24The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him.
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And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar. …
And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.
Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.
And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude: and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the castle.
And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-30)Paul was going on with this account of himself, had shown them his commission to preach among the Gentiles without any peevish reflections upon the Jews, and we may suppose designed next to show how he was afterwards, by a special direction of the Holy Ghost at Antioch, separated to this service, how tender he was of the Jews, how respectful to them, and how careful to give them the precedency in…
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