Apostles arrested, put on trial

When did it happen?

Modern reckoning

AD 30

Traditional reckoning

AD 30

Dates before about 900 BC depend on how the Bible's own numbers are added up. Why the two reckonings differ.

Where is it in the Bible?

• Acts 5:18–33

Who was there, and where?

• Simon Peter

Where: Jerusalem.

Which verses connect to Acts 5:18?

The strongest cross-references of the key verse, ranked by reader votes (OpenBible.info).

1. Acts 4:34 votes

   They seized Peter and John, and because it was evening, they put them in custody until the next day.

2. Luke 21:123 votes

   But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you. On account of My name they will deliver you to the synagogues and prisons, and they will bring you before kings and governors.

3. 2 Corinthians 11:233 votes

   Are they servants of Christ? (I am speaking as if I were out of my mind.) I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.

4. Acts 8:32 votes

   But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.

5. Acts 12:5–72 votes

   So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was fervently praying to God for him. On the night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, with sentries standing guard at the entrance to the prison. …

6. Acts 16:23–272 votes

   And after striking them with many blows, they threw them into prison and ordered the jailer to guard them securely. On receiving this order, he placed them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks. …