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Acts 5:28

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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.

Saying {G3004}, Did {G3853} not {G3756} we straitly {G3852} command {G3853} you {G5213} that ye should {G1321} not {G3361} teach {G1321} in {G1909} this {G5129} name {G3686}? and {G2532}, behold {G2400}, ye have filled {G4137} Jerusalem {G2419} with your {G5216} doctrine {G1322}, and {G2532} intend {G1014} to bring {G1863} this {G5127} man's {G444} blood {G129} upon {G1909} us {G2248}.

“We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name! Look here! you have filled Yerushalayim with your teaching; moreover, you are determined to make us responsible for this man’s death!”

“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.”

saying, We strictly charged you not to teach in this name: and behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.

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Cross-References

  • Matthew 27:25 (10 votes)

    Then answered all the people, and said, His blood [be] on us, and on our children.

  • Acts 7:52 (6 votes)

    Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:

  • Acts 4:18 (4 votes)

    And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.

  • Acts 4:21 (4 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.

  • Acts 4:10 (4 votes)

    Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, [even] by him doth this man stand here before you whole.

  • Acts 4:11 (4 votes)

    This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.

  • 1 Kings 18:17 (3 votes)

    ¶ And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, [Art] thou he that troubleth Israel?