Acts 5:27

27 Bringing them back, they stood them before the High Council. The Chief Priest said,

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 Just then someone showed up and said, "Did you know that the men you put in jail are back in the Temple teaching the people?"

26 The chief and his police went and got them, but they handled them gently, fearful that the people would riot and turn on them.

27 Bringing them back, they stood them before the High Council. The Chief Priest said,

28 "Didn't we give you strict orders not to teach in Jesus' name? And here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are trying your best to blame us for the death of this man."

29 Peter and the apostles answered, "It's necessary to obey God rather than men.