Acts 5:26

Then went the ruler of the teple with ministers and brought the with out violence. For they feared the people lest they shuld have bene stoned.

William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)

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: beholde ye men yt ye put in preson stonde in the teple and teache the people.

27And when they had brought them they set them before the counsell. And ye chefe preste axed the

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Cross References

Matthew 14:5And when he wold have put him to deeth he feared the people because they counted him as a prophet.

Matthew 26:5But they sayd not on the holy daye lest eny vproure aryse amonge the people.

Luke 20:19And the hye Prestes and the Scribes the same howre went about to laye hondes on him but they feared the people. For they perceaved that he had spoken this similitude agaynst them.

Acts 4:21So threatened they them and let them goo and founde no thinge how to punysshe them because of the people. For all me lauded God for the myracle which was done:

Acts 5:24When the chefe prest of all and the ruler of the temple and the hye prestes hearde these thinges they douted of them whervnto this wolde 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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