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22 But when the officers came and did not find them in the prison, they returned and reported,
23 saying, “Indeed we found the prison shut securely, and the guards standing1 outside before the doors; but when we opened them, we found no one inside!”  
24 Now when1 the high priest, athe captain of the temple, and the chief priests heard these things, they wondered what the outcome would be.  
25 So one came and told them,1 saying, “Look, the men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people!”  
26 Then the captain went with the officers and brought them without violence, afor they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.  
27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest asked them,
28 saying, a“Did we not strictly command you not to teach in this name? And look, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, band intend to bring this Man’s cblood on us!”  
29 But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: a“We ought to obey God rather than men.  
30 aThe God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by bhanging on a tree.  
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Acts 5:24

They were much perplexed (dihporoun). Imperfect active of diaporew old verb by Luke only in the N.T. See already on Acts 2:12. They continued puzzled.

Whereunto this would grow (ti an genoito touto). More exactly,

As to what this would become. Second aorist middle optative of ginomai with an, the conclusion of a condition of the fourth class (undetermined with less likelihood of determination), the unexpressed condition being "if the thing should be allowed to go on." The indirect question simply retains the optative with an (Robertson, Grammar, pp. 1021, 1044). If they had only known how this grain of mustard seed would grow into the greatest tree on earth and how dwarfed the tree of Judaism would be beside it!




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