Acts 4:15

“But when they had commanded them, etc.] That is, when the sanhedrim had ordered the apostles; or “commanded that both”, as the Arabic version reads, both Peter and John; and, it may be, the man that was healed too: to go aside out of the council; or place where the council, or sanhedrim sat; which, whether it was in the chamber “Gazith”, in the temple where they used to sit f174, or in the shops, or in the city, whither they removed, is not certain. We are told f175, that “the sanhedrim removed from the chamber Gazith, to the shops, and from the shops to Jerusalem, and from Jerusalem to Jabneh;” that is, after the destruction of the city. And the first remove was much about this time; for it…”

“What shall we do to these men? - The object which they had in view was evidently to prevent their preaching. The miracle was performed, and it was believed by the people to have been made. This they could not expect to be able successfully to deny. Their only object, therefore, was to prevent the apostles from making the use which they saw they would to convince the people that Jesus was the Messiah. The question was, in what way they should prevent this; whether by putting them to death, by imprisoning them, or by scourging them; or whether by simply exerting theft authority and forbidding them. From the former they were deterred, doubtless, by fear of the multitude; and they therefore…”

“to go: Act 5:34-42, Act 26:30-32 Acts 4:16”