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Acts 5:26

Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.

KJV

Τότε ἀπελθὼν ὁ στρατηγὸς σὺν τοῖς ὑπηρέταις ἦγεν αὐτούς, οὐ μετὰ βίας, ἐφοβοῦντο γὰρ τὸν λαόν, ἵνα μὴ λιθασθῶσιν·

Greek NT

Tunc abiit magistratus cum ministris, et adduxit illos sine vi : timebant enim populum ne lapidarentur.

Vulgate

Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them, but without violence; for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.

ASV

Then went the officer with the ministers and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

17 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
βία
bia
noun · 3×
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
λαός
laos
noun · 144×
λιθάζω
lithazo
verb · 9×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
μετά
meta
preposition · 469×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
στρατηγός
strategos
noun · 10×
σύν
sun
preposition · 129×
τότε
tote
adverb · 157×
φοβέω
phobeo
verb · 95×
ἀπέρχομαι
aperchomai
verb · 117×
ἄγω
ago
verb · 70×
ἵνα
ina
conjunction · 665×
o
article · 19778×
ὑπηρέτης
uperetes
noun · 20×

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: ἤγαγεν | Treg/RP: ἤγαγεν | WH/NIV: ἦγεν
  • ἤγαγενSBLGNT
  • ἤγαγενTregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
  • ἦγενWestcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: μὴ | WH/Treg/NIV: μὴ | RP: ἵνα μὴ
  • μὴSBLGNT
  • μὴWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἵνα μὴRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Acts 4:1 — And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,
  • Acts 4:21 — 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.
  • Acts 4:21 — 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.
  • Acts 5:13 — And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them.
  • Acts 5:24 — Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow.
  • John 7:32 — The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him.
  • Luke 22:52 — Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves?