Acts 4:26

The kings of the earth stood up,.... Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee, sometimes called a king, Mar 6:14 and Pilate the Roman governor, who represented his master Caesar; these stood, or rose up in…

The kings of the earth - The Psalmist specifies more particularly that kings and rulers would be opposed to the Messiah. This had occurred already by the opposition made to the Messiah by the rulers…

Against the Lord and against his Christ - Κατα του Χριστου αυτου should be translated, against his Anointed, because it particularly agrees with ὁν εχρισας, whom thou hast Anointed, in the succeeding…

We hear no more at present of the chief priests, what they did when they had dismissed Peter and John, but are to attend those two witnesses. And here we have,

I. Their return to their brethren, the…