Bible verse
At that point, the captain went with the officers and brought the apostles—but not by force, for fear the people would stone them.
Acts 5:26 · BSB
The verses around it, from Acts 5.
22 But on arriving at the jail, the officers did not find them there. So they returned with the report:
23 “We found the jail securely locked, with the guards posted at the doors; but when we opened them, we found no one inside.”
24 When the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests heard this account, they were perplexed as to what was happening.
25 Then someone came in and announced, “Look, the men you put in jail are standing in the temple courts teaching the people!”
26 At that point, the captain went with the officers and brought the apostles—but not by force, for fear the people would stone them.
27 They brought them in and made them stand before the Sanhedrin, where the high priest interrogated them.
28 “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.”
29 But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.
30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you had killed by hanging Him on a tree.
KJV
Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.
ASV
Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them, but without violence; for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.
ERV
Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them, but without violence; for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.
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