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The council was enraged and wanted to kill them. Gamaliel, a Pharisee and a teacher of the law held in honour by all the people, had the apostles put outside and then argued from precedent: Theudas rose up and came to nothing, Judas the Galilean rose up and was scattered, so keep away from these men and let them alone — if this plan is of man it will fail, and if it is of God you will not be able to overthrow them; you might even be found opposing God. They took his advice, beat the apostles, ordered them again to stop, and let them go. It is a procedural intervention rather than a conversion, and Acts does not claim more; but every line this dataset traces runs through men who walked out of that room. Acts 22:3 also has Paul say he was brought up at Gamaliel's feet, which is a teaching bond and not an event, and there is no way to author a bond here.
To decide what to do with men the council had already ordered to stop and who had not stopped.
The apostles beaten and released instead of killed — which is why there is a succession to trace at all.