“Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow.”
On hearing this report, the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests were puzzled, wondering what would come of this - the 'captain of the temple guard' (stratēgos tou hierou) was responsible for the temple police and security. The chief priests' puzzlement (diaporei, bewildered) suggests they are encountering a force outside their administrative categories. Their question 'what will this come to be?' (ti ara touto eseitai) opens to the possibility that even they sense something transcendent.
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