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.
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.
- KJV And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto 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.
- 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 6:14–17Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
- Ps 119:63I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.
- Acts 12:11–12When Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting.”
- Ps 42:4These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.
- Mal 3:16Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.
- Ps 16:3As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.
- Prov 13:20One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
- Acts 2:44–46All who believed were together, and had all things in common.
- Acts 1:13–14When they had come in, they went up into the upper room, where they were staying; that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.
- Acts 16:40They went out of the prison, and entered into Lydia’s house. When they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them, and departed.
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