Acts 5:28

"We strictly forbad you to teach in that name--did we not?" he said. "And see, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and are trying to make us responsible for that man's death!"

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.

In Context

27So they brought them and made them stand in front of the Sanhedrin. And then the High Priest questioned them.

29Peter and the other Apostles replied, "We must obey God rather than man.

Read all of Acts 5

Cross References

Matthew 21:44He who falls on this stone will be severely hurt; but he on whom it falls will be utterly crushed."

Matthew 27:25"His blood," replied all the people, "be on us and on our children!"

Acts 3:14Yes, you disowned the holy and righteous One, and asked as a favour the release of a murderer.

Matthew Henry on Acts 5:27-42

The Seizing of the Apostles; The Examination of the Apostles; The Advice of Gamaliel. 26 Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned. 27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them, 28 Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us. 29… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Acts 5:28