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Acts 5:28 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 28. 28Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.
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Role in This Section
Restates the command and accuses them of filling Jerusalem with teaching.
Read It With
- Acts 5:27–5:32
Read Acts 5:28 with 5:27–5:32. In isolation, this contribution—restates the command and accuses them of filling Jerusalem with teaching—can be mistaken for the scene's whole claim, detached from its speaker or narrator, or separated from its outcome. The complete unit establishes: Before the council Peter says obedience to God outranks the human gag order, proclaims Jesus' resurrection and exaltation, names the council's killing, and identifies the apostles and Spirit as witnesses.
Why It Needs Context
Restates the command and accuses them of filling Jerusalem with teaching. Its responsible force depends on the full sequence, speaker, narrator framing, and outcome of Acts 5:27–5:32; 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 5:27–5:32 — The apostles answer the renewed chargeSources 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 5:27–5:32, 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 5:27-5:32
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