<p>5:26 <i>Then went the captain with the officers and brought them, but without violence</i>- Implying they asked the apostles to come with them, and they did without protest; following the spirit of their Lord, whose final sufferings are constantly alluded to in the record here.</p><p><i>For they feared the people, lest they should be stoned</i>- Luke twice uses this phrase about their experience in trying to liquidate the Lord (Lk. 20:19; 22:2). Popular opinion had swayed back the other way again. And a while later, it was to sway against the Christians again, when &ldquo;there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem&rdquo; (Acts 8:1). This is the fickleness of human support.</p>