Acts 5:26

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Acts 5:24–28 · Berean Standard Bible

24 When the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests heard this account, they were perplexed as to what was happening.

25 Then someone came in and announced, “Look, the men you put in jail are standing in the temple courts teaching the people!”

26 At that point, the captain went with the officers and brought the apostles—but not by force, for fear the people would stone them.

27 They brought them in and made them stand before the Sanhedrin, where the high priest interrogated them.

28 “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us responsible for this man’s blood.”

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Acts 5:13

Although the people regarded them highly, no one else dared to join them.

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Matthew 21:26

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Matthew 26:5

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Luke 20:6

But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

Luke 20:19

When the scribes and chief priests realized that Jesus had spoken this parable against them, they sought to arrest Him that very hour. But they were afraid of the people.

Luke 22:2

and the chief priests and scribes were looking for a way to put Jesus to death; for they feared the people.