Verse 22
And they gave him audience unto this word; and they lifted up their voice, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.
"The despised word `Gentiles' was a red flag to those wild, savage bulls of hate."[22] Such wild and bitter cries revealed a carnal lust for Paul's blood. Here was a shout "for his immediate execution without the formality of a trial."[23]
[22] W. R. Walker, Studies in Acts (Joplin, Missouri: College Press), 2p. 70.
[23] E. H. Plumptre, op. cit., p. 152.
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