Acts 5:41

KJV

And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.

— Acts 5:41, King James Version
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Acts 5:41, King James Version.

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The apostles 'departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name' — a radical inversion of honour and shame that defines early Christian identity formation. In Greco-Roman culture public flogging was calculated to destroy social honour; the apostles' joy in such treatment signalled that they operated within a completely different honour system anchored in divine rather than human approval. This theology of shame-as-honour in suffering for Christ is developed extensively in 1 Peter 4:14-16 ('if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed') and in Paul's catalogue of ministerial hardships in 2 Corinthians 11:23-28. The verse illustrates what Luke-Acts consistently presents as the paradoxical advance of the gospel: persecution intensifies rather than hinders the community's witness and cohesion.

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ASV

They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the Name.

YLT

they, indeed, then, departed from the presence of the sanhedrim, rejoicing that for his name they were counted worthy to suffer dishonour,

BBE

So they went away from the Sanhedrin, happy to undergo shame for the Name.

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