Acts 5:26

Then went the captaine with the officers, and brought them without violence (for they feared the people, lest they should haue bene stoned)

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In The King James Version

Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.

In Context

25Then came one and shewed them, saying, Beholde, the men that ye put in prison, are standing in the Temple, and teach the people.

27And when they had brought them, they set them before the Councill, and the chiefe Priest asked them,

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Cross References

Matthew 14:5And when hee woulde haue put him to death, hee feared the multitude, because they counted him as a Prophet.

Matthew 26:5But they sayd, Not on the feast day, least any vprore be among the people.

Luke 20:19Then the hie Priests, and the Scribes the same houre went about to lay hands on him: (but they feared the people) for they perceiued that he had spoken this parable against them.

Acts 4:21So they threatened them, and let them goe, and found nothing how to punish them, because of the people: for all men praised God for that which was done.

Acts 5:24Then when the chiefe Priest, and the captaine of the Temple, and the hie Priestes heard these things, they doubted of them, whereunto this would growe.

Matthew Henry on Acts 5:18-26

The Apostles Imprisoned; The Apostles Released by an Angel; The Disappointment of the Council. 17 Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation, 18 And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison. 19 But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said, 20 Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life. 21 And when they heard that, they… Read the whole commentary →

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