Acts 5:24

When the Commander of the Temple Guards and the High Priests heard this statement, they were utterly at a loss with regard to it, wondering what would happen next.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow.

In Context

23saying, "The jail we found quite safely locked, and the warders were on guard at the doors, but upon going in we found no one there."

25And some one came and brought them word, saying, "The men you put in prison are actually in the Temple, standing there, teaching the people."

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Cross References

Mark 4:30Another saying of His was this: "How are we to picture the Kingdom of God? or by what figure of speech shall we represent it?

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 12:19The result was that the Pharisees said among themselves, "Observe how idle all your efforts are! The world is gone after him!"

Acts 4:1While they were saying this to the people, the Priests, the Commander of the Temple Guard, and the Sadducees came upon them,

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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