Acts 5:26

Then the magistrate went with the ministers, and brought them without violence; for they dreaded the people, lest they should be stoned. (Then the magistrate went with the servants, or the officers, and brought them in without force; because they feared the people, lest they should be 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

25But a man came, and told to them, For lo! those men which ye have put into prison, be in the temple, and stand (there), and teach the people.

27And when they had brought them, they set them in the council; and the prince of priests asked them, (And when they had brought them in, they put them before the Council; and the High Priest spoke to them,)

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Cross References

Matthew 14:5And he willing to slay him, dreaded the people; for they had him as a prophet. (And he wanted to kill him, but he feared the people; for they said that he was a prophet.)

Matthew 26:5but they said, Not in the holiday, [or Not in the feast day], (or Not on the Feast Day), lest peradventure noise (or a commotion) were made in the people.

Luke 20:19And the princes of (the) priests, and (the) scribes, sought to lay on him hands in that hour, [or And the princes of the priests, and the scribes, sought to lay hands on him in that hour], and they dreaded the people; for they knew that to them he said this likeness. (And the high priests, and the scribes, wanted to lay their hands on him at that time, but they feared the people; for they knew that he had said this parable about them.)

Acts 4:21And they menaced them, and left them, and found not how they should punish them, for the people; for all men clarified (God, for) that thing that was done in that that was befallen. (And they threatened them, and then let them go, for they could not find any way to punish them, because of the people; for all the people glorified God, for what was done in all that befell.)

Acts 5:24And as the magistrates of the temple, and the princes of (the) priests heard these words, they doubted of them, what was done. (And when the Temple magistrate, and the high priests, heard these words, they wondered, what had become of 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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