Acts 5:42
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Every day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Christ.
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in every house--in private. (See on Act 2:46). ceased not to preach Jesus Christ--that is, Jesus (to be the) Christ. Next: Acts Chapter 6
Open source ↗In this chapter we have, I. The sin and punishment of Ananias and Sapphira, who, for lying to the Holy Ghost, were struck dead at the word of Peter (Act 5:1-11). II. The flourishing state of the church, in the power that went along with the preaching of the gospel (Act 5:12-16). III. The imprisonment of the apostles, and their miraculous discharge out of prison, with fresh orders to go on to preach the gospel, which they did, to the great vexation of their persecutors (Act 5:17-26). IV. Their arraignment before the great sanhedrim, and their justification of themselves in what they did (Act 5:27-33). V. Gamaliel's counsel concerning them, that they should not persecute them, but let them alone, and see what would come of it, and their concurrence, for the present, with this advice, in the dismission of the apostles' cheerful progress in their work notwithstanding the prohibition laid upon them and the indignity done them (Act 5:41, Act 5:42).
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With one accord they continued to meet daily in the temple courts and to break bread from house to house, sharing their meals with gladness and sincerity of heart,
I did not shrink back from declaring anything that was helpful to you as I taught you publicly and from house to house,
Every day Jesus taught at the temple, but every evening He went out to spend the night on the Mount of Olives.
Saul promptly began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, declaring, “He is the Son of God.”
Then Philip began with this very Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.
explaining and proving that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead. “This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ,” he declared.
Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction.
Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Christ to them.
For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”