Acts 5:28

26 Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.

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

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.

29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.

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.

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BSB
“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.”
KJV
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.
WEB
saying, “Didn’t we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood on us.”
ASV
saying, We strictly charged you not to teach in this name: and behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man`s blood upon us.
DARBY
saying, We strictly enjoined you not to teach in this name: and lo, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and purpose to bring upon us the blood of this man.
BLB
saying, “By a charge we commanded you⁺ not to teach in this name, and behold, you⁺ have filled Jerusalem with your⁺ teaching, and you⁺ intend to bring upon us the blood of this man.”
ÅB
Vi befalte dere strengt at dere ikke skulle lære i dette navn, og nå har dere fylt Jerusalem med deres lære og vil føre dette menneskes blod over oss!
OTB
“Vi ga dere strenge ordre om ikke å undervise i dette navnet,” sa han. “Likevel har dere fylt Jerusalem med deres undervisning og har til hensikt å bringe denne mannens blod over oss.”
B1930
Vi bød eder strengt at I ikke skulde lære i dette navn, og nu har I fylt Jerusalem med eders lære og vil føre dette menneskes blod over oss!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Matthew 27:25

    Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.

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  • Acts 7:52

    Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:

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  • Acts 4:18–21

    And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.

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  • Acts 4:10–11

    Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.

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  • Jeremiah 26:15

    But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.

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  • 1 Thessalonians 2:15–16

    Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:

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  • Matthew 21:44

    And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.

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  • Amos 7:10

    Then Amaziah the priest of Beth-el sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.

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