1. Acts 4:7 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

How was the Sanhedrin set up so that Peter and John were in the midst?

Acts 4:7 (ESV)

7 And when they had set them in the midst, they inquired, “By what power or by what name did you do this?”

There would be seventy men seated in a semi-circle on a raised platform. Peter and John would stand in the centre looking up at these men, clearly visible to every member of the council.1

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