'Middle' in the Bible

When they had stood them in the middle of them, they inquired, "By what power, or in what name, have you done this?"

Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, "You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.

When they had been long without food, Paul stood up in the middle of them, and said, "Sirs, you should have listened to me, and not have set sail from Crete, and have gotten this injury and loss.