Acts 5:26
Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.
Context
This verse from Acts Chapter 5 connects to 9 cross-references. Ananias and Sapphira lie about the sale price of land; both die in the encounter with Peter. Great signs and wonders are done and the shadow of Peter heals people. The apostles are arrested but an angel releases them from …
Other Translations
Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them, but without violence; for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.
then the magistrate having gone away with officers, brought them without violence, for they were fearing the people, lest they should be stoned;
Then the captain and some of the police went and took them, but not violently, for fear that they might be stoned by the people.
Cross References
And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.
But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet.
But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
But and if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for they be persuaded that John was …
And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the …
And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.
So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of …
And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them.
Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted …