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.(Acts 5:23)

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 5:24)

Then came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.(Acts 5:25)

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

And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,(Acts 5:27)

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.(Acts 5:28)

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.(Acts 5:29)

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Acts 5:26 - Cross Reference

And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them. (Acts 5:13)

But and if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for they be persuaded that John was a prophet. (Luke 20:6)

And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people. (Luke 22:2)

And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet. (Matthew 14:5)

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 5:24)

So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done. (Acts 4:21)

But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet. (Matthew 21:26)

And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them. (Luke 20:19)

But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people. (Matthew 26:5)