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To him they agreed; they yielded to his reason and argument, being persuaded and convinced by it.
Beaten them; this was what our Saviour had foretold them, Mat_10:17; and thus the husbandmen took the householder’s servants and beat them, Mat_21:35. They had power yet left them by the Romans to punish offenders in their synagogues, but not capitally nor publicly. In this they left the good advice of Gamaliel, who had warned them not to fight against God.