And after many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill him:
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
For this was more intolerable to them than the miracles which had taken place— than the five thousand, the three thousand, than everything, in short. And observe him, how he is delivered, not by (miraculous) grace, but by man's wisdom— not as the apostles were— ἐ κεἴνοι, Acts 5:19 that you may learn the energetic (ἀ ρετὴν) character of the man, how he shines even without miracles. Then the disciples took him by night, that the affair might not be suspected, and let him down by the wall in a basket.
