The apostles’ public teaching about Jesus had spread widely throughout the city of Jerusalem. People could regularly find them in the temple courts at Solomon’s Colonnade (Acts 5:12) and, on account of the miracles which they performed, they were also very popular—so much so that people even came to them from the surrounding villages and towns (Acts 5:16). They have been flagrant in their disobedience to the Sanhedrin.1
28 saying, “We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.”