Acts 5:28
saying, “We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, and yet, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and desire to bring this man's blood upon us.”
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In Context
27When they had brought them, they set them before the council. The high priest interrogated them,
29But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
Cross References
1 Kings 18:17When Ahab saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is it you? You are the one who brings trouble to Israel!”
1 Kings 22:8The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man by whom we may seek advice from Yahweh to help, Micaiah son of Imlah, but I hate him because he does not prophesy anything good about me, but only hardships.” But Jehoshaphat said, “May the king not say that.”
Jeremiah 38:4So the officials said to the king, “Let this man die, for in this way he is weakening the hands of the fighting men who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people. He is proclaiming these words, for this man is not working for safety for this people, but disaster.”
Matthew 21:44Whoever falls on this stone will be broken to pieces. But anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.”
Matthew 27:25All the people said, “May his blood be on us and our children.”
Acts 3:14You rejected the Holy and Righteous One, and you asked instead for a murderer to 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 →