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Acts 5:21 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 21. 21And 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.
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Role in This Section
Shows the apostles entering the temple at dawn while the council gathers.
Read It With
- Acts 5:17–5:26
Acts 5:21 shows the apostles entering the temple at dawn while the council gathers; within Acts 5:17–5:26, the controlling movement is that The high priestly party imprisons the apostles, an angel opens the prison and commands temple proclamation, officers find the locked jail empty, and the captain rearrests them without violence.
Why It Needs Context
Shows the apostles entering the temple at dawn while the council gathers. Its responsible force depends on the full sequence, speaker, narrator framing, and outcome of Acts 5:17–5:26; it is connective evidence rather than a complete standalone teaching.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Acts 5:17–5:26 — Prison doors open and testimony resumesSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and unit coverage.
Exact location: Acts 5:17–5:26, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and punctuation control, without pretending one edition is a complete apparatus.
Exact location: SBLGNT official text, Acts 5:17-5:26
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