TSK · Acts 5:26

Although Herod wanted to kill John, he feared the crowd because they accepted John as a prophet.

But they said,“Not during the feast, so that there won’t be a riot among the people.”

Then the experts in the law and the chief priests wanted to arrest him that very hour, because they realized he had told this parable against them. But they were afraid of the people.

After threatening them further, they released them, for they could not find how to punish them on account of the people, because they were all praising God for what had happened.

Now when the commander of the temple guard and the chief priests heard this report, they were greatly puzzled concerning it, wondering what this could be.