And of the rest dared no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Of the rest, no one durst join himself to them. That is, none of those that did not believe: yet the people praised them, and the number of the faithful increased. (Witham)
And as he had mentioned their being in Solomon's porch, that you may not wonder how the multitude allowed this, he tells us that they did not dare even to approach them: for no man, he says, dared join himself unto them.