26 [a]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 chief Priest asked them,

28 [b]Saying, Did we not straightly command you, that ye should not teach in this name? and behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and ye would [c]bring this man’s blood upon us.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 5:26 Tyrants which fear not God, are constrained to fear his servants.
  2. Acts 5:28 It is the property of tyrants to set out their own commandments as right and reason, be they never so wicked.
  3. Acts 5:28 Make us guilty of murdering, that man whom yet they will not vouchsafe to name.

26 At that, the captain went with his officers and brought the apostles. They did not use force, because they feared that the people(A) would stone them.

27 The apostles were brought in and made to appear before the Sanhedrin(B) to be questioned by the high priest. 28 “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,”(C) he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us guilty of this man’s blood.”(D)

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