Act 21:31, 37, 22:24-28, 23:10, 17-22 | TSK | STEP

Acts 21:31

as.

22:22; 26:9,10; Joh 16:2; 2Co 11:23-33

chief.

23:17; 24:7,22; 25:23; Joh 18:12

that all.

38; 17:5; 19:40; 1Ki 1:41; Mt 26:5; Mr 14:2

Acts 21:37

19; 19:30; Mt 10:18-20; Lu 21:15

Acts 22:24-28

The chief.As the chief captain did not understand Hebrew, he was ignorant of the charge against Paul, and also of the defence which the apostle had made; but as he saw that they grew more and more outrageous, he supposed that Paul must have given them the highest provocation, and therefore, according to the barbarous and irrational practice which has existed in all countries, he determined to put him to the torture, in order to make him confess his crime.

21:31,32; 23:10,27

that he should.

25-29; 16:22,23,37; Joh 19:1; Heb 11:35

the centurion.

10:1; 23:17; 27:1,3,43; Mt 8:8; 27:54

Is it.By the Roman law, no magistrate was allowed to punish a Roman citizen capitally, or by inflicting stripes, or even binding him; and the single expression, I am a Roman citizen, arrested their severest decrees, and obtained, if not an escape, at least a delay of his punishment.

27,28; 16:37; 25:16

Take.

29; 23:27

But.It is extremely probable that the inhabitants of Tarsus, born in that city, had the same rights and privileges as Roman citizens, in consequence of a grant or charter from Julius Cæsar, from whom it was called Juliopolis. But if this were not the case, St. Paul's father, or some of his ancestors, might have been rewarded with the freedom of the city of Rome, for his fidelity and bravery in some military service, as Josephus says several of the Jews were; or his father might have obtained it by purchase, as in the instance of the chief captain.