Acts 4:5

5 And it chaunsed on the morowe that their rulars and elders and Scribes

Acts 4:5 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 4:5

And it came to pass on the morrow
The disciples being kept in custody all night:

that their rulers, and elders, and Scribes;
that is, their ecclesiastical rulers; the chief priests, who, with the Scribes, and elders of the people, made up the great council at Jerusalem, consisting of seventy one persons, so they are called in ( Matthew 26:3 Matthew 26:57 ) ( 27:1 ) ( Mark 14:53 ) ( 15:1 ) .

Acts 4:5 In-Context

3 And they layde hondes on them and put them in holde vntill the nexte daye: for it was now even tyde.

4 How be it many of them which hearde the wordes beleved and the noumbre of the men was aboute fyve thousande.

5 And it chaunsed on the morowe that their rulars and elders and Scribes

6 as Annas the chefe Prest and Cayphas and Iohn and Alexander and as many as were of ye kynred of the hye prestes gadered to geder at Ierusalem

7 and set the other before them and axed: by what power or what name have ye done this syrs?