Acts 18:14

But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked villainy, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you: but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves; I am not minded to be a judge of these matters. And he drave them from the judgment seat.

True to the Lord's promise, Paul was protected in this encounter. Gallio's brother was a close friend of high authorities in Rome, where only recently the Jews had suffered expulsion by Claudius; and therefore he was fully confident in thus dismissing their charges abruptly. Hervey noted that:

"He drave them ..." as used by Demosthenes in exactly the same context, means the ignominious dismissal of the case, without its being even tried.[22]