Acts 5:26

Then the captain, having gone with the officers, brought them, not with violence, for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.

Darby Translation

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 coming reported to them, Lo, the men whom ye put in the prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people.

27And they bring them and set them in the council. And the high priest asked them,

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Cross References

Matthew 14:5And [while] desiring to kill him, he feared the crowd, because they held him for a prophet.

Matthew 26:5but they said, Not in the feast, that there be not a tumult among the people.

Luke 20:19And the chief priests and the scribes sought the same hour to lay hands on him, and they feared the people; for they knew that he had spoken this parable of them.

Acts 4:21But they, having further threatened them, let them go, finding no way how they might punish them, on account of the people, because all glorified God for what had taken place;

Acts 5:24And when they heard these words, both the priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests were in perplexity as to them, what this would come to.

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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