Acts 5:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁶ Then the captain went with the temple police and brought them, but without violence, for they were afraid of being stoned by the people.

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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.

Acts 5:26 Cross References

Acts 5:13

None of the rest dared to join them, but the people held them in high esteem.

Acts 4:21

After threatening them again, they let them go, finding no way to punish them because of the people, for all of them praised God for what had happened.

Acts 5:24

Now when the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were perplexed about them, wondering what might be going on.

Luke 22:2

The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a way to put Jesus to death, for they were afraid of the people.

Luke 20:19

When the scribes and chief priests realized that he had told this parable against them, they wanted to lay hands on him at that very hour, but they feared the people.

Luke 20:6

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

Matthew 26:5

But they said, “Not during the festival, or there may be a riot among the people.”

Matthew 21:26

But if we say, ‘Of human origin,’ we are afraid of the crowd, for all regard John as a prophet.”

Matthew 14:5

Though Herod wanted to put him to death, he feared the crowd, because they regarded him as a prophet.

Matthew 26:58

But Peter was following him at a distance, as far as the courtyard of the high priest, and going inside he sat with the guards in order to see how this would end.

Luke 22:4

he went away and conferred with the chief priests and officers of the temple police about how he might betray him to them.

Acts 5:22

But when the temple police went there, they did not find them in the prison, so they returned and reported,

Acts 5:25

Then someone arrived and announced, “Look, the men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people!”