Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.
12. And many believed. This is not referred unto the sentence next going before, as if those of whom he spake began to believe, making choice of some of them: for that were an absurd thing. But Luke’s meaning is, because many were added by their example, the Church was increased in that city.
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
Therefore many of them believed,.... What the apostle preached, and in Jesus of Nazareth, as the true Messiah, and professed their faith in him, upon finding, through reading and searching the Scriptures, that the characters of the Messiah agreed in him, and that what the apostle delivered were entirely consonant to those writings: also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men not a...