Acts 5:21

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

Entered

Acts 5:25

Luke 21:37

John 8:2

But

John 18:35

Sent

Acts 4:7

Acts 12:18

Bible References

Entered

[Just then] someone came in and said, "Look, the men you put in jail are [now] standing in the Temple teaching people."

Now Jesus was teaching in the Temple every day, and He went out and lodged on the hill called Olivet every night [Note: Possibly this meant He lodged in a house in Bethany, which was situated on the side of this hill].

Then early [the next] morning Jesus went into the Temple again. All the people gathered around Him and He sat down and began teaching them.

But

But the head priest and the Jewish sect of the Sadducees became very jealous,

And the next day the [Jewish] rulers, elders and teachers of the law of Moses gathered together in Jerusalem.

And when they heard him speaking in the Hebrew language, they listened all the more quietly. So, he continued,

And when it became daylight, the body of [Jewish] elders of the people, [consisting of] both leading priests and experts in the law of Moses, was gathered together. Then they led Jesus away to their Council [called the "Sanhedrin"], and asked Him,

Pilate answered, "Am I a Jew? Your own people and the leading priests turned you over to me. What have you done?"

Sent

And when these men had Peter and John brought before them, they asked, "By whose authority or in what name have you done this thing [i.e., healed the crippled man]?"

Now as soon as it got daylight there was a lot of commotion among the soldiers over what had become of Peter.