Acts 5:26

Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.

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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 told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.

27And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,

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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 on the feast - day , lest there be an uproar among the people.

Luke 20:19And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.

Acts 4:21So when they had further threatened them, they 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 high priest, and the captain of the temple, and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them to what 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 →

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