And they laid hands on them
The Arabic version renders it, "on both"; on Peter and John;
seized them by force, and drew them out of the temple:
and put them in hold unto the next day;
not in the common public prison, as in ( Acts 5:18 ) but they put
them into the hands, and under the care and custody of a set of
men, to keep and guard them; that they might not go away, until
they had an opportunity of bringing them before the sanhedrim, to
be examined and punished by them:
for it was now eventide;
it was at the ninth hour, or about three o'clock in the
afternoon, when Peter and John went up to the temple, where they
healed the lame man; after which, both of them preached to the
people; so that it must now be evening; at least, as the Syriac
version renders it, "the evening was near", or was drawing on.
