Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 4:21

21 So when they had further threatned them, they let them go , finding nothing how they might punish them , because of the people : for all men glorified God for that which was done.

For the present; for amongst them no acquittal was so peremptory or absolute, but that they might be tryed again for the same fact upon further evidence.

It was not the sense of the evil, or sin, nor the apprehension of Gods displeasure and wrath which deterred them; but the fear or favour of the people. The corruptions that are in the world, are over-ruled for the good of Gods children in it;

not onely such as believed, but others also could not but confess, that this was the hand of God, which had made the lame to walk, and rejoice in it, and by consequence have a very great veneration for the Apostles, who were the instruments of it.

Marginal references: Mat. 21.26. Luke 20.6, 19. and 22.2. Chap. 5.26.; Chap. 3.7, 8.