KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Acts 5:26–27
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Acts 5:26
26Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.
26Then went the captaine with the officers, and brought them without violence: (For they feared the people, lest they should haue bene stoned.)
Acts 5:27
27And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,
27And when they had brought them, they set them before the Councill, and the high Priest asked them,
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DEFINED WORDS
Acts 5:26
Persons entrusted with an office, charge, authority, or oversight.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Outside; not within; lacking; free from; or in the absence of.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
That not; for fear that.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Pelted or killed with stones; freed from stones; walled with stones.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
DEFINED WORDS
Acts 5:27
To place, fix, appoint, establish, or prescribe; also fixed or determined.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Earlier than in time; in front of; in the presence of; or prior in order or rank, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Raised or far above; great in height, rank, degree, or importance; as an adverb, greatly or aloft.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A person who officiates in sacred service, especially by offering sacrifices or ministering in worship; the KJV applies the term to Mosaic priests, priests of other gods, and Christ as Priest, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
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From verse 26
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Open the full verse study13And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them.
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Open the full verse study21So 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.
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Open the full verse study24Now 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.
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Open the full verse study19¶ 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.
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Open the full verse study6But and if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for they be persuaded that John was a prophet.
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Open the full verse study2And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.
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Open the full verse study5And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.
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Open the full verse study26But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet.
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Open the full verse study5But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
From verse 27
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Open the full verse study22But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
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Open the full verse study7And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have ye done this?
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Open the full verse study12And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council,
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Open the full verse study66¶ And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the chief priests and the scribes came together, and led him into their council, saying,
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