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Ac 5:28 King James Saying, 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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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
intend to bring this man's blood upon us--They avoid naming Him whom Peter gloried in holding up [BENGEL]. In speaking thus, they seem to betray a disagreeable recollection of their own recent imprecation, His blood be upon us," &c. (Mat 27:25), and of the traitor's words as he threw down the money, "I have sinned in that I have betrayed innocent blood" (Mat 27:4).
 
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4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
15 And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
13 And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them.
14 And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)
15 Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.
16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
21 So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.
17 But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
18 And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.
15 And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:
17 But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.