“And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes,”
The next day the rulers, elders and teachers of the law met in Jerusalem — the assembly (synedrium, council, Sanhedrin, the Jewish high court) gathers all its components: rulers/archontes (magistrates, officials), elders/presbyteroi (senior members of the council), and scribes/grammateis (teachers of the law, legal experts). This is the formal body that tried and condemned Jesus; they reconvene to suppress the apostolic witness.
Church Fathers on Acts 4:5
Howbeit, many having heard the word, believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand. Acts 4:4 How was this? Did they see them in honor? Did they not behold them put in bonds? How then did they believe? Do you see the evident efficacy? And yet even those that believed already might well have become weaker. But no, it is no longer so: for Peter's sermon had laid the seed deep into them, and had taken a hold upon their understandings. Therefore were [their enemies]…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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