Acts 5:36 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Before these days; probably under the reign of Augustus, as he whom Josephus mentions was another under the reign of Claudius. Theudas; some suppose it a contracted name of Theodorus, as Demas is thought to be of Demetrius; though others think it to be of a Hebrew original.

Acts 5:36

36 For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyedc him, were scattered, and brought to nought.