In the midst (εν τω μεσω). The Sanhedrin sat in a semicircle.

They inquired (επυνθανοντο). Imperfect middl…

In the midst. In the presence of the great council.

By what power, etc. A similar question was put to Christ in the temple…

And when they had set them in the midst.—The Sanhedrin sat in a semicircle, the president being in the middle of the arc,…

It was before such an assembly, which probably arranged itself in a semicircular fashion, that Peter and John were brought. The man who had been he…

And when they had set them in the midst
Of the assembly, as the Ethiopic version adds; in the middle of the sanhedri…

Peter, being filled with the Holy Ghost, wanted everyone to understand that the miracle had been performed by the name, or power, of Jesus of Nazar…