Acts 5:26 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

²⁶ Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ Then the military leader went with the attendants and brought [the prisoners], but without violence, for they dreaded the people lest they be stoned by them.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them, but without violence; for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.

Common English Bible

²⁶ Then the captain left with his guards and brought the apostles back. They didn’t use force because they were afraid the people would stone them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ Then the magistrate, with the attendants, went and brought them without force. For they were afraid of the people, lest they be stoned.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ Then went the officer with the ministers, and brought them without violence; for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.

Acts 5:26 Cross References

Matthew 14:5

And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.

Matthew 21:26

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

Matthew 26:5

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

Matthew 26:58

But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.

Luke 20:19

And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.

Luke 20:6

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

Luke 22:2

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

Luke 22:4

And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them.

Acts 4:21

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 5:13

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

Acts 5:22

But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told,

Acts 5:24

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.

Acts 5:25

Then came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.