Acts 5:27

The Apostles on Trial Before the Sanhedrin

27 And [when they] had brought them, they made [them] stand in the Sanhedrin, and the high priest put a question to them,

Acts 5:27 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 5:27

And when they had brought them
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, ( 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 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 the council, took upon him the examination of the apostles.

Acts 5:27 In-Context

25 But someone came [and] reported to them, "Behold, the men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple [courts] and teaching the people!"

26 Then the captain went with the officers [and] brought them, not with force (for they were afraid of the people, lest they be stoned [by them]).

27 And [when they] had brought them, they made [them] stand in the Sanhedrin, and the high priest put a question to them,

28 saying, "{We strictly commanded} you not to teach in this name? And behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching! And you are intending to bring upon us the blood of this man!"

29 But Peter and the apostles answered [and] said, "It is necessary to obey God rather than men!

Footnotes

• [a]. *Here "[when]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had brought") which is understood as temporal
• [b]. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
• [c]. Or "council"