“For indeed we are in danger of being accused concerning this day's riot, there being no cause for it, and as touching it we shall not be able to give account of this concourse.”

For the truth was that they were all in danger of being called to account by the Roman authorities for this days riotous behaviour and this clandestine meeting. For they could produce no real grounds to excuse the one or authorise the holding of the other. (Had it been a matter of a charge of blasphemy or the robbing of a Temple it would have been a different matter. It might have been seen as justifying such a meeting).

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