two factions].

For the wrath of man shall praise You;
With a remnant of wrath You will clothe and arm Yourself.

Nicodemus (the one who came to Jesus before and was one of them) asked,

Gamaliel

“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel according to the strictness of the law of our fathers, being ardent and passionate for God just as all of you are today.

A doctor

Three days later they found Him in the [court of the] temple, sitting among the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions.

One day as He was teaching, there were Pharisees and teachers of the Law sitting there who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was present with Him to heal.

And commanded

But after ordering them to step out of the Council [chamber], they began to confer among themselves,

General references

Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the [false] prophets, “This man is not deserving of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.”

And when the chief priests had gathered with the elders and had consulted together [to develop a plan of deception], they gave a sufficient sum of money [as a bribe] to the soldiers,