Atos 4:3

3 Agarraram Pedro e João e, como já estava anoitecendo, os colocaram na prisão até o dia seguinte.

Atos 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.

Atos 4:3 In-Context

1 Enquanto Pedro e João falavam ao povo, chegaram os sacerdotes, o capitão da guarda do templo e os saduceus.

2 Eles estavam muito perturbados porque os apóstolos estavam ensinando o povo e proclamando em Jesus a ressurreição dos mortos.

3 Agarraram Pedro e João e, como já estava anoitecendo, os colocaram na prisão até o dia seguinte.

4 Mas muitos dos que tinham ouvido a mensagem creram, chegando o número dos homens que creram a perto de cinco mil.

5 No dia seguinte, as autoridades, os líderes religiosos e os mestres da lei reuniram-se em Jerusalém.