Acts 5:28

Did we not strictly charge you, to teach no person in this name? And behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine; and ye would bring the blood of this man upon us.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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

27And when they had brought them, they placed them before the whole council; and the high priest began to say to them:

29And Simon, with the legates, answered and said to them: God is to be obeyed, rather than men.

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Cross References

Matthew 21:44And whoever shall fall upon this stone, will be fractured; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will crush him to atoms?

Matthew 27:25And all the people answered, and said His blood be on us, and on our children!

Acts 3:14But ye denied the holy and just One, and demanded that a murderer should 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 →

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