5:21
The apostles obeyed what they had been told to do. The sanhedrin had no idea about what had happened. A couple of points to note. The first is that angels are part of God’s economy, there are many key points in the Bible, Old and New Testaments, when God uses angels to complete a task. We should not be surprised if God uses angels in our lives. Now we should not get silly about this, but angels are real. Secondly, those seemingly in power know far less than they think they do, and have far less power than they imagine they have. The Sanhedrin reckoned that they were now in charge of the situation with the apostles safely locked up. As with Jesus on the cross, they could not have been more wrong.
5:22-24
It now becomes apparent to them that things are not as they thought. On arriving at the jail the soldiers found it free of apostles! The guards were standing at the door oblivious to what had happened. Or, at least, the officers reported that the guards were at the doors as if everything was normal. The captain of the guard and the chief priests were at a loss. “Wondering what this might lead to”. The Sanhedrin had both Sadducees and Pharisees on it, but seems to have been dominated by Sadducees. Their main concern was to avoid upsetting the Romans, which is why they didn’t want the apostles preaching and causing an upset.
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