Acts 5:28
saying, “Did we not give you strict orders not to continue teaching in this name? And behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you want to bring on us the blood of this Man!”
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
In Context
27And they brought them, and set them before the council. And the high priest asked them,
29But Peter and the apostles answered, and said: “We must obey God rather than men.
Cross References
Matthew 21:44And he who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder.”
Matthew 27:25And all the people answered and said, “His blood be on us and on our children.”
Acts 3:14But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked that a murderer be released to you,
Matthew Henry on Acts 5:27-42
The Seizing of the Apostles; The Examination of the Apostles; The Advice of Gamaliel. 26 Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned. 27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them, 28 Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us. 29… Read the whole commentary →