Thematic Bible: Chief preists, who feared to further persecute the disciples
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When they had threatened them further, they let them go (finding no basis on which to punish them) on account of the people, because they were all glorifying God for what had happened;
Then the captain went along with the officers and proceeded to bring them back without violence (for they were afraid of the people, that they might be stoned).