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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
O the folly of the men! "They feared," saith he, "the multitude." Why, how had the multitude helped the Apostles? When they ought to have feared that God Who was continually delivering them like winged creatures out of their power, instead of that, "they feared the multitude!"
Oecumenius
For the deliverance by the angel of the prison proved to the apostles a comfort, and to the Jews a benefit. It deceived the Jews, so that first, as I said, they would be thrown into perplexity, and if they wished they themselves would also come to understand and be instructed that the power is divine. Yet they were so blinded that they did not even dare to use force to drag the apostles away from the temple, whom nevertheless they detested most of all. …
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