"And when they heard {that}, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and…" — Acts 5:21

Acts 5:21 · KJV

“And when they heard {that}, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that 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.”

— Acts 5:21

Verse 20

Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.

Verse 22

But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told,

Acts 5 — Context

But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said,

Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.

And when they heard {that}, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that 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.

But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told,

Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.

Cross References

John 8:2

And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.

Acts 5:24-25

Now 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.

Acts 22:15

For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.

Acts 5:17

Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation, {indignation: or, envy}

John 18:35

Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the chief priests have delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done?

Acts 5:27

And when they had brought them, they set {them} before the council: and the high priest asked them,

Acts 22:2-3

(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)

Acts 5:34

Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space;