Acts 5:28

American Standard Version

saying, We strictly charged you not to teach in this name: and behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.

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Acts 5:28 in other translations

saying, “Didn’t we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood on us.”

Acts 5:28 · World English Bible

Acts 5:28 in context

  1. 26Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them, but without violence; for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.
  2. 27And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest asked them,
  3. 28saying, We strictly charged you not to teach in this name: and behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.
  4. 29But Peter and the apostles answered and said, We must obey God rather than men.
  5. 30The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew, hanging him on a tree.