³⁸ And the sergeants reported these words unto the magistrates: and they feared when they heard that they were Romans;

²⁹ They then that were about to examine him straightway departed from him: and the chief captain also was afraid when he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.

⁵ And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.

⁴⁶ And when they sought to lay hold on him, they feared the multitudes, because they took him for a prophet.