John Gill - Exposition
John Gill
Saying, did not we straitly command you,.... Or give you strict orders, with severe threatenings, that you should not teach in this name? the Ethiopic version reads, "in the name of Jesus"; which is what is meant, but was not expressed by the sanhedrim; see Acts 4:17 and behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine; they disregarded the council, and its orders, its commands and...