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.
Then went the captaine with the officers, and brought them without violence: (For they feared the people, lest they should haue bene stoned.)
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From verse 26
21So 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.
21So when they had further threatned them, they let them goe, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.
- Luke 20:19Rank 4 from verse 26
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.
19¶ And the chiefe Priests and the Scribes the same houre sought to lay hands on him, and they feared the people: for they perceiued that he had spoken this parable against them.
- Matthew 14:5Rank 7 from verse 26
- Matthew 21:26Rank 8 from verse 26
- Matthew 26:5Rank 9 from verse 26
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Acts 5:26
1. A commander, chief, or officer set over an army, guard, band, company, people, or body. 2. A leader who goes before or conducts others in a work, course, or deliverance.
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Persons entrusted with an office, charge, authority, or oversight.
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Outside or on the exterior; beyond a boundary; lacking, absent, free from, not accompanied by, or apart from the person, thing, condition, means, or relation named.
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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.
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Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
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For fear that, to prevent the possibility that, or so that an undesired or warned-of result may not occur.
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A verb expressing duty, propriety, expectation, intention, purpose, condition, appointed outcome, or a future event viewed from another time or statement.
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Pelted or struck with stones, commonly as a means of putting to death.
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25Then came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.
25Then came one, and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison, are standing in the Temple, and teaching the people.
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.)
Selected passage27And 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,