⁶ But they expected that he would have swollen or fallen down dead suddenly, but when they watched for a long time and saw nothing bad happen to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.

⁶ and they were expecting him to be about to be inflamed, or to fall down suddenly dead, and they, expecting 'it' a long time, and seeing nothing uncommon happening to him, changing 'their' minds, said he was a god.