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King James Bible - Acts 5:33

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SEV Biblia, Chapter 5:33

Ellos, oyendo esto, rega�aban, y consultaban matarlos.

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Clarke's Bible Commentary - Acts 5:33

Verse 33. They were cut to the heart] dieprionto, Literally, they were sawn through, from dia through, and priw, to saw. They were stung to the heart, not with compunction nor remorse, but with spite, malice, and revenge: for, having the murder of Christ thus brought home to their consciences, in the first feelings of their malice and revenge, they thought of destroying the persons who had witnessed their nefarious conduct.

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John Gill's Bible Commentary

Ver. 33. When they heard that , etc.] This defence of the apostles, in which they still insisted upon it, that they had been the crucifiers of Christ, and yet that he was raised from the dead, and exalted in heaven, and was a spiritual Saviour of men: they were cut; to the heart , as if they had been cut asunder with a saw; the Ethiopic version renders it, �they were angry�, and �gnashed with their teeth�, as if a saw was drawn to and fro; they were filled with rage and madness: and took counsel to slay them ; not in a legal and judicial way, but in a private manner, or by force; stirring up the zealots to rise up against them, and dispatch them at once, as blasphemers and heretics.

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Matthew Henry Commentary

Verses 26-33 - Many will do an evil thing with daring, yet cannot bear to hear of i afterward, or to have it charged upon them. We cannot expect to be redeemed and healed by Christ, unless we give up ourselves to be rule by him. Faith takes the Saviour in all his offices, who came, not to save us in our sins, but to save us from our sins. Had Christ bee exalted to give dominion to Israel, the chief priests would have welcomed him. But repentance and remission of sins are blessings the neither valued nor saw their need of; therefore they, by no means admitted his doctrine. Wherever repentance is wrought, remission i granted without fail. None are freed from the guilt and punishment of sin, but those who are freed from the power and dominion of sin; wh are turned from it, and turned against it. Christ gives repentance, by his Spirit working with the word, to awaken the conscience, to wor sorrow for sin, and an effectual change in the heart and life. The giving of the Holy Ghost, is plain evidence that it is the will of God that Christ should be obeyed. And He will surely destroy those who wil not have Him to reign over them.

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Greek Textus Receptus

οι 3588 T-NPM δε 1161 CONJ ακουσαντες 191 5660 V-AAP-NPM διεπριοντο 1282 5712 V-IPI-3P και 2532 CONJ εβουλευοντο 1011 5711 V-INI-3P ανελειν 337 5629 V-2AAN αυτους 846 P-APM

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Vincent's NT Word Studies

33. They were cut to the heart (dieprionto). Only here and ch. vii. 54. The verb means, originally, to saw asunder. A strong figure for exasperation.

To slay. See on Luke xxiii. 32.

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Robertson's NT Word Studies

5:33 {Were cut to the heart} (dieprionto). Imperfect passive of diapriw old verb (dia, priw), to saw in two (dia), to cut in two (to the heart). Here it is rage that cuts into their hearts, not conviction of sin as in #Ac 2:37. Only here and #Ac 7:54 (after Stephen's speech) in the N.T. (cf. Simeon's prophecy in #Lu 2:35). {Were minded} (eboulonto). Imperfect middle of boulomai. They were plotting and planning to kill (anelein, as in #Ac 2:23; Lu 23:33 which see) qen and there. The point in #4:7 was whether the apostles deserved stoning for curing the cripple by demoniacal power, but here it was disobedience to the command of the Sanhedrin which was not a capital offence. "They were on the point of committing a grave judicial blunder" (Furneaux).