Acts 5:24

And when the chief priests and rulers of the temple heard these words, they were astonished at them; and they studied what this could mean.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow.

In Context

23and said: We found the prison carefully closed, and also the keepers standing before the doors; and we opened, but found no one there.

25And one came and informed them: Those men, whom ye shut up in the prison, lo, they are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.

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Cross References

Mark 4:30And he said: To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? and with what similitude shall we compare it?

Luke 22:52And Jesus said to those who had come upon him, the chief priests and Elders and military captains of the temple: Have ye come out against me, as against a robber, with swords, and with clubs, to take me?

John 12:19But the Pharisees said, one to another: Do ye see, that ye are gaining nothing? For, lo, the whole world is going after him.

Acts 4:1And while they were speaking these words to the people, the priests and the Sadducees and the rulers of the temple rose up against them;

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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