Acts 4:23
And being let go, they came to their own company, and related all that the chief priests and ancients had said to them.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dimissi autem venerunt ad suos, et annuntiaverunt eis quanta ad eos principes sacerdotum et seniores dixissent.
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- Ἀπολυθέντες δὲ ἦλθον πρὸς τοὺς ἰδίους καὶ ἀπήγγειλαν ὅσα πρὸς αὐτοὺς οἱ ἀρχιερεῖς καὶ οἱ πρεσβύτεροι εἶπαν.
Haydock's commentary
Being let go, they came to their own3 company, relating with simplicity all that had happened.
3 Ad suos, pros tous idious.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Homily XI on Acts iv. 23
Acts IV. 23 “And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.”
St John Chrysostom A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Homily XI on Acts iv. 23
Let us now look over again what has been said. [“And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.”] (Recapitulation, v. 23 .) See the unostentatious conduct of the Apostles, and their largeness of mind. They did not go about boasting, and say, “How we served ( ἀπεχρησάμεθα ) the priests!” nor were they ambitious of honor: but, we read, “they came unto their own company. Observe how they do not cast themselves upon temptations, but when the temptations present themselves, with courage endure them. Had it been some other of the disciples, perhaps, emboldened by the countenance of the multitude, he might have insulted, might have vented ever so many harsh expressions. But not so these true philosophers; they do all with mildness and with gentleness. …