Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Rulers and elders and scribes (touv arxontav kai touv presbuterouv kai touv grammateiv). The three classes composing the Sanhedrin (rulers=chief priests who were Sadducees, the scribes usually Pharisees, the elders not in either class: 24 priests, 24 elders, 22 scribes).
Were gathered together (sunaxqhnai). First aorist passive infinitive of sunagw with accusative of general reference and the subject of egeneto.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Acts 4:5:
Luke 10:35
Acts 22:5
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