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Acts 5:27

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What does Acts 5:27 say?

The American Standard Version records this verse as: “And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest asked them,” Read the surrounding verses and the named sources below before drawing broader conclusions.

The verse

And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest asked them,
Acts 5:27 — American Standard Version

Context — Acts 5

American Standard Version (1901) — public domain. Click any verse for its study page.
24Now when the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were much perplexed concerning them whereunto this would grow.
25And there came one and told them, Behold, the men whom ye put in the prison are in the temple standing and teaching the people.
26Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them, [but] without violence; for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.
27And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest asked them,
28saying, 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.
29But Peter and the apostles answered and said, We must obey God rather than men.
30The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew, hanging him on a tree.
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What do historical commentaries say?

John Gill's Exposition
John Gill (1697–1771) · Exposition of the Old and New Testament · 18th-century historical commentary
“And when they had brought them, etc.] From the temple, to the place where the sanhedrim sat, which, by this, seems to have been not in the room Gazith, nor in the shops, which were both in the temple, but in some part of the city of Jerusalem: they set them before the council; whereby was fulfilled what Christ had foretold, (<401017>Matthew 10:17) “they will deliver you up to the councils”; they placed them before the whole sanhedrim; in the midst of it, (see Gill on “<440407>Acts 4:7”); and as the Ethiopic version here reads: and the high priest asked them; though he was not president of the council, but Gamaliel, after mentioned; yet being in so high an office, and a principal member of…”
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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible · 19th-century historical commentary
“SECOND APPEARANCE AND TESTIMONY BEFORE THE SAMHEDRIM--ITS RAGE CALMED BY GAMALIEL--BEING DISMISSED, THEY DEPART REJOICING, AND CONTINUE THEIR PREACHING. (Acts 5:27-42) ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine--noble testimony to the success of their preaching, and (for the reason mentioned on Act 4:4) to the truth of their testimony, from reluctant lips!”
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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Cross-reference reference work
“set: Act 4:7, Act 6:12, Act 22:30, Act 23:1; Luk 22:66 Acts 5:28”
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