Acts 4:5
3 They seized Peter and John, and because it was evening, they put them in custody until the next day.
4 But many who heard the message believed, and the number of men grew to about five thousand.
The next day the rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem,
6 along with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and many others from the high priest’s family.
7 They had Peter and John brought in and began to question them: “By what power or what name did you do this?”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The next day the rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem,
- KJV
- And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes,
- WEB
- In the morning, their rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem.
- ASV
- And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers and elders and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem;
- DARBY
- And it came to pass on the morrow that their rulers and elders and scribes were gathered together at Jerusalem,
- BLB
- And it came to pass on the next day [that] their rulers and elders and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem,
- ÅB
- Dagen etter skjedde det da at deres rådsherrer og eldste og skriftlærde samlet seg i Jerusalem,
- OTB
- Dagen etter samlet lederne, de eldste og de skriftlærde seg i Jerusalem.
- B1930
- Dagen efter skjedde det da at deres rådsherrer og eldste og skriftlærde samlet sig i Jerusalem,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Acts 4:8
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers and elders of the people!
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So they stirred up the people, elders, and scribes and confronted Stephen. They seized him and brought him before the Sanhedrin,
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Our chief priests and rulers delivered Him up to the sentence of death, and they crucified Him.
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Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
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