And the serjeants reported these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans;
And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.
And when they sought to lay hold on him, they feared the multitudes, because they took him for a prophet.
And when they bring you before the synagogues, and the rulers, and the authorities, be not anxious how or what ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:
But when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.
They then which were about to examine him straightway departed from him: and the chief captain also was afraid, when he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.