Acts 4:3 (LSB)

Passage

And they laid hands on them and put them in jail until the next day, for it was already evening.

Nearby Context

Acts 4:1 Now as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,

Acts 4:2 being greatly agitated because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

Acts 4:3 And they laid hands on them and put them in jail until the next day, for it was already evening.

Acts 4:4 But many of those who had heard the message believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

Acts 4:5 Now it happened that on the next day, their rulers and elders and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem;

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "laid", "hands", "jail", "until", "next", "already", and "evening". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "laid" and "hands", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 2's "being greatly agitated because they were teaching..." into verse 4's "But many of those who had heard...", so "laid" and "hands" belong inside that flow. In Acts context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "laid" and "hands" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.