Acts 4:3

And they laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide.

In Context

2being greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.

4However, many of those who heard the word believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

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Cross References

Luke 22:52Then Jesus said to the chief priests, the captains of the temple, and the elders who had come to Him, “Have you come out, as against a bandit, with swords and clubs?

John 18:12Then the detachment of soldiers and the captain and the attendants of the Jews arrested Jesus and bound Him.

Acts 6:12And they aroused the people and the elders and the scribes; and coming upon him, they seized him, and led him to the council.

Acts 9:2and requested from him letters of authority to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he should find any who were of the Way, both men and women, he might bring them, having been bound, to Jerusalem.

Acts 16:19And when her masters saw that the hope of their profit was gone, they took Paul and Silas, and dragged them to the marketplace before the rulers.

Matthew Henry on Acts 4:2-5

Peter and John Imprisoned. 1 And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them, 2 Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead. 3 And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide. 4 Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand. We have here the interests of the kingdom of heaven successfully… Read the whole commentary →

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