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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Acts 23:12-35

We have here the story of a plot against the life of Paul; how it was laid, how it was discovered, and how it was defeated. I. How this plot was laid. They found they could gain nothing by popular tumult, or legal process, and therefore have a recourse to the barbarous method of assassination; they will come upon him suddenly, and stab him, if they can but get him within their reach. So restless is their malice against this good man that, when one design fails, they will turn another stone.... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Acts 23:25-35

23:25-35 The commander wrote a letter to the following effect, "Claudius Lysias to his excellency Felix, the governor--greetings! When this man was seized by the Jews and when he was going to be murdered by them, I stepped in with the guard and rescued him, for I learned that he was a Roman citizen. As I wished to discover the charges on which they accused him, I brought him down to their Sanhedrin. I found that he was accused of some questions of their Law and was under no charge deserving... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 23:27

This man was taken by the Jews ,.... Meaning Paul, who was presented by the centurions to the governor, and was in his presence when the letter was opened and read, and who was taken by the Jews in the temple, and from thence dragged out and beaten by them: and should have been killed of them ; and would have been killed, had it not been for the chief captain; he was very near being killed by them, he was nigh unto death: then came I with an army and rescued him ; he came with the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 23:28

And when I would have known the cause ,.... Or crime, he was guilty of: wherefore they accused him : which they charged him with, and for which they beat him almost to death: I brought him forth into their council ; their court of judicature, the great sanhedrim. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 23:29

Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law ,.... As about the resurrection of the dead, and a future state, which some in the council denied, and some asserted, which with this heathen man were idle and foolish questions; or about the defiling of the temple, and speaking contemptibly of the law of Moses, the people of the Jews, and the holy place, which was the cry of the populace against him, and were things the captain knew little of: but to have nothing laid to his charge... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 23:30

And when it was told me ,.... As it was by Paul's sister's son, how that the Jews laid wait for the man ; had formed a conspiracy to take away his life, and laid a scheme in order to it, and at least intended, if they were not actually in ambush, to seize him as he should be brought from the castle to the sanhedrim: I sent straightway to thee ; the prisoner Paul, under a guard of soldiers; this he did directly, as soon as ever he heard of the design of the Jews; and he sent him to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 23:31

Then the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul ,.... Out of the castle, and put him upon a beast, as the chief captain had ordered the centurions, and they had directed the soldiers to do: and brought him by night to Antipatris : they set out from Jerusalem at the third hour, or about nine o'clock at night, and travelled all night, and by break of day came to Antipatris; a city which lay in the road from Jerusalem to Caesarea: it was built by Herod the great, in the best soil of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 23:32

On the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him ,.... That is, the two hundred soldiers, and the two hundred spearmen, who were all on foot, left the seventy horsemen to conduct Paul to Caesarea; for being come to Antipatris, all danger from the Jews was over: and returned to the castle ; the castle Antonia in Jerusalem, from whence they set out. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 23:33

Who, when they came to Caesarea ,.... The seventy horsemen: and delivered the epistle to the governor ; to Felix, governor of Judea, who was now at Caesarea; namely, the letter which Claudius Lysias, the chief captain, sent to him; the form and contents of which are before given: these presented Paul also before him ; concerning whom, and whose affairs, the letter was. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 23:34

And when the governor, had read the letter ,.... Which he doubtless opened and read as soon as he had received it, not knowing what important business might be contained in it, or of what dangerous consequence a neglect of reading it might be; this showed care and diligence in him: he asked of what province he was ; since he perceived by the letter he was a Roman, and that he might know whether he was under his jurisdiction, and whether the hearing of his case belonged to him; and it... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Acts 23:12-35

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Acts 23:25-35

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 23:27

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 23:28

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 23:29

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 23:30

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 23:31

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 23:32

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 23:33

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 23:34

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