Ver. 4. ἐγενήθη: ‘‘ came to be” R.V., only here in St. Luke, except in the quo- tation in i. 20 (see also vii. 13, D., and Blass in®—hellenistic,frequently in LXX; in N.T. cf. 1 Thess. ii. 14, Col. iv. 11 ; also Jos., Ant., x., 10, 2, Winer-Schmiedel, p. 108, ποίε).---ἀνδρῶν. This word here ap- pears to be used of men only (so Wet- stein, Blass), cf. Matt. xiv. 21, Mark vi. 40, for although we cannot argue with, Weiss from v. 14, that women in great.
ἀριθμὸς ] τῶν ἀνδρῶν ὡσεὶ Χιλιάδες πέντε. 5. Εγένετο δὲ ἐπὶ τὴν αὔριον ” συναχθῆναι αὐτῶν τοὺς ἄρχοντας καὶ πρεσβυτέρους καὶ γραµ-
- λαο -. ματεῖς εἰς Ἱερουσαλήμ, 6. καὶ “Avvay® τὸν ἀρχιερέα καὶ Καϊάφαν καὶ
Ιωάννην καὶ ᾿Αλέξανδρον, καὶ ὅσοι ἦσαν ἐκ Ὑένους ἀρχιερατικοῦ.
1 ὁ αριθµος, so AEP 31, 61, Chrys. ; but article om. NBD, so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss. woet EP, Chrys.; ws BD, 5ο W.H., Weiss, Hilg. ; om. ΝΑ 61, Vulg. verss., so Tisch., Wendt (who compares ii. 41 and regards ως or ωσει as added accordingly).
2 After avptov D, Flor. add ηµεραν, so Hilg.; Chase by assim. to Syriac, Harris by assim. to Bezan Latin—crastinum diem. But cf. σηµερον ηµερα in N.T., Acts xx. 26, Rom. xi. 8, 2 Cor. ili. 14. εἰς lep. SP 1, 31, Syr. Harcl., so Tisch., Wendt; εν ABDE 61, Chrys., so W.H., R.V., Weiss, Hilg.; Flor., Syr. Pesh. omit. συναχθηναι, D, Flor. change constr. συνηχθησᾶν οι αρχ.
3 Avvav, acc., EP 1, 31, 61, Chrys.; Αννας, nom. (and so all the proper names), NED τς, 18, 36, 61, so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt (who holds, as against Meyer, that the noms. are not derived from συνηχθησαν in D, but that the latter was occasioned by the noms.). leavyny, D, Gig., Ρατ.] read Ἰωναθας. Blass contends for the correctness of D, so Hilg., lowvafas = Jonathan, son of Annas, who succeeded Caiaphas, Josephus, Ant., xvili., 4, 3 (see Blass, Acta Apost., 72 and 35), lwavvys
being a common name and an unknown man.
But we cannot conceive that Luke
would himself have altered Ἰωναθας into lwavvys, so Blass regards the former as the reading in α and B—Ilwawvys a later blunder.
numbers did not join the Church until a later period (cf. also ii. 41, where women may well have been included), yet it seems that St. Luke, by his use of one word, ἀνδρῶν, here refers to the additional number of men. St. Luke does not say that five thousand of St. Peter’s hearers were converted, in addition to those al- ready converted at Pentecost (although Dr. Hort, following Chrys., Aug., Jer., takes this view, Fudaistic Christianity, Ρ. 47), or that five thousand were added, but his words certainly mark the growing expansion of the Church in spite of threat- ening danger, as this is also evident on the view that five thousand represent the total number of believers. The instances above from the Gospels are generally quoted to confirm the view here taken, but Wendt, ia loco, curiously quotes the same passages in proof that ἀνδρῶν here includes women. The numbers are re- garded by him as by Weizsacker as arti- ficial, but see above on i. 15.
Ver. 5. ἐγένετο δὲ: the formula is another characteristic of St. Luke’s style, Friedrich, Das Lucasevangelium, p. 13, also Dalman, Die Worte Fesu, pp. 26, 29. Compare for the type of construction, according to which what takes place is put in the infinitive mood, depending upon ἐγένετο, ix. 32, 37, 43, xi. 26, xiv. I, and other instances in Dr. Plummer’s exhaustive note, St. Luke, p. xlv.—éri τὴν αὔριον: here only and in Luke x. 35, in N.T. For the tem-
poral use of ἐπί ΠΠ. τ.--συναχθῆναι, z.e., the Sanhedrim. ἄρχοντας here = ἀρχιερεῖς, who are mentioned first as a rule, where the N.T. enumerates the different orders of the Sanhedrim, whilst of ἄρχοντες is an interchange- able expression, both in the N.T. and in Josephus (see, for instance, Schirer, Fewish People, div. ii., vol. i., pp. 177, 205, E.T.), although there are two instances in which both words occur together, Luke xxiii. 13 and xxiv. 20. Whatever may have been the precise significance of the term ἀρχιερεῖς, Schirer, 1. s., pp. 203-206, E.T., it in- cluded, beyond all doubt, the most pro- minent representatives of the priesthood, belonging chiefly, if not entirely, to the Sadducean party.—wpeoButépous : those members were known simply by this title who did not belong to either of the two special classes mentioned.—ypapparets : the professional lawyers who adhered to the Pharisees, Jos., Ant.,xvii.,6,2. Even under the Roman government the Sanhe- drim possessed considerable independence of jurisdiction, both civil and criminal. Not only could it order arrests to be made by its own officers, but it could dispose, on its own authority, of cases where the death penalty was not in- volved, Schirer, µ. 5., p. 187, E.T., and Edersheim, History of the Fewish Nation, p. 103 ff.—els ᾿Ιερυσαλήμ: Weiss would restrict ἐν ερ. to the scribes of Jerusalem to distinguish them,