Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.
All Commentaries on Acts 5:26 Go To Acts 5
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Then went the magistrate; which by the Greek was a military officer. But he did not bind them like prisoners, for fear of a tumult, but desired them to go along with them to the sanhedrim. (Witham)
Without violence. They persuaded them to appear willingly before the sanhedrim, thinking, perhaps, moreover, that they could not bind them, whom the walls of the prison could not confine. The apostles here, and on all other occasions, show the most astonishing examples of patience, constancy, and obedience to the laws of the country. (Menochius)
O Jews! who do you shut your eyes against the light? why so blindly mad? You say the apostles took Christ from the tomb. Tell me, then, who stole the apostles from under your locks and bolts? Who conveyed them from your prison through the midst of your guards, without alarming them? Shall the evidence of the miracle serve only to make you the less open to conviction? (Ven. Bede; Denis the Carthusian)
