Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space;
Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, Gamalieel (G1059 ) [= Gamliy'eel (H1583 ), Numbers 1:10 ], a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people. In all probability he was one of that name celebrated in the Jewish writings for his wisdom, the son of Simeon-possibly the same Simeon who took the infant Saviour in his arms (Luke 2:25, etc.), and grandson of the celebrated Rabbi Hillel. He died 18 years before the destruction of Jerusalem. (So Lightfoot, who is, however, a little too positive.)
And commanded to put the apostles forth - or, 'the men forth,' according to what is probably the true reading [attested by 'Aleph (') A B and the Vulgate, Memphitic, and Armenian versions. The received reading is supported by manysmore manuscripts, and by the Syriac versions and others, and some fathers. But internal evidence, as we think, is in favour of tous (G3588) anthroopous (G444), and this is the reading of Lachmann and Tischendorf, and approved by Meyer, but not by DeWolfe and Alford] --
A [little] space. [The ti (G5100) after brachu (G1024) is unauthorized.] If Gamaliel was now (as Lightfoot thinks) president of the assembly, it was his business to give this order; but in that case the historian would scarcely have called him simply "one in the council."