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Acts 5:28

Eastern Fathers

Theophylact of Ohrid

"And you want to bring upon us the blood of That Man." And even now they still think that Christ was a mere man. They say this, wishing to show by it that the prohibition was necessary for them and that they had made this decision to spare their lives, but rather they said this in order to incite the crowd against them.

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Oecumenius

A very forward and dishonest and foolish man questioned them, "not to teach, etc." The command, indeed, has already been said to be full of rashness, and it is redundant to repeat the same things to them about the same matters.

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Western Saints

Bede

You want to bring this man's blood upon us. The high priest forgot the obligation he had imprecated on himself and his own, saying: His blood be on us and on our children.

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