Acts 23:15 - Exposition

Do ye for ye, A.V.; the R.T. omits tomorrow, in the A.V.; judge of his case more exactly for inquire something more perfectly concerning him, A.V.; slay for kill, A.V. With the council . Either the temporary feeling of the Pharisees had subsided, and their old hatred come to the front again, or the high priest and Sadducees, by some plausible excuse, persuaded the Pharisees of the council to join with them in asking that Paul might be brought before them again. Signify . The word ἐμφανίζειν only occurs here and at Acts 23:22 , in this sense of "signifying" or "making known" something, which it has in Esther 2:22 , LXX .. Codex Alexandrinus (as the rendering of רמַאָ , to tell), and in 2 Macc. 3:7, and in Josephus, as also in classical Greek. Elsewhere in the New Testament it means "to manifest," or "show," as in John 14:21 , John 14:22 ; in the passive voice "to appear," as in Matthew 27:53 ; Hebrews 9:24 ; and in a technical legal sense "to give information" ( Acts 24:1 ; Acts 25:2 , Acts 25:15 ). Judge of his case more exactly ; διαγινώσκειν κ . τ . λ . The word only occurs here and in Acts 24:22 . The classical use of the word in the sense of "deciding," "giving judgment," is in favor of the R.V.; διαγινώσκειν , like διάγνωσις , diagnosis ( Acts 25:21 ), is a word of very frequent use in medical writers, as is the ἀκριβέστερον , which here is joined with it ( Acts 24:22 , note).