Acts 5:27

27 The apostles were brought in and made to appear before the Sanhedrin to be questioned by the high priest.

Acts 5:27 in Other Translations

27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,

27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest questioned them,

27 Then they brought the apostles before the high council, where the high priest confronted them.

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

27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest asked them,

27 When they brought back the apostles, they made them stand in front of the council. The chief priest questioned them.

27 When they had brought them in, they had them stand before the Sanhedrin, and the high priest asked,

27 They brought the apostles to be judged by the Sanhedrin. The high priest questioned 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 Then someone came and said, “Look! The men you put in jail are standing in the temple courts teaching the people.”

26 At that, the captain went with his officers and brought the apostles. They did not use force, because they feared that the people would stone them.

27 The apostles were brought in and made to appear before the Sanhedrin to be questioned by the high priest.

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 guilty of this man’s blood.”

29 Peter and the other apostles replied: “We must obey God rather than human beings!

Cross References

• 1. S Matthew 5:22