Bede : Four thousand men of the Sicarii. There is no controversy to be held between the tribune who spoke these things and Josephus who wrote about the Egyptian. For it could happen that he first came with a few, the same secretly leading a tyranny, but later joined many to himself by public deceit. It is read, however, that in the time of Felix, this kind of robber arose, who, not seeking hidden places or times, but carrying daggers, that is, short swords in hand, mixed among the people in the very light of day, attached themselves by blind wounds, to the point that death prevented a complaint, and the striker lay hidden. And if anyone were moved by the fact that such things were done in the middle of the city, he too perished. Thus, by fear of danger or dissimulation of the crime, the assassin was not apprehended. — Commentary on Acts Oecumenius : "Are you not the Egyptian." This Egyptian was a certain man, a maker of new movements and a rebel and a deceiver and a sorcerer. And since the Devil wished to make Paul a sharer in the crimes that belonged to him, just as at that time against Christ, he stirred him up to perform wonders among the Jews. And when the chiliarch says, "Are you not the Egyptian," he immediately removed him from this suspicion, and from the nation, and from the religion. For elsewhere he calls himself legitimately of Christ. [CHRYSOSTOM] — Commentary on Acts Oecumenius : The Sicarii are called robbers who make use of small swords, in size somewhat like the daggers of the Persians, but curved and similar to the dagger [σίκαις] called by the Romans, from which the title was taken by those who robbed. Others said they were some sect among the Jews. [JOSEPHUS] — Commentary on Acts Oecumenius : For there are three general sects among the Jews: Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes; these lead a more devout life, being lovers of one another and temperate; therefore they are called Essenes, that is, holy; others called them Sicarii, that is, zealots. [ORIGEN] — Commentary on Acts