And when they were gone aside
 Into some apartment adjoining to the judgment hall: 
 they talked between themselves;
 that the common people might not hear their debates, and the result of them, and what were their sentiments concerning Paul and his case: 
 saying, this man doth nothing worthy of death,
 or of bonds; according to the Roman laws; for as yet there were no laws among the Romans against the Christians as such, or against their professing and preaching Christ.