Acts 5:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.

Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together (see the note at Acts 5:2 ) to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? - of the Lord Jesus, as the usual style of this book would incline us to understand "the Lord" here. They thus virtually agreed to tempt or try the Spirit of the Lord whether they could not escape detection by that Omniscient Spirit, of whose supernatural presence with the apostles they had had such abundant evidence.

Behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out. How awfully graphic is this!

Acts 5:9

9 Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.