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When they had stood them in the midst, they inquired, "By what power, or in what name, have you done this?"
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A Hostile Question
Commentators explain the Sanhedrin's question wasn't a sincere inquiry but a hostile trap. They weren't investigating the miracle's divine origin but assuming the apostles were using magic or demonic power. Their goal was to intimidate and accuse, not to seek the truth, a common tactic used against believers.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
In the midst. In the presence of the great council.
By what power, etc. A similar question was put to Christ in the temple…
In the midst (εν τω μεσω). The Sanhedrin sat in a semicircle.
They inquired (επυνθανοντο). Imperfect middl…
19th Century
Anglican
And when they had set them in the midst.—The Sanhedrin sat in a semicircle, the president being in the middle of the arc,…
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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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
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