Act 21:27-31, 22:24, 23:12-24, 24:1-9, 25:2, 24, 1Th 2:15, 2Th 3:2 | TSK | STEP

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

Acts 23:12-24

certain.

21,30; 25:3; Ps 2:1-3; 64:2-6; Isa 8:9,10; Jer 11:19; Mt 26:4

bound.

1Ki 19:2; 2Ki 6:31; Mt 27:25; Mr 6:23-26

under a curse. or, with an oath of execration.

Le 27:29; Jos 6:26; 7:1,15; Ne 10:29; Mt 26:74; *Gr:

1Co 16:22; Ga 3:13

that.Such execrable vows as these were not unusual among the Jews, who, from their perverted traditions, challenged to themselves a right of punishing without any legal process, those whom they considered transgressors of the law; and in some cases, as in the case of one who had forsaken the law of Moses, they thought they were justified in killing them. They therefore made no scruple of acquainting the chief priests and elders with their conspiracy against the life of Paul, and applying for their connivance and support; who, being chiefly of the sect of the Sadducees, and the apostle's bitterest enemies, were so far from blaming them for it, that they gladly aided and abetted them in this mode of dispatching him, and on its failure they soon afterwards determined upon making a similar attempt. (ch. 25:2, 3.) If these were, in their bad way, conscientious men, they were under no necessity of perishing for hunger, when the providence of God had hindered them from accomplishing their vow; for their vows of abstinence from eating and drinking were as easy to loose as to bind, any of their wise men or Rabbis having power to absolve them, as Dr. Lightfoot has shown from the Talmud.

1Sa 14:24,27,28,40-44; Ps 31:13

which.

2Sa 15:12,31; Joh 16:2

Ps 52:1,2; Isa 3:9; Jer 6:15; 8:12; Ho 4:9; Mic 7:3

that he.

25:3; Ps 21:11; 37:32,33; Pr 1:11,12,16; 4:16; Isa 59:7; Ro 3:14-16

when.

Job 5:13; Pr 21:30; La 3:37; 1Co 3:19

he went.

2Sa 17:17

one.

23; 22:26; Pr 22:3; Mt 8:8,9; 10:16

Paul.

16:25; 27:1; 28:17; Ge 40:14,15; Eph 3:1; 4:1; Phm 1:9

something.

Lu 7:40

took.

Jer 31:32; Mr 8:23; 9:27

What.

Ne 2:4; Es 5:3; 7:2; 9:12; Mr 10:51

The Jews.

as.

15; Ps 12:2; Da 6:5-12

do not.

Ex 23:2

for.

12-14; 9:23,24; 14:5,6; 20:19; 25:3; 2Co 11:26,32,33

an oath.

14; Ro 9:3

Jos 2:14; Mr 1:44

two centurions.

at.About nine o'clock in the evening, for the greater secrecy, and to elude the cunning, active malice of the Jews.

Mt 14:25; Lu 12:38

beast.

Ne 2:12; Es 8:12; Lu 10:34

Felix.

26,33-35; 24:3,10,22-27; 25:14

the governor.

Mt 27:2; Lu 3:1

Acts 24:1-9

1 Paul being accused by Tertullus the orator,

10 answers for his life and doctrine.

24 He preaches Christ to the governor and his wife.

26 The governor hopes for a bribe, but in vain.

27 At last, going out of his office, he leaves Paul in prison.

five.

11; 21:27

Ananias.

23:2,30,35; 25:2

orator.

12:21; Isa 3:3; 1Co 2:1,4

informed.

25:2,15; Ps 11:2

Seeing.Felix, bad as he was, had certainly rendered some services to Judaea. He had entirely subdued a very formidable banditti which had infested the country, and sent their captain, Eliezar, to Rome; had suppressed the sedition raised by the Egyptian impostor (ch. 21:38); and had quelled a very afflictive disturbance which took place between the Syrians and Jews of Cæsarea. But, though Tertullus might truly say, "by thee we enjoy great quietness," yet it is evident that he was guilty of the grossest flattery, as we have seen both from his own historians and Josephus, that he was both a bad man and a bad governor.

26,27; Ps 10:3; 12:2,3; Pr 26:28; 29:5; Jude 1:16

most.

23:26; *Gr:

26:25; Lu 1:3; *Gr:

that.

Heb 11:32

we have.

6:13; 16:20,21; 17:6,7; 21:28; 22:22; 28:22; 1Ki 18:17,18; Jer 38:4

Am 7:10; Mt 5:11,12; 10:25; 1Co 4:13

and a mover.

1Sa 22:7-9; Ezr 4:12-19; Ne 6:5-8; Es 3:8; Lu 23:2,5,19,25

1Pe 2:12-15,19

the sect.

14; *Gr:

5:17; 15:5; 26:5; 28:22; 1Co 11:19; *Gr:

Nazarenes.

Mt 2:23

gone.

12; 19:37; 21:27-29

whom.

21:30-32; 22:23; 23:10-15

and.

Joh 18:31; 19:7,8

the chief.

21:31-33; 23:23-32; Pr 4:16

great.

21:35; 23:10

Commanding.

23:30,35; 25:5,15,16

by.

19-21

6:11-13; Ps 4:2; 62:3,4; 64:2-8; Isa 59:4-7; Jer 9:3-6; Eze 22:27-29

Mic 6:12,13; 7:2,3; Mt 26:59,60; Joh 8:44

Acts 25:2

15; 24:1; Job 31:31; Pr 4:16; Ro 3:12-19

Acts 25:24

King Agrippa.King Agrippa was the son of Herod Agrippa; who upon the death of his uncle Herod, king of Chalcis, A.D. 28, succeeded to his dominions, by the favour of the emperor Claudius. Four years afterwards, Claudius removed him from that kingdom to a larger one; giving him the tetrarchy of Philip, that of Lysanias, and the province which Varus governed. Nero afterwards added Julias in Peraea, Tarichaea, and Tiberias. Claudius gave him the power of appointing the high priest among the Jews; and instances of his exercising this power may be seen in Josephus. He was strongly attached to the Romans, and did every thing in his power to prevent the Jews from rebelling; and when he could not prevail, he united his troops to those of Titus, and assisted at the siege of Jerusalem. After the ruin of his country, he retired with his sister Berenice to Rome where he died, aged 70, about A.D. 90.

about.

2,3,7

that he.

22:22; Lu 23:21-23