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Acts 5:26

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¶ Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.

Then {G5119} went {G565} the captain {G4755} with {G4862} the officers {G5257}, and brought {G71} them {G846} without {G3756}{G3326} violence {G970}: for {G1063} they feared {G5399} the people {G2992}, lest {G3363} they should have been stoned {G3034}.

The captain and his officers went and brought them, but not with force; because they were afraid of being stoned by the people.

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

Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them, but without violence; for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.

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Cross-References

  • Acts 5:13 (4 votes)

    And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them.

  • Acts 4:21 (3 votes)

    So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all [men] glorified God for that which was done.

  • Matthew 26:5 (2 votes)

    But they said, Not on the feast [day], lest there be an uproar among the people.

  • Luke 22:2 (2 votes)

    And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.

  • Acts 5:24 (2 votes)

    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.

  • Luke 20:6 (2 votes)

    But and if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for they be persuaded that John was a prophet.

  • Matthew 21:26 (2 votes)

    But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet.