Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow.
Ver. 24. They doubted of them] Conturbabantur, et ad angustias inexplicabiles detrusi haesitabant, they were at their wit's end, διηπορουν, and could not tell what in the world to do with them. Herod was troubled in like sort, Luke 9:7. So was Diocletian, who therefore laid down the empire, because he could not conquer the Christians, merely out of discontent; so did Charles V