“And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.”
At daybreak they entered the temple courts, as they had been told. When the high priest and his associates arrived, they called together the Sanhedrin - the Sanhedrin (synedrion) is the full council of seventy, the supreme Jewish governing body. The fact that they convene the full council shows the escalating seriousness of the threat the apostles are perceived to pose. Luke emphasizes the apostles' obedience ('as they had been told,' kathos eirēkei) in dramatic counterpoint to the Sanhedrin's reaction.
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