Acts 5:25

Then came one. By this time the morning must have been well advanced. The Sanhedrin had been called, and was assembled, yet was still ignorant of the apostles’ whereabouts. In the meantime the news of the apostles’ activities had spread abroad, and was now reported to the Sanhedrin.

Ye put in prison. This came almost as a taunt to the Jewish leaders: You put them in prison, but they are busy doing in the Temple what you have forbidden them to do anywhere.

Standing. The clause reads literally, “In the temple standing and teaching,” referring to the command of the angel (v. 20). They were acting like men who knew what work they must do, a work that had been temporarily interfered with, but to which they came back as quickly as possible. Their teaching of the people was the offense that so much incensed the Sadducees. Had the apostles simply worshiped, keeping their new-found faith to themselves, they might have been left undisturbed. But they had received a commission, and were impelled to carry it out. They must propagate their faith. To suffer persecution for sharing the treasure of faith is far better than to suffer a guilty conscience for hiding it “under a bushel” (Matt. 5:15).