Act 16:22-23, 22:24-25, 2Cor 11:24, Heb 11:36, 1Pe 2:24 | TSK | STEP

Acts 16:22-23

the multitude.

17:5; 18:12; 19:28-41; 21:30,31; 22:22,23

the magistrates.

37; 5:40; 22:24-26; Mt 10:17; 27:26; 2Co 6:5; 11:23-25; 1Th 2:2

Heb 11:36; 1Pe 2:24

they cast.

5:18; 8:3; 9:2; 12:4; Lu 21:12; Eph 3:1; 4:1; 2Ti 2:9; Phm 1:9; Re 1:9

Re 2:10

to keep.

5:23; 12:18; 1Sa 23:22,23; Mt 26:48; 27:63-66

Acts 22:24-25

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