Acts 5:26
Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.
Additional Resources
Referenced Verses
- Acts 5:13 : 13 None of the rest dared to join them, however the people honored them.
- Acts 4:21 : 21 When they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people; for everyone glorified God for that which was done.
- Acts 5:24 : 24 Now when the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the chief priests heard these words, they were very perplexed about them and what might become of this.
- Matt 14:5 : 5 When he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.
- Matt 21:26 : 26 But if we say, 'From men,' we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet."
- Matt 26:5 : 5 But they said, "Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people."
- Luke 20:6 : 6 But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet."
- Luke 20:19 : 19 The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on Him that very hour, but they feared the people--for they knew He had spoken this parable against them.
- Luke 22:2 : 2 The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people.
Similar Verses (AI)
These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.
- Acts 5:27-293 verses82%
27 When they had brought them, they set them before the council. The high priest questioned them,
28 saying, "Didn't we strictly charge you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man's blood on us."
29 But Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men.
- Acts 5:21-255 verses81%
21 When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak, and taught. But the high priest came, and those who were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.
22 But the officers who came didn't find them in the prison. They returned and reported,
23 "We found the prison shut and locked, and the guards standing before the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside!"
24 Now when the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the chief priests heard these words, they were very perplexed about them and what might become of this.
25 One came and told them, "Behold, the men whom you put in prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people."
- 77%
12 They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, and brought him in to the council,
- Acts 16:37-393 verses75%
37 But Paul said to them, "They have beaten us publicly, without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most assuredly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!"
38 The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,
39 and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, they asked them to depart from the city.
- Acts 14:4-52 verses75%
4 But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews, and part with the apostles.
5 When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,
- Acts 4:1-33 verses75%
1 As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,
2 being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
3 They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening.
- 74%
10 When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.
- 74%
40 They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
- 74%
7 {TR adds "but the commanding officer, Lysias, came by and with great violence took him out of our hands,"}
- Acts 5:18-192 verses73%
18 and laid hands on the apostles, and put them in public custody.
19 But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out, and said,
- 73%
21 When they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people; for everyone glorified God for that which was done.
- 72%
45 The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?"
- Acts 16:22-232 verses72%
22 The multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates tore their clothes off of them, and commanded them to be beaten with rods.
23 When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,
- 71%
35 He said to them, "You men of Israel, be careful concerning these men, what you are about to do.
- 71%
33 But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and determined to kill them.
- Acts 4:15-184 verses71%
15 But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,
16 saying, "What shall we do to these men? Because indeed a notable miracle has been done through them, as can be plainly seen by all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we can't deny it.
17 But so that this spreads no further among the people, let's threaten them, that from now on they don't speak to anyone in this name."
18 They called them, and charged them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
- 71%
54 They seized him, and led him away, and brought him into the high priest's house. But Peter followed from a distance.
- Acts 21:31-322 verses71%
31 As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
32 Immediately he took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.
- 71%
52 Jesus said to the chief priests, captains of the temple, and elders, who had come against him, "Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs?
- Acts 21:34-352 verses71%
34 Some shouted one thing, and some another, among the crowd. When he couldn't find out the truth because of the noise, he commanded him to be brought into the barracks.
35 When he came to the stairs, it happened that he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd;
- 70%
23 Being let go, they came to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
- 70%
20 When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, "These men, being Jews, are agitating our city,
- 70%
5 But they said, "Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people."
- 70%
24 the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they shouted against him like that.
- 70%
7 When they had stood them in the middle of them, they inquired, "By what power, or in what name, have you done this?"
- 70%
35 But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, "Let those men go."
- 70%
2 The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people.
- 70%
18 Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers about what had become of Peter.
- 70%
12 So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews, seized Jesus and bound him,
- 70%
5 It happened in the morning, that their rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem.
- 70%
19 But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.
- 69%
29 Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he realized that he was a Roman, because he had bound him.