The same men would naturally seek to stop, or to imprison, or to wipe out his followers. It does little good to bemoan and bewail the Apostles' imprisonment. For, in fact, faith may show us the hand of God over ruling the plotting of evil men in these events which the Book of Acts describes for us today. I think not. In face, human freedom always blossoms forth from the very conditions perceived as imprisonment.
Creativity comes forth both from the limitations of blank walls, and from chaos.
The greatest human advances have usually risen from conditions, rife with temporal limitations, evil, and frailty. Often we delude ourselves into thinking that creativity and advancement are possible only amidst optimum situations of comfort, leisure, security, and ease. But times of human ease and personal comfort are usually times when the least happens. I do not believe that history bears out any such comfortable hope. Our comfort is more often than not merely seductive and productive of idolatry and of the status quo.