Commentaries:Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
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Acts 5:18
With jealousy (zhlou). Genitive case. Old word from ze", to boil, our zeal. In itself it means only warmth, ardour, zeal, but for a bad cause or from a bad motive, jealousy, envy, rivalry results (Acts 13:45). Common in the epistles.
In public ward (en thrhsei dhmosiai). As in Acts 4:3 only with dhmosiai (public) added, in the public prison, perhaps not the "common" prison, but any prison is bad enough. In verse Acts 5:19 it is called "the prison" (thv fulakhv), the guardhouse.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Acts 5:18:
Acts 4:3
Acts 5:21
Acts 12:1
Acts 12:4
Acts 18:28
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