26Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.
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And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them.
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.
And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.
But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet.
But and if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for they be persuaded that John was a prophet.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 26-42)We are not told what it was that the apostles preached to the people; no doubt it was according to the direction of the angel— the words of this life ; but what passed between them and the council we have here an account of; for in their sufferings there appeared more of a divine power and energy than even in their preaching. Now here we have, I. The seizing of the apostles a second time. We may t…
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