Acts 5:26
Then went the officer with the ministers, and brought them without violence; for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
27And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest asked them,
Cross References
Matthew 14:5And having a mind to put him to death, he feared the people: because they esteemed him as a prophet.
Matthew 26:5But they said: Not on the festival day, lest perhaps there should be a tumult among the people.
Luke 20:19And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him the same hour: but they feared the people, for they knew that he spoke this parable to them.
Acts 4:21But they threatening, sent them away, not finding how they might punish them, because of the people; for all men glorified what had been done, in that which had come to pass.
Acts 5:24Now when the officer of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were in doubt concerning them, what would come to pass.
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 →