Acts 5:28

“Did we not strictly command you not to teach in this name? Yet behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you are determined to bring the blood of this man upon us.”

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

27After bringing the apostles in, they had them stand before the Sanhedrin, and the high priest asked them,

29But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

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Cross References

Matthew 21:44He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.”

Matthew 27:25All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”

Acts 3:14Yes, you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted 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 →

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