أعمال الرسل 5:29
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
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Study Note
'We ought to obey God rather than men' — Peter and the apostles' reply to the Sanhedrin when commanded to stop preaching encapsulates the fundamental Christian principle of hierarchical obligation: divine command takes precedence over human authority when the two conflict. The phrasing echoes Socrates's defense in Plato's Apology (29d), suggesting that Luke was aware of the Hellenistic tradition of principled civil disobedience grounded in higher loyalty. The verse has been foundational in the theology of conscience, religious liberty, and civil disobedience from Tertullian and Polycarp through the Reformation to the modern civil rights and resistance movements.
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But Peter and the apostles answered and said, We must obey God rather than men.
And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;
But Peter and the Apostles, answering, said, We have to do the orders of God, not of man.
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