“But our friends lifted him up, for they were both more numerous and more powerful than the others; but, from their fear of God, they rather suffered themselves to be killed by an inferior force, than they would kill others.  But when the evening came the priests shut up the temple, and we returned to the house of James, and spent the night there in prayer.  Then before daylight we went down to Jericho, to the number of 5000 men.  Then after three days one of the brethren came to us from Gamaliel, whom we mentioned before, bringing to us secret tidings that that enemy had received a commission from Caiaphas, the chief priest, that he should arrest all who believed in Jesus, and should go to Damascus with his letters, and that there also, employing the help of the unbelievers, he should make havoc among the faithful; and that he was hastening to Damascus chiefly on this account, because he believed that Peter had fled thither.⁵⁹⁷

597 Acts xxii. 5.  [There is an evident attempt to cast a slur upon the apostle Paul, but the suppression of the name is significant.—R.]

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