what name [“authority”] did you [plural, emphatic] do this?” “What” (power, name) is used here in a derogatory way. The emphasis on “you” shows contempt.38 They were trying to awe the disciples or even scare them. Perhaps they remembered how the disciples had fled in fear when Jesus was arrested. Verse 13 shows the reason for the Sandhedrin’s contempt—the disciples were “unschooled, ordinary men,” not educated in their schools. Peter had indeed once cringed before a girl in the courtyard when this
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