Acts 5:26
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
At that point, the captain went with the officers and brought the apostles—but not by force, for fear the people would stone them.
In context
24 When the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests heard this account, they were perplexed as to what was happening.
25 Then someone came in and announced, “Look, the men you put in jail are standing in the temple courts teaching the people!”
26 At that point, the captain went with the officers and brought the apostles—but not by force, for fear the people would stone them.
27 They brought them in and made them stand before the Sanhedrin, where the high priest interrogated them.
28 “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us responsible for this man’s blood.”
Acts 5:26 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- At that point, the captain went with the officers and brought the apostles—but not by force, for fear the people would stone them.
- KJV King James Version
- Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.
- WEB World English Bible
- Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them, but without violence; for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- then the magistrate having gone away with officers, brought them without violence, for they were fearing the people, lest they should be stoned;
- DBY Darby Translation
- Then the captain, having gone with the officers, brought them, not with violence, for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.