“Then came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.”
Then someone came and said, 'Look! The men you put in jail are standing in the temple courts teaching the people' - the report is almost comical in its matter-of-factness: the apostles have walked out of jail and straight back to their missionary work. The 'standing in the temple courts' (hestanai en tō hierō) is a position of public proclamation, visible and irrefutable. They are not hiding, repenting, or fleeing; they are continuing their witness.
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