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And daily in the temple, and in every house, they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.
Acts 5:42 · New King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and preaching Jesus, the Christ.
  • KJV And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.
  • BSB Every day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Christ.
  • NASB And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not stop teaching and preaching the good news of Jesus as the Christ.
  • NLT And every day, in the Temple and from house to house, they continued to teach and preach this message: “Jesus is the Messiah.”

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Quick answer

Daily, in temple and homes, they never stop teaching and preaching that Jesus is the Christ. Persecution only deepens their gospel persistence.

Overview

The apostles obey God rather than men, continuing exactly what they were forbidden to do. Their message centers on the identity of Jesus as the promised Messiah. This faithful, relentless witness in both public and private settings closes the chapter on a note of triumphant perseverance.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 20

  • Acts 2:46Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,
  • Acts 20:20how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,
  • Luke 21:37Every day Jesus was teaching in the temple, and every night he would go out and spend the night on the mountain that is called Olivet.
  • Acts 9:20Immediately in the synagogues he proclaimed the Christ, that he is the Son of God.
  • Acts 8:35Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him about Jesus.
  • Acts 17:3explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”
  • 2 Tim 4:2preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.
  • Rom 1:15–16So, as much as is in me, I am eager to preach the Good News to you also who are in Rome.
  • Acts 8:5Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and proclaimed to them the Christ.
  • Acts 4:29Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness,
  • Acts 4:20for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”
  • Eph 4:20–21But you did not learn Christ that way;
  • 1 Cor 2:2For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
  • Acts 11:20But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching the Lord Jesus.
  • Luke 22:53When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”
  • Gal 6:14But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
  • Acts 3:1–10Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
  • 2 Sam 6:22I will be yet more vile than this, and will be base in my own sight. But of the servants of whom you have spoken, they will honor me.”
  • Acts 17:18Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
  • Acts 5:20–21“Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.”

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  • VideoBibleProject — Acts videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.

Christ at the center

Acts is the risen Christ continuing his work by the Spirit through the church, as the apostles preach that there is salvation in no other name under heaven.

How Acts 5:42 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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