Acts 5:26
Then after departing, the captain with the subordinates brought them, not with violence, for they feared the people, lest they would be stoned.
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In Context
27And having brought them, they placed them in the council. And the high priest demanded them,
Cross References
Matthew 14:5And though he wanted to kill him, he feared the multitude because they held him as a prophet.
Matthew 26:5But they said, Not during the feast, lest an uproar develop among people.
Luke 20:19And the chief priests and the scholars sought to throw hands on him in the same hour. And they were afraid, for they knew that he spoke this parable against them.
Acts 4:21And they, having further threatened, released them, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people. Since all glorified God for that which happened.
Acts 5:24Now when they heard these words, the high priest, and the captain of the temple, and the chief priests, were perplexed about them, whatever this would become.
Matthew Henry on Acts 5:18-26
The Apostles Imprisoned; The Apostles Released by an Angel; The Disappointment of the Council. 17 Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation, 18 And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison. 19 But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said, 20 Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life. 21 And when they heard that, they… Read the whole commentary →