Bible Commentaries
Abbott's Illustrated New Testament
Acts 5
To lie to the Holy Ghost; by attempting a fraud upon those who were under the special influences of the Holy Spirit.
While it remained, &c. These questions imply that whatever sacrifices of property were thus made were entirely voluntary.
Of the rest; that is, besides the common people mentioned in the last clause of the verse. The meaning is, the common people magnified him, but of the rest, that is, of the higher classes, durst no man, &c.
Feared the people. We are often reminded, by such expressions as this, of the veneration and regard which the people entertained for the apostles.
This man's blood. This contemptuous mode of designating the Savior shows that their feelings towards him remained unchanged.
Gamaliel. One or two prominent men of this name appear in the secular history of those times. Gamaliel was the name of the early instructor of Paul. (Acts 22:3.)
To him they agreed; that is, so far as to spare the lives of their prisoners.
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