King James Version
What Does Acts 5:27 Mean?
“And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,”
Context
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Then came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.
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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And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,
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Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.
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Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
Commentary
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary**37-40. pricked in their hearts--**the begun fulfilment of Zec 12:10, whose full accomplishment is reserved for the day when "all Israel shall be saved" (see on Ro 11:26).
**what shall we do?--**This is that beautiful spirit of genuine compunction and childlike docility, which, discovering its whole past career to have been one frightful mistake, seeks only to be set right for the future, be the change involved and the sacrifices required what they may. So Saul of Tarsus (Ac 9:6).
Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset, David Brown. Public Domain.
Historical Context
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Theological Significance
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