“But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.”
But to stop this thing from spreading any further among the people, we must warn these men to speak no longer to anyone in this name.' — the council's strategy is prohibition: threaten (apengilemē, warned, threatened, charged) the apostles to speak (laleō, speak) no longer (mēketi) in Jesus' name. The hope is that intimidation will silence the apostles. The concern (spread among the people, laos, people, the masses) shows that the movement's popular support troubles them more than the apostles themselves.
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