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20. πορεύεσθε καὶ σταθέντες κ.τ.λ., go ye and stand and speak. There was to be no attempt made to conceal their escape. They were to go back to the same place where their most frequent teachings had been given before, and were to continue the same teaching. They are not directed to appeal to the multitude for sympathy, nor to try and excite any feeling against those who had arrested them.
τὰ ῥήματα τῆς ζωῆς ταύτης. This has been explained as if it meant no more than ‘these words of life’ (see Winer-Moulton, pp. 297, 298). But this weakens the sense immensely. The Apostles were to preach this new life through the resurrection. It was Christ’s own message (Joh 11:25) ‘I am the Resurrection and the Life.’ It was the words of this life which the Sadducees could not away with. But spite of all opposition the same teaching about the life to come is to be persisted in.