Acts 5:25

Then came one and told them Better, And there came, &c. The English thenis often in such a position taken for an adverb of time.

The proceedings were evidently well known, and the hall of judgment was not far from where the Apostles were teaching at the very time.

are standing in the temple, and teaching the people The order of the original should be preserved: are in the temple standing, &c., for the words look back to the command of the angel in Acts 5:20. This standingimplies the prominent and undaunted position which the Apostles had taken up. They were not like prisoners who had escaped, and so were seeking a place to hide themselves; but like men whose work had been interfered with, and who, as soon as they were able, had come back to it again.