And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.
Parallel translations
- WEB Being let go, they came to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
- BSB On their release, Peter and John returned to their own people and reported everything that the chief priests and elders had said to them.
- NKJV And being let go, they went to their own companions and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them.
- NASB When they had been released, they went to their own companions and reported everything that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
- NLT As soon as they were freed, Peter and John returned to the other believers and told them what the leading priests and elders had said.
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Freed, Peter and John returned to the believers and reported all the threats from the chief priests and elders. They brought their trial before the gathered church.
Overview
The apostles instinctively turn to the fellowship of believers, sharing both the opposition and God's deliverance. Their report becomes the occasion for united prayer. This pattern shows the church facing persecution not in isolation but in community, drawing strength from one another. Believers under pressure find refuge among God's people, where shared faith fuels prayer and renewed boldness.
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- 2 Cor 6:14–17Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
- Ps 119:63I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.
- Acts 12:11–12And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the LORD hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.
- Ps 42:4When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
- Mal 3:16Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.
- Ps 16:3But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
- Prov 13:20He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
- Acts 2:44–46And all that believed were together, and had all things common;
- Acts 1:13–14And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.
- Acts 16:40And they went out of the prison, and entered into the house of Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and departed.
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