31And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
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Are they ministers of Christ?(I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. …
I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. …
But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.
Then the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus, and bound him,
And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 27-40)We have here Paul brought into a captivity which we are not likely to see the end of; for after this he is either hurried from one bar to another, or lies neglected, first in one prison and then in another, and can neither be tried nor bailed. When we see the beginning of a trouble, we know not either how long it will last or how it will issue. I. We have here Paul seized, and laid hold on. 1. He…
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