Then the brothers immediately sent Paul off on his way to the sea, but Silas and Timothy remained there.
The apostles fled not for their own hides but to carry on their work elsewhere, as Christ commanded. The devil meant to stop the gospel by persecution and was outshot in his own bow; the brethren's care to send them away by night became the very means to spread it further. Flight was their charge, not their shame.
AI summary
Commenting on Acts 17:10-15
And then immediately the brethren,.... That were at Berea, the new converts there: sent away Paul, whom they knew the Jews mostly sought after, and were offended with: to go as it were to the sea; the Aegean sea, or Archipelago, near to which Berea was: this seems to have been done, in order to make the people conclude that he intended to take shipping...
Verse 14. The brethren. Those who were Christians. Sent away Paul. In order to secure his safety. A similar thing had been done in Thessalonica, . The tumult was great; and there was no doubt, such was the hostility of the Jews, that the life of Paul would be endangered, and they therefore resolved to secure his safety. As it were.