Acts 4:8

τοῦ Ἰσραήλ omitted with אAB. The Vulg. also omits, but reads ‘Principes populi et seniores, audite.’

8. πνεύματος ἁγίου. The Spirit of God which had come upon him had changed Peter ‘into another man.’ Cf. 1 Samuel 10:6.

ἄρχοντες τοῦ λαοῦ. This was the highest tribunal which the Jews possessed.

καὶ πρεσβύτεροι. The council was composed of the chief priests, i.e. the heads of each of the twenty-four classes into which the priests were divided, the scribes, men who were skilled in all the Jewish law, and the elders, grave and learned men chosen to complete the number, which is stated to have been in all seventy-one.