Acts 5:27

27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,

Ver. 27. They set them before the council ] Where the high priest might well have done, as the prolocutor here in the convocation held at London, A. D. 1553, did; he confessed that those dejected ministers before them had the word on their side; but the prelates in place had the possession of the sword.