The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,
When he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.
When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.
When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don't be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say;
But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, *Let those men go.*
Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he realized that he was a Roman, because he had bound him.