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Acts Chapter 5 verse 26 Holy Bible

ASV Acts 5:26

Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them, `but' without violence; for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.
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BBE Acts 5:26

Then the captain and some of the police went and took them, but not violently, for fear that they might be stoned by the people.
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DARBY Acts 5:26

Then the captain, having gone with the officers, brought them, not with violence, for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.
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KJV 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.
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WBT Acts 5:26

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WEB Acts 5:26

Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.
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YLT Acts 5:26

then the magistrate having gone away with officers, brought them without violence, for they were fearing the people, lest they should be stoned;
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 26. - But without for without, A.V.; lest they should be, omitting ἵνα, for lest they should have been, with ἵνα, A.V. and T.R. Lest they should be, etc. The best way of construing the words, whether ἵνα is re-rained or not, is to make the clause "lest they should be stoned" depend upon "not with violence;" putting "for they feared the people" into a parenthesis; thus explaining why they thought it dangerous to use violence.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(26) Without violence . . .--The scene recalls that of John 7:45. Here, however, the Apostles set the example of unresisting acquiescence, even though the tide of feeling in their favour was so strong that they might have easily raised a tumult in their favour. The signs that had been recently wrought, perhaps also the lavish distribution of alms, the ideal communism of the disciples, were all likely, till counteracted by stronger influences, to secure popular favour.