temple and teaching the people.” ■ 26* λιθάζειν, “to stone”: we ought not to ask whether the people would really have stoned the soldiers. According to Philostratus Vita Apoll. 1.16, the Ephesians wanted to stone the ἄρχων, “ruler,” because he did not allow the baths to be sufficiently heated ■ 28* In solemn biblical language the high priest reminds the prisoners of the earlier hearing; as in 4:17*, the name of Jesus is avoided.9 On the idea of bringing someone’s blood on someone else,