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Who were those people?
I'm reading Acts 5. Before this point, Peter and John were already arrested for healing a middle-aged lame man, who had spent most of his life sitting in front of the temple begging for alms on Sabbath, so Peter and John were brought before the Sanhedrin, and let go, much to the frustration of the Sanhedrin. Peter is being all kinds of bold proclaiming the true gospel. The numbers are growing exponentially. Everyone is selling their land and laying the money at the apostle's feet, so the needy can be helped, and the rest are trusting God for their very finances. Barnabas was praised for giving away the money he made on his sold property, and Ananias and Sapphira were just killed by God for being two-faced. All the while the saved were praying together and glorifying God.
And then this is said,
Act 5:12 Now many signs and wonders were regularly done among the people by the hands of the apostles. And they were all together in Solomon's Portico.
Act 5:13 None of the rest dared join them, but the people held them in high esteem.
Act 5:14 And more than ever believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,
Act 5:15 so that they even carried out the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, that as Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on some of them.
Who are the none?
Obviously, not the Sanhedrin, Pharisees, nor Rome. Not the people coming to be healed or just to listen. Not them. So who is left that did not dare join them?
I would think the two-faced kinds of people would have booked after the Ananias/Sapphira incident. I mean, if you know you're heart's not into it that deeply, why risk death over hanging on? So, I really don't get who "none" is.
I'm reading Acts 5. Before this point, Peter and John were already arrested for healing a middle-aged lame man, who had spent most of his life sitting in front of the temple begging for alms on Sabbath, so Peter and John were brought before the Sanhedrin, and let go, much to the frustration of the Sanhedrin. Peter is being all kinds of bold proclaiming the true gospel. The numbers are growing exponentially. Everyone is selling their land and laying the money at the apostle's feet, so the needy can be helped, and the rest are trusting God for their very finances. Barnabas was praised for giving away the money he made on his sold property, and Ananias and Sapphira were just killed by God for being two-faced. All the while the saved were praying together and glorifying God.
And then this is said,
Act 5:12 Now many signs and wonders were regularly done among the people by the hands of the apostles. And they were all together in Solomon's Portico.
Act 5:13 None of the rest dared join them, but the people held them in high esteem.
Act 5:14 And more than ever believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,
Act 5:15 so that they even carried out the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, that as Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on some of them.
Who are the none?
Obviously, not the Sanhedrin, Pharisees, nor Rome. Not the people coming to be healed or just to listen. Not them. So who is left that did not dare join them?
I would think the two-faced kinds of people would have booked after the Ananias/Sapphira incident. I mean, if you know you're heart's not into it that deeply, why risk death over hanging on? So, I really don't get who "none" is.
