Acts 5:26

Then went the captain with the attendants, and brought them without violence; for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.

In Context

25And some one came and reported to them: Behold, the men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.

27And when they had brought them, they made them stand before the Sanhedrim; and the chief priest asked them,

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Cross References

Matthew 14:5And he intended to put him to death, but feared the multitude, because they regarded him as a prophet.

Matthew 26:5But they said: Not during the feast, lest there be a tumult among the people.

Luke 20:19And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him, the same hour; (and yet they feared the people;) for they knew that he spoke this parable against them.

Acts 4:21And when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing for which they could punish them, because of the people; for they all glorified God on account of that which had been done;

Acts 5:24When the priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were in doubt about them, what this could mean.

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 →

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