Acts 5:28

saying, Did we not lay our strict injunction upon you, that you should not teach in this name? and, lo, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and would fain bring this man’s blood upon us.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

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

27But when they had conducted them, they placed them in the sanhedrim: and the high-priest interrogated them,

29Then Peter and the apostles answering said, We must obey God rather than men.

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Cross References

Matthew 21:44And whosoever shall fall on this stone, shall be broken in pieces, but on whomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder.

Matthew 27:25Then all the people answering said, His blood be on us, and on our children.

Acts 3:14But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and besought that a man, a murderer, might as a favour be given unto 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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