Acts 5:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Brought them without violence; they might, peradventure, think it needless or impossible to bind them against their wills, who had opened the prison, and so miraculously came out: however, another more certain reason is given of it; they feared the people; they feared men more than God, who had done so great things amongst them.

Acts 5:26

26 Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.