{Brought them out} (progag(936e) autous ex(935c)). Second aorist
active participle of proag(935c), to lead forward. He left the other
prisoners inside, feeling that he had to deal with these men whom
he had evidently heard preach or had heard of their message as
servants of the Most High God as the slave girl called them.
There may have been superstition behind his fear, but there was
evident sincerity.