<p>5:33 <i>But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart and decided to kill them</i>- They had been reminded that the Lord Jesus was now giving repentance to Israel; He was working in the hearts of Jewish people to bring them to repentance. And they were resisting. No wonder they were cut to the very bone of their conscience. The same word is used of how they were again &quot;cut to the heart&quot; by Stephen's appeal to them (Acts 7:54). And they responded the same way- they desired to liquidate the messenger, to destroy the channel of the message. But the message remained. To be twice &quot;cut in half&quot;, as the Greek means, would have left them psychologically shattered. They either repented, or became murderous in their hatred of the preachers.</p>