Acts 5:26
Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them, but without violence; for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
27And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest asked them,
Cross References
Matthew 14:5And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.
Matthew 26:5But they said, Not during the feast, lest a tumult arise among the people.
Luke 20:19And the scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him in that very hour; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he spake this parable against them.
Acts 4:21And they, when they had further threatened them, let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people; for all men glorified God for that which was done.
Acts 5:24Now when the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were much perplexed concerning them whereunto this would grow.
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 →