Acts 6:12

And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes of whom the latter two classes had already been exasperated against the Apostles. And now that it was told them that the glory of the Temple was spoken against, the common people would be readily roused, for the Temple was the object of great admiration and pride, as we can see from the words of Christ's disciples (Matthew 24:1).

and came upon him As the scribes and Pharisees upon Jesus in the Temple (Luke 20:1).

and caught him, and brought him to the council A fit prelude to their still more violent proceedings after Stephen's defence was ended (Acts 7:57).