Actes 4:3

3 Ils mirent les mains sur eux, et ils les jetèrent en prison jusqu'au lendemain; car c'était déjà le soir.

Actes 4:3 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 4:3

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.

Actes 4:3 In-Context

1 Tandis que Pierre et Jean parlaient au peuple, survinrent les sacrificateurs, le commandant du temple, et les sadducéens,

2 mécontents de ce qu'ils enseignaient le peuple, et annonçaient en la personne de Jésus la résurrection des morts.

3 Ils mirent les mains sur eux, et ils les jetèrent en prison jusqu'au lendemain; car c'était déjà le soir.

4 Cependant, beaucoup de ceux qui avaient entendu la parole crurent, et le nombre des hommes s'éleva à environ cinq mille.

5 Le lendemain, les chefs du peuple, les anciens et les scribes,