Acts 4:3

They arrested the two Apostles and lodged them in custody till the next day; for it was already evening.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide.

In Context

2highly incensed at their teaching the people and proclaiming in the case of Jesus the Resurrection from among the dead.

4But many of those who had listened to their preaching believed; and the number of the adult men had now grown to be about 5,000.

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Cross References

Luke 22:52Then Jesus said to the High Priests and Commanders of the Temple and Elders, who had come to arrest Him, "Have you come out as if to fight with a robber, with swords and cudgels?

John 18:12So the battalion and their tribune and the Jewish police closed in, and took Jesus and bound Him.

Acts 6:12In this way they excited the people, the Elders, and the Scribes. At length they came upon him, seized him with violence, and took him before the Sanhedrin.

Acts 9:2went to the High Priest and begged from him letters addressed to the synagogues in Damascus, in order that if he found any believers there, either men or women, he might bring them in chains to Jerusalem.

Acts 16:19But when her owners saw that their hopes of gain were gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them off to the magistrates in the public square.

Matthew Henry on Acts 4:2-5

Peter and John Imprisoned. 1 And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them, 2 Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead. 3 And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide. 4 Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand. We have here the interests of the kingdom of heaven successfully… Read the whole commentary →

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