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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Acts 23:12

Certain of the Jews - Some of the Jews. They were more than forty in number, Acts 23:13.Banded together - Made an agreement or compact. They conspired to kill him.And bound themselves under a curse - See the margin. The Greek is, “they anathematized themselves”; that is, they bound themselves by a solemn oath. They invoked a curse on themselves, or devoted themselves to destruction, if they did not do it. Lightfoot remarks, however, that they could be absolved from this vow by the rabbis if... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Acts 23:12-13

Acts 23:12-13. And when it was day, certain of the Jews Being exceedingly provoked that Paul had been thus rescued from the council; bound themselves under a curse Such execrable vows were not uncommon among the Jews. And if they were prevented from accomplishing what they had vowed, it was an easy matter, as Dr. Lightfoot has shown from the Talmud, to obtain absolution from their rabbis; saying Vowing; That they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul Imprecating the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Acts 23:12-35

Sent to Caesarea (23:12-35)The Jews were not finished yet. They decided to ask Lysias to send Paul to the Sanhedrin for a fresh trial the next day, so they could attack and kill him on the way (12-15). Unfortunately for the Jews, the plan was discovered and reported to Lysias (16-22).Knowing that the Jews would carry out their plan if at all possible, Lysias thought it better to remove Paul from Jerusalem altogether. He decided to send Paul to the provincial capital, Caesarea, where he would... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Acts 23:12

certain of . The texts omit. banded together = having made a coalition, i.e. of the two sects. Greek. sustrophe. See note on Acts 19:40 . bound . . . curse . Greek. anathematizo. Only here, verses: Acts 14:21 , and Mark 14:71 , where see note. saying, &c . Josephus records a vow taken by ten men to kill Herod the Great. In a papyrus from Oxyrhyiichus, in the Bodleian Library, there is a letter from an Egyptian boy, threatening that, if his father will not take him to Alexandria, he... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Acts 23:12

And when it was day, the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul. And they were more than forty that made this conspiracy. And they came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, we have bound ourselves under a curse, to taste nothing until we have killed Paul. Now therefore do ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you, as though ye would judge of his case more... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Acts 23:12

12-14. bound themselves under a curse . . . that they would neither eat . . . fill they had killed Paul—Compare 2 Samuel 3:35; 1 Samuel 14:24. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 23:12-15

Paul’s adversaries (cf. Acts 21:27-29) evidently agreed together not to taste food or drink again until Paul was dead (cf. John 16:2). Their plan was to have the chief priests and elders of Israel ask the Roman commander to return Paul to the Sanhedrin for further questioning. Assassins planned to kill him somewhere on the streets between the Fortress of Antonia and the hall of the Sanhedrin. These buildings were not far apart. They surely realized that Paul’s Roman guards might kill some of... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 23:12-24

The Jews’ plot to kill Paul 23:12-24This is the most detailed destription of a plot against Paul in Acts (cf. Acts 9:23-25; Acts 9:29-30; Acts 20:3). read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 23:1-35

St. Paul sent to Cæesarea1. St. Paul often asserts his good conscience before God and man: see Acts 22:3; Acts 24:16.2. Ananias] is not the same as Annas (Acts 4:6). He was the son of Nebedæus, and held the high priesthood from 47-59 a.d. His rapacity and violence were notorious. To smite him] because, being a prisoner, he spoke without being asked: cp. John 18:22. 3. God shall smite thee] St. Paul’s angry retort has often been contrasted with our Lord’s mild words on a similar occasion (John... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Acts 23:12

(12) Certain of the Jews banded together . . .—The casuistry of the more fanatic Jews led them to the conclusion that a blasphemer or apostate was an outlaw, and that, in the absence of any judicial condemnation, private persons might take on themselves the execution of the divine sentence. So, they may have argued, Mattathias, the founder of the Maccabean dynasty, had slain the apostate Jew who offered sacrifice at the altar at Modin (1Ma. 2:24); so ten Zealots of Jerusalem had conspired to... read more