Acts 5:28
‘We gave you strict orders,’ he said, ‘not to teach in this name. Yet you have actually flooded Jerusalem with your teaching, and you want to make us responsible for the death of this man.’
Open English Bible (UK)
In The King James Version
In Context
27and then brought them before the Council. The high priest demanded an explanation from them.
29To this Peter and the apostles replied, ‘We must obey God rather than people.
Cross References
Matthew 21:44Yes, and he who falls on this stone will be dashed to pieces, while anyone on whom it falls – it will scatter him as dust.’
Matthew 27:25And all the people answered, ‘His blood be on our heads and on our children’s!’
Acts 3:14You, I say, disowned the holy and righteous one, and asked for the release of a murderer!
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 →