Acts 5:24

Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple The best MSS. have only Now when the captain of the temple. The word which in the A. V. is rendered high priestis simply = priest, but the like usage is common enough in Hebrew.

On the captain of the temple, see Acts 4:1; and on chief priests, Acts 4:23.

heard these things Better, these words. It refers simply to the report which the officers had just brought back.

they doubted of them whereunto this would grow i.e. they were at a loss about what was said, and did not know what step to take next. It is worthy of notice that when the Apostles are brought before them in the end, the magistrates avoid all questions about how they had been released. They clearly wished to have no more testimony to the supernatural powers which had been so often manifested in connection with Jesus and His followers. Caiaphas and his party could not be ignorant how Jesus Himself had risen out of His grave to the great terror of the Jewish guard set over it. With the opinions these authorities held, we can quite understand their perplexity and their silence on the subject, at all events before the disciples and the multitude.